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On to September 1997, and an edition of PC Zone leading with “Quake In A Codpiece”. Yes, CD-Rom! It’s the future! Look what you get on the covermount! Beavis and Butthead! Playboy! Star Wars! Erm, Myra Hindley! That’s right folks, 1996 was a year that you could plonk a photo of a convicted child murderer on your front cover, and you’d still shift lots of units because there was a covermounted CD-Rom. One thing we’ve just had to scan in from the same edition of PCZ was this advert for another of Dennis Publishing’s magazines from 1996:

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Even that only got 68%, and as PC Zone was a games magazine likely to give a CD-Rom title that pumped you full of eye cancer a score in the mid-70s, that really isn’t very impressive. Things were so strange with the PC gaming market in the mid-90s, that the utterly forgettable Comix Zone was the better of the three offerings. There was also a Brooker-penned review of some early offerings from Sega on the PC CD-Rom market. You know what to do, with the clicking, and the bigness, and the “open in new tab”. For fuck’s sake, even the first two words of the Guardian Guide’s review of BrokenTV were “Charlie” and “Brooker”. Oink! comic (which we piggin’ loved as a kid), a Your Sinclair letters page, PC Zone in print, And then in the digital age, Superkaylo, NTK.net (which was the first home to TVGoHome), the old SOTCAA forum, and a couple of newsgroups we used to post on in the late 1990s. It’s just that he’s had a habit of cropping up on publications and websites we happen to read or frequent. (Disclaimer: at this point, we’d like to point out that, despite any evidence to the contrary, we actually haven’t been stalking Charlie Brooker since about 1988. We really enjoyed his Superkaylo website back in the steam age of the internet (no longer online, and sadly blocked by a pesky robots.txt on ), and can even remember his work for Oink! comic in the 1980s. It’s a bit of a shame Brooker packed in doing his cartoons, to be honest.

This was from the time Brooker contributed a monthly cartoon strip to the magazine, going by the name of Cybertwats. First up, the April 1996 copy of PC Zone.

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Here’s hoping that despite the total lack of publicity from BBC Four, it attracted enough viewers to make a full series worthwhile, or at least to make it an annual fixture.Īnyhow, on with the second part of our Scanorama, with several images fresh from the glass of our glacially slow Epson DX3850. One of the most nicely well-informed gaming shows ever to grace television, alongside BBC Scotland’s VideoGaiden.

Hamstrung a bit by rebuking lazy media coverage of violent games, but then spending much of the show showing needlessly violent bits from those very same violent games, but hey. Gameswipe - quite good wasn’t it? We loved the chiptune version of Grandaddy’s AM180 at the start, along with references to Turbo Esprit, the ZX81 and Your Sinclair.