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I liked Apollo this week too. The "taking out the trash" comment made me laugh, especially when they cut to Jake who didn't look very amused by it. Phantom and Legend are my faves. Viper's a bit cringe and not great at the games either. Really wasn't expecting much with the disappointing Crystal Maze reboot in recent memory, but I've been pleasantly surprised by this. A couple of weak links (The Ring, Barney Walsh) but overall, good stuff. My niece is obsessed with it, which is awesome.

As a kid I thought Abba were singing about chicken tikka, not Chiquitita. Still hear it even now. Last year a friend of mine told me he misheard Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee. "Later we'll have some fuckin' pie and we'll do some carolling". Again, can't unhear.

Maybe the first episode of Doom. My first experience of it was the 32X port, which wasn't without its issues (like missing a third of the levels and ending with a C:\DOOM prompt) but I was still quite taken in by the atmospherics - how you could look through windows to other areas of the map, the sound of doors opening in the distance and monsters approaching. All quite impressive to young me. Playing a PS2 for the first time at a friend's house, and thinking Smackdown JBI looks amazing ("full" entrances!!) and is the best game ever. I'd go along with Vice City and Broken Sword 1 and especially 2. Good times.

"WWF Backlash" as the lost sequel to No Mercy is the big one. Seems to have snowballed from a random forum post 20+ years ago claiming to have seen a Hell in a Cell screenshot in a magazine and that the game was scrapped at 30% complete. There are even samples of Austin's "Glass Shatters" and Christian's "At Last" theme on YouTube claiming to be from this 30% finished game. But a couple of years ago someone from AKI was asked about it and confirmed it never existed. I do remember hearing a lot of nonsense about Smackdown 2 - there were going to be six-way ladder matches, Bret Hart as a hidden character, play five years of season as Kane without ever losing a match and you'll unlock an inferno match, that sort of thing.

I have this; it's not the real thing but something I made a while back.

Great thread! Zack Laurence created some gems for Chatsworth TV's game shows back in the 80s: He was also on board for Interceptor and The Crystal Maze. All cracking themes.

From that poor image, it could be any 'square' font. This font looks pretty similar - it would perhaps just need distorting a little.

Impact is most likely a custom cut. Global Force Wrestling looks like Handel in heavy italics.

Looks like SF Automaton to me. http://www.dafont.com/sf-automaton.font

I mainly use the Futura family for just about any size type - versatile and professional without going down the Helvetica route. Ultimately I guess it depends what you're going to be using it for?