Marcus on Brookside: The Next Gary Oldman? Hmm, let's ponder.

Date: 4/9/98

Well, you should know what this is by now...

alt.digitiser "rm'ed", and IRC changes.

If you subscribe to the fun hole that is a.d, then by now, you either know that zygotes decided to rm the group, after consulting no one, or that the newsgroup has simply dissapeared. Those that can't get onto alt.digitiser at all, because they're news server likes removing alt.* ng's, I suggest you move onto alt.games.video.digitiser. More info is availible in Communicate!.

LATE NEWS: alt.digitiser has infact been deleted off very few news servers. Still though, the spread of the group is pathetic. Zygotes, the evil man in the black, has claimed that he has newgrouped a.d again. But we shall wait and see what dejanews and newzbot tells us. ALL POWERFUL GOD, TELL US! Ahem...

You'll find there also, info on the recent IRC meet change. Which, if you read this on the day of transmission[upload], is tonight at 10pm. It also has infomationatizonal on the new possible channel name.

Death of Nintendo

Sigury[I hate japanese names] Myamoto, N64 Major Releases and the Colour GameBoy have just one thing in common.

They arn't coming here in time to save nintendo from near death in the european market. Simply.

Nintendo are still in their own little world of nowhere. Japan is in recession, so understandably you would think they would want to "sort out" their release schedule here so they sell enough Zelda 64's and new consoles to keep The Big N happy for anouther year, and hopefully gain some ground on Sony's big market space.

The world of 16-bit, however, still regins in Nintendo's head. Zelda missing christmas will not sell new N64 consoles, especially when the punters can now buy a PS for £99. Crash 3, TR 3, the approaching release of Metal Gear Solid and the crap PAL version of Tekken 3, even though it's a rather lackluster list, in comparison to the N64 xmas spirit, it's a bloody gold mine.

Nintendo have learnt no lessons from watch Sega turn into a large pile of hot shat, and they'll pay for it. A gold controller does not a Christmas launch list make. New console owners will be Playstation owners. And The Squallish looking N will go bad soon, if they don't "sort themselves oooouuuuuuuttttttt."

Bak2Skool

As the wording suggests, I have now returned to the bear bit only known as the English GCSE Educational System. So, because of this, SuperNews49 may become violently shorter, simply because I won't have as much time to write it as I have been used to over the past 5 or so weeks. So sorry if anyone complains...

page670 wins an award you've never heard of

The subtitle says it, really. Here it is.

A man who calls himself "Ernest Slyman" told me I had won it. So, erm, great. Thanks to my mother, my father, my godfather, my great godfather, my great uncle's godfather, my great uncle's sisters god father, and Chester Fisho.

Talking about awards:

You know, music lovers, there is a worse award than the Brits. There is something actully LESS credible than a World Music Prize. It's called [drum sounds]....

Erm...

[Cough]

Well, it's a ELSPA/ECTS award, anyhow. And it's awful. Rather a "who can make the most money of a back of a title they didn't even touch" event, at least one of the awards is voted by "Computer and Video Games." The Music industry may have bad awards, but there's always the Ivor Novello, or the Mercury Music Prise "dos."

For the games industry? Nope. Maybe Future should get off their large, self-owned arse, re-launch the Future Entertainment Show and host some awards at the great place that is. Either that or I'll make them watch the 1989 Brits video I have tucked away. Natch.

That's it kids

Not much else to say tonight. So go away. Be off with you.

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