Forgive my pedantry if I am misremembering, but I thought Violet only appeared in Micro Machines Turbo Tournament '96 - the Europe-only release. I recall watching the episode where they featured her. Still to this day my favourite MM game!
I found one, brand spanking at a car boot sale in the late 90's when I was a kid. I remembered it because of Bad Influence telling me it was bitchin. I begged my dad to grab it for me. Yeah. It was a piece of crap! The numbers never made sense, the pictures on the cards made no sense, the scanning barcodes off of cereal boxes made no sense...... fucking thing.
The thing to remember is that to those kids (and presenters) all this tech was new, was exciting, was the future. Us miserable bastards living in our third rate Cybergammon future have lost that spark. We were the future, then we were the cautionary tale.
My mate from school actually had a barcode battler. he was so spoiled though, kid had everything. I used to love going to his house for tea, it was like Aladdin's cave.
😂 I think I know that kid, we had one at my school, he too had a barcode battler, tbh I’d completely forgotten about it until I seen this footage, I’d even forgotten about this show 😆
Wonder if Robbie's still any good at the Racers? Someone's gotta challenge Jack Black for the honour of Gaming musicians, and Justin Hawkins don't cut it!
The sheer beauty of Bad Influence was that it turned out the complete opposite of what they seemed to be going for. Instead of being the edgy, attitudinal yoof show they had obviously envisaged, it was real geeky and heavily factual. But that's what ended up making it so loved among us gamers. We may have aspired to be Dominik Diamond and his ear piercing, but we were Andy Crane and his sideways baseball cap.
As an American, I never saw this show in it's prime. But a while back a friend of mine showed off some episodes in a Discord call and I was completely hooked. The presentation, the hosts, the raw honesty of it all. Captivating stuff and a neat look into the gaming scene of the UK.
I've never heard of it, and I was teen in the uk when this aired. I must've been out on my bike or playing football, lol. That GamesMaster though, I'd watch that religiously.
What people don’t understand, now and back then, is that it was literally a children’s show on CITV… GM was aimed at teens and wanking. But the biggest difference is that every week BI absolutely trounced GM in ratings. It was voted Best Children’s TV show and got up to 6 million viewers a week. GMs best figures were about 300,000
Interesting to see everyone's view on this show - especially as I was on the production team for series 2, working out of YTV in Leeds. The remit of the show was more than just talking about video games... we were kind of making Tomorrow's World (a popular BBC science and technology show at the time) but a kids version. Although it hasn't aged very well, Bad Influence! was extremely popular at the time - and it was a lot of fun to work on.
Ah, those were the days. They showed us an overdubbed version on TV in my country and it felt epic. I've never seen anything like it before or until CZcams shows took off. Props to the creators.
I remember watching the episode the 'Barcode Battler'. A vivid little clip in my mind of Andy Crane talking about being able to use the bar code from a Mars Bar to create an action in a fighting game or something. Never heard about it again until today... which was just hearing the same thing I first heard. I also remember Violet Berlin destroying a pirated floppy disk by exposing the disk and scratching it with a screwdriver.
The description of Andy Crane was hilariously accurate 😂 They couldn’t fool us kids back then, we all knew Bad Influence was naff. We just watched it for clips of forthcoming games and hardware. Anyway, you’re funny as hell, just subscribed.
Your breakdowns of some truly awful British TV are made all the better by the odd sneaky Alan Partridge reference. Thank you for the laughs. Keep it up, please!
