Gamesmaster Dave Perry Super Mario 64 Incident
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- The legendary moment in television history when the man who had the rep of being one of the best games players in the country (and was also a genuine sex symbol) failed miserably at Super Mario 64 and then sulked about it afterwards.
Diamond's "and on that BOMBSHELL!" makes me laugh every time.
Interview with Casually Hardcore
CH: People still talk about the moment you lost on Games Master. At the time you said you was set up. What was going through your head at the time? Were the tears real or just some expert acting?
Dave Perry: Tears? There weren't any tears that I remember. But I was majorly pissed off what had gone on that day. We were told that if we took part in the quiz and got through to the final, then there would be a play off on a neutral game. Probably a new version of WipeOut from Psygnosis. However, when I turned up on the day, the game had been changed suspiciously to Mario 64 on the N64. I had recently spoken out in the trade press saying that I would not play Mario 64 until it was released officially in the UK, as the amount of press attention the new Nintendo console was getting was ruining the Christmas games market in the UK. So everyone new I had not played this game as it was not due out in the UK until the next year.
When I enquired if any of the finalists had played the game, it turned out that only one had... host Dominik Diamond's best friend. Not only had he played it, he had been playing it constantly for the past few months and completed it a number of times as he was helping develop Earthworm Jim 3D. Hardly a neutral game.
When I complained to the Director, I was told not to worry because he would not get through to the final, and if he did, then the game would be changed. I should have smelled a rat.
So, I played on, and won every round. However, when we got to the semi-final, if you watch the whole show you will notice that at least one question comes up about Earthworm Jim! The game Dominik's friend was helping develop! Coincidence?
So now he's in the final against me, on a machine I've never played on, on a game I've never played, but he's been playing on for the past few months.
When I went to see the Director about his promise that this wouldn't happen, he simply told me that there wasn't time to change anything as the crew had all run over on their scheduled time and the final had to take place immediately. He also told me that if I walked I wouldn't be allowed to use the company's hire car that had brought me to the shoot and would have to get home on my own. I was in the middle of an industrial estate in London on a Saturday evening. There weren't even any cabs. I was f*cked.
Feeling set-up and really hard done by I decided to try and play my way out of it, but predictably lost by a couple of seconds. I felt betrayed that the show I'd helped create, and had served so loyally could do this to me. I should have reacted better, but I just wanted out. At least it made good TV. I quit the show there and then and never went back.
CH: What did you think of Mario 64 once you got a chance to play the full version?
Dave Perry: I've never played it. I have always hated those cutesy Nintendo games.
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The absolute end of the bell. I remember him writing about how he carried every type of joystick and peripheral with him at all times (presumably under his bandana, or on a Dave-Belt) in case he got challenged in the street to a game of Microcosm.
lmao.
😂🤣 You sir are a true gamer ! Class !
Haha
Where can I get the Dave-Belt?
Dave belt 🤣
Dominic Diamond is straight-up SAVAGE in this video, hahaha
It was perfect! Exactly how I wanted someone to speak to that nugget 😂
He really did have it in for Dave. Nasty man, in my opinion.
God I used to live for this show. But my dad would get in at like 18:15 and want to watch the six o’clock news. I would tell him he could watch the news at
nine pm but noooo. Gone be the days when house had one TV and it took two men to lift it.
And only one man to change the channel. God damnit, dad!
Never underestimate a boomers need for his daily indoctrination. They were and still are fuelled on it.
The world changed for the worse when we could afford more than one tv
This is the show that led me to work out how the VCR record timer feature worked. Would re-watch episodes again and again, particularly anything next-gen related - seem to recall SNES DKC, Sonic 3 on Megadrive, Playstation Ridge Racer demos and Virtua Fighter on Saturn etc blowing my tiny mind. Of course back then, pre-internet, it was GamesMaster or VHS stuck to a magazine if you wanted to see anything in action. Wouldn't change my childhood though - Golden gaming generation.
i'm old enough to have seen this - but can't remember seeing it. This is a priceless moment of TV gold. Thank you for keeping this content active.
Maybe you did not see it.
You are talking as if you were 89 years old...at least.
There goes Dave Perry..I must remember to thank him.
Often an amateur will stitch up a professional.
@@yommmrr shit joysticks on these ain't there?
