h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yeah, that's poor. To me, it was another Jurassic Park spin-off. Tbh, I'm a bit sick of dinosaur games...

I'm sick of Raptors in dinosaur games. Remember the good old days, when anything dino-related had three main types involved - the T-Rex, the triceratops and the pteradactyl? And probably a Diplodicus, and a Stegosaurus (remember the Dinobots?). But then Jurassic Park came out and suddenly, if it was a dinosaur in a game or TV series, it was a friggin' raptor. Total over-exposure. And most of the dinosaurs in Dino Crisis looked to be raptors as well, probably because they could fit inside corridors and do much the same sort of dopey "Alien" things they did in Jurassic Park. Sigh.

Dinobots? As in Transformers? Now they were cool...
Not too sure about seeing many Pteradactyls about though.

Surprising as it may seem, I have never seen Alien.

Transformers rock!
Swoop - he was the Dinobot pteradactyl. But they never bothered releasing him in Europe, for some mad reason. Some jammy kid I knew had Swoop, 'cos his aunt went to America and brought him back with her. Tch.
Alien's alright. Not as good as the second film, but better than Alien 3 and 4. In my opinion, anyway.

My big brother had tons of Transformers comics...he had pretty much every one from issue #2 to sometime in 1991...that's about 6 years worth of comics! I think we still got them...
Actually, I got a pile in Beanos about two feet high. The oldest one's from 1991 . I had one a year oldrer, but I lost it

Suppose I should start making an effort to see these Alien films then

Alien is okay, pretty scary. Aliens rocks - loads of fighting, gunfire, dropships, armoured vehicles and zillions of aliens. Not as many scares as the first one, but it's still one of the coolest films of all time. Also really obviously what they based Space Hulk on. Alien 3 splits a lot of people, some folks really like it, whereas I think it's shit - but there you go. And Alien: Resurrection is, er, middling.
I am, as you may have gathered, a bit of an Alien fan.
The Beano... I've always wondered this. Do they produce a new issue each week or do they recycle stuff from the past?

What ratings do the Aliens films have?

I've noticed that sometimes they recycle a story, but only rarely. It usually is new material each week.
I wish they'd bring back some of the older artists though.

The age rating? 18, all of 'em. I think. Though Alien:Resurrection could have been a 12, to be honest.
The reason I asked about the Beano thing was that I remember seeing an "All New" Whizzer and Chips summer special about ten years ago that had a comic strip with the words "HAPPY NEW YEAR 1976" in it. This disturbed me greatly.

Names like Whizzer and Chips are disturbing enough for me

Did you read Sonic The Comic? *cringe*. They deposed Doctor Robotnik about four years ago...and the comic's still running! They have developed more on Sonic and stuff than Sega ever did/have *^_^*

I like saying "Whizzer and Chips".
Sonic the comic always seemed bizarrely deep, considering it was based on a game in which a giant hedgehog battles a fat evil man by curling up into a ball and repeatedly ramming into his face. I remember seeing story titles in that that were puns on Kate Bush song titles. What the hell??!?

Please, do tell me about them

I was reading from Aug. 1996 to Sept. 1998, so if there any between that period...
Trying to think when it started going downhill...certainly after issue #100, but I know the decline started before then.

Okay. I seem to recall one cover line saying "Barmy Dreamers"... Actually, that's about it for Kate Bush references, and also pretty much my whole experience with Sonic the Comic - the mental processes required to visualise the connection between Ms Bush and the adventures of a hyperactive blue hedgehog completely drained me. Was it really f****d up in the head? Is it still?

Barmy Dreamers?

Yeah, it was pretty warped when I last saw it...

Army Dreamers - the Kate Bush song where the video finished with Kate Bush being shot/blown up repeatedly. Warms the spirit.
Do you remember Thrugg the Barbarian in White Dwarf? That was pretty screwed.
I've been meaning to ask you this. Do you have that Iron Maiden game, Ed Hunter?

No. But I borrowed it off a mate. His h2g2 name is: Ed Hunter.
If you like Virtua Cop, Time Crisis and Iron Maiden, then the game is a stonker. If you don't, then you won't. Despite all the hype the band give it in their biography, it's a bit primitive, but still great fun

I suddenly want to see the KB video...not out of disrespect, but it sounds cool

Thrugg...some guy converted his Chaos Marauder army out of that guy, it was the general, yeah.

I remember Ed Hunter being funny because it was advertised as a game "with 20 free bonus Iron Maiden tracks!" in games magazines, and as a Best-of album "with a free bonus CD-ROM game!" in music magazines. Sureal!
Actually, the folks who made that game work just down the road from me. Dunno if they've done anything else since...
That KB video has KB and a load of luvvie-type actors faffing around a big forest which is really obviously a small set in a studio. And they're all dressed as soldiers, and this one guy is reading a little kid's comic for some reason, and then KB sets blown up by a bad pink special effect explosion over and over again. Hmmmm.

What I hate is when Ed Hunter puts the game in his list of albums. It is a GAME, not a BEST OF album. Christ, if you want a Best Of album, then you buy Best Of The Beast which was released two years before Ed Hunter, which is a GAME with an Iron Maiden soundtrack. Duh!

Video sounds fun. I keep saying that *^_^*

VH-1 show lots of fun videos from yesteryear, like "Babushka" by Kate Bush (borderline porn), "Don't Stop the Dance" by Richard Marx (more porn), "Love Missile F-111" by Sigue Sigue Sputnik (quite possibly the most laughable music video of all time) and "Love and Pride"(?) by VH-1 presenter Paul King (appallingly dated). Or at least they used to, cause now they seem to mainly show lots of crap by the Lighthouse Family. Sigh.

Whenever I watch VH-1 and/or MTV, I always see/hear crap. To find something decent, you have to sit and watch for a while and wade through loads of crap. And the Lighthouse Family really suck.

The Lighthouse Family, M-People and The Corrs all suck ass, and are on VH-1 all the goddamned time.
The VH-1 law: If there's anything good on VH-1, you'll switch over to it, only it'll be half over, and they'll cut off the last half-minute of the song so they can put on friggin' "Private Emotion" by that sodding gimp criminal Ricky Martin for the 11th time that day, and they'll never play your song EVER AGAIN. Horrific. but true.