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I still have the first issue of Gamesmaster magazine somewhere. I used to love the show long with Bad Influence, all the guests were so deadpan and monotone!
Rewatching gamesmaster tv show.
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Claudia Trimde, IIRC. Preferred her to Booth at the time.
Bits was also cool, mainly for Emily Booth
Not in my house. Krotoski 'til I die.
Daffy Duck
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Yes, that was Sir Patrick Moore.
Really late-night Hill Street Blues and The Prisoner for me. And The Best Of The Worst, which I didn't watch as much as idly had onscreen after The Prisoner ended.
Drama Zed Nod
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i grew up watching this and shows like bad influence (and reading Digitizer on Teletext!).
In the pre-internet days where magazines and tv shows were the only way to feel like i was somehow part of a community, stuff like the Games Master TV show was a god send.
In the pre-internet days where magazines and tv shows were the only way to feel like i was somehow part of a community, stuff like the Games Master TV show was a god send.
Pyramid head
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Bits was also cool, mainly for Emily Booth
Emily Booth is amazing.
Triggerhappytel
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I always found it weird why he agreed to do it. I guess he must have been offered a pretty good wage.
floatstarpx
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TV is generally catered to a different audience, nowadays, I think... especially as anyone wanting that kind of content will turn to twitch/youtube/other (and probably find more than they'd be able to watch- even if the quality not always high...). It dates very quickly, too- unlike other (similar-ish) TV shows, which are generally more OK to be repeated.
pauljeremiah
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I think the issue is how do you present a video game show to an audience? Most of the old shows from the 90's only really worked when it was a VS format, Games World on Sky and the forgotten Head2Head on TCC for example.
The only video game show that really worked was The 1UP Show, it didn't pander to the audience and treated its audience with intelligence and respect and had enough personalities working at the site to make it work. I just think the show was ahead of its time and I think Ziff could never find a way to monetize from it that could justify its budget. So when 1UP was sold, one of the first things to go was the 1UP show.
Visualante2
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caught the occasional episode of GamesMaster and Cybernet when I was young. Bits, Games Network, Consolevania, videoGaiden.
Bits and videoGaiden were the highlights for me. I appreciated that digitiser was there for so long however.
Game Network was a pile of shite but the idea of having a weekly MMO show talking about updates in the community and events was really innovative. Shame I was too broke to pay for a sub. I was always stuck on the up to level 7 demo character.
Bits and videoGaiden were the highlights for me. I appreciated that digitiser was there for so long however.
Game Network was a pile of shite but the idea of having a weekly MMO show talking about updates in the community and events was really innovative. Shame I was too broke to pay for a sub. I was always stuck on the up to level 7 demo character.
I actually quite enjoy VGN, it's a lot better this series than it was the previous ones.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
I'm rewatching it at the moment too, up to season 5 so far. It really takes you back, the industry was so different then. I was in the audience for a few episodes of Season 2 as one of my dad's simulators was used as a challenge on episode 4 (landing the Merlin on the ship). The illusion of it being on an oil rig was shattered before the show had even aired! Very cool experience though, they filmed like 3 or 4 episodes in a day.
The Retro Hour recently did an interview with Dave Perry which really gave an interesting look at the history of the show and how it came to be.
The Retro Hour recently did an interview with Dave Perry which really gave an interesting look at the history of the show and how it came to be.
Resident Evil King
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Holy shit... I used to love this show as a kid but haven't seen it since 1994 (lived in Ireland from late 93 to early 95 and it never aired in Australia as far as I'm aware).
I could never remember what the show was called hence never really trying to look it up but it feels awesome to be able to revisit it now, even though I can't really remember anything but the vaguest details. Thank you OP!
I could never remember what the show was called hence never really trying to look it up but it feels awesome to be able to revisit it now, even though I can't really remember anything but the vaguest details. Thank you OP!
the_milkybar_kid
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I can vaguely remember my Aunty taking my cousins and I to one of the Gamesmaster recorded shows. Can only remember it being really hot outside and the set was all dark and black. Think it was one of the earlier series around 1990-91.
Edit- Big Boy Barry! There's a blast from the past!
Edit- Big Boy Barry! There's a blast from the past!
allintospace
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Adore this show - can't stress this enough. Series 6 is my favourite and I regularly put an episode on in background
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
I remember my parents talking about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Exorcist in hushed tones when they got unbanned in the UK at roughly the same time.
When I saw The Exorcist it had some fucked up moments but wasn't that scary. And outside of the bit of the TCM when the kid in the wheelchair gets it, the entire thing felt more weird than it did scary. I put it down to the horror genre evolving quickly though. The "classics" were aped by too many substandard movies and in the process were viewed as being substandard themselves.
Screaming Meat
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Eyyyy. Godzilla was great for winding down to after a night out. Would just sit there giggling my arse off trying not to wake my mum. Good times.
allintospace
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Bumping for the 90s nostalgia phase I'm feeling right now, which I'm blaming on the return of Wipeout, Tekken and Crash Bandicoot. I've been watching some episodes of Gamesmaster recently and they're always a joy. I'm getting major feels. I'm also enjoying seeing some of the 90s arcade games again, some of which felt exotic when I was young.
Daffy Duck
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dominic diamond is like some sort of weird mix of David Tennant and Alan Cumming
Yes she is. Remember when she sensually assaulted a dwarf in Pervirella? I do.
It was weird to see him crop up in various pictures of promotional events long after Games World was a thing. He ended up at Mad Catz for a while, didn't he?
Edit: Hah, this was an old thread, and I mentioned this back then, too. So I guess double-post, albeit a year apart!
As a proud Guernseyman I desperately need to know what the joke was.