Whether it was by design or just serendipity the show’s presenting team was arguably its greatest strength. Indeed, Violet Berlin’s presenting skills were rather modest but mitigated by a genuine and infectious passion for gaming whilst Andy Crane was the precise opposite, later confirming that Bad Influence was just another presenting gig for him at the time. In other words each complimented the other by bringing to the show what the other lacked. (Even that obviously stage school-trained American kid (edit: ‘Z’ Wright) who did a segment in the U.S. each week wasn’t nearly as irritating as he could’ve been! 🙂)
2:22 omg how random is this. Your video just popped up in my recommended box, that’s me the ginger haired kid staring at Voilet’s boobies 😂 made my day
Thought you were a bit harsh with the tech, yeah it looks naff now but they were testing things that were the foundations for things we use everyday now. Was exciting seeing these new gadgets back then
Exactly. Well put. It was very hard to make 8/16 bit tech interesting. It’s easy to take the mick out of the past, but Bad Influence was must watch TV for Kids who it was airbed at. GM was older and gor teens. Loved the features from abroad too and BI had sone amazing scoops. Location shoot and interview with Rare, who never allowed anyone else in. Earthworm Jim, N64, Killer Instinct… the furs Ply Station in the country. It went on and on. Films from George Lucas ranch. Pinewood Studios. Presenters were really good. Except Z lol.
The one thing that stuck out for me with this programme was the time they messed up the level select cheat code for Sonic 2 on the mega drive to the point their switchboard got jammed with complaints. They had to eat a lot of humble pie the next episode…along with dishing out the correct cheat!
Loved it as a young teen but even then, you knew it wasn't going to age well. By the time it was 1996 (4 years after watching the episode for the first time) and we were playing with Pentium PC's with 3dfx graphics, games like Quake & Tombraider. It really did feel that shows like this were made 20 years earlier.
This video actually freaks me out. I haven't thought about or even remembered this show since the actual 1990s. A proper blast from the past. Violet Berlin! The nostalgia is so strong, thanks.
Watching the old episodes of Bad Influence! Makes me wish it was broadcast here in the U.S.A., seems way better than any "videogame" shows we had which were nearly none.
Was Bits the one hosted by 3 girls, one of whom was Emily Booth? I also seem to remember a movie show that might have been called Vids around the same time. Late night Channel 4 in the late 90's was brilliant.
You started well and then got snarky! This was a simpler time with so much promise! All the Amiga stuff was great and found it's moment a decade later with Junior Senior's Move Your Feet music video animation and Calvin Harris' 1st album! Don't forget the Amiga was used for initial video edits on the visualisation of the computer controlled underwater model shots of the Titanic! This saved Spielberg a lot of time! No Spectrum had this effect on video and special effects. Dick Van Dyke did his own special effects for a motor bike explosion on his Amiga 4000T when Diagnosis Murder ran out of money!
Yep, like everyone now bashes the past as a troupe. Easy target, all this tech was exciting, fun and gave us hope for the future. I know it was cheesy, but I rather go back to cheesy, simpler, happier times and I’m 59 , I sometimes watched this when I had free time. But I did like the video apart from the above.
The Golden age of everything! I'm so glad I was part of this era, it truly was the best time to be young and alive. We still went outside, but had these shows and games to rush back home to. I bloody miss it! Does anyone the magazine that Andy worked called TOTAL!? I used to get it every month through my door. I repeat... I bloody miss it!
My only memory of this show was that they did a version of 12 days of Xmas and it ended on “and a cartridge in a tv” I actually sing that every Christmas instead of the proper words 😂😂
@@skylined5534Their eldest son, is firmly in the music biz now, under his given name of Tycho Jones. Heard his stuff pop up in my Spotify feed the other day. By all accounts all three are still thoroughly decent people, so that's something.
I'm surprised you missed out the fact they had the old Goth band Alien Sex Fiend on there promoting the game "Inferno" which they'd done soundtrack for. Unsurprisingly the bands name was abbreviated to "ASF", and they didn't turn up in their full costume/make up. Not one of their better releases either, although I've no idea if the game was any good or not.
My mate had a barcode battler. Almost an early Pokémon Go 😂 He used to go to supermarkets to scan the codes as he thought that would give him an advantage over others. 😂
just discovered your channel, great stuff Stu, you should look into a show called 'Wogans Web' this was a shortlived daytime show where ultra boomer Terry wogan explored the exciting new phenomenon of the internet, this was during a lull in his career and he came across as quite bitter and uninterested in this televisual project. I was a raver back in the day and I remember watching it on a horrible comedown and feeling generally pessimistic about the future and what it may bring. (i'd be amazed if you manage to find footage of this series.
