I'm sure you don't need me to tell you the drive bays visible on the front of Violet's PC are 5¼" floppy, 3½" floppy, and CD-ROM via a caddy. I recognized the CD-ROM immediately, because our first home computer was an Headstart LX-CD, so I was already familiar with the use of CD caddies.
I just discovered the entirety of this episode on an old VHS cassette. A classic slice of early 90's high end gaming, I completely forgot I'd recorded it back in the day. The recording is pristine too, I'll have to digitise it for posterity.
This was filmed in Leeds, well-behaved kids from my high school sometimes got to attend the filming.I remember them introducing the Atari Jaguar. Man, I love my Jaguars. I think Iron Soldier might just be my favourite game of all time.
@@plusultra6199 It was on the market for a couple of years but had fewer than sixty titles, many of which were ports of existing 16-bit titles; Atari's brand at the time wasn't quite strong enough to support many decent FIrst-party titles; Hoverstrike, Iron Soldier and AvP stand out as exceptional titles. It looked good for the Jag at the start when the main competition was the SNES, Megadrive and 3DO but then the PlayStation (and to a lesser degree the Saturn) came out of the blue and completely changed the landscape. It was also quite hard to develop for, the CPU architecture was a custom Atari design which would have been unfamiliar to the developers. For a while though it was the cheapest way to play Doom at a decent frame rate. It's a real shame the system never reached its potential bc it was capable of some incredible things. If only it had made it to market 18 months earlier, it could have been a different story...
What gets me is back then a call to a competition was 25p (50p in today's money if you factor in inflation c.1993). Try and enter a competition nowadays and it cost in the region of £2-£3
I’m from the US (don’t hold lt it against me. I was born this way) so I know nothing about this show or the players. Still, I’ve got to ask: Have you thought of contacting these folks to do a little retrospective series? I’d bet some of them would be keen. (Yes, “would be keen” is by no means a US expression. I’m just still watching the episode, and that’s where my mind’s going while hearing the accent.”)
The FM Towns was just far ahead of other computers. The versions of the Graphic Adventures looked amazing on it, rich colours and very smooth. They had the Talkie version for a lot of them too.
That is exactly what that is. I was going to comment with this, but found your keenly insightful comment. I have one of these cd rom in fact. Gotta give them credit for ingenuity, its certainly different from the mainstream even then.
I think there was a worry back then about protecting the disks, and you could argue that they were right. lol Although, I guess with most caddy drives, you still had to put the CD into them first, so I'm not really sure what the point was tbh? I doubt it would have made the loading mechanism much cheaper, nor selling disks that were pre-installed into a caddy?
Oh - wikipedia seems to agree that it was indeed mainly to protect the disks more than anything. (you would guess that anyway, but it still seems strange.) The tracking, focus, and Error correction wasn't as advanced back then, nor did they have the super fast DSP tech that almost all "modern" optical drives employ. Wiki also suggests that CD caddies pretty much died out due to better hard-coating tech on disks too. Love a bit of Bad Influence btw. It was a religion for me in the early 90s to watch and record every episode (using my trusty Sanyo Betamax VCR.) My main "TV" for many years was a Philips CM1883 MKII (if that's the right model?) It came with my Archimedes A3000, and I used it right through the 90s, including with my Amiga 600, ST, Speccy etc. sigh. Take me back. lol EDIT: Should have watched it all first. Yep - those monitors at 18:42. Might have to buy another one soon. CRTs are starting to get more expensive now.
Love this look back. Never watched it back in the day, as saw it as aimed at kids and wasn't a console fan, growing up on ZX81, Spectrum, C64 and Amiga until a PC in 1996. But watching this now, it's a well put together program (tips bloke a bit OTT annoying) and a great bit of nostalgia. 16:45 Viewpoint, never played it before seeing this the other day, but now hooked on it. Finally, love the commentary over it too, just about right, doesn't distract from viewing.
