If I can find and remember it we'll be looking into whether the list of derivative porn names provided by the excellent Golden Turkey Awards ever existed as films.
In fact we haven't had a scan of the week in ages nor some half remembered tat from my childhood. So here is two for the price of one.
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| WCCF Stattos dream come true. |
As a child of the 80's we grew up with the era of the Panini football sticker. Every year they would punt out a new set of stickers and an album to stuff them in. We would rush out and buy them an furiously swap them in the playgrounds with cries of got, got, got, got, need. We never managed to collect a whole set and despite coming close. They were split into what would now be called the SPL and Premier league clubs, with occasional foil stickers of club badges that were bloody hard to get. We wanted an Arsenal badge but no one would swap, in fact now I remember it, the Dunfermiline Athletic badge was hard to get hold off as well.
Panini did other stuff as well (we collected Beano and Dandy stickers as well as stuff from the Transformers cartoon), but all they were ever known for was football stickers.
What brought all this back was a booklet from an issue of Game Japan we got from the Japan centre sale.
Apart from some quite literally pornoriffic Queens Blade artwork, there's quite a line up of info for arcade games including World Club Champion Football 08-09 by Sega.
A bastard mix of Panini sticker and Football game, that if the arcade hadn't coughed up blood and died sometime in the mid to late 90's could have been the saviour of the arcade in the UK. I'm pretty sure there would be a market for this, as soccer is well known for attracting Statto style anoraks. You get an IC card to register data and have a mix of cards to lay down on the screen to make your team. Like the fantasy football leagues printed in the papers, certain cards are marked out as rare and cost more rather than your rank and file players. You then assemble a team from the cards you have and play football.
Of course this being Japan there's a strong Engrish prescence here, located in the various skill descriptions.
Rather than bore you with all the normal ones we'll put up some of the most outlandish descriptions in a small list here (clubs they play for in brackets).
Samir Nasri. The Brew Master (Arsenal)
Francesc 'Cesc' Fabregas 4-Dimensional Through-balls (Arsenal)
Adriano The Power Horse (InterMilan)
Stevie G Terrifying Right Foot (Liverpool) Actually you could picture Motty saying this in a pinch.
Karim Benzema The Trench Mortar (Lyon)
Nordin Amrabat Sturdy Penetration (PSV Eindhoven)
David Villa The Wedge Buster (Valencia)
With that we will leave you for another week.
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