Weird; yesterday I saw a retrospective video about knightmare, so recommended who I'm about to here, then this. Great video as always btw, and if anyone fancies an episode-by-episode break down of this series check out RoseTintedSpectrum's take on it (he also corrects Zee Wright to Zed Wright).
Christ I remember this show. I found it cringey as fuck back then and I was in primary school. Nam Rood was particularly irritating. I vaguely remember the episode about copying games and how bad it was and watching Violet destroying a floppy disk with a pen after making a copy. If only they knew how bad things would get.... Yo ho, fiddeldy dee.
I very much enjoyed this compendium of moving screenshots. You could play as Violet in one of the "Micro Machines" games for PC. I did my GCSE music coursework on an atari ST (+ Roland U220, Yamaha RX8 and Yamaha Clavinova). Namrood could kick Patrick Moore's fascist-sympathising arse. CBBC had its own version of this show but with animated/CGI presenters (I think it was called "reboot" or "bootup" or something like that). Nothing ages faster than bleeding edge technology. FIFO.
I remember watching Bad Influence because I felt Games Master had an anti-Sega bias. However, my only memory of actually watching it is a friend and I taking the piss out of Violet Berlin's lisp. By the way, I have to admire your restraint in letting Andy Crane say 'Eat rubber johnny!' pass without comment.
@@bigbabatunde1218Oh wow...I had completely forgotten about Cybernet!! I used to watch that too!! Cyberzone was also a thing though...it was a shortlived virtual reality gameshow on the BBC, hosted by Craig Charles and created by Broadsword, who also made Knightmare.
Great video, the future entertainment show shown at earls court was the only one I went to, the arm of the person holding a pen and paper was the friend I went with, I didn't quite make it onto the camera.
Continue: other shows including Countdown, Duty Free and through the keyhole was also recorded there to say I was an audience member for a recording of the popular guess the celebrity whose home belonged to. Carol Voorderman shared her frustration that channel four moving production of countdown from the Emmerdale studios to London many years ago a show that launched the channel in the early eighties.
I'd struggle to explain to anyone why the Cannon and Ball info blast caused me to laugh myself to tears, but it's now locked away as some of the most profound absurdist humour I've ever borne witness to. I loved this show as a lad, and definitely freeze framed my way through the end credits once or twice. Andy was a sweetheart really and Violet was a definite early crush, but Dominic eventually led me to the dark side with his impressively long and thick catalogue of knob jokes.
We all bloody hated Zed Wright. I’d always have a desperation for them to show the Amiga in good light, being a 500 Plus owner. Everyone else had Megadrives. Violet Berlin, the thinking man’s Denise van Outen.
Rolf harris hasnt got anything to worry about......... mmmmmmmm 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah he rotted and died in prison.
😂😂
Tie me kangaroo down sport
No he's dead
Yes. He’s dead…
Violet Berlin was immortalised as a playable character in Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament
OMG i remember that!!!
Forgive my pedantry if I am misremembering, but I thought Violet only appeared in Micro Machines Turbo Tournament '96 - the Europe-only release. I recall watching the episode where they featured her. Still to this day my favourite MM game!
Yep. I remember the episode, too. 🔥🔥
Bad influence tricked my into getting a barcode battler one Xmas and I never got over it
I found one, brand spanking at a car boot sale in the late 90's when I was a kid. I remembered it because of Bad Influence telling me it was bitchin. I begged my dad to grab it for me. Yeah. It was a piece of crap! The numbers never made sense, the pictures on the cards made no sense, the scanning barcodes off of cereal boxes made no sense...... fucking thing.
