Supposedly, the ITA had a few issues with it technically going over the maximum prize for a show at the time, so all the smoke and mirrors was to effectively separate the big prize award over multiple shows instead. Amazing to think of a time where £6,400 in primetime was excessive.

Consider it sent.

A drummer from a Jam tribute band worked alongside me for years. Didn't have the look, but certainly had the skills.

Your pineapple pushing went well then?

Is it still marketed as 30 games in this one? Pretty sure it was released as 15.

I always thought that was Malcolm McLaren.

Were it not for the inevitable problems with music rights and playback, he's such ideal @rwf-backoffice.bsky.social fodder. Mind you, we have enough LE bellends without one that could be legally awkward.

My issue was where to sit on the line between "he's sending up the idea of being a has-been with delusions of grandeur" and actually being one. Any man who actively rerecords his songs to make them available for the World's Worst Wireless Show album clearly has some awareness, surely?

However, this implies he was doing the routine in 1989, so did the newspaper plagiarize him? youtu.be/VuFFBO0vnRs?...

I'd also like to point out that the Clydebank Post is certainly a newspaper Craig Ferguson would have been able to read, considering a good chunk of his routine on the show is a swearier version of this.

Hadn't occurred to me until I saw Steve Furber giving his talk for the Retro Collective. And I consider myself pretty au fair with that world (the gaming machine side, I mean).

Presumably that was Acorn's previous work doing fruit machine stuff for ACE coming through? I imagine you need a reasonably good RNG for one armed bandits to remove the potential for exploitation etc.

How dare you try to distract people from the relentless misery? The only civic thing to do is envelope people in doom etc etc. I am not a crank.

I remember going around bars in Toronto checking, and they sort of do now, via Coors. However due to a spite laden personal boycott of said company, I didn't try it.
You ever been tempted to try playing Archie yourself?

Wow, my copy of Me Cheeta is still anonymous. When did they start adding James' name to it?