TBH one is too many, and this game had plenty more than that.

He made some good tunes with an old post-punk band called The Undertones. Similar to what would become West Coast pop-punk in the mid 90s.

You could just type “popular computing weekly Sharkey” into Google…

Everything revealed on page 11 apparently.

Find out on Page 11!

They were around at this point, but just more unusual. By the mid 90s everyone was doing it

Compunet. A pre-Internet online service that you'd connect to using your C64 and an acoustic coupler/dial-up modem. Was quite remarkable for its mid-80s era - chat service, proto-IRC and file-swapping/up/downloading capabilities.

You mean, I really enjoyed that but am not convinced the next play will be as good so fuck it, let’s just leave on a high and avoid disappointment.

Not at all. If Batalux had been poor, we'd have rated it accordingly and Jeff would have continued to be mad at us. The price you pay for saying what you think.

Grok, make me a video of a sad, shambling parody of a clueless fuckwit with zero charm, wit, and personality.

Cheers. And yes, this was a landmark ad I feel. A mainstream high street store advertising a console in 1987 indicated that there were some market changes just beginning to get underway. I remember seeing this and thinking, these consoles may very well be going somewhere!

Yeah, I usually add the year when I actually start posting stuff. I credit mag content when it's not obvious, but often ads don't get sourced as they appeared across multiple publications. And for the record, this ad was Nov 87.

£247 in today’s money though!