😂
@@MrBaldypete1Violent should have given you a free w@nk for that
Bad Influence! staffers chortling up their overly long sleeves 😂
The thing to remember is that to those kids (and presenters) all this tech was new, was exciting, was the future. Us miserable bastards living in our third rate Cybergammon future have lost that spark. We were the future, then we were the cautionary tale.
Your comment made me laugh, nod my head in agreement and also make me feel wistful for times past!
COMING HOME TO THIS AND NIGHTMARE WAS EPIC!"
My mate from school actually had a barcode battler. he was so spoiled though, kid had everything. I used to love going to his house for tea, it was like Aladdin's cave.
😂 I think I know that kid, we had one at my school, he too had a barcode battler, tbh I’d completely forgotten about it until I seen this footage, I’d even forgotten about this show 😆
Now he cries himself to sleep everynight as he has no backbone
@@hahanah1463 'everynight' oh my god.....
I never thought I'd see Andy Crane shout "Eat rubber johnny!" at Robbie Williams but there you go!
To be fair, I think it was always 50/50 😂
Wonder if Robbie's still any good at the Racers? Someone's gotta challenge Jack Black for the honour of Gaming musicians, and Justin Hawkins don't cut it!
The sheer beauty of Bad Influence was that it turned out the complete opposite of what they seemed to be going for. Instead of being the edgy, attitudinal yoof show they had obviously envisaged, it was real geeky and heavily factual. But that's what ended up making it so loved among us gamers. We may have aspired to be Dominik Diamond and his ear piercing, but we were Andy Crane and his sideways baseball cap.
As an American, I never saw this show in it's prime. But a while back a friend of mine showed off some episodes in a Discord call and I was completely hooked. The presentation, the hosts, the raw honesty of it all. Captivating stuff and a neat look into the gaming scene of the UK.
I've never heard of it, and I was teen in the uk when this aired.
I must've been out on my bike or playing football, lol.
That GamesMaster though, I'd watch that religiously.
Imagine comparing this to computer chronicles (PBS) or whatever was on Nickelodeon.
😂
Because it wasn’t syndicated to other countries in the United States they had similar shows.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage I hated Dominik Diamond. GamesMaster was a good show, but he just annoyed me
@@iaincowell9747Oh Christ aye but now?? He’s a woke bag of 💩
What people don’t understand, now and back then, is that it was literally a children’s show on CITV… GM was aimed at teens and wanking. But the biggest difference is that every week BI absolutely trounced GM in ratings. It was voted Best Children’s TV show and got up to 6 million viewers a week. GMs best figures were about 300,000
I think that black kid got bummed by Harrison himself
Interesting to see everyone's view on this show - especially as I was on the production team for series 2, working out of YTV in Leeds. The remit of the show was more than just talking about video games... we were kind of making Tomorrow's World (a popular BBC science and technology show at the time) but a kids version. Although it hasn't aged very well, Bad Influence! was extremely popular at the time - and it was a lot of fun to work on.
Loved this show so thankyou.
I Loved this show, happy memories. Thank you!
Aye it were proper good in them day i tell ya. As a little wee kid with hardly any mates, i loved watching all the games i couldn't afford.
Thanks for your work on the show. Loved it. Ignore this fool
The show was absolute garbage.
ah the days when there was wonder in the world! amazing nostalgia, thank you!
I'd say Violet looked more like the singer from Roxette.
Nah, Marie Fredriksson from Roxette was good looking.
And didn't have a massive irritating lisp
I thought Paula Yates had done some serious time in re-hab.
Ah, those were the days. They showed us an overdubbed version on TV in my country and it felt epic. I've never seen anything like it before or until CZcams shows took off. Props to the creators.
What country was it just out of interest?
@@MarcZERO1980 Czechia
"I can give you memories, like Violet Berlin in the 90s" - Jonathan Richman
And I would bleeeeeeeeeed....
Who's Jonathan Richman?
Is that seriously one of his lyrics? Ha ha
Ahhh this is a nostalgia hit and a half. Loved your datablast, too.