@9:50 yeah, that's an SGI Indy - Also used for N64 dev in tandem with a U64 board. Early N64 games were made on those, until Nintendo made a more affordable, KμC N64+partner 64 combo devkit.
I'm 36 years old, never saw this when it was on and this kind of thing is what I'd like to come home to watch on TV after work today lol! Shame nobody does anything like this today.
Neo geo, the console every dreamed of but no one could afford , let alone buy games for. If i remember corectly the shops that sold neo geo games asked around 200 - 500 euro a game.
Damn, I kinda miss those early multimedia thingys. As useful as Wikipedia is, you don't really get those fun(but kinda useless) sound clips and animations anymore. I still remember the Pop/Rock section from Encarta 94/95, packed with stuff from like Bowie and Credence.
3:09 The dinosaur video clip playing on the computer is actually an excerpt from a 1984 stop-motion short film by special effects wizard, Phil Tipped, called _Prehistoric Beast_ (watch?v=hlaXIRTjNfo) Thanks for reading my random comment because it had nothing whatsoever to do with anything.
Oh my god, Bad Influence was such a great programme. Andy Crane was already a broom cupboard legend, Violet was hot, Nam Rude was funny and the cool reportage guy was repeatedly sent to absolute geek paradise. What a shame that this stuff is over, this isn't just me being nostalgic; yes the content is very general but those days where new, varied and exciting drool inducing consoles were broadcast into our homes. That is over, seriously game over man.
That's probably because there just aren't as many cool new consoles and games being released. There aren't as many competing companies in the market, so there's not much to report on.
I used to tape episodes of bad influence for the cheats and then switch between cables of the vcr to the mega drive back and forth until I got the cheat correct
Viral Killer I think because of the way it has been uploaded, i.e. shown within a TV and talking over it, it won't be picked up for copyright infringement. Anyway this show sure stirs up memories from my youth.
We have lead parallel lives my friend. I ended up working at Centresoft for Sony Playstation as an official UK Distributor. In the same building as US Gold. Holford way Birmingham. Check the address on the back of the tapes. Great content, i started off touring on the SEGA Busses, worked for EB and Game. Ahh the nostalgia. Great work buddy.
That snap from the competition looks like the end of Die Hard 2. Where all the planes have landed and everyone is getting off. A film filled with violence and swearing, so of course every kid had seen it :P
Hay, about the pc the device on the pc under the 5,25 is an early cd-rom drive single speed. They where quite expensive, ive sold them in 1995 for (multimedia) sytems. Keep posting greetings from nld
The one feature I notice the most about Super Mario All Stars, is with the chance games between levels. I used to be awesome with the NES version at getting cherries straight across on Super Mario Bros. II and racking up extra lives. While not as good with the similar matching game in Mario Bros. III, I would get a match more often than in this 16-Bit version. I just can't optically time the chance games as I did in the original NES versions. I've also noticed that the characters tend to slide more, making them slightly more difficult to control than originally.
I remember dinosaurs! We used to use that in class in primary school it was awesome! also that looks like a slot loading CD drive (kind of like those in car CD-players, there were a few computers that had those drives, I believe they were made by Pioneer).
Saving u NeoGeo game at home & continue it in arcade worked like a charm, though i did this only with hardest games so that i could start the game with my school friend on our lunch break, his dad was friends with the store owner so we got to play the games for free. He would give us a dollar or two in quarters and we could play on of the 4 games that came with the MVS. Ah that was a great time =)
I have Super Mario Allstars for the SNES, as well as the SNES. I never played it that much apart from when I couldn't find one of my two copies of Super Mario World.
A 90s kids show running a competition to guess the scene from a 15 rated action film. Classic Britain we new all those 11 year olds watched things they shouldn't
@Guy Sky oh I know about the toys too. Again just goes to show the mentality of the marketing teams back in the day. And dont get me wrong I would have loved them toys back when I was eleven.
Dr. Franken II? Was that game released in the EU in 1993, or long delayed, or just delayed many years in the American market until the late era of the Game Boy?