@@mutate34 I PREFER A FLAN
That’s not me in bed with another man called Dominic
100% Brent, the leather trousers, 'stitch up'. The continued awkwardness as everyone else celebrates. This is TV Gold.
and on THAT BOMBSHELL! 😂
😂😂. We got this footage of him fucking up on Super Mario 64, do you want us to leave that out?
What?! No! Leave that in!
Funny, I just rewatched the office and this is gold!
At least he didn't double denim.
NEVER double denim
Dave always struck me as highly narcissistic, its not really surprising that someone like Dominick would take a massive disliking to him. I think he had a low tolerance towards twats.
Doms a lefty twat himself now.
But it was a set up..David has previously said he would buy it until released in UK.. he didn't even own an n64..Which Dominic knew
I've just been listening to old Retro Hour podcasts, and interestingly, Dominick is the one who appears to love to continuously toot his own horn, whereas Dave just seems to be passionate about games.
@@FinnGamble Tone and attitude is important. One can just look at the interview in the description to get loads of that...
@markmorris7123 Yeah, but Dave taking the entire quiz seriously while the others were just having a bit of a laugh was hilariously tragic on his part
So many years later and its still funny :D
Yep, this is NEVER getting old.
Yup! I remember seeing this when it happened, it was brilliant!
It was funny back in 1996. And it's still funny now in 2019
@@Mawds69 I'm from the future and can confirm that in 2022 those of us who survived Covid-19 find this more hilarious than ever.
@@the.internet I’m from further in the future and it’s still fucking funny
This is so Partridgey.
"Back of the FIFA net!"
I'm not a journalist, I'm a marketing manager. See you in Strasbourg!
The models were hot although 30 years on the gamesmaster oil rig would not render them pleasurable to mine eye.
Stop getting gamesmaster wrong!
Mario's a good worker, but I suppose he's a bit like Burt Reynolds. Very reliable, but he's got a moustache.
"You are a journalist, you can get it on import" 😂😂😂
Not sure what he meant, I remember anyone could important games?
@@forthrightgambitia1032 I think he meant that the industry they are in meant more avenues to get games on import than the general public.
@@ResidentWebbo I mean, maybe. But I remember full page adverts from certain mail order companies and specialists shops in big cities like London where you could get your hands on them.
He says YOU are a journalist, WE can get it on import meaning we in this country, so as a journalist surely you got it on import too.
@@hbk441 No, he's not saying that.
He's saying that as a journalist it's easy to import Mario from (Japan) before release (UK).
I'll happily watch this, everytime it randomly pops up.
Thanks again mighty algorithm.
What a time to be alive the 90's were.
Pretty bad being sour on a Christmas special of a tv show but being dressed in leather trousers & a bandana is something else
It was the 90's brah.
He was dressed as a fairy in the 1993 Christmas special lol
And the 'Seksi' Pepsi t shirt
I grew up in the 90s but never once had leather trousers
@@GoldenGateNum9 eh, even back then in the 90s we thought he looked a bit of a twat.
27 years of salt
😂😂
Got to say great hosting here. Kept it going through the awkwardness expertly
This is outstanding comedy. The timing and everything. It’s perfect Partridge.
I agree, but I don't think Dave was doing his part for comedy value! he was sour grapes-o-rama!
Serves ya right Dave! When he was doing that Gamesworld magazine, he covered the opening of Blackpools Pepsi Max ride and was giving cutout vouchers where you spend £30 and you get another £30 free. So as a kid I took it to the pleasure beach only to be told that they was not valid and no one told them about the promotion. He probably thought no fucker would use them. Well I facking did Dave.
TBF its not about just failing at Mario 64, its about it not being a fair challenge if someones been able to practice and the other hasn't, AND the fact that its not just him failing, its him failing and it being broadcast to the world.
He was super sourer though.
Tbh, he doesn't seem like a genuinely horrible person, just a real sore loser. On beat the elite on Sky ones Gamesworld you could see the expression on his face when he lost his 1st 2 rounds. He fucking despised losing, which makes him a person you want to hurt.
That is facking hilarious
That's greasy af
Dave Perry is a shill for Big Arsehole
As of August 2024, Dominik Diamond is a presenter on 899TheWave
Radio in Halifax Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 , As I discovered when I heard him on the taxi radio heading to Halifax Airport.