Fond memories of Violet as a young teen🤣
14 year old me was in awe.
@@johnafirth Why though? She wasn't attractive at all.
@@folksurvivalShe was.
@@folksurvival,not attractive? You must be gay. She was stunning.
Must find out what happened to the kid who reviewed Indiana Jones. Absolutely crushed it aged 14
I remember watching the episode the 'Barcode Battler'. A vivid little clip in my mind of Andy Crane talking about being able to use the bar code from a Mars Bar to create an action in a fighting game or something. Never heard about it again until today... which was just hearing the same thing I first heard. I also remember Violet Berlin destroying a pirated floppy disk by exposing the disk and scratching it with a screwdriver.
My pal had a barcode battler, it was terrible
I remember that exact segment too! The second barcode battler was mentioned on this, it was like it unlocked a very hidden memory!
"Don't think Rolf Harris has much to worry about". 🤣
He's currently having his kangaroo toasted as we speak 😂
Gamesmaster was shit by comparison for kids really. Gamesmaster was more titillating and sweaty nerd. Bad influence was schoolyard chat.
Glad to see this video getting 55k+ views so far, you deserve way more than you've been getting, brilliant content.
No, the OTHER other 90's gaming show: Games World!
"There's nee poorn on it!" 😂
Classic I'm Alan Partridge. From the Colour of Alan, where Michael is "in charge of the Internet computer"
Hard to believe this wasn’t a hit especially given that it had writers from Chucklevision and the director of Tarbucks full swing. It’s inexplicable.
The description of Andy Crane was hilariously accurate 😂
They couldn’t fool us kids back then, we all knew Bad Influence was naff. We just watched it for clips of forthcoming games and hardware.
Anyway, you’re funny as hell, just subscribed.
I don't remember this show being so freaking weird, everyone looks and talks like they are dying on the inside.
Your breakdowns of some truly awful British TV are made all the better by the odd sneaky Alan Partridge reference. Thank you for the laughs. Keep it up, please!
Lovely stuff. During a big Bad Inflience re-watch, I was struck by how much Andy clearly despises Nam Rood, he cannot sanction his buffoonery.
Just like Tommy Lee?
Whatever became of nam rood
Whether it was by design or just serendipity the show’s presenting team was arguably its greatest strength. Indeed, Violet Berlin’s presenting skills were rather modest but mitigated by a genuine and infectious passion for gaming whilst Andy Crane was the precise opposite, later confirming that Bad Influence was just another presenting gig for him at the time. In other words each complimented the other by bringing to the show what the other lacked.
(Even that obviously stage school-trained American kid (edit: ‘Z’ Wright) who did a segment in the U.S. each week wasn’t nearly as irritating as he could’ve been! 🙂)
" the vibe of a hip youth pastor " 😂😂😂
2:22 omg how random is this. Your video just popped up in my recommended box, that’s me the ginger haired kid staring at Voilet’s boobies 😂 made my day
Did she spit on you with every word with an s in it ?
You look like Gonch Gardener from Grange Hill too but that might just be the poor quality VHS and pixelation?
Thought you were a bit harsh with the tech, yeah it looks naff now but they were testing things that were the foundations for things we use everyday now. Was exciting seeing these new gadgets back then
Exactly. Well put. It was very hard to make 8/16 bit tech interesting. It’s easy to take the mick out of the past, but Bad Influence was must watch TV for Kids who it was airbed at. GM was older and gor teens. Loved the features from abroad too and BI had sone amazing scoops. Location shoot and interview with Rare, who never allowed anyone else in. Earthworm Jim, N64, Killer Instinct… the furs Ply Station in the country. It went on and on. Films from George Lucas ranch. Pinewood Studios. Presenters were really good. Except Z lol.
Memories of Nam Rood slapping the cheat codes onto his head.
Andy Alan Partridge Crane
He was OK. Less annoying than the likes of Andi Peters.