Random question; why does the cover of Phalanx feature a picture of a retired roadie from ZZTOP playing a banjo on a porch during the great American dustbowl?
Been watching this series of yours since the start and even looked for Bad Influence on TH-cam but the earlier episodes had terrible VHS tracking. Did you record your own episodes? I loved Bad Influence. PS I always called him Blanka the Wanka as he kept spamming the cannonball attack against me. Oh and CD-ROM interactivity. Mmmmmm. Gotta love that 90's man.
Hi. I can answer this because this is from my VHS recording. All the series 2, 3 and 4 on TH-cam are my recordings (except two episodes I missed). Series 1 (and the two missing episodes) are from a DVD-R set I got hold of (this was pre TH-cam when people would share DVDs) and that was captured from a tape with pretty bad tracking. I compiled a newer DVD set with my higher quality stereo recordings (as well as adding the intro sequence back to the series one episodes which had been cut off on the original transfer) and its from this DVD set, which got shared umong the online forum communities of the time, that was eventually uploaded onto TH-cam.
Was that narrator of the Dinosaur CD rom doing a Howard Cosell impression? Also, if anyone wants to see the full Dinosaur claymation video, it's on youtube as Phil tippet's Dinosaur!
I would say if you are a hard core fighting games addicted. Then the answer would be probably yes. At least 70% of all the games on the Neo Geo libaray are fighting games. You also have the Metal Slug Series, A few platforms and sports games. You can get one now for about $200. Personally i kinda suck at fighting games. So i would probably would just use a emulator.
Weren't the raptors in Jurassic Park CG anyway? I think the model he was working with in the video was used as an input device. They probably still do at least some of that now.
Extra information not able to go in the show,more cheats and the game charts (similar to the music charts). The point is you recorded the show to play back and pause. Each 'page' of the data blast is shown long enough to allow any video recorder to show the 'page' fully in at least two frames as you single step through them allowing you to read the pages at your own pace.
Phil Tippett still does really good technically amazing work including stop motion. In fact he's been working on a passion project for years called Mad God.
Ah Violet Berlin I could never take her seriously after she made a comment on the ITV show Cybernet when comparing the three versions of Timespltters 2 and for the thing she claimed made the PS2 version different to the other two was "its more 3-D" I don't know why but to this day it always stuck in my mind. But I remember her as much from being in Micro Machines 2 as well.
Viewpoint is in my top 10 arcade games ever. I would argue it as the best isometric game ever released...period. The soundtrack is also phenomenal...it's a techno-y, jazzy, and smooth, eclectic mix that perfectly matches the somewhat more leisurely pace of the shoot-em-up gameplay...but that doesn't mean its easy.
£50 in 1993 (£101 today) for a game that took about 10 people 6 months to make and offered at best a couple of hours of entertainment. And kids today think they don’t get value from games. They used to cost more and give less. A lot less.
That Nam Rood Nob or whatever his name is, clearly took great influence from Ade Edmondson's brilliant Young Ones character 'Vivian'... And failed badly.
LOL! They harp on Nintendo for re-released back when any re-release before that was really more of a reprint. :) BTW, the girl in Jurassic Park turned on the flashlight before she realized there was an imminent dino attack. She froze in fear and the T-Rex moved his own eye into the beam while she was too afraid to move and too close to do it without drawing unwanted attention. She didn't stupidly decide to shine it into the T-Rex's eye.
greig butler Right, but we only knew those details as viewers. The characters did not have the same perspective with the power out and the electric cars stalled in the middle of a monsoon. Grant and Malcom couldn't even see the attack until they wiped the condensation from their windows.
I had to laugh at the fact this was a kids show on CITV, but they asked if you recognised the background from Diehard 2 - an 18 certificate, ultra violent action movie. Although, to be fair, when they televise that, it’s cut to pieces. 😂
Yeah the vast amount of RPGs on the NeoGeo, the genre this console is known for lol. The only one I can think of is the Samurai Shodown RPG on the NeoGeo CD. And cartridge consoles didn't need memory cards as almost all RPGs had save batteries built-in the cartriges.
