I have no shame

 Did you know there's a website dedicated to Digitser? The 1990s Channel 4 Teletext video game page, famously hosted by The Man With A Long Chin?

Well, there is. And one page on it contains a selection from their letters page, and it's time I confessed something that has been a dark secret for more than thirty years...

I was a regular correspondent to Digitiser in 1993/1994 (as I recall, by the time I went to university in autumn 94, I'd stopped), under the name of The Man With No Shame.

A few earlier letters were under the less imaginative name of Ben Pridmore (which I also used when entering their competitions, some of which I won!), and I also wrote one as "Miriam the Mystic", which got printed too. But it was mainly The Man With No Shame.

I wasn't one of the superstar writers who everyone thought were cool, but I was thrilled to see my pseudonym show up occasionally for the world to see! Once I won a subscription to Gamesmaster magazine by having the star letter on the theme of the week, "What makes you a Digitiser 'super viewer'?"

I can only see one of my letters on that page, and I don't remember writing it at all. But it has to be me, with that name and location...

Most of the letters collected there are from after my time, but for some reason I remember this one (not written by me) and its answer word for word, after all these years...

The "Miriam the Mystic" letter, if I'm remembering the name right, included references to a lot of famous letter-writers, and I slipped my brother "T. Prophet" in there too, which was very nice of me. And they edited that line out when they printed it, obviously recognising that we wrote from the same address. So thanks, Digitiser - do you know how rare it was for me to do something nice for my brother like that? And I never got to show him it...