Bad Influence! UK Kids TV featuring Magical Chase

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Handy hint   I'll try and sneak a watch of it later.  Violet Berlin did my head in, I used to love Gamesmaster way more!

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ahh, cool.  

Violet Berlin did my head in

Really???? back then I thought she was hot

I used to love Gamesmaster way more!

Gamesmaster is legendary, I truly love that programme, the adolescent toilet humour was so awesome!

[Otaking]

Gamesmaster Dave Perry Super Mario 64 Incident.

Dave Perry the Billy Kane wannabe got pwnd

[PunkCryborg]

wow this show is awesome!

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Violet Berlin did my head in

Really???? back then I thought she was hot[/quote]
IMO, very few girls can pull off short hair, and she wasn't one of them.  I don't know what qualified her to be any kind of host other than she went out with someone from Codemasters.  Probably got something wrong once and angered me

[Duo_R]

never seen her before but she annoyed me, couldn't even pull out a hucard properly.

[RegalSin]

 

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^ A future classic.

[TR0N]

What did i just watch what the bloody hell !?

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Wait, I just watched it without sound, but it appeared that Andy Crane was holding a Coryoon Huey While demonstrating Magical Chase.  Is that a fuck-up?

And Yeah, Violet is going to ruin that Duo.

[esteban]

Wait, I just watched it without sound, but it appeared that Andy Crane was holding a Coryoon Huey While demonstrating Magical Chase.  Is that a fuck-up?

And Yeah, Violet is going to ruin that Duo.

You gotta watch it with sound!

He is holding Coryoon (I don't think he mentions it by name) and, when footage of Magical Chase is shown, he specifically states that the game we see is "Magical Chase"

It's funny that they chose two cute-em-ups!

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[motdelbourt]

Really nice variety of systems for a show like that. I would have expected more Speccy.

[SignOfZeta]

Damn. That dude with the Street Fighter II tip reminds me of

SFII on Amiga...was there ever a six button controller for Amiga?

[soop]

The CD32 pad would have worked.  But it's a waste on that version anyway.

[Otaking]

 

Damn. That dude with the Street Fighter II tip reminds me of

Ade Edmondson (Vyvyan) is a Legend.
He also stared alongside Rik Mayall in Bottom my favorite programme in the Bad Influence!/Gamesmaster era.

[fraggore]

bottom was class as for bad influence loved it when it was on and its really interesting to watch them all now to see how fast technology and gaming changed in the 4 years the show was running.

[esteban]

Damn. That dude with the Street Fighter II tip reminds me of

Ade Edmondson (Vyvyan) is a Legend.
He also stared alongside Rik Mayall in Bottom my favorite programme in the Bad Influence!/Gamesmaster era.

PBS in the States (WNYC New York) used to play "The Young Ones" in the late 80's and my brothers and I loved watching it. I'm sure it would seem juvenile to me now, but I loved it back then. I still remember seeing Motorhead perform "Ace of Spades" and the totally not famous band "9 below zero" (????) perform. And that Alexi Sayles (sp?) dude had some spin-off show (starring him alone) that was briefly aired over here, too.

[guyjin]

Gamesmaster Dave Perry Super Mario 64 Incident.

I don't blame him. Anyone in their right mind would be pissed, after using the controller for 3 armed people for the first time. ;)

[kazekirifx]

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Wow. An FM Towns on English-speaking TV. Why does this exist?

[SignOfZeta]

Damn. That dude with the Street Fighter II tip reminds me of

Ade Edmondson (Vyvyan) is a Legend.
He also stared alongside Rik Mayall in Bottom my favorite programme in the Bad Influence!/Gamesmaster era.

PBS in the States (WNYC New York) used to play "The Young Ones" in the late 80's and my brothers and I loved watching it. I'm sure it would seem juvenile to me now, but I loved it back then. I still remember seeing Motorhead perform "Ace of Spades" and the totally not famous band "9 below zero" (????) perform. And that Alexi Sayles (sp?) dude had some spin-off show (starring him alone) that was briefly aired over here, too.

I first saw The Young Ones on, of all places, MTV, in what must have been 1989 or so. It BLEW MY FUCKING MIND to be honest, and I still think its one of the best shows of all time. I can't understand how people who make shit like Everybody Loves Raymond or Tosh.O can even get up in the morning and go to work knowing something so hilarious and perfect and succinct as The You Ones can exist.