Violet Berlin...I'd forgotten how bad her lithp...I mean, lisp was, last i heard she'd had a couple of kids & cursed them with ridiculous names...not sure if it was intentional or again due to her lisp.
A Bad Influence a week helps you work, rest and FREAAAK (something like that)
Squeak?
Inferno was unreleased that's why you didn't remember it.
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you the drive bays visible on the front of Violet's PC are 5¼" floppy, 3½" floppy, and CD-ROM via a caddy. I recognized the CD-ROM immediately, because our first home computer was an Headstart LX-CD, so I was already familiar with the use of CD caddies.
'get out, i'm trying to get the daikatana level select'
*//vigorous typing//*
Nostalgia Nerd I love that they are asking kids if they have seen a film with an 18 certificate (Die Hard 2).
the american guy at ILM: "They can produce anything from dragons to dinosaurs"
....that's not a huge range.
I just discovered the entirety of this episode on an old VHS cassette. A classic slice of early 90's high end gaming, I completely forgot I'd recorded it back in the day. The recording is pristine too, I'll have to digitise it for posterity.
This was filmed in Leeds, well-behaved kids from my high school sometimes got to attend the filming.I remember them introducing the Atari Jaguar. Man, I love my Jaguars. I think Iron Soldier might just be my favourite game of all time.
Didn't last very long tho, did it. Shame it's power wasn't fully used.
@@plusultra6199 It was on the market for a couple of years but had fewer than sixty titles, many of which were ports of existing 16-bit titles; Atari's brand at the time wasn't quite strong enough to support many decent FIrst-party titles; Hoverstrike, Iron Soldier and AvP stand out as exceptional titles. It looked good for the Jag at the start when the main competition was the SNES, Megadrive and 3DO but then the PlayStation (and to a lesser degree the Saturn) came out of the blue and completely changed the landscape. It was also quite hard to develop for, the CPU architecture was a custom Atari design which would have been unfamiliar to the developers. For a while though it was the cheapest way to play Doom at a decent frame rate. It's a real shame the system never reached its potential bc it was capable of some incredible things. If only it had made it to market 18 months earlier, it could have been a different story...
What gets me is back then a call to a competition was 25p (50p in today's money if you factor in inflation c.1993). Try and enter a competition nowadays and it cost in the region of £2-£3
1:15 ... LOL! ... took the word straight out my mouth! ... Great commentary throughout!
I’m from the US (don’t hold lt it against me. I was born this way) so I know nothing about this show or the players. Still, I’ve got to ask: Have you thought of contacting these folks to do a little retrospective series? I’d bet some of them would be keen.
(Yes, “would be keen” is by no means a US expression. I’m just still watching the episode, and that’s where my mind’s going while hearing the accent.”)
The drive in that PC was a caddy CD-ROM, and that other computer was indeed a Silicon Graphics.
Paul Potter - Yup. SGI was used make the T-1000 & Killer Instinct arcade games!
Romulan Holodeck Error #0002 - @ 5:40 (ahhh.... the old "Super Raiders of the Lost Ark" / "Super Star Wars" mix-up...)
I had the Super Nintendo with Super Mario All Stars and that was my first game I played on it too. :) We had that Dinosaurs CD ROM at my school. :D
The FM Towns was just far ahead of other computers. The versions of the Graphic Adventures looked amazing on it, rich colours and very smooth. They had the Talkie version for a lot of them too.
2:10 It might've been a CD drive for use with a caddy. Love your commentary!
May well have been!
Aleksa Milićević It was
That is exactly what that is. I was going to comment with this, but found your keenly insightful comment. I have one of these cd rom in fact. Gotta give them credit for ingenuity, its certainly different from the mainstream even then.
I think there was a worry back then about protecting the disks, and you could argue that they were right. lol
Although, I guess with most caddy drives, you still had to put the CD into them first, so I'm not really sure what the point was tbh?