He is a great guy
Leather trousers and a bandana? Even if he’d won he still would’ve lost.
Even for the 90's it was a tosser look.
I love how Diamond could just dissolve any awkwardness or silence by just saying “…and on that 💣shell!!!”
now we know where clarkson got it from i suppose
@@grahamwalker2168 Alan Partridge too
@@A-small-amount-of-peasDominik ripped it off Alan first....then Jeremy ;)
This is pure 'Dad losing to his kid and taking the ball away'. Absolute classic.
I like that mate
He was right though..Was set up to loose
Diamond handled that well, he is a pro
He was in on the wind up, honestly. He and David had a rivalry for the longest time.
yeah he fucked him before the show and changed games
@@DragonNexus "rivalry"? Erm... Dom tried to get him fired repeatedly. Was always rude. Never spoke to him off camera.
Add that to Dave had never played on an N64 or Mario 64 at this point whereas his opponent (Dom's best friend) had been playing it solidly for 3 months).
They still don't speak and in fact when Dom gets his smack taking weasily face on TV he seems obsessed with Uncle Dave.
I've only ever been told about this by him and my bro so wanted to see it for myself. My friend just sent me this.
Judging by the comments he should have actually spoken out more. Then again boomers are gonna be boomers.
@@nickarmitt4722 Boomers are gonna be boomers?
You do know a boomer isn't defined as "Someone older than 28" or "Someone older than me" right?
@@nickarmitt4722 hi Dave, sour grapes 24 years on?
My mate played against Dave Perry at a games convention once on Street Fighter 2. My mate absolutely destroyed him, it wasn't even close.
Good for your friend in doing that.
Who did he accuse of stitching him up for that defeat?
@@RoyStantz I can see you remember that event, Dave. You and the fans. Such memories.
Who is he?
DHOTYA
I’m not a journalist I’m a marketing manager
Assistant to the marketing manager
@@FlyingSpaghettiMonster2000 invetigation in process
I love how Dom drops the presenter voice for a solid 10 seconds out of sheer shock when Dave starts complaining
and on THAT BOMBSHELL! 😂
Knowing me knowing you 😂😂
I'm not sad that I'm 36.
I'm sad that nothing on tv has entertained me anywhere near as much as this show over the years.
Fun times - and with all the amazing videogames out now, why would they cancel it ?
The 90s had some of the best TV shows e.g. TFI Friday, Gamesmaster, The Big Breakfast. I miss them all.
Diamond himself had grown sick of doing it, as had the show's producers. They wanted to quit before the audience got bored of it.
jammyjammer2015 Don't forget Eurotrash with Antoine De Caunes
That was "The Word". It had some pretty decent bands on occasionally but like everyone else, I detested Terry Christian.
The highlight of my week as a kid brilliant show
Dave Perry now is a tattoo artist and dom works fro a candian radio station for them that don't know
From Eurogamer:
The feud came to a head during the filming of the 1996 GamesMaster Christmas special. The co-commentators took part in a quiz that included a round of questions about fighting games.
Producer Jonny Ffinch says that Perry came to him the night before the shoot and asked for the answers. Perry explained he had a book about beat-'em-ups coming out and didn't want to look stupid. If Ffinch didn't oblige, Perry said he wouldn't show up for filming the following day. "So like a complete coward I went, 'Oh s***, alright, maybe I'll be able to sort something out,'" says Ffinch.
"Jonny had a huge fit of guilt and told me," says Diamond. "I said, 'You've got to write more questions, that's ridiculous.' I was furious."
And just to reiterate; these were the actions of a fully-grown ADULT. I've read that article and Perry tries to suggest the dick-head thing was just an act; it clearly wasn't.
Except that literally _everyone else_ involved has stated quite categorically that it wasn't an act, he really was _that_ childish. This doesn't mean he wasn't an okay guy in other facets of life, of course, and I imagine he's grown up a lot since.
Jamie Williamson I met him Saturday at Revival Retro Events in Warsall. He is a genuine decent guy. He gave everyone time and was full of smiles. Glad he's put this incident behind him.
