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“Good evening, I’m Moira Stuart and welcome to the nine o’clock news. The date is May 3rd, and for those unaware, today was the official launch date of the Nintendo GameCube. Although not a normal type of news bulletin for the BBC, the GameCube has indeed attracted attention with very strong sales.
In Europe and the UK 50,000 preorders were already made before the launch, and that figure rose dramatically just before, and on, the launch day. Priced at £128.99, the Nintendo GameCube is a good £70 cheaper than its rivals the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Queues in front of shops stocking the games console were starting to build well before opening time and at 9 o’clock all around the country thousands of eager customers stormed into stores, demanding their consoles.
The trouble started when adrenaline-fuelled shoppers realised that they had missed out on a GameCube due to large preorder numbers and so became violent. Their anger and the anarchy intensified when they discovered the next delivery was in two weeks time.”
FLASH TO STREET SCENE
Hundreds of people are ram-raiding shops and running off with TVs. A car is turned on its side and is set ablaze. Suddenly a huge mass of policemen appear carrying riot-shields and tear gas. Petrol bombs start to fly.
CUT TO INTERVIEW WITH ANARCHIST
“Yeah my little kid an myself were well looking forward to playing GameCube and Super Monkey Ball, you know, so we come down here at 8:30 in the morning and when the bloody shop opens we were at the front of the queue, but the assistant turned us away because we didn’t have a preorder! It’s a bloody disgrace! We tried jumping a bloke who had bought one but he was using the GameCube’s handle to swing at us, we had no chance, that thing’s like a brick.”
BACK TO STUDIO
“Those scenes from around midday in the busy Egham high street have since died down, and our news reporter Mook McMookster is now on the scene.”
EGHAM HIGH STREET, MOOK McMOOKSTER
“Thankyou Moira. The time is now 5:29, I am standing outside the Egham branch of games store Special Reserve Discount Store, which was once so busy this morning, is now closing for today. I am joined by Store Manager Harry Bojanglez. So Harry, how was your branch affected by today’s riots? Surely some of the blame lies on yourself for allowing all your stock to be preordered?
“Well no not at all, we felt we were offering the best service available. Obviously the customers thought so as well as we have a back-list of orders running into the next two batches. Just because our stores had no GameCubes today doesn’t mean we are not selling them. Some of the rioters could not see that.”
“So what’s your message to all the rioters that have assaulted this high street today?”
“I’d just like them to know that we are now offering State of Emergency free with any PS2 sold.”
“Thankyou for your time Mr Bojanglez. This is Mook McMookster, Egham high street, on the nine o’clock news.”
In Europe and the UK 50,000 preorders were already made before the launch, and that figure rose dramatically just before, and on, the launch day. Priced at £128.99, the Nintendo GameCube is a good £70 cheaper than its rivals the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Queues in front of shops stocking the games console were starting to build well before opening time and at 9 o’clock all around the country thousands of eager customers stormed into stores, demanding their consoles.
The trouble started when adrenaline-fuelled shoppers realised that they had missed out on a GameCube due to large preorder numbers and so became violent. Their anger and the anarchy intensified when they discovered the next delivery was in two weeks time.”
FLASH TO STREET SCENE
Hundreds of people are ram-raiding shops and running off with TVs. A car is turned on its side and is set ablaze. Suddenly a huge mass of policemen appear carrying riot-shields and tear gas. Petrol bombs start to fly.
CUT TO INTERVIEW WITH ANARCHIST
“Yeah my little kid an myself were well looking forward to playing GameCube and Super Monkey Ball, you know, so we come down here at 8:30 in the morning and when the bloody shop opens we were at the front of the queue, but the assistant turned us away because we didn’t have a preorder! It’s a bloody disgrace! We tried jumping a bloke who had bought one but he was using the GameCube’s handle to swing at us, we had no chance, that thing’s like a brick.”
BACK TO STUDIO
“Those scenes from around midday in the busy Egham high street have since died down, and our news reporter Mook McMookster is now on the scene.”
EGHAM HIGH STREET, MOOK McMOOKSTER
“Thankyou Moira. The time is now 5:29, I am standing outside the Egham branch of games store Special Reserve Discount Store, which was once so busy this morning, is now closing for today. I am joined by Store Manager Harry Bojanglez. So Harry, how was your branch affected by today’s riots? Surely some of the blame lies on yourself for allowing all your stock to be preordered?
“Well no not at all, we felt we were offering the best service available. Obviously the customers thought so as well as we have a back-list of orders running into the next two batches. Just because our stores had no GameCubes today doesn’t mean we are not selling them. Some of the rioters could not see that.”
“So what’s your message to all the rioters that have assaulted this high street today?”
“I’d just like them to know that we are now offering State of Emergency free with any PS2 sold.”
“Thankyou for your time Mr Bojanglez. This is Mook McMookster, Egham high street, on the nine o’clock news.”
huh?
Yep, it's like I can forsee the future...