I doubt it would have made the loading mechanism much cheaper, nor selling disks that were pre-installed into a caddy?
Oh - wikipedia seems to agree that it was indeed mainly to protect the disks more than anything.
(you would guess that anyway, but it still seems strange.)
The tracking, focus, and Error correction wasn't as advanced back then, nor did they have the super fast DSP tech that almost all "modern" optical drives employ.
Wiki also suggests that CD caddies pretty much died out due to better hard-coating tech on disks too.
Love a bit of Bad Influence btw.
It was a religion for me in the early 90s to watch and record every episode (using my trusty Sanyo Betamax VCR.)
My main "TV" for many years was a Philips CM1883 MKII (if that's the right model?)
It came with my Archimedes A3000, and I used it right through the 90s, including with my Amiga 600, ST, Speccy etc.
sigh. Take me back. lol
EDIT: Should have watched it all first. Yep - those monitors at 18:42.
Might have to buy another one soon. CRTs are starting to get more expensive now.
The guy in the shed or wherever he's supposed to be put a lot of effort into his clips, kudos to him.
I’m pretty certain he’s trying very hard to act like a character named “Vivian” from a fuggin brilliant comedy called “The Young Ones”
Thank you for bringing this series into today. It is just as, if not more informative than it was back in its day.
I'm loving this.... And the voice over.... Brilliant
Love this look back. Never watched it back in the day, as saw it as aimed at kids and wasn't a console fan, growing up on ZX81, Spectrum, C64 and Amiga until a PC in 1996. But watching this now, it's a well put together program (tips bloke a bit OTT annoying) and a great bit of nostalgia. 16:45 Viewpoint, never played it before seeing this the other day, but now hooked on it. Finally, love the commentary over it too, just about right, doesn't distract from viewing.
@9:50 yeah, that's an SGI Indy - Also used for N64 dev in tandem with a U64 board. Early N64 games were made on those, until Nintendo made a more affordable, KμC N64+partner 64 combo devkit.
Your commentary on this is superb 😂
I'm 36 years old, never saw this when it was on and this kind of thing is what I'd like to come home to watch on TV after work today lol! Shame nobody does anything like this today.
Thanks. I do enjoy these narrated episodes.
Neo geo, the console every dreamed of but no one could afford , let alone buy games for.
If i remember corectly the shops that sold neo geo games asked around 200 - 500 euro a game.
200-500 guilders, ( or Dmark) not euros. Still insane of course
I love that Im playing super mario world one the SNES while watching this. Really brings me back
Damn, I kinda miss those early multimedia thingys. As useful as Wikipedia is, you don't really get those fun(but kinda useless) sound clips and animations anymore. I still remember the Pop/Rock section from Encarta 94/95, packed with stuff from like Bowie and Credence.
3:09 The dinosaur video clip playing on the computer is actually an excerpt from a 1984 stop-motion short film by special effects wizard, Phil Tipped, called _Prehistoric Beast_ (watch?v=hlaXIRTjNfo)
Thanks for reading my random comment because it had nothing whatsoever to do with anything.
MESOZOIC ERA
I only saw this episode the once but the way Violet repeated that aways stayed with me!
Oh my god, Bad Influence was such a great programme. Andy Crane was already a broom cupboard legend, Violet was hot, Nam Rude was funny and the cool reportage guy was repeatedly sent to absolute geek paradise. What a shame that this stuff is over, this isn't just me being nostalgic; yes the content is very general but those days where new, varied and exciting drool inducing consoles were broadcast into our homes. That is over, seriously game over man.
That's probably because there just aren't as many cool new consoles and games being released. There aren't as many competing companies in the market, so there's not much to report on.
True, lots of crap though too. I applaud the risk taking all the same.
Lantern Jaw Violet Berlin and "hot" in the same sentence?! lol
Teenage me was drawn to her chest but even teenage me passed on the face! 😁
I used to tape episodes of bad influence for the cheats and then switch between cables of the vcr to the mega drive back and forth until I got the cheat correct
Andy Crane....not seen him since he did the broom cupboard on the beeb
just curious, do these videos get copyright flagged?