Good to hear and I'm sure if I met him I'd also find him to be a friendly guy, I'd certainly have no issues with him and would be happy to shake his hand. We've all been dickheads at certain points in our lives, especially in our younger days, but we're lucky that our moments weren't captured on camera.
Time for my yearly re-watch.
Me too pal.
Anyone remember watching Sky's daily "Games World" with Bob Mills, Big Boy Barry and David Walliams first telly as Leslie Luncheon Meat?
Yep. And the Games Mistress was Jet from Gladiators.....
They had that game to collect the coins 😂
Barrie’s joypad! Top tv
What a bell end. He can’t look back at this with any sense of pride. It has made my day though
Man got stiffed though bro
Shows what you know. If you had done your research you would know that Dave Perry was assured by the director that the final challenge game would be a neutral game (in fact "a special level of WipeOut, made by the developers for the show"), so that neither of the finalists would have an advantage. Furthermore, bare in mind that Dominik Diamond purposefully read the "quick fire" questions for Perry extra slow, whilst asking Kirk questions relating to Earthworm Jim (a franchise which he was personally working on). Oh, and Dominik and Kirk were best mates at the time. The entire thing was rigged to make Perry look like a tit.
It's completely unjust that Dave Perry gets abuse for rightfully standing up against being gaslighted.
@@Right_Said_BrettYou alright, Dave?
@@miriglith4293 XD I'm not Dave Perry.
The thing wasn’t rigged to make Perry look like a tit. Perry IS a tit, the challenge just exposed his tittishness to the nation. It was clearly a practical joke at his expense. I imagine the general attitude of those behind the show was:
“f*cking hell, that Perry is a complete w*nker… I mean, who the hell does he think he is!? Tell you what would be really funny…” the rest is history.
1990s: I’m not a games journalist in a marketing manager.
2020s: I’m not a political activist I’m a games journalist.
I have no idea who he is but i bet he's still a wanker.
Oh no. I bet he went full woke didn’t he
@@cheradenine1980 What's woke?
@@ThePeppermintGeezerBasically means your Gay, delusional and Anti-White.
@@ThePeppermintGeezer id politics fanatical activist type people
Always here for this!
What's really kind of sad is that all he had to do was jump in place on the course for 20 seconds to technically remain on the course the longest. He was sort of doing that and I figured that was what he was going for.
He was so shit he couldn't even do that
Glued to the tv at 6pm back in the day.
Oh and then there was Bits.
I miss my younger days
Aleks Krotowski
I forgot about bits!
Emily Booth ❤❤❤
All 4 channels to choose from.
And teletext 😂
God that face at 2:07 always gets me
I remember watching this ep back in the 90's
I met Dave Perry about 6 years ago in Devon when my fiancee was being interviewed for a teachers position in the school his kid went to.....he was still wearing a bandanna! but he was a really nice fella and I told him that I used to watch gamesmaster and collect the Mean Machine magazine with Oz Brown , Julian and Mr Perry, he was quite shocked due to being in this small village that someone remembered this.
No. You really didn't. He has lived in Torquay for quite a while. He owns a Tattoo studio now. I should know since he is good mates with my older brother and the reason I am studying games design b(sc) at Staffs Uni. The time you are talking about he would have been in London. At that time roughly he would have been making appearances on QVC to people.
Also... You wanna know how I know you are bullshitting? He only ever wears a bandanna when asked. He only ever wore it because he got told it created a character. He actually likes showing off his frosted tips now. He only ever wore the bandanna during the gamesmaster days.
Why do people feel the need to lie?
@@nickarmitt4722 Well the comment is 6 years old, but anyway this is the CZcams comment section. You're both probably bullshitting.
@@nickarmitt4722 Frosted tips? It's 2020 mate.
@@nickarmitt4722 This is definitely Dave
@@weatherwaxdiscworld1261 Is it? Sure it's not 2025?
My friend and I once met Dominic Diamond in a Oxford just outside the Turf Tavern in Oxford many moons ago. He misheard what we said when we walked past him. He was extremely angry and drunk and after a few words he then threatened that he could get our throats slit.
The pub had to get the bouncer to throw him out. Totally changed my perception of him.
you sure it wasn't Steven Seagal? very similar accent...
@@CS-mo7xp Stevie McSeagal?
@@matthamm7559 aye, the Dumfirmline Destroyer!