I knew this would happen, I bet I'll die today or something...
“Good evening, I’m Moira Stuart and welcome to the nine o’clock news. The date is May 3rd, and for those unaware, today was the official launch date of the Nintendo GameCube. Although not a normal type of news bulletin for the BBC, the GameCube has indeed attracted attention with very strong sales.
In Europe and the UK 50,000 preorders were already made before the launch, and that figure rose dramatically just before, and on, the launch day. Priced at £128.99, the Nintendo GameCube is a good £70 cheaper than its rivals the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Queues in front of shops stocking the games console were starting to build well before opening time and at 9 o’clock all around the country thousands of eager customers stormed into stores, demanding their consoles.
The trouble started when adrenaline-fuelled shoppers realised that they had missed out on a GameCube due to large preorder numbers and so became violent. Their anger and the anarchy intensified when they discovered the next delivery was in two weeks time.”
FLASH TO STREET SCENE
Hundreds of people are ram-raiding shops and running off with TVs. A car is turned on its side and is set ablaze. Suddenly a huge mass of policemen appear carrying riot-shields and tear gas. Petrol bombs start to fly.
CUT TO INTERVIEW WITH ANARCHIST
“Yeah my little kid an myself were well looking forward to playing GameCube and Super Monkey Ball, you know, so we come down here at 8:30 in the morning and when the bloody shop opens we were at the front of the queue, but the assistant turned us away because we didn’t have a preorder! It’s a bloody disgrace! We tried jumping a bloke who had bought one but he was using the GameCube’s handle to swing at us, we had no chance, that thing’s like a brick.”
BACK TO STUDIO
“Those scenes from around midday in the busy Egham high street have since died down, and our news reporter Mook McMookster is now on the scene.”
EGHAM HIGH STREET, MOOK McMOOKSTER
“Thankyou Moira. The time is now 5:29, I am standing outside the Egham branch of games store Special Reserve Discount Store, which was once so busy this morning, is now closing for today. I am joined by Store Manager Harry Bojanglez. So Harry, how was your branch affected by today’s riots? Surely some of the blame lies on yourself for allowing all your stock to be preordered?
“Well no not at all, we felt we were offering the best service available. Obviously the customers thought so as well as we have a back-list of orders running into the next two batches. Just because our stores had no GameCubes today doesn’t mean we are not selling them. Some of the rioters could not see that.”
“So what’s your message to all the rioters that have assaulted this high street today?”
“I’d just like them to know that we are now offering State of Emergency free with any PS2 sold.”
“Thankyou for your time Mr Bojanglez. This is Mook McMookster, Egham high street, on the nine o’clock news.”
In Europe and the UK 50,000 preorders were already made before the launch, and that figure rose dramatically just before, and on, the launch day. Priced at £128.99, the Nintendo GameCube is a good £70 cheaper than its rivals the PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
Queues in front of shops stocking the games console were starting to build well before opening time and at 9 o’clock all around the country thousands of eager customers stormed into stores, demanding their consoles.
The trouble started when adrenaline-fuelled shoppers realised that they had missed out on a GameCube due to large preorder numbers and so became violent. Their anger and the anarchy intensified when they discovered the next delivery was in two weeks time.”
FLASH TO STREET SCENE
Hundreds of people are ram-raiding shops and running off with TVs. A car is turned on its side and is set ablaze. Suddenly a huge mass of policemen appear carrying riot-shields and tear gas. Petrol bombs start to fly.
CUT TO INTERVIEW WITH ANARCHIST
“Yeah my little kid an myself were well looking forward to playing GameCube and Super Monkey Ball, you know, so we come down here at 8:30 in the morning and when the bloody shop opens we were at the front of the queue, but the assistant turned us away because we didn’t have a preorder! It’s a bloody disgrace! We tried jumping a bloke who had bought one but he was using the GameCube’s handle to swing at us, we had no chance, that thing’s like a brick.”
BACK TO STUDIO
“Those scenes from around midday in the busy Egham high street have since died down, and our news reporter Mook McMookster is now on the scene.”
EGHAM HIGH STREET, MOOK McMOOKSTER
“Thankyou Moira. The time is now 5:29, I am standing outside the Egham branch of games store Special Reserve Discount Store, which was once so busy this morning, is now closing for today. I am joined by Store Manager Harry Bojanglez. So Harry, how was your branch affected by today’s riots? Surely some of the blame lies on yourself for allowing all your stock to be preordered?
“Well no not at all, we felt we were offering the best service available. Obviously the customers thought so as well as we have a back-list of orders running into the next two batches. Just because our stores had no GameCubes today doesn’t mean we are not selling them. Some of the rioters could not see that.”
“So what’s your message to all the rioters that have assaulted this high street today?”
“I’d just like them to know that we are now offering State of Emergency free with any PS2 sold.”
“Thankyou for your time Mr Bojanglez. This is Mook McMookster, Egham high street, on the nine o’clock news.”