I discovered the show on late night TV in the same way I saw stuff like Tommy, The Fantastic Planet, The Point, Barbarella, and other weird insane genius shit. When you are a teenager seeing that stuff for the first time...you never saw an add for it, there was no word of mouth, no preceding or follow-up programs, no warning, no hype, it just sneaks up from behind and totally bum rushes your ass. There is nothing like it on Earth.

[esteban]

Damn. That dude with the Street Fighter II tip reminds me of

Ade Edmondson (Vyvyan) is a Legend.
He also stared alongside Rik Mayall in Bottom my favorite programme in the Bad Influence!/Gamesmaster era.

PBS in the States (WNYC New York) used to play "The Young Ones" in the late 80's and my brothers and I loved watching it. I'm sure it would seem juvenile to me now, but I loved it back then. I still remember seeing Motorhead perform "Ace of Spades" and the totally not famous band "9 below zero" (????) perform. And that Alexi Sayles (sp?) dude had some spin-off show (starring him alone) that was briefly aired over here, too.

I first saw The Young Ones on, of all places, MTV, in what must have been 1989 or so. It BLEW MY FUCKING MIND to be honest, and I still think its one of the best shows of all time. I can't understand how people who make shit like Everybody Loves Raymond or Tosh.O can even get up in the morning and go to work knowing something so hilarious and perfect and succinct as The You Ones can exist.

I discovered the show on late night TV in the same way I saw stuff like Tommy, The Fantastic Planet, The Point, Barbarella, and other weird insane genius shit. When you are a teenager seeing that stuff for the first time...you never saw an add for it, there was no word of mouth, no preceding or follow-up programs, no warning, no hype, it just sneaks up from behind and totally bum rushes your ass. There is nothing like it on Earth.

Agreed. I saw "The Third Man" on late-night PBS. FRIGGIN' AMAZING

Same deal with "Black Orpheus" and "5 Million Years to Earth" and "The Man Who Fell To Earth".... I just happened to stumble upon this stuff as a young kid and instantly fell in love with it.



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Wow. An FM Towns on English-speaking TV. Why does this exist?

Besides the obvious (someone who friggin' loved videogames and had $$$ was friends with the producer), the host of the show mentions that some UK developers have created games for the FM Towns.

Could this be the tenuous UK-->FM Marty connection?

For me, it is.

[kazekirifx]

the host of the show mentions that some UK developers have created games for the FM Towns.

Could this be the tenuous UK-->FM Marty connection?

For me, it is.

Did they or is he just referring to UK developed games that were ported to the FM Towns, like Scavenger 4?

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PBS in the States (WNYC New York) used to play "The Young Ones" in the late 80's and my brothers and I loved watching it. I'm sure it would seem juvenile to me now, but I loved it back then.

I feel the same.  I never liked Bottom, and I never found a lot of that stuff very funny either.  A lot of UK comedy shows at that time over used similes for humour - to the point it was probably every other punchline, or in the case of Red Dwarf, every punchline.  I preferred Monty Python, the Fast show when it came out, Black Adder goes Fourth was ok, and Vic Reeves/ Reeves and Mortimer.

I hate shit like Everybody Loves Raymond, Curb your Enthusiasm, King of Queens, and also 2 broke girls is very put on.

But if you like Bottom, Alexi Sayle and the Young ones, you will probably also like:

Blackadder (the fourth series is the best IMO)
Red Dwarf
The Harry Enfield Show

Um, that's all I can think of for now.  Try it out.

however, this, I find hilarious:

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I actually don't like Black Adder very much. It always seem overly raught and kind of cheesy. one step above Are You Being Served.

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I actually don't like Black Adder very much. It always seem overly raught and kind of cheesy. one step above Are You Being Served.

Huh, I lump it into the same pile there. The reason I like fourth, is Rick Mayall as Captain flash heart, and Fry and Laurie as their respective characters.  Fry was(is?) a comic genius.

[esteban]

I actually don't like Black Adder very much. It always seem overly raught and kind of cheesy. one step above Are You Being Served.

