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Channel 4's new games show. Anyone watch it?

Pretty cool I reckon. Quite adult in its approach - fair amount of swearing, though - that may be taking it a little too far.

Plenty of footage of the games, and some sensible comments.

Possibly the best games show yet.

What puzzels me is why they've got a 13 year old presenting at 11:25 at night who doesnt know a single bit about statagry games called GameBoy!
What a fool. He was interviewing people, and basically insulting them and what they do. If he said that to me I'd bust one in his lip! (GameBoy=Gayboy :) )

Also, don't worry if the previews and reviews of consoles and games were wrong in your eyes. There reviews is just one persons opinion and nothing to get angry.

But I still think us lot could of done a better job :D

I think we would get a larger audience too...

Ah well, I'll have to go revise S4C's listings again...

I liked this, Ian Lee is a funny guy, and he brought some of the 11 o'clock show humour to this programme about games, it was good.

I enjoyed it. I think it's a sensible effort at a game show for the masses.

I think you're being a little silly about the swearing, tho. It's on at half 11. After South Park. Hmm. I think it's a safe time to say sh*te on telly.

As a contender to Bits, it's kind of on a similar level. Obviously, it's lacking the beauty of Emily and Bouff, but we've got a gaunt funny tall bloke in their place. Not bad.

And I thought that the GameBoy was hilarious! A 13 year old kid (who I thought did a great job of presenting, in all fairness) telling 30-something balding men that they're sad! Genius.

So, there we go then..

how many people cared about the mobile phone games?

did you see that guy from the 11 'o clock show who was on Thumb Bandits (the presenter guy)? He once did a show on channel 4 I think about the history of gaming. It was a pretty short one (only lasted about an hour so just scratched the surface) but it was still good, and he says he's been a gamer since he was very young. At least they have a 'true' gamer on the show.

q porgram and already 2 really stupid things said


Gamecube launched in Japan with three games - Luigi's Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm and Starfox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet."

and

"The xbox is made by Microsoft, who make really good hardware"


IDIOTS

It had one of the Bits ladies in it...

..I hate all of them.

Urgh... but yeah a nice program.

I saw it, quite good footage of games like Luigi's Mansion, GTA3 and Pikmin. Lets hope theres more footage of games we haven't seen.

EvilBoris wrote:
> q porgram and already 2 really stupid things said


Gamecube launched in
> Japan with three games - Luigi's Mansion, Wave Race: Blue Storm and Starfox
> Adventures: Dinosaur Planet."

it did!