Category: Adverts And Clippings
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Dr Who And The Advert Of Terror
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CW: Gratuitous and explicit picture of a brain. Whilst there’s far, far more famous examples of misfiring videogame adverts out there I can’t help but keep a special place in my heart for the Dr Who And The Mines Of Terror advert. Not only is it the thing least like something from Dr Who, beating…
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Snip Snip: Artificial Intelligence (And Why You Might Not Recognise It)
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Snip Snip is an occasional look at a magazine cutting from computer games past. Where necessary, names and addresses have been removed to protect the innocent. I’ve been playing a bit of Gods (courtesy of the PS4 remake which is fine providing you stick to the original game art) in-between other things recently. I can’t…
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Snip Snip: Anti-Piracy Device Seized, 1984
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I stumbled into this particular letter pretty much by accident whilst looking something else up and gosh, the eighties. I’m not entirely convinced this was written by a 15 year old, I mean “shindig” is not a word that would have passed most 15 year old’s lips and it suspiciously references the same documentary and…