Huh, I lump it into the same pile there. The reason I like fourth, is Rick Mayall as Captain flash heart, and Fry and Laurie as their respective characters.  Fry was(is?) a comic genius.

You guys are silly. The entire Black Adder series is decent, especially compared to what was on TV in the 80's. I liked the last season of Black Adder THE LEAST.

Fry & Laurie (series overall) was much funnier, but sketch comedy allows for that, so it's not entirely fair.

As penance, both of you must watch 8 episodes of "Allo Allo" back-to-back, no intermissions, no breaks.

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As penance, both of you must watch 8 episodes of "Allo Allo" back-to-back, no intermissions, no breaks.

/wrists

[SuperPlay]

Funnily enough a couple of months (as well as back in the 90s!) ago I watched all of the episodes of Bad Influence and I had forgotten about the TG16 begin on the show.

As for Violet Berlin yes quite annoying, however there was just something about her in the earlier series that caught my eye :-)

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The dude who uploaded this Bad Influence! video has got some awesome playlists.
https://www.youtube.com/user/DynamiteHeaddy/videos?view=1



Edit: for The Daibijin

[Duo_R]

Any other episodes feature PC Engine?

[esteban]

I have to ask you guys about an aspect of the show:

AT THE VERY END of the original video posted here, there is a "DATA DUMP" where several pages of white text are flashed in a black box occupying part of the screen. I didn't pause the video, but I am assuming that viewers were expected to record this show on VCR's and then pause/slow motion during playback to read the various hints/codes/info?

If so, then this was a wonderful idea!!!!

I used to record video game commercials and play them in slow-motion to get a better idea of what the games were like (I did this with the TG-16 launch commercials, for example).

Anyway, this reminded me of an AWESOME thing that the BBC (and Dutch Radio, too, I think) did back in the day:

Commodore 64/Speccy/insert your favorite micro-PC software programs were aired on public radio. All you had to do was record the "program" on an audio cassette. Anyone tuning in during the broadcast would simply hear beeps/blips/boops.

I only just found out about this, and I think it is an utterly fantastic idea! What a fantastic means of distribution! Friggin' wonderful. As someone who actually used cassettes (Commodore PET at grammar school), I would have loved the opportunity to try new software at school.

[SuperPlay]

Yup the "DATA DUMP" at the end of the show was for you to play in slow mo on you VHS :-)  When the show was aired in the '90s I used to love this!

[DrBread]

After i watched this episode i've been watching all the others!

[esteban]

Yup the "DATA DUMP" at the end of the show was for you to play in slow mo on you VHS :-)  When the show was aired in the '90s I used to love this!

Ha!

I love novel ideas like that.

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Yup the "DATA DUMP" at the end of the show was for you to play in slow mo on you VHS :-)  When the show was aired in the '90s I used to love this!

Ha!

I love novel ideas like that.

Yeh I used to watch the DATA DUMP after each episode, used to give me a splitting headache though, lol.

[Otaking]

After i watched this episode i've been watching all the others!

Nice :-)

[SuperPlay]

Just watching some Knightmare that has been uploaded by the same user.  I had used to love this when I was younger

[Tatsujin]

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Wow. An FM Towns on English-speaking TV. Why does this exist?

Besides the obvious (someone who friggin' loved videogames and had $$$ was friends with the producer), the host of the show mentions that some UK developers have created games for the FM Towns.

Could this be the tenuous UK-->FM Marty connection?

For me, it is.

erm, psygnosis f.e. was a dev. team that worked on pce and fm town (via victor). shadow of the beast and stuff, ya know?  so they kinda had to work on western sets as well to do so

[Tatsujin]

Really nice variety of systems for a show like that. I would have expected more Speccy.

noone expects the span..er..limey speccy

but true, a lot of cool stuff at that time, and probably never seen outside japan on TiVi like that.

not sure if the french show "micro kids" ever covered the FM Towns and marty in one of their legendary shows.

[esteban]

I think it is fair to state that absolutely no television shows in North America showcased FM Marty, SuperGrafx, etc.

So, even if the UK show wasn't great, it was infinitely better than what we had.

[Otaking]

Just watching some Knightmare that has been uploaded by the same user.  I had used to love this when I was younger

Where am I?
You're in a room with a table, on the table is small white games console connected to a televison set.....
Spellcasting   O-B-E-Y.....