Wow. This is definitely right up my strret. Just ordered my copy. Last year was all about enjoying Julian's book. A really excellent read and well worth picking up if you haven't already.
I wore my special "book reading trousers" whilst reading it. And I was able to add to my own repetoire of "arcade tactics" after reading the whole thing.
I would like to see follow up "Games of A Lifetime" by Gary Penn, Gary Liddon, Paul Glancey, Paul Davies, and Joao Diniz Sanches to name a few others. Oh and Jeff Minter too please.
@Guru Larry - Well that would have been me you would have spoken to. I never really spent much time with that game and IIRC I never got many calls about it.
The main task each day would be to try and clear the 50 or so letters and parcels that arrived each day. People would send back faulty carts because their local shop had fobbed them off.
We rarely had a faulty cart back. But we'd send them a new replacement or swap the game for a newer one.
I remember being very generous to people and sending out game bc we had a small office and there was often stuff piled up everywhere.
One kid wrote to me from Australia asking for help on a SNES game. (I think it was "Batman Forever") It was a long letter and he wrote about how he was spending a lot of time gaming bc his Mum was in and out of hospital a lot and he was often left to his own devices a lot.
I wrote back and sent some games and a t shirt. I told him he had to stay strong and be there for his Mum and to help look after the house and his siblings.
His Mum later wrote to me and sent me an amazing Australian T shirt as a thank you. It has this amazing beaded texture on the print and was really great. I wore that T-Shirt for years after as well!
Most of the calls were for the MK games, and people were stuck at the start of Batman Forever, and also struggled with a jump in the Probe developed Stargate game.
Go and ask Stuart Dinsey. It was the start of the working week reading CTW and later MCV for a long time. Very distribution retailer focused though. A brilliant indie like The Yak - who had to fight to get his work out there in the micro era - would be very surprised if he had read CTW.
That's not an HMV spokeman - that's the UK NTDO PR rep at the time - IIRC his face was used for some of the Goldeneye 64 magazine covers as they did not have the rights for the actor at the time.
remember seeing IGN folks sitting on the floor outside playing Pokemon and seeing some Japanese parents shake their heads quite dismissively at them
there was a special Pokemon distributed at that event
I was there with Paul Davies from CVG, and met with Jeremy Chubb from Acclaim who made it from Narita airport seconds before the event started - and they nearly refused him entry as he was wearing a PS2 T-Shirt!
remember thinking WaveRace looked great
was annoyed that despite being in development with "Burnout" on the Gamecube hardware at the time - the UK Nintendo PR folks refused to give us one of the brochures they were handing out to Press. (they had a massive pile of them) (In the end Paul from CVG got us some..)
Still one of my favourite games of all time. And the industry is a lesser place without folks like Martyn, Sarah, Walter et al around.
Have to say though, definitely was not me at that SEGA meeting with Naka-san back then. I was still employed at Acclaim Entertainment at that time - and yet to meet the Bizarre folks for "Furballs"....
Great times, great people, and MSR on ReDream is still GREAT.
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This one had a HUGE influence on me.
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Wow. This is definitely right up my strret. Just ordered my copy.
Last year was all about enjoying Julian's book. A really excellent read and well worth picking up if you haven't already.
I wore my special "book reading trousers" whilst reading it. And I was able to add to my own repetoire of "arcade tactics" after reading the whole thing.
I would like to see follow up "Games of A Lifetime" by Gary Penn, Gary Liddon, Paul Glancey, Paul Davies, and Joao Diniz Sanches to name a few others. Oh and Jeff Minter too please.
Re: "Ant & Dec Annoyed The Absolute S**t Out Of Me" - The Complete History Of The Nintendo UK Hotline
@Guru Larry - Well that would have been me you would have spoken to. I never really spent much time with that game and IIRC I never got many calls about it.
The main task each day would be to try and clear the 50 or so letters and parcels that arrived each day. People would send back faulty carts because their local shop had fobbed them off.
We rarely had a faulty cart back. But we'd send them a new replacement or swap the game for a newer one.
I remember being very generous to people and sending out game bc we had a small office and there was often stuff piled up everywhere.
One kid wrote to me from Australia asking for help on a SNES game. (I think it was "Batman Forever") It was a long letter and he wrote about how he was spending a lot of time gaming bc his Mum was in and out of hospital a lot and he was often left to his own devices a lot.
I wrote back and sent some games and a t shirt. I told him he had to stay strong and be there for his Mum and to help look after the house and his siblings.
His Mum later wrote to me and sent me an amazing Australian T shirt as a thank you. It has this amazing beaded texture on the print and was really great. I wore that T-Shirt for years after as well!
Most of the calls were for the MK games, and people were stuck at the start of Batman Forever, and also struggled with a jump in the Probe developed Stargate game.
Re: Video Game Legend Julian "Jaz" Rignall Has Written A Book About His Life In Gaming
He must have bought some special Letter Writing Trousers.
When is it released? Book a seat for Who Knows City.
Use "all your arcade tactics" and then put this at the Top of your Videogaming Books Shopping List.
Re: Epic Four-Hour Documentary On The Creation Of Sega Rally Now Available To Watch
This is truly excellent.
...long right...over a jump!
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@Sketcz get in touch with Leon Deith - am sure he has several interesting stories about Ireland and the coin-op business.
Re: This Tribute To Quake Is Just 13 Kilobytes In Size
Fantastic.
Hats off to the folks who pulled this off.
Re: The Race Is On To Save A Valuable Resource Of Video Game History
Go and ask Stuart Dinsey. It was the start of the working week reading CTW and later MCV for a long time. Very distribution retailer focused though. A brilliant indie like The Yak - who had to fight to get his work out there in the micro era - would be very surprised if he had read CTW.
Re: Flashback: It's 1997, And The BBC Is Hyping Up The Battle Between N64, PS1 And Saturn
That's not an HMV spokeman - that's the UK NTDO PR rep at the time - IIRC his face was used for some of the Goldeneye 64 magazine covers as they did not have the rights for the actor at the time.
Re: Insanely Rare Nintendo GameCube Found 23 Years After SpaceWorld Unveiling
I was there at that event. Things I remember:
(In the end Paul from CVG got us some..)
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Still one of my favourite games of all time. And the industry is a lesser place without folks like Martyn, Sarah, Walter et al around.
Have to say though, definitely was not me at that SEGA meeting with Naka-san back then. I was still employed at Acclaim Entertainment at that time - and yet to meet the Bizarre folks for "Furballs"....
Great times, great people, and MSR on ReDream is still GREAT.