Doubt it because no ones looking for it.
I doubt the copyright holders for this really care.
No worries, they are all dead or hags to even notice. Meh i feel old...
Viral Killer I think because of the way it has been uploaded, i.e. shown within a TV and talking over it, it won't be picked up for copyright infringement. Anyway this show sure stirs up memories from my youth.
doesn't matter, there is automatic content ID....
We have lead parallel lives my friend. I ended up working at Centresoft for Sony Playstation as an official UK Distributor. In the same building as US Gold. Holford way Birmingham. Check the address on the back of the tapes. Great content, i started off touring on the SEGA Busses, worked for EB and Game. Ahh the nostalgia. Great work buddy.
that intricate death star model is a billion times more awesome than any soulless CGI death star
I used to love this program! I even re-watched them all recently :D Glad it wasn't just me ;)
Please do more of this
Ah CITV.. good old days.
btw.. I think its probably a caddy loading CDROM below the 5 1/4" floppy.
Neosophist It is
i was talking with a friend about this the other day, i couldnt remember what it was called, i used to love this show
yoooo keep making these also the quick flicks like I'm from the US but these are fascinating
Man, I love these videos.
That snap from the competition looks like the end of Die Hard 2. Where all the planes have landed and everyone is getting off. A film filled with violence and swearing, so of course every kid had seen it :P
Hay, about the pc the device on the pc under the 5,25 is an early cd-rom drive single speed. They where quite expensive, ive sold them in 1995 for (multimedia) sytems. Keep posting greetings from nld
The one feature I notice the most about Super Mario All Stars, is with the chance games between levels. I used to be awesome with the NES version at getting cherries straight across on Super Mario Bros. II and racking up extra lives. While not as good with the similar matching game in Mario Bros. III, I would get a match more often than in this 16-Bit version. I just can't optically time the chance games as I did in the original NES versions. I've also noticed that the characters tend to slide more, making them slightly more difficult to control than originally.
I remember dinosaurs! We used to use that in class in primary school it was awesome! also that looks like a slot loading CD drive (kind of like those in car CD-players, there were a few computers that had those drives, I believe they were made by Pioneer).
Fingers crossed for Manchester to get the Olympics in 2000 everyone.
We'll have to try better next time. London 2012 maybe?
Saving u NeoGeo game at home & continue it in arcade worked like a charm, though i did this only with hardest games so that i could start the game with my school friend on our lunch break, his dad was friends with the store owner so we got to play the games for free.
He would give us a dollar or two in quarters and we could play on of the 4 games that came with the MVS. Ah that was a great time =)
love your vids as always man, was funny to find out Nam Rood plays a vicar on Emmadale Farm
there always a brixton skinhead with his dockmartins , bringing back 80s school fashion
Thank you for this, my era
Doing an impression of Vivian from The Young Ones was all the rage during that period.
I have Super Mario Allstars for the SNES, as well as the SNES. I never played it that much apart from when I couldn't find one of my two copies of Super Mario World.
A 90s kids show running a competition to guess the scene from a 15 rated action film. Classic Britain we new all those 11 year olds watched things they shouldn't
@Guy Sky oh I know about the toys too. Again just goes to show the mentality of the marketing teams back in the day. And dont get me wrong I would have loved them toys back when I was eleven.
2:10 Zip drives didn't exist in 1993, I don't think. A cassette tape backup drive, maybe? Or something more obscure than that?
I forgot just how much "padding" was in this....
korky7775 - Yeah. Left little time for what everyone wanted to see.... those disgustingly rich consoles!
Where can I find this Bad Influence show? We didn't get this over here in Canada
2:10 Not a ZIP drive, but a caddy-load CD-ROM drive. I have one of those in my PS/2.
