#21

I’ve been calling it computer exchange, just googled and it used to be called that but then complete entertainment exchange and now cex. Also Charlie Brooker was one of the founders :open_mouth:

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#22

Ask Charlie why they wouldn’t accept my copy of Diablo on the Playstation 1 please

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#23

:smiley:

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#24

One of the founders is also called Hugh Man :laughing:

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#25

Hugh (jack) man

#26

It’ll always be Tottenham Court Road Computer Exchange to me.

I think he just worked there but it was pretty slapdash seeming back in those days so who knows? Oh @avocado says he was a founder too, fair enough. When I read about it before it just sounded like he worked there.

Anyway, they were constantly getting raided by the police. Absolute farce.

#27

Remember when SFX magazine would often obscure the bottom of the F making it look like SEX magazine, made me afraid to buy it, what would WHSmith think of me

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#28

The short-lived Clint magazine seemed to be named entirely so they could mess around with the L and I in the masthead.

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#29

CeX is pronounced “See-eee-ex” innit. Calling it “sex” is silly, like calling KFC “kff-kh”

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#30

I flatly refuse to use a soft C.

‘Chex’ or ‘Kex’

#31

Changed his name to Dan Sir

(ba dum tsh)

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#32

Or is it Den Sir?

#33

Didn’t Brooker also do the illustrations/drawings/posters they’re still using?

#34

This is so Nathan Barley it actually pains me

#35

He changed it back

He was Hugh Man after all

#36

It was a Mark Millar brainchild iirc, so painful edge lording was the order of the day

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