20 years since the greatest event in television history happened. Still raises a smile.
Greatest event!? OK....
Ah this has just popped up on FB. I remember this well. Also remember thinking at the time "you went for the shortcut and cocked up" 😂
but the game didn't come out until a year later so you hadn't played it to know.
He really wanted that golden joystick.
Imagine acting like controlling a characters movement with a joystick is some kind of specialist knowledge
Just been announced that E4 is bringing this show back with Sir Trevor Mcdonald as the new GamesMaster
it was just box ticking garbage as expected
I was 25 when this episode came out. I was too old to watch it then!
What am I doing now??!!!!
Not only do I remember watching this ep, but I recorded it on VHS too 😅
Haha I remember that! I also remember Dom taking the piss out of Dave Perry when they introduced a game on the show. Pulling faces behind him when he was speaking highlight of the show!
Never played the game..bollocks! He was obviously aiming for the shortcut
+palmondos Exactly right. He tried to show off by timing that. It lands you right on the final part of the slide, just near the finish line if you manage to do it correctly.
lol i get salty when i loose but this guy was over 9000
Was he? The jumping makes it look like he's desperate not to fall off. Does that mean he missed the shortcut?
Doesn't look like that at all. I guess maybe if a person who's not familiar with the game might read your comment and agree with you, and that's why you have 74 thumbs up, but he lost momentum and was struggling not to fall off the ice.
@@inlovewithi He never played the game before. Had nothing to do with a shortcut.
The greatest moment in all of TV history, ever.
"Greatest player, in Britain."
Never heard of you.
He meant greatest in his own mind. Which is undoubtably true.
If you've never heard of Dave Perry do you even game ?
Oh well if YOU haven't heard of him.....
Dom Diamond was a Diamond presenter. Acerbic wit and cheeky innuendos 😂 Leather trousers, a bandana and a strop on TV. What a great half hour he had 😂
Well from the Eurogamer report that was posted today everyone apart from Dave Perry says that he was not cheated out of this match. In fact, the night before they recorded this episode, Dave went and got the answers to the quiz on fighting games or he wouldn't turn up (he was writing a book about beat em ups and didn't want to look stupid).
I would say that he was cheated out of it, _however_ that "cheat" might have been _justified_ due to the fact that he supposedly cheated himself for the quiz. I don't know if the show was aware of that and hence changed the game for that reason, or not though. Overall they both did things wrong, but one could have been justified if they did it in response to the first cheat.
Ah miss Gamesmaster so much.
Its about staying on the cource the longest! And Dave starts off slow on the ramp. The other guy runs straight to it. The reason Dave fell off was that he was constantly breaking the speed. He was trying to show off, but fell on his ass crying instead. Epic moment.
Well, it is true that you need to get the right speed for each and every one of the corners on that slide, so practice definitely makes perfect.
Thanks Burns!
Prior to this incident, Dave says he won't play Mario 64 'until it is released next year the the UK' however, after he is ousted by the GamesMaster production team he goes onto say 'I always hated cutesy Nintendo games.' x.x Taking salt to a whole new extreme.
+Spuki Koopa I dunno, if I went to a gaming competition, I'd expect to play games that take a lot of skill instead of nintendo games
+cob Obviously never played a Nintendo game.
+cob And if that was the case, shouldn't perry have smashed the shit outta Mario 64 seeing as it requires no skill?
Matt H I'll give you an anwser as soon as you point out where I said Nintendo games take "no skill".
Being pedantic doesn't prove your point...
Should've half-pressed the A button.
''Dave Perry: I've never played it. I have always hated those cutesy Nintendo games.''
I had no idea there was this kind of butthurt... geez! xD
Kirk defenately deserved to win there. He actually admitted that he could have done better and was more modest then Perry was. Maybe he still refuses to watch Channel 4 to this day? :D
Saying "oh, I don't want to face you on this game. Play THIS game and I'll whoop your arse!" is not the hallmark of the best gamer in the country I'm afraid! ... Dave
They chose a game that literally only one person out of all the contestants have played though. And not by choice, the game was literally unavailable to the public.
He's right that it's entirely unfair to have a game competition where nobody except one of them was ever given access to play and practice at the game.
