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Worst Gaming Show You've Ever Seen?
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Probably X-Play for me.
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Do you mean Gamesville? Or was that something else? I'm not sure I've got the name right, but it's definitely the worst I've ever seen. It had a Game Guru character, who was like a rip off of the cheats guy from Bad Influence.
My favourite is Cybernet, there is nothing more I like to see on tv at 4am than an episode of Cybernet.
Sky One, that's in Europe right?
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Uhmm... There's alot of bad Gaming Shows out there. I can't really pinpoint any one... Okay fine I lied. Cheat on G4.
I cannot STAND the girl's voice that does that show.
Makes me wanna stab my pupils out and smear it on the TV... Though I have no idea how that would help her voice, but still.
Yes, Gamesville (or, even worse, it might have been called Gamezville)! I couldn't remember the name, and Wikipedia told me it was Game Guru. Or it might have been? What was the Dominic Diamond show he did 'round about the same time? Wasn't that Gamesville? Wikipedia says that Game Guru was sadly missed by people who used it as their "only source for game cheats" (hello.... Internet?). I don't think Diamond gave any cheats on his show, while the other one with those two hyperactive idiots did give away loads of cheats through that stupid "Game Guru".
Yeah, it was a British show.
Speaking of European game shows, remember how Games Network used to be? Reviews, features, the whole shebang... now all I see is a bunch of twats using up all their phone credit texting each other. (Again, hello, Internet?)
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Oh yeah, there was also Video Power back then. I haven't located any video of the show in its pre-game show form. It was pretty bad too, but at least they had a pretty cool preview for Castlevania III that I watched over and over.
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"Oh, it's a strategy game where I have to think? fuck that, 2/10"
Each episode had a competition with 4 games competing, and the winner had to face one of the presenters to become 'the gaming master!!'. It was hilarious because both presenters were complete shit and never won anything.
I couldn't care less about the "cheat" portion of it, you can get the same thing off gamefaqs. She's hot, imo, and the 80's episode with her dressed up was all just *fap fap fap*
As for horrendous shows, xplay and cheat are both better than YTV's "Video & Arcade Top10". Holy god is that show awful, and they're still showing reruns where you can see them playing SNES games still.
Probably doesn't play outside of Canada though, so be glad you guys don't have to see it, ever.
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I used to tape that. I still remember seeing Silent Debuggers on there. It was a pretty amazing thing to see TG 16 games in motion without buying them, b/c they were impossible to rent.
For me, having not seen much in the way of video game television as a kid, I'd have to say YTV's Video and Arcade Top 10.
It wasn't a top ten show. It was a game show featuring kids playing video games. They had terrible games. Terrible NES and SNES games. If it was a side scrolling platformer, it was on there. It also featured terrible game players who would constantly lose, or not be able to make easy jumps. Probably because the average contestant age was about four. And idiot commentary on the games. It was demeaning not only to the kids on the show, but the viewers, the network, video games in general, and to people named Nicolaus.
Yeah, that's the one I was on about. They'd sashay (yes, sashay) around the set like two five-year olds on a sugar high, randomly shouting out words like, "wicked!" and "ace!" while all the teenage gamers in the background would squirm with embarrassment. It was awful.
Which show was the one Dominik Diamond was hosting, then? The recent one, with the desert island theme?
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GRARGH.
Edit 2 -
Diamond's show was called, "When Games Attack". Quite a good show, too.
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It probably was sponsored by Nintendo because all they ever played were nintendo consoles. Oh and the retard kid that won would get a random prize by picking a ball from a basket. It didn,t matter what you picked because all prizes sucked hardcore.
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i swear that tommy guy loved all the shitty games and hated all the good ones
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Victor was very calm and even-handed though.
"This is a really good game, but it has too many obvious flaws for me to really give it more than a 6/10. It's just too sloppy to assume they thought this was a great game and not just 'good enough'."
Then Tommy chimes in.