Dr. Franken II? Was that game released in the EU in 1993, or long delayed, or just delayed many years in the American market until the late era of the Game Boy?
(7:32) Looks just like that Armus creature in _Star Trek: TNG_ episode "Skin of Evil".
Random question; why does the cover of Phalanx feature a picture of a retired roadie from ZZTOP playing a banjo on a porch during the great American dustbowl?
Been watching this series of yours since the start and even looked for Bad Influence on TH-cam but the earlier episodes had terrible VHS tracking. Did you record your own episodes? I loved Bad Influence. PS I always called him Blanka the Wanka as he kept spamming the cannonball attack against me. Oh and CD-ROM interactivity. Mmmmmm. Gotta love that 90's man.
Hi. I can answer this because this is from my VHS recording. All the series 2, 3 and 4 on TH-cam are my recordings (except two episodes I missed). Series 1 (and the two missing episodes) are from a DVD-R set I got hold of (this was pre TH-cam when people would share DVDs) and that was captured from a tape with pretty bad tracking. I compiled a newer DVD set with my higher quality stereo recordings (as well as adding the intro sequence back to the series one episodes which had been cut off on the original transfer) and its from this DVD set, which got shared umong the online forum communities of the time, that was eventually uploaded onto TH-cam.
Nice one. Preserved my childhood there.
Was that narrator of the Dinosaur CD rom doing a Howard Cosell impression? Also, if anyone wants to see the full Dinosaur claymation video, it's on youtube as Phil tippet's Dinosaur!
Neogeo was the console you always wanted but could never afford.
Luckily for me, I have a Neo Geo CD, so I can play some of those incredible games
Richard Hobson I'm not even in my twenties, so I have plenty of time, then.
With a starting price of 649.99 usd. I doubt anyone could afford it back then.
Was it worth the cost though?
I would say if you are a hard core fighting games addicted. Then the answer would be probably yes. At least 70% of all the games on the Neo Geo libaray are fighting games. You also have the Metal Slug Series, A few platforms and sports games. You can get one now for about $200. Personally i kinda suck at fighting games. So i would probably would just use a emulator.
The t2 movie was on a indigo computer check out LGR indigo tech tells
Weren't the raptors in Jurassic Park CG anyway? I think the model he was working with in the video was used as an input device. They probably still do at least some of that now.
9:49 yep, looks like a SGI Indigo2!
I like this show. It doesn't treat the viewer like an idiot, like most shows of this ilk.
Used to love this back in the day
Finally Phil Tippet the guy in JP's credit that had one job and failed at it.
What was the purpose of the "data blast" at the end of the show?
Extra information not able to go in the show,more cheats and the game charts (similar to the music charts). The point is you recorded the show to play back and pause. Each 'page' of the data blast is shown long enough to allow any video recorder to show the 'page' fully in at least two frames as you single step through them allowing you to read the pages at your own pace.
I was that kid who wore Doc Martens at school! In fact, I'm wearing Adventure Time Doc Marten boots right now.
Ritz video!?!? Good god, I haven't heard that name in a *long* time...
imbecilik we had a Ritz in Plymouth before it became a Blockbuster. It's now a Tesco I think. Ah, the nostalgia.
5 1/4" floppy.. Never had that issue back then 😉 I think Violet was a teens dream.
Ye Gods! I actually remember this episode!
Thank you.👍👍👍
Phil Tippett still does really good technically amazing work including stop motion. In fact he's been working on a passion project for years called Mad God.
0:51 great limerick! Hahaha
Ah Violet Berlin I could never take her seriously after she made a comment on the ITV show Cybernet when comparing the three versions of Timespltters 2 and for the thing she claimed made the PS2 version different to the other two was "its more 3-D" I don't know why but to this day it always stuck in my mind. But I remember her as much from being in Micro Machines 2 as well.
Viewpoint is in my top 10 arcade games ever. I would argue it as the best isometric game ever released...period. The soundtrack is also phenomenal...it's a techno-y, jazzy, and smooth, eclectic mix that perfectly matches the somewhat more leisurely pace of the shoot-em-up gameplay...but that doesn't mean its easy.