I still have some of this programme on VHS tapes. They were nice times.
I’ve never heard Andy Crane described so perfectly. Cheers Millard!
I know he presented this but I'm older than a fair few here and remember him presenting CBBC from 'The Broom cupboard' with Edd the Duck 😂
@@skylined5534 somehow that duck was big enough to sell lunchboxes
The one thing that stuck out for me with this programme was the time they messed up the level select cheat code for Sonic 2 on the mega drive to the point their switchboard got jammed with complaints. They had to eat a lot of humble pie the next episode…along with dishing out the correct cheat!
Loved it as a young teen but even then, you knew it wasn't going to age well. By the time it was 1996 (4 years after watching the episode for the first time) and we were playing with Pentium PC's with 3dfx graphics, games like Quake & Tombraider. It really did feel that shows like this were made 20 years earlier.
I think those kids were told what to say.
No reference to Violet Berlin making it into Micro Machines 2 Turbo?
Still, amazing work as usual summarising why the show was...the way it was.
She was in Gabriel Knight 2, Normality and Eve too.
I *knew* she'd cameod/had a homage in Normality somehow! @@lmcgregoruk
The show Bad influence was recorded at the emmerdale studios formerly known as Yorkshire television in kirkstall road Leeds.
Nice 'moving screenshot' video friend. brings back memories. I also enjoyed 'Bits'
Bits was the mutts nuts I had a major crush on Bouff, Emily Booth
Cybernet was itv, I absolutely LOVED that. Was gutted when they stopped showing it. Games movies and videos was brilliant too
@@RighAlbanEmily was right tasty on that ch5 cult programme Outthere
21k views, you are definitely deserving of way more subscribers. Wonderful video once again 😂
This video actually freaks me out. I haven't thought about or even remembered this show since the actual 1990s. A proper blast from the past. Violet Berlin! The nostalgia is so strong, thanks.
1:31 Violetthhhh Berlin and Gathhuuthh Topp ....like a room full of snakes when they talk.
Another certified Millard classic.
Wow I had completely forgotten this show, great trip down memory lane. Somewhere I still have my Amiga, & deluxe paint!
Credit to Violet Berlin though. She's a playable character in MicroMachines 2 and that's kinda cool.
Watching the old episodes of Bad Influence! Makes me wish it was broadcast here in the U.S.A., seems way better than any "videogame" shows we had which were nearly none.
At the start, I thought for a second you said "but today we're looking at Bits" - which I hope you will also cover someday.
Cosign "Bits" (and "Thumb Bandits" starring one of the Bits lasses with Iain Lee).
Heck yeah, I remember Bits - late night tele prog, >anything on CZcams on this???
Was Bits the one hosted by 3 girls, one of whom was Emily Booth?
I also seem to remember a movie show that might have been called Vids around the same time.
Late night Channel 4 in the late 90's was brilliant.
@@VeritasAbsoluta Yeah I think it was.
@@VeritasAbsoluta Correct: Nigel Buckland & Stef Gardiner presented "Vids." It was superb.
You started well and then got snarky! This was a simpler time with so much promise! All the Amiga stuff was great and found it's moment a decade later with Junior Senior's Move Your Feet music video animation and Calvin Harris' 1st album! Don't forget the Amiga was used for initial video edits on the visualisation of the computer controlled underwater model shots of the Titanic! This saved Spielberg a lot of time! No Spectrum had this effect on video and special effects. Dick Van Dyke did his own special effects for a motor bike explosion on his Amiga 4000T when Diagnosis Murder ran out of money!
Ahhh the amiga my first computer
Amiga was my 90s computer after I had a ZX Spectrum. Also Amiga was used as FX for the pilot of Babylom 5.
The Amiga was bloody advanced for it's day, they were used to do the CGI effects on The Last Starfighter and Babylon 5.
Yep, like everyone now bashes the past as a troupe.
Easy target, all this tech was exciting, fun and gave us hope for the future.