"It was awesome cuz there was explosions! 10/10"
Because all of them.
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It aired on UPN in 2004. Really bad show. Canceled after 6 episodes.
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I thought you were talking about that one guy's internet-broadcast gamer culture sitcom for a second. It was pretty bad.
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Seriously though, take away the nostalgia value, and this show was ass. I guess as a young gamer, I would take what I could get and besides, I was waiting for Doug or Clarissa anyway.
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I was suprised to see that there is a channel that shows nothing but high-def video game footage 24 hours a day.
One show in particualr, Raw Play, shows someone playing games. No commentary, no review, no corporate advertising, just the screen as some guy plays God of War, GRAW, Warcraft, Project Gotham Racing, and the like...
It appeals to the vouyer in me, I guess. I can watch that sort of thing all day.
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This is all I found on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjBo7bciyC8&mode=related&search=
There was a movie and music review section every episode and a chance to win prizes by answering super easy questions.
The theme was kick ass.
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God I hated that show. Especially the stupid ass kids. "This classic movie by orsen wells revolved around the mystery of Rosebud." "What is bill & ted's bogus journey?"
And they couldn't play games for shit. "Ok, get 5 coins in mario world in under 30 seconds, GO!" *Player proceeds to immediately die*
It was frickin' awesome. The best video game show I'd ever seen. Because he knew what he was talking about, and showed a lot of the games. He always had really good insight into games.
It was on Saturday afternoons around one in the mid-90s.
A bit of a long shot, I guess? But I hope that guy went on to do good things.
Seriously. I dunno if it's just me, but I have yet to see a gaming show were the hosts aren't total retards who look like they only know as much about games as what the cue-cards say.
You obviously haven't seen Video Gaiden. It's a BBC Scotland show hosted by people who obviously love gaming and aren't just pretty faces hired to appeal to the kiddies. It's funny, opinionted and almost always right.
Gamemaster was pretty good, too. At least when Diamond was presenting it. I think they made another series once he'd left with Dexter Fletcher as his replacement, but it was the sort of thing you turned the TV off halfway through with a deep sigh.
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Gamesmaster was terrible, Bits was very good and I like the 1up show.
For shame G&T, for shame.
Violet Berlin and Andy Crane telling you the latest industry and game news, talking to developers and doing interesting features like 'which handheld has the longest battery life?' (hint - it wasn't the lynx). Even had a thing where if you recorded the credits and played it back frame by frame in your video player you got like 200 pages of cheats. Unfortunately my video player didn't do frame by frame
Like the final episode of Babylon5 where they showed the entire crew behind the scenes for the entire series in single frame snapshots?
It started out decent, with actual game reviews. There was a bit of stupid banter between the reviews, but it was kept to a minimum.
Then, within a couple of weeks, all of the more intelligent presenters left. The show was left to the less-cluey presenters (obviously hired for their looks, and not for their gaming knowledge), who ran it into the ground. Instead of actually reviewing games, they just talked crap all show. Then they apparently decided to turn it into a gaming-related sketch-comedy show. Except it wasn't funny.
By the end, they pretty much dropped all mention of gaming, and the show consisted entirely of untalented morons telling bad jokes, and doing terrible sketch comedy for half an hour.
I don't think Australia had another gaming show for more than a decade after that debacle.
A nice overview of British gaming TV. You'll have to hunt around for the second part (or google it, in lieu of a link on-site).
As for the best gaming show our fair isles have produced (while I've got a soft spot for Gamesmaster, they too often resorted to showing celebrities who - having lives - failed to be any good at the vidyagames):
http://www.cmd-q.com/consolevania/index.html
It's Wii-optimised, and more than a little grainy, but damn good stuff.
And When Games Attack deserved more than one series. A pity Dominik Diamond was too busy not being crucified in the Philippines.
He always gave games he had a part in making (sound design?) better ratings than they deserved. That dude sucked.