£50 in 1993 (£101 today) for a game that took about 10 people 6 months to make and offered at best a couple of hours of entertainment. And kids today think they don’t get value from games. They used to cost more and give less. A lot less.
Super Mario Allstars was the first game I played ever. I wish it was on the SNES Mini but hopefully that can be fixed soon...
That Nam Rood Nob or whatever his name is, clearly took great influence from Ade Edmondson's brilliant Young Ones character 'Vivian'... And failed badly.
LOL! They harp on Nintendo for re-released back when any re-release before that was really more of a reprint. :) BTW, the girl in Jurassic Park turned on the flashlight before she realized there was an imminent dino attack. She froze in fear and the T-Rex moved his own eye into the beam while she was too afraid to move and too close to do it without drawing unwanted attention. She didn't stupidly decide to shine it into the T-Rex's eye.
the trex was out of the paddock inbetween the 2 cars BEFORE lex turned the light on
greig butler Right, but we only knew those details as viewers. The characters did not have the same perspective with the power out and the electric cars stalled in the middle of a monsoon. Grant and Malcom couldn't even see the attack until they wiped the condensation from their windows.
tim knew the t rex was there though, thats why he kept telling lex to turn the light off
greig butler They BOTH knew it at that point. Lex was struggling to turn it off up until she froze in fear.
And of course the pupil shrinking was a practical effect, no CG at all lol.
I was one of the Doc. Martin peeps. The shame.
Hold on, if that last cheat was on the Megadrive, how would you type in "LIBYF..." etc?
Duncan Rathband on the cheat code entry screen?
Lol I got a mega master 2 arcade stick from kwick save supermarket lol
Is that weird dude supposed to be an Ade Edmondson knock off? :D
lol i had that Dinosaurs cd. Bought it new in the late 90s
Zip drives were great for photoshop/art students. For like 2 or 3yrs.
Thank you!
I'm afraid I was that wanker at school with the doc martens, now I'm I'm a middle aged wanker with doc martens.
"Yoda looks hammered.." :'‑) Brilliant :)
Always wanted a Neo Geo. It was beyond what I could afford I'm afraid!
Good point. SF2 requires 20fps min. I’m porting it to the Tandy 1000 and wouldn’t release even a demo at less than 20fps.
0:49 I take this guy was a member of the Sinéad O'Connor fan club.
Could you not use CRT filters please? Most of the time they look uneven and ruin the effect anyway.
...and all over a sudden I left with an urge to listen to "Tonight, tonight"
That HuCard he held up is Coryoon. Ridiculously expensive nowadays.
I had to laugh at the fact this was a kids show on CITV, but they asked if you recognised the background from Diehard 2 - an 18 certificate, ultra violent action movie. Although, to be fair, when they televise that, it’s cut to pieces. 😂
Well it only took us until 2005 to finally win an Olympic games bid
I love the memory card for the NeoGeo, like you're gonna drop some money in a coin op when you already paid $1500 to have the game at home.
Yeah the vast amount of RPGs on the NeoGeo, the genre this console is known for lol. The only one I can think of is the Samurai Shodown RPG on the NeoGeo CD. And cartridge consoles didn't need memory cards as almost all RPGs had save batteries built-in the cartriges.
I almost bought a NeoGeo once... almost. In 1994 there was an open box console at a Fry's. $250. Then I realized the games would cost just as much.
Violet Berlin...I'd forgotten how bad her lithp...I mean, lisp was, last i heard she'd had a couple of kids & cursed them with ridiculous names...not sure if it was intentional or again due to her lisp.
hahaha
LOL
She's married to Gareth Jones (aka Gaz Top) from How 2 (another CITV classic).
5:44 Super Raiders of the Lost Ark?? Super Star Wars loved that game
Why is Homer chilling in a tuna can at 9:21?
Also how come the UK got Wacky Game Jokes 4 Kidz?