Lots of love-me-do for Digitiser

For ten years, Teletext’s iconic Digitiser gaming section plunged readers into a world of often controversial madcap humour. But the fun isn’t about to stop, as David Crookes explains.

Two donkeys go into a pub. When they get in, what do they order? According to The Man’s Daddy – an oddball with a penchant for telling nonsensical jokes – the answer is chicken. And if you laughed at that, then it’s highly likely you’d have enjoyed Digitiser, an offbeat, surreal videogames magazine broadcast on Teletext in the UK between 1 January 1993 and 9 March 2003. Daddy was a pixellated character who graced Digitiser’s on-screen pages, but he wasn’t the only one. There was The Man himself (aka The Man with a Long Chin), Zombie Dave, Insincere Dave and the innuendo-laden Chester Fisho. They formed a little world of their own alongside sword-selling Britt Slaps, prankster Phoning Honey and Mr and Mrs Nude. Readers would also be treated to…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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