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• MIKE MONTGOMERY
Age: 31.
Born: Southend-on-Sea, educated at Be'fairs
School, Leigh-on-Sea.
Faye food: Red meat and pork sausages from my
local butcher with plenty of sawdust in.
Faye drink: Newouay Steam Bitter.
Faye music: The Beastie Boys, Pink Floyd.
Faye female performer: Stevie Nicks.
Worst female performer: Madonna
Should software pirates be locked up?: No
— they should be hung, drown and quartered.
Rive computer game: Virus on the Amiga — if
there were no pirates there would be no virus.
Faye TV commercial: Thank Crunchy It's Friday
and the Telecom one where that kid phones his
aunty after failing all his exams.
Should Michelle have had an abortion!:
No.
Are the Amiga and ST the future of
computer gaming: No — not in the long term,
that's the transputer and whizz chips. In the short
term they ore certainly far superior to any of the
8-bit machines.
• ERIC MATHEWS
Born: Truro, Cornwall.
Age: 25.
Education: BA — Fine Arts, Chelsea School of
Art.
Fave artist: Richard Serra — the man who
sculptured the huge metal girders at the recently
built Broad Street Complex in London.
Faye music: New Order, the NoIons.
Faye game: Invadaload by Richard Aplin.
Should hackers be prosecuted?: No. They
should be funded.
What about software pirates?: I would force
them to drink St Christopher non-alcoholic lager for
the rest of their days.
Fave TV prog: Bulls Eye.
Are there too many soap operas on TV?:
No — bring back Howards Way.
Which soap star would you most like to
spend an evening in the pub with: Jack
Rolfe - Howaras' Way.
Fave chocolate bar: Toffee Crisp.
Worst TV commercial: Cadbury's Flake.
Faye take away: Chicken Tikka Masshala.
Are computer game advertisements
unnecessarily violent and sexist? Yes.
Why don't girls play computer games?:
Because the games are too boring.
Faye car: Triumph Vitesse Convertible. Address
Melbourne House is marking the
launch of their mega 16 bit shoot 'em
up with a chance to win a remote
controlled aircraft as a first prize.
We'll put you in touch with your
nearest club so that you can learn
how to fly it — and then take to the
skies. Ten runners-up will receive a
copy of Xenon — for the ST or Amiga.
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