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Teletext

zx1zx1
edited March 2006 in Games
Does anyone remember those 'teletext' things you used to get on the Piranha tapes? Theres a couple of adverture tapes i have (one being 'the big sleaze') and after the adverture theres an extra program which is a well, i'm not sure what it means but its a sort of teletext thingy where you type in the page number to read various things. It's hard to remember now as it was a long time ago i saw these but does anyone know what they were all about. I can't even remember what they were called!
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The trouble with tribbles is.......

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  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited March 2006
    Sceptical is the name, and various versions of it came with different Delta 4 games. It was basically just a teletext-based magazine that contained all sorts of miscellaneous junk usually humour that they couldn't work into the games somewhere.

    [ This Message was edited by: Matt_B on 2006-03-12 13:08 ]
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited March 2006
    I should add that the original idea should go to Design Design who had one called Spectacle that was on the same tape as Dark Star.

    It had a lot to say about a magazine called C&UG (no relation to C&VG surely?) which supposedly kept giving them very bad reviews.

    [ This Message was edited by: Matt_B on 2006-03-12 13:09 ]
  • chop983chop983
    edited March 2006
    I remember that I managed to break into one once, and edit it can't remember how though
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited March 2006
    On a slightly different note, because I now get up early (5-6am) every morning as this is the time my 18 month old daughter awakens, I've been gob-smacked to find that BBC2 still has the Teletext system running as an actual TV program (ie you do not have to press TXT, and have no control over it).

    They've got 40 or 50 years of back catalogues of programming to go through so why show this? Some Open University from the 70's would be better than this surely, the comedy value alone would be worth it, or is it something to finally get the insomniacs off to sleep?

    Maybe it's a viewing figures thing; I've found myself watching it even though I have a Freeview box and could switch over to another channel.

    Well, at least until my daughter switches onto the fact the TV's on and I have to put CBeebies on. Believe me, you haven;t watched crap TV until you've seen those half-breeds in action. Balamory should be nuked, Tikabillas presenters should have baseball bats inserted into their heads (slowly, and from the rectum, up) and don't even get me started on "the Higgledy-Piddly House". I hate that chunky-smug tosser, Justin, he deserves ...
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  • chop983chop983
    edited March 2006
    On 2006-03-13 00:00, Vampyre wrote:
    On a slightly different note, because I now get up early (5-6am) every morning as this is the time my 18 month old daughter awakens, I've been gob-smacked to find that BBC2 still has the Teletext system running as an actual TV program (ie you do not have to press TXT, and have no control over it).

    They've got 40 or 50 years of back catalogues of programming to go through so why show this? Some Open University from the 70's would be better than this surely, the comedy value alone would be worth it, or is it something to finally get the insomniacs off to sleep?

    Maybe it's a viewing figures thing; I've found myself watching it even though I have a Freeview box and could switch over to another channel.

    Well, at least until my daughter switches onto the fact the TV's on and I have to put CBeebies on. Believe me, you haven;t watched crap TV until you've seen those half-breeds in action. Balamory should be nuked, Tikabillas presenters should have baseball bats inserted into their heads (slowly, and from the rectum, up) and don't even get me started on "the Higgledy-Piddly House". I hate that chunky-smug tosser, Justin, he deserves ...

    I'm in exactly the same boat 'The Boy' watches this crap all day, it's only on for about 4 hours and is then repeated twice to make it up to a full days shows, it's the BBC's way of preparing kids for endless repeats
  • zx1zx1
    edited March 2006
    My grandfather used to leave the BBC2 teletext on all the time because he liked the music they played! This is no joke! No wonder he's in a home now......
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited March 2006
    On 2006-03-13 22:09, zx1 wrote:
    My grandfather used to leave the BBC2 teletext on all the time because he liked the music they played! This is no joke! No wonder he's in a home now......

    I remember the Teletext programme one year, just before Christmas (the only time I ever see TV is when in other people's homes, and I used to spend Christmas at my mum's); one song had the lyric "When you're with God, nothing is impossible/It's not possible/For it to be impossible"... :lol:

    I nearly wet myself laughing; seldom does a song parody itself so neatly. :D
    I never make misteaks mistrakes misyales errurs — oh, sod it.
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