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Lowest score citation

Excerpt from this article released yesterday:

"Here's the thing: I think "N/A" may, technically, be the lowest score PCG has ever given, but it also means Big Brother Series 2: The Game wasn't included in our record of reviews, so I have no idea which issue this thing got reviewed in. I only know about it from our own Wikipedia entry, which mentions that our reviewer said they had "put as much effort into reviewing it as they did in making the game.""

Do we have a source for this? Because there is no citation in the referred section. WolfmanFP (talk) 13:02, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try and find one. - X201 (talk) 17:02, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Right. The game appears to be a real game (the reason for this doubt will be explained later) I found a page here that has a release date of July 2001. I'm struggling to find any scans of PCG (UK) from 2001. Future removed them all from the Internet Archive, so we're a bit stuck for easy access. Perhaps they could actually check their own magazine archive to see if they actually published it (more doubt. See below). I'll ask in WP:VG to see if there's any one who is willing to plough through 7 months worth of reviews to find it.

Now, why am I so doubting? Back in the day, PCG (both US and UK) thought it was wonderful japes to add fake edits and general crap to this article. So until proved otherwise, that's what I'm going to assume N/A is. There would be something ironic in them publishing as fact, a fake fact about themselves that they created though. - X201 (talk) 08:47, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Browsing the article's history, I found an edit war which was about the order of PCG US and UK in the article, not much else. What you're saying though could be true, although 18 years has passed since that edit, and the editor team may not be the same so nobody can remember what happened back then...

Speaking of, I found the aforementioned revisions: this one added the sentence about the N/A score, and this one specified Big Brother 2 as the worst-reviewed game. WolfmanFP (talk) 17:04, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]