Did you happen to catch Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe? Quite good wasn’t it.
Even if the Videogaiden were in it and no one in the known universe could give a monkey’s toss that Dara O’Briain is rubbish at Gears of War…
If you missed it, you can catch Gameswipe on BBC’s I-Player. But – here’s another bit of a games journalism gold you just have to hear.
Before Charlie Brooker made top notch TV shows about… TV, he was a scummy games journalist like us.
And like any games journo worth their salt (at least that’s our excuse to customs officers), he arsed around, when really he should have been working. Brooker used to prank call the customer services lines of game companies.
In this little gem from the 90′s, Brooker calls Activision to complain about how Quake won’t run on his boy’s computer:
Charlie Brooker’s prank call – part one:
Charlie Brooker’s prank call – part two:
What do you reckon? Should more games journalists be like this? Leave a comment in the box below.
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