J Nash

The meanest intelligence (You're rubbish, bignose - Some intelligence) will have spotted that the Unrelated Intro was my reply to the increasingly cramped nature of AP's pages; as it seemed a bit off with the reduced number of games in tinier spaces to spend most of the time on tangential gags, a crafty answer was to pack them into a self-sealing opening and vault springily to facts with a carriage return, a tab and a "But anyway."

(Also, this meant I didn't have to think through how to connect reference jokes to the game in question. Eee, sometimes I realise I can be q clever, two hundred years later when writing this comment.) (Plus: I've also astutely spotted at the same time that the U Intro is an adaptation of an article style in Game Zone that I lifted for nearly everything while I was there. Coo. And the start-with-something-then- veer-away beginning had been in AP for yonks, but I didn't know and that's not important right now. Pfff - let's not spoil the mood by arguing; we'll just say for the sake of simplicity that I invented the unrelated intro out of thin air and that nobody else was involved and it was all me and I've formalised such upon a legitimising woodcut stamp and beckon the royalties at this pannier.)

For some reason, the U Intros were nearly all title sequences for cop shows (eg, Cadfael & God)* which presented me with the tremendous opportunity to state with lapel-seizing, mantel-elbowing certainty that the movie Taxi Driver was written by "Paul Schaeffer" and not, as it in fact was, Paul Schrader (who, for example, exists) to an inattentive audience of perhaps twelves.

I have a small bag of U Intros ready if ever they are needed, so nobody need worry when Spodland arrives.