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GamesMaster
1992 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 7 seasons
GamesMaster was a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.
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The NES was pretty popular in the UK, wasn’t it? In our solidly working-class home, we had a NES. I remember getting Super Mario Bros 3 for christmas one year and so did many of my friends at school, who all lived in semi-detached two-bedroom homes or masonettes. So, we weren’t in a wealthy bubble or anything. I’m sure it sold multiple millions of copies in the UK and TV shows like GamesMaster were popular and had NES games on a show watched by a pretty big audience. How old were you when it released that you’ve never seen one in the flesh?
An interesting fragment from the article’s comments:
- GlamorousAlpaca
Dude monetizes copyrighted TV programs, uploads the same stuff over and over, sells merchandise of said copyrighted material and posts a note on youtube 24 hours earlier about how he's gaming youtube. Clearly youtube is to blame.
- ThisIsPete
@GlamorousAlpaca I'm going to be charitable and assume that you're simply not familiar with the following:
He provides commentary over edited excerpts of TV shows, not full episodes, making his work clearly transformative and thus covered under YouTube's fair use provisions.
He has collected older work from multiple videos into single compilations that people can "binge". This is standard practice for moderately sized channels, because YouTube doesn't push old videos to new subscribers. YouTube doesn't allow you to upload identical videos, it detects that at the upload stage.
He does not sell any merch, and monetises entirely through YouTube and Patreon. Again, standard practice. He has never claimed to have "created GamesMaster". Any other accusations you want to make up, or are you done?
- GlamorousAlpaca
@ThisIsPete Vomiting Up Old Videos Works, Regurgitated Old Flob are you for real? He posts a guide on how to game youtube via posting the same old crap over and over 24 hours before this happens.
I guess the title-cased part of the last comment is the title of the last video in this channel, not GlamorousAlpaca’s judgement. If that’s true, it creates a slightly different perspective, imho.
Dominik was a games journalist back then (still is now to be fair). Back then games consoles were the cool thing and home computers weren’t exactly uncool but definitely a slightly adjacent scene. A little like PlayStation vs PC gaming in the 00s to present day.
You also have to bare in mind that home computers are more likely to have been “cool” (which, after all, is a subjective term) to people within the HN echo chamber than it would have been to the average person.
It’s also very likely that Dominik is talking about the Amiga being uncool just to wind a few people up. He is infamous for being a windup merchant. You only have to watch a few episodes of 90s Gamesmaster to see that.
I'm currently re-watching the 90s UK TV series Gamesmaster - they did a feature on this game in their usual sardonic style.
I didn't realise there was so much more to enjoy, thanks.