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Cybersurfer : Fads for the memory
Forget karaoke, swallow a goldfish. Now that may seem a very strange thing to start a website review with, but would you believe that in the US in the 1940s, goldfish-swallowing was something of a fad? According to www.crazyfads.com, this craze started in 1939 when a university student ate a live goldfish for a $10 bet. Of course, not all fads are quite so unpleasant and this site pretty much has the best of them, from the 1920s right though to the 1990s. Some you may know about, such as the 1990s craze for boy bands (hang on, was that a 1990s fad?). Some of you may even have heard of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (a cartoon based around pizza-munching kung fu-kicking turtle-men ruled by a giant talking rat � and no, I am not making this up).

Game review : Gaming gourmet
I'm getting a bit bored of shoot-'em-ups. I mean, they're all the same � whatever the plot and setting, all you really have to do is shoot the bad guys. End of story. So when the generous folks at New Era Interactive sent me Restaurant Empire to review, I was quite excited as this is the sort of game that requires thinking and planning rather than just clicking the fire button and wasting your enemies.