I know it was cheesy, but I rather go back to cheesy, simpler, happier times and I’m 59 , I sometimes watched this when I had free time. But I did like the video apart from the above.
The Golden age of everything! I'm so glad I was part of this era, it truly was the best time to be young and alive. We still went outside, but had these shows and games to rush back home to. I bloody miss it!
Does anyone the magazine that Andy worked called TOTAL!?
I used to get it every month through my door. I repeat... I bloody miss it!
Your description of Andy Crane is comedy gold. "Plain cheese, one to share." 🤣
That is very well written video. Well done. So many hidden jokes that you will only get if you are of a certain age.
My only memory of this show was that they did a version of 12 days of Xmas and it ended on “and a cartridge in a tv”
I actually sing that every Christmas instead of the proper words 😂😂
I had absolutely no idea Violet Was married to the How 2 guy! Loved Bad Influence
Both are still married
@@centrevezgaming4862 to each other? :P
@@centrevezgaming4862 To each other as well! 🤣
@@dwinterx
Even better!
@@skylined5534Their eldest son, is firmly in the music biz now, under his given name of Tycho Jones. Heard his stuff pop up in my Spotify feed the other day. By all accounts all three are still thoroughly decent people, so that's something.
I'm surprised you missed out the fact they had the old Goth band Alien Sex Fiend on there promoting the game "Inferno" which they'd done soundtrack for. Unsurprisingly the bands name was abbreviated to "ASF", and they didn't turn up in their full costume/make up. Not one of their better releases either, although I've no idea if the game was any good or not.
My mate had a barcode battler. Almost an early Pokémon Go 😂 He used to go to supermarkets to scan the codes as he thought that would give him an advantage over others. 😂
Surely more barcodes would have given him an advantage though?
just discovered your channel, great stuff Stu, you should look into a show called 'Wogans Web' this was a shortlived daytime show where ultra boomer Terry wogan explored the exciting new phenomenon of the internet, this was during a lull in his career and he came across as quite bitter and uninterested in this televisual project. I was a raver back in the day and I remember watching it on a horrible comedown and feeling generally pessimistic about the future and what it may bring. (i'd be amazed if you manage to find footage of this series.
4:45 KILLED ME!
This is so freaking awesome - Thank you
Weird; yesterday I saw a retrospective video about knightmare, so recommended who I'm about to here, then this.
Great video as always btw, and if anyone fancies an episode-by-episode break down of this series check out RoseTintedSpectrum's take on it (he also corrects Zee Wright to Zed Wright).
I watched that vid too. Loved Knightmare.
Woah totally forgot about this...great watch to take me back to those times!
Christ I remember this show. I found it cringey as fuck back then and I was in primary school. Nam Rood was particularly irritating. I vaguely remember the episode about copying games and how bad it was and watching Violet destroying a floppy disk with a pen after making a copy. If only they knew how bad things would get.... Yo ho, fiddeldy dee.
I used to watch this after school, even entered a few of the competitions 😂
The sentence "eat rubber johnny pop star" was mercifully never uttered on television again.
I very much enjoyed this compendium of moving screenshots. You could play as Violet in one of the "Micro Machines" games for PC. I did my GCSE music coursework on an atari ST (+ Roland U220, Yamaha RX8 and Yamaha Clavinova). Namrood could kick Patrick Moore's fascist-sympathising arse. CBBC had its own version of this show but with animated/CGI presenters (I think it was called "reboot" or "bootup" or something like that). Nothing ages faster than bleeding edge technology. FIFO.
Oh yeah remember violet being in that game
funny to see the art programmes and video editing get so slated. These were formative years/packages for all my peers in VFX these days!
"Me, when I finally feel like I'm getting life figured out-"
"It's... Oh, I'm dead" 😂😂😂😂
Dominik's from Arbroath - he would butcher the entire cast and crew of Bad Influence while half asleep and hungover.
Road Rash was amazing!
