We'd Like To Say Hi To Mr. Dreamcast
September 28, 2006 6:15 AM | Simon Carless
Obsessive Dreamcast blog The Dreamcast Junkyard recently took a look back at the UK magazines that focused on the console. Amongst them, Dreamcast - The Official Dreamcast Magazine, Dreamcast Monthly, DC-UK, Dreamcast Magazine and, finally, the very oddly titled Mr. Dreamcast.
“I only ever saw this monstrosity once,” notes blogger Tomleecee. “And only bought it on that solitary occasion because I was facing a long and boring bus journey. It was clearly aimed at the younger end of the market as this particular issue came complete with a Fur Fighters water pistol and prose that wouldn't seem out of place in a Puddle Lane Ladybird book.”
A quick hunt around reveals that the mag was edited by former DC-UK editor Caspar Field, who had previously been deputy editor at EDGE, and later went on to produce Argonaut’s Xbox watercraft racer Carve.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like it lasted very long – “A case of drowning a retarded puppy to put the little fucker out of its misery, methinks,” suggests Tomleecee.
Still, best magazine name ever, for sure. Mr. Wii, anyone?
[edited by alistairw]
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Ah, see, we actually did two issues. Wacky Races was on the cover of the second one. Yeah, Mr. Dreamcast (God rest his soul) was my baby... I had come up with the concept for DC-UK, then launched it, and was feeling a) restless and b) under-appreciated (in a financial sense). So when Simon (who published Mr. Dreamcast) offered me double my salary to move to London (from Bath, the most stultifyingly dull city in the whole of the UK) and start a new magazine... well, I wasn't going to argue. But myself, Craig, Jon and Camilla were proud of Mr. Dreamcast. It was for kids, it was written 'to a level', but it was packed with more info and less condescending-bollocks than any other kids' games magazine at the time. As I recall, we even tried to explain 60Hz mode to the little sweeties! Oh, and by the way, we sold 12,000 copies of issue one... So it can't have been all that shit... Can it? Maybe it was just the free waterpistol... :o) Cheers, Caspar
Caspar Field | November 3, 2006 12:51 AM