"Theres a lot of websites dedicated to 8 bit gaming about. Some have shots from the game complete screens, whilst others have maps, cheats and interviews with grown men who at one point felt fit to use their mathematical expertise in order to make a worm simulator.
I felt, however, that there was one thing which (as far as I'm aware) has never been celebrated.... swearing on text adventures."
Great Grauniad article on an archive of lost films recovered in Blackburn, 28 hours in total. Most are 'local topicals', filmed on the same principle as exists for local newspapers, film as many people as possible and they will pay to watch themselves on screen.
"While the legend of St. Nick made its way across the Atlantic and became a treasured staple of American holiday commerce, his black homie was left behind — and for obvious reasons. The concept of a black man swiping gifts and replacing them with coal, threatening bad white children with switches and kidnapping them simply wouldn't play well in 18th century America. Or 19th century America. Or, 2003, either. Besides, in this country, a black man on the roof trying to shimmy down a chimney is called breaking-and-entering."
"Unfortunately his patronage dropped somewhat when I was quoted - incorrectly I stress - in NME saying 'John Peel is a bastard, blah blah blah'. His wife, Sheila, saw this and Peel read it out one night. Our new session was aired once, never to be repeated. A record that still stands I believe."