The host tried to play it off as "You're famous, you could have gotten to play it if you really tried" which is a terrible argument because that would kind of be abuse of power, but what's more is it's not like he had any chance to prepare. He didn't even know the game would be SM64 the day before the event.
1. Try to win/showoff by using shortcut
2. Fail, miserably.
3. Throw tantrum
4. ???
5. Profit
hahahah don't lose your time here on youtube, go collect those underpants (8 years later)
Was he trying to shortcut? He didn’t seem like he knew how to use the controller. I could see it going either way.
He wasn't trying the shortcut. He was holding back on the analog to go as slow as possible to last longer than the other guy did but he fell off. 😂
All he had to do was finish the damn stage!
I remember seeing this when it was aired, it was so great seeing him get made a fool of after all the years of being full of himself.
Agreed. Any normal person would have just laughed it off but not Dave Perry. What a colossal man-child.
Hilarious moment, had to watch it again as 1) It's Christmas 2) The book that Dominik Diamond has released with the oral history of Gamesmaster gives some real context to what was going on.
hehe I'll have to check that out.
Could you elaborate more on 2 as I haven't read his book?
This is class, never get bored of watching this lol
If Dave hadn’t owned the game like he said how did he know to cheat by jumping off to the slope below?
Falling off a ledge is not cheating.
For him to cheat on the N64 in Mario 64, he would need to have one of those game genie adapters to artificially make Mario jump really high, or walk through walls etc.
To fall off a ledge in a game is not cheating, as the coding of the game is not being changed, like cheating software being used in first person shooters like Call Of Duty to aim for you is a great example of cheating, done by cheating software.
Dave thought he could shortcut it and he failed miserably. He looks like someone who would cheat if he could. Bell fruit of a human.
3:10 So Dominick used that phrase before Clarkson?
ojideagu it came from Alan partridge
Partridge first
It's an age old phrase been around for decades long before either Clarkson or Partridge.
Alan Partridge
@@niallmcardle7 Yeh you're right Alan Partridge
thanks for bringing this to us from the states.
This never fails to amuse me
Diamond is LEGEND!
That's right, because Dominik is the real twat here, not Dave.
@zar athustra
LEGEND is what they said
@@RoyStantz Dave. You honestly look like a massive twat by posting all these comments. No-one else could possibly love Dave Perry enough to stand up for him like you have done. I mean, 10/10 for effort and reputational hustling, but by now everyone knows it's you.
Dominic was always amazing. Handled it perfectly with that 🔔 end
When I played this I was a clumsy child who always held the controller the wrong way. I don't think I ever put in as sorry a performance as either of those two. xD
Use to love watching Game Master, they should bring it back out on telly or CZcams.
Awww poor Dave. I bet he wishes online gaming was a thing back then so he could say he'd been hacked.
@@RoyStantz No. Fuck you Dave!
Just seeing footage of that bloody level brings back the raw frustration
The comments for this video are fantastic!
Someone tweet Jezze ChatGPT's answer "The phrase "And on that bombshell" became famously associated with Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear in the UK. Clarkson used it frequently at the end of episodes to transition to the credits, often after a particularly humorous or shocking moment.
However, Dominic Diamond used a similar phrase on Gamesmaster before Clarkson's use on Top Gear. Diamond would often conclude episodes of Gamesmaster by saying, "On that bombshell," which indicates that he used it first.
So, Dominic Diamond on Gamesmaster was the first to use the phrase in a TV program, before Jeremy Clarkson popularised it on Top Gear."
The argument of having played the game before would be a good one, had Kirk's time been anything worth shouting about, he was crap.
I think he wasn't playing normally specifically because the opponent went first and fell off. He probably knew that he'd be unlikely to well first try on a blind playthrough especially when the person who has got to play/practice the game couldn't even complete it.
I'd guess he was trying to stall the timer. Which is itself risky too though since he didn't know how to do it, nor how unsafe/difficult it is.
@@MsHojat this was a blast from the past! Absolutely, stripped of all the context, I do think it’s unfair, and in that situation, where you’re not sure how you’re going to do (and it’s one of the first 3D platformers to have an analog control stick layout and on one of the trickiest levels in said game), there was nothing wrong with Dave’s tactic, and he can hardly be blamed for the execution either. But Kirk was also pretty shite, so it’s not like Dave was up against a legend here.
