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THE GS FACTOR We at MCV like to think we can belt out drunken tunes, but even we’d be hard-pressed to compete with Gamestation. Celebrating the launch of its 250th shiny new outlet, the GS team visited Crystal in Sheffield for a bit of ‘’Rockyoke’. Sega’s Karl Johns and Gamestation’s marketing guru Anna Downing (left) proved their worth with a touching duet on the ol’ microphone– but others (dotted around here) needed no such amplification.
WHAT WERE THEY
THINKING!? The unbelievable truth is that someone, somewhere thought these visionary gems were going to end up being a classic title:
No.7: ET: The Extra-Terrestrial YEAR: 1982 FORMAT: Atari 2600 And you think this year’s triple-A releases are a risky business. Atari’s ET: The Extra Terrestrial challenged gamers to fall into holes. Literally – that was it. So it was no surprise when it didn’t sell very well. It was a slight shock to Atari, however, when – having over-produced the number of units to an industry-crunching degree – they ended up helping contribute to the great video games crash of 1983. Hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges were later buried in a New Mexico landfill. Now doesn’t that make that No.7 All Format chart debut seem a little less disastrous?
PES CUP RESULTS Gaming legends went head-to-head in the final of the MCV PES Industry Rankings competition last week. Team Play Atari beat Sega’s A-team in the final of the hotly contested footballing clash, held at the Rex Cinema, Soho. The industry’s finest turned up for the industry night, including Mastertronic and Gorge, who were both knocked out in the semi-finals. Other teams included Glu Mobile, Midway, Feature Design and The Sun, The Dream Team (consisting of industry journos Paul Vale and Steve Hill, pictured left), Microsoft, the BBFC and Eidos.
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