The ECTS Highlights:

• Chatting with Dave Perry over a game of Wild 9.
• Pestering the Yaroze Team.
• Making sure the first link in the CGB SBF chain got to see the game - and liked it!
• Playing N20 backstage at the Gremlin stand.
• Being one of the first in the world to play Colour GB (The 1-level Mario demo was very nice!).
• Playing Metal Gear Solid, Point Blank 2 etc...
• Seeing Quake 2 (PSX), Zelda, Tomb Raider 3.
• Watching Rare's N64 preview video (Perfect Dark looks excellent!)
• Mingling with a few members.
• Playing the new Micro Machines arcade game at the Codie's stand (mega stuff, Scott E!)
• Watching Messiah crash.
• Coaxing the debug font out of Codemasters' Music.
• Hearing about Nick F's unintentional trip into the Ladies washroom (heh heh!)
• Visiting the Computer Exchange Retro shop with Rob R.
• Those red catsuits - mmm...
• Having my picture taken with the red catsuit girls - and being stroked as I left.
• Finding out Eidos had sensibly decided to drop 'Mad' Frankie Frazer's guest appearance.
• The hydraulic cabinets (a la Space Harrier)

• Being tickled under the chin by a passing 8-foot banana.
• Being roasted alive in the Sony 'oven' (particularly bad on the Yaroze shelf).
• Leaving my Gremlin freebies backstage at the Gremlin stand.
• Not trying to crash the Sony party.
• Attempting to blag a free-copy of a magazine before realising it was 1) Swedish 2) Retail only.
• Was third in the queue when they ran out of film for the Lara shoot.
• Eating 3 burgers in 2 days.
• Didn't quite get round to registering a black Playstation to Waverley House on-line at the NY booth.
• Playing too many derivitive platformers.
• Getting really confused by Fluid.
• Being thrashed at an F1 game by both Jim S and Nick F.
• Fought through hordes of people at the show on Sunday.
• Walking past Jon Hare and wondering who he was for days afterwards (doh!)
• Watching the key industry figures getting more excited by the girls than the games.
• Personally getting more excited about the girls than the games...
• The way your name-badge always turned the wrong way at the wrong times.
• Getting sceptical looks from people who didn't believe I'm a head of software development.
• The bustle of London.
• Seeing the prices in the Computer Exchange Retro shop.
• The anticlimax of the big announcement (A price drop to £229).
• The 'over-enthusiastic' rally simulator ride.
• NDA's restricting what many people said to me.

• Metal Gear Solid dog-tags.
• Playstation Mug.
• Daikatana T-Shirt.
• Edge T-Shirt.
• Rayman(?) chocolates.
• Tekken 3 tattoo (thanks Kerry!)
• Playstation badge clip.
• Business cards.
• CTW.

• very flimsy Tekken 3 knapsac.
• Playstation goodie bag (an empty plastic bag, cheers guys!)
• Red Bull (uuuhh!)
• The dubious Edge video.