Steve Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 This is a 2 hour show from Charlie Brooker which is airing this Saturday on Channel 4. Here's a clip: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savwar Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 lovely stuff. cheers for the heads up. i watched a thing about gamesmaster a while ago where they were talking about how there was mad arguments between dominik diamond and one of the expert players, and they kind of set him up to lose a challenge. It was interesting... can't remember where it was though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Got this on record too. I'll admit to being a Brooker fan boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacken Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 wow. I like Brooker and I like videogames even more. would be great to see it online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frost Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 lovely stuff. cheers for the heads up. i watched a thing about gamesmaster a while ago where they were talking about how there was mad arguments between dominik diamond and one of the expert players, and they kind of set him up to lose a challenge. It was interesting... can't remember where it was though. I've seen that clip on youtube. It's something else. Dave Perry gets pretty pissed off when he loses at Mario Karts as his competitor has played it previously. http://youtu.be/UEFr6ACZ8sI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 I've never really got into computer games. When I was a kid we didn't have a computer and my parents refused to buy me a console claiming they were too expensive. Then one Christmas out of the blue they got me a Game Boy which I kind of liked but didn't LOVE. I had Tetris, Super Mario Land, Darkwing Duck and The Jungle Book games. I think what did it for me was that I was quite shit at the actual games except Tetris. Then when I was about 11 or 12 we got a PC and nobody in the house could really use it except me so I used to put loads of pirated DOS games on like Wolf 3D, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D etc. I was shit at them as well and only used to play with the cheats on. So my teenage years played out with very little gaming enjoyment, save for when I went round to mate's houses and we all used to do multiplayer stuff during the Playstation/N64 era. I actually hated Goldeneye because I was rubbish at it and I'd just get shot to shit. I liked the stupid kids party games like Mario Party, SuperMonkey Ball or Worms which didn't rely on your being good. We also used to play a hell of a lot of wrestling games because we were into wrestling. I was pretty rubbish at them but it was funny because you could create really bizarre characters so I liked that. Then I got a GameBoy Micro off some mates for my 21st and I had Zelda 4 Swords. That was quite fun but I had to use a few online guides to complete it. I mainly used it as a way to practice French because I had it set to French and I was living there anyway. Then I bought a GameCube cheap from Game and got that Donkey Kong game with the bongo controller. That was fun but I lost the disc. Also I'm quite good at Minesweeper. Now it's now and that's basically every computer game I've ever played. So basically if someone asks "Hey do you want a game of FIFA" or whatever that army game is called I say "no thanks because I'm shit at it." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frost Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 So what did you do instead then? Go outside or something? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 I use other computer programs like Word for fun. I can do it all....bold text, custom line spacing, even insert images 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 28, 2013 Author Share Posted November 28, 2013 I got into gaming really early. My uncle bought me and my sister one of the first "TV games" where you had football, tennis, squash - just variations on Pong really. That was probably in the late 70s. Then my dad went to work in Australia for several weeks and on his way back, he bought me and my sister a Nintendo Game & Watch each . This was the one I got (which I still have): - http://i.imgur.com/nRa0mZK.jpg I had one or two other handheld games, this one for example: - http://i.imgur.com/6qtPyq1.jpg I never had an Atari, but one of the kids next door did so I played on that quite a bit. Then everything changed when I got a ZX Spectrum, as quite a few kids I knew had one and we could pirate the games, haha. You could fit a whole bunch of games on one regular tape. This was an early anti-piracy effort: - http://i.imgur.com/BiDpcqH.jpg It came with Jet Set Willy. When the game loaded, it would ask you to enter in colours from the grid, except of course, it was a piece of piss to copy that card too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner were bad ass. Fun fact, I could type on my Spectrum before I could write apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 28, 2013 Author Share Posted November 28, 2013 Those old games were fucking hard! Maybe I just sucked at them, but finishing a game back then was a real achievement. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 So basically if someone asks "Hey do you want a game of FIFA" or whatever that army game is" get rid of the 'called', it's funnier. /comedyschool America ruined video games, largely. it's a hypothesis i've not really thought out but Japanese and British gaming houses have forever been inventive, innovative, and just fun. Americans like shooting people and put it into games. Less fun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djnumnuts Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Who had else had a rich friend had the latest and greatest games machines ect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 29, 2013 Author Share Posted November 29, 2013 Yeah, my best mate at the time - his dad was the managing director of Armitage Shanks, so he had quite a lot of cool stuff that I never had. He was cool though. Not one of those spoiled brat rich kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Did anyone know someone with a Neo-Geo? There was a rumour of a Korean kid at our school having one but I think it turned out to be a lie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wax On Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 I heard the rumours of people having Neo Geos, but never saw one. Like @doppelkorn I too am shit at computer games, although we had an Amiga 500 (never expanded though so limited on games) and the only game I ever bossed was Power Drift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Looking forward to this! Before I got into scratching console based gaming was my main hobby and I spent way too much time playing the tony hawks games but over the last few years I've barely played at all. I think I remember someone having the neogeo handheld, which looked sick but I don't know anyone who had the consoles. They were hella expensive right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest petesasqwax Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Who had else had a rich friend had the latest and greatest games machines ect?Yes! FUCK OFF WITH YOUR NEO GEO YOU CUNT A few doors down from my mate Dave were a couple of kids who had a Neo Geo (/their dad had a Neo Geo). All the games were about £100 and most of the ones they had were Japanese language versions of Street Fighter style fighting games. The joysticks were the 2 rows of 3 buttons style ones - the whole unit was the size of a reasonable sized tea tray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savwar Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Yeah, my best mate at the time - his dad was the managing director of Armitage Shanks he must have been flush? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 29, 2013 Author Share Posted November 29, 2013 Yeah man, that guy had money on tap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Did he sink his wealth into wise investments or did it all go down the shitter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frost Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Bet he rinsed that NEO GEO proper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacken Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 good show but number one is stupid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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