Japan Gaming Guide

We’re deviating from games for a bit to tell you about a book. Confessions of a Chatroom Freak is written by none other than Mr. Biffo, of digitiser fame.

Digitiser, for those of you that didn’t religiously monitor British teletext during the 90’s, was a video game news service that went way beyond what you’d expect it to be – not only providing great video game news, but managing to be very, very funny at the same time. It had a readership of 1.5 million at its peak, it was even funny enough to attract readers that weren’t into games.

The book is a series of, apparently genuine, online conversations. The author pretends to be a 21 year old woman to tempt unsuspecting men into chats. The expectant guys are then subjected to some of the most bizarre questions imaginable. The poor guys carry on regardless in their attempts to woo Lisa, although most of them give up after requesting a picture, and then getting a snap of the 36 year old male author wearing lipstick and a big grin.

It’s surreal stuff, and astonishingly funny. In fact it made me laugh out loud so much that I was unable to read it on the train. I’d recommend everybody to go and buy it right now. Except maybe children. Tramps and Yorkie Peters should probably avoid it too.

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