The real issue is Dave’s boasting, followed by a poor performance (which, again, I think is understandable) followed by the being a bit of a toss pot in response to losing. If he’d said something like “I went in, tried my best at a game I’ve not played before and I was frankly shite! Well done Kirk!”, he could have come away looking at least a little more chill and not like a child with a god complex.
But I do agree with your assessment of the tactics he was trying, as well as it being arguably quite unfair in principle.
Why is Dave not on our screens anymore? …such charisma…and he was the best at computer games….Ever!!
I'd forgotten about the dollybirds they used to have on these shows.
Damn i miss those days for many reasons.
I came here after hearing a recent interview with David on a podcast...it sounds like a pretty bad situation when you have context. He had apparently previously taken a stand against playing the game up to that point because he was upset it hadn’t been released in PAL regions yet. They had agreed to play some other game and switched it on him last minute. I assume there was some animosity between him and the show runners? He claimed that if he refused to play, they were going to take away his transport to the production facility and strand him there for the night.
Even worse...I think he helped originally make those cheesy joystick awards. Kind of a slap in the face at the end.
Bet he didn't mention the part where he tried to cheat on the previous quiz section by getting the answers ahead of time from the producers.
@rabid_si This is why this setup happened. Dave said this wasn't true. He still denies it to this very day. Dominic said that Rik Henderson told him.
A producer said to Rik that Dave asked for the questions and he relayed that information to Dom, which pissed him off.
Dominic had creative control at that point of series, so he rigged it in favor of his best friend.
Anyway, either Dave is lying, Ric lied to Dom or a producer lied to Rik.
@@JoeyXSmith the eventual winner (kirk) can't have been Dom's best mate though, he forgets his name at the end of the video.
@highnoon7097 Well, Dave said that they were best friends and hanging around with each other a lot at that time. They also did another show together called Dom and Kirt Night O' Plenty. So I'm going off information about what has been said in interviews.
Jesus! Present the show man. It's not an audition. You got a job.
"And on that bombshell"...Dave now owns a tattoo parlour in Torquay
Dave: Life after Gamesmaster. A Netflix series.
2025.
Impromptu moments of hilarious awkwardness, scantily clad, big breasted ladies giving out trophies.... you just wouldn't get this on TV nowadays!! :D Ah the 90's.
We took it as far as we could.
I'm glad we got better.
It's best kept online.
There's probably Japanese porn where it's a computer game competition, but everyone is naked.
Know what I mean?
Let's not be horny on main.
TV Gold, remember it like it was yesterday.
Loving the leather trousers there.
That's hilarious. God, they don't make TV like this anymore. All the good TV (like this) is now on CZcams.
After all this time it's still great to watch. You can actually see the salt coming off him lol
I remember watching this at the time and thinking it was some kind of tongue in cheek gag, I didn’t realize they guy was genuinely pissed and a sore looser, 😂🤣😂
I love this. Dave Perry is such a bellend.
Man what a show back in the day!!! I miss the 90s 😢
Anyone catch Diamond saying "The New games Animal" lol OUCH
Kirk had all the on-screen charisma of an ice-cold Pot Noodle.
When the camera switches and we see how much shorter he is than the other two, that cracked me up
Brillint, I bet he's still in the huff 😂
Had a passing interest in this show as a teenager. Dom seemed to go through a bit of a transition towards the last couple of series.
"Pre-bald" Dom acted seamlessly as the anchor and the show was about the games.
"Bald Dom" made the show about him. With no hair, he knew his chances of being a 1990's popstar were over. He took his frustration out on the little fella instead.....the one with blue, red and white hair.
That is true, because Series 4 was the last GOOD series of GamesMaster.
M Corco this comment is pure gold. Made me chuckle. You know buddy. You know.
@@RoyStantz Why would you say that, Dave? Is it because you didn't get to be on telly anymore?
I loved those show as a kid. I still game today in my 40s and I always will. It wasn't the same show when Decter Fletcher came in. Dominic Diamond was the best host.
Haha what a miserable bugger. It's only a spray-painted joystick mate.
Just reminds me of the absolute magic of playing Super Mario 64. Incomparable.
If he had newer played the game, how did he know about the shortcut? Why didn't he just play it safe?