Be Excellent To Each Other

I recall having a gander at this site during its infancy when the whole World of Stuart board drama was kicking off. Fast forward a few years, Stewart Lee mentions Be Excellent To Each Other on his latest DVD and I thought I'd wander in and say hello.

Hello.

What happens around here then?

what happens? Why, we welcome newcomers with open arms! That's what happens!

And cake!*




*there is no cake.

Hi,

I have mince pies!

Hello!

Can't stop, assignment to finish.

*sweats*

Do I even want to know what the assignment is? How many jars have you got left to fill?

'I spent the entire time thinking of how much I want to punch Stewart Lee in the face. The fucking smug-faced cunt.' - Pundabaya

Hi!

Welcome to the webs premiere Amstrad forum. No matter if you like playing Amstrad games, stroking your Amstrad or even sniffing its joystick port, this is the place to be.

Also now the webs number 1 Don Estelle resource!

If you are a lady poster, MaliA will be here shortly to induct you.

Stewart Lee incorrectly pronounced your username, the fucking smug-faced cunt.

Chinnyhill, I'm not female although I have known one for a short time.

They should put that in a computer game.

Hello Mr. Odyssey! I've no idea what a Magnavox is, but I imagine it's a big CRT TV set advertised in the sort of 1980's advert where it sits in the corner of a sinister yuppie bungalow atop a hill in the middle of the night blazing white light from the screen as a man dressed not unlike Patrick Bateman watches from his chair located in his unpleasantly spartan front room, one that has an open window and billowing curtains looking out on a storm that flashes lightning harshly strobe-illuminating the entire living space as a voice bellows out in a sort of David Warnerish way; "NEW FROM ODYSSEY ELECTRONICS - THE MAGNAVOX!" causing his tie to flap about in a distressed manner as Wagnerian music plays.

Or something.

Er, welcome.

NervousPete nearly mastered his art... but not quite.

I've been done now. I'm safe. Half the man I used to be.

Hello!

It's mostly idle chit chat and in jokes as a prelude to going to do the Music Quiz, The North, Camping in The North, Cottaging and stuff.

And we occasionally talk about video games but we rarely agree on them.

Did anyone check his bags when he arrived - some of the Odyssey extras look a bit lethal

Welcome!

Quick administrative question, Mr Odyssey - did you get an email to say your account had been approved and activated?

Hello.

If you don't declare your undying love of Dark Souls I shall unleash the zombie bees to sting your inner thighs.

Hi there, welcome to the forum.

By the way, I didn't really mean it when I said I'd like to punch Mr Lee in his smug fucking face. I have a fair amount of respect for him, even though he's not someone I'd want to watch perform.

I do find it slightly ironic that has he hates comedians who steal jokes, then does a bit in his show using other people's stuff. He could have asked.

It sounds like it should be a synth but it's just an old console, perhaps the first. I've stopped reading Retrogamer so no idea.

Hello Mag-Od. Do you play Halo?

I am boggled that a connoisseur of Americana like Pete doesn't know about Magnavox.

The Odyssey was the first every home video game system. I've never tried one, but my friend did have an Odyssey2 (his dad had an import/export business and he had a ton of the things in his warehouse).

Sold as the Philips Videopac G7000 in Europe. I knew at least two people who had one (in Denmark) so it must have been reasonably popular. Had a spiffing Pacman clone called Munchkin which was famously the target of a successful lawsuit by Atari (who had the US console rights for Pacman but would not be ready to publish the game for another year) despite not copying any art and even being different gameplay wise in some ways (for example, there were far fewer dots and they moved about).

Oh, and, er, hello new guy!

73%.

Yeah, the games that stuck out in my mind are:
-K.C's Crazy Chase (sequel to Munchkin) because of the rather gawky way K.C. would laugh when he'd eaten all the dots
-Air-Sea-War Battle, which I was terrible at
-Race, which was horrendously rudimentary and only stands out in my mind because you died by being squashed by another car. We (my friend had managed to convince our teacher to let him bring it to school as there were a few educational games) declared this state of unbeing, "Mashed Potatoes on the Road". This later became "Mashed Aunt Pettitoes On The Road" when we read some Beatrix Potter books.
-Skiing, which I could just about manage
-the aforementioned educational game (whose name escapes me) where you alternated between being educated and blasting the crap out of things. The voice module mangled 'That is correct' into 'let this kernet', again producing a group of laughing eight year old children.

It also produced a rather memorable moment and early lesson for me in futility when the friend started using the keyboard and programming book to do one of the exercises. He became completely absorbed in this and stayed long after school was over, determined to finish this program (as he couldn't save his work thus far) which he was convinced would be totally awesome. In the end, the program was complete, and he ran it. His reward? A row of eight stickmen on the screen moving their arms up and down while white noise blared from the speakers.

Welcome!

Hello!

Magnavox Odyssey was a rare Decepticon that transformed from Midge Ure into a Greek Pamphlet.

Ok, thanks.