Ah the 'data blast'. I think How2 did them as well, though our VCR's pause was nowhere good enough to read anything when paused.
Aye!!! Wasn’t until years later I got a decent enough one but by then the time had well passed
I remember watching Bad Influence because I felt Games Master had an anti-Sega bias. However, my only memory of actually watching it is a friend and I taking the piss out of Violet Berlin's lisp.
By the way, I have to admire your restraint in letting Andy Crane say 'Eat rubber johnny!' pass without comment.
Me and my mum used to mock the lisp too 😂
This jogged a memory i had totally forgotten.👍
I loved Bad Influence back when it was on TV, and much preferred it Games Master.
Enjoyable vid - I appreciate your editing style and delivery
I loved this programme! This...Gamesmaster... Knightmare and Cyberzone were always highlights of my childhood after-school telly time
Do you mean Cybernet?
@@bigbabatunde1218Oh wow...I had completely forgotten about Cybernet!! I used to watch that too!! Cyberzone was also a thing though...it was a shortlived virtual reality gameshow on the BBC, hosted by Craig Charles and created by Broadsword, who also made Knightmare.
Magical. The way the hauntology moment flew in was chilling and hilarious at the same time, somehow. Would love to see you cover Virtually Impossible.
"Andy calls the police on himself if his shirt comes untucked" LOL!
Classic show back in the day, great games too.
Bad influence is where I first clapped eyes on Worms, got it not long after and was obsessed with it for years 😂
Thanks Stuart, brilliant video.
Great video, the future entertainment show shown at earls court was the only one I went to, the arm of the person holding a pen and paper was the friend I went with, I didn't quite make it onto the camera.
FEED EGGS! You gotta give!
Violet Berlin was an absolute smoke-show.
Could not agree more! Still is to be fair!
Continue: other shows including Countdown, Duty Free and through the keyhole was also recorded there to say I was an audience member for a recording of the popular guess the celebrity whose home belonged to.
Carol Voorderman shared her frustration that channel four moving production of countdown from the Emmerdale studios to London many years ago a show that launched the channel in the early eighties.
I spilled more spunk over Violet Berlin than I did £'s on games back then. I spent a lot.
It really was@@davidpearson6346
For me, it was Nanna Maskoury.
yeh she caused more seed to be spilt than michael j fox at a bird feeder
Was always a bit too dykey for me but to each his own...
Yeah, I get ya on that. She looked better in the pic shown where she had normal long brown hair.
Thanks again
Your work reminds me of TV Offal
Could you do a video on it ?
Andy Crane happened when Tony Hawk and Colin Furze went back to the 90’s in Colin’s Deloreon but the flux capacitor failed somewhere along the M180.
Bits was he king of video game shows. I had completely forgotten about this
i lol’ed more than once, excellent video
I fancied Violet SO much 😅❤️
Still do tbh 😁🤷♂️
I'd struggle to explain to anyone why the Cannon and Ball info blast caused me to laugh myself to tears, but it's now locked away as some of the most profound absurdist humour I've ever borne witness to. I loved this show as a lad, and definitely freeze framed my way through the end credits once or twice. Andy was a sweetheart really and Violet was a definite early crush, but Dominic eventually led me to the dark side with his impressively long and thick catalogue of knob jokes.
Brilliant video. I lost it at the Datablast at the end.
🤣🤣🤣 at the ethnic tunes/Jocky Wilson's Darts joke at 3:43
I had no idea Violet Berlin's partner was Gaz Top.... Millard is now my Google
I thought it was well known myself...
@@caeserromero3013 I'm embarrassed for myself...
I got busted with my Eurotrash tape and had to have “the conversation” with my parents. Good times.
should've checked the kitchen cupboards
We all bloody hated Zed Wright. I’d always have a desperation for them to show the Amiga in good light, being a 500 Plus owner. Everyone else had Megadrives. Violet Berlin, the thinking man’s Denise van Outen.