True, perrinbar, but using something as idiotic as that to get at N'Gai is a little odd.  We are talking about nearly a decade here, and when its for modern games, he certainly has the experience and time; ergo the comment in that sense was useless.

So I guess that the stereotype of gaffers being scholars and gentlemen is not entirely accurate?

Nine years is a pretty damn long time, and certainly gives a writer all the necessary reference to talk about modern games. It would be one thing if his job was to review Virtual Console games, but Is N'Gai to be faulted because his parents didn't buy him an NES?