In the 1990s, under the guise of Mr Biffo, writer Paul Rose co-founded Digitiser – a daily video games magazine published via teletext. Its irreverent take on gaming would be resurrected on the web in ...
Wonderful news for anyone who remembers the videogames section on Channel 4 Teletext – it could be able to make a return. You remember Digi, right? The pages of text were ostensibly the service’s ...
Way, way back in the day, there were but four television channels and a world of fun when you pressed ‘text’ on your remote to bring up the Teletext service. Hours could be spent reading Digitiser and ...
“One page of the Times Newspaper, to be transmitted during shutdown.” That, so the story goes, was the remit given to BBC engineers in the late 1960s: find a way to transmit a printable page of text ...
We've recently covered two of Paul Rose's shows on the site, Biffovision and Mr Biffo's Found Footage, but for those not in the know Paul was one of the writers for Channel 4's Digitiser teletext ...
In 2019 the video game industry is expected to grow to $180 billion worldwide. In the UK alone in 2017 the consumer spend on games was £5.11 billion – up 12.4 per cent from the previous year. Gaming ...
Before the emergence of Twitter and 24-hour online news, the main way of finding out what was happening in the world came via newspapers and the radio. But with the launch of the BBC's Ceefax – the ...
Kids these days are missing out. Oh yes, they have the world at their fingertips thanks to 'the internet' (pfft) but they just won't ever know the joy of sitting cross-legged in front of your tea, ...
We've recently covered two of Paul Rose's shows on the site, Biffovision and Mr Biffo's Found Footage, but for those not in the know Paul was one of the writers for Channel 4's Digitiser teletext ...
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