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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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 😆
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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 TH-cam shows took off. Props to the creators.
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! 🙂)
@@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 got a proper drago cut, recently. Just bleached it a couple of days ago. What a coincidence! I wonder what retrospective my next haircut will channel?!
What I like about you is that you remind me of Charlie Brooker before he did Black Mirror. You're not as good as him, though. He's like a rich man's you.
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.
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).
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. 😂
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.
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.
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 😂😂
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.
I always thought she was fairly attractive, but it the fact that she was pretty much the only woman that talked about video games back in the 90’s probably helped!
@@deanlowdon8381 Can you not remember Bits, three women hosting a video game show, Emily Booth was the hottest woman who talked games on TV IMO, the other two were still attractive though but little sad teen me tuned in for Emily, to exclusively watch about new games, of course 🤔🤣
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.
Nearly 30 years ago it was magazines and that cheesy game shows that came on you had to make sure you recorded it if you wish a code, but let's be honest we miss those days don't we guys seems more authentic then today
I recall one episode they covered floppy-copying piracy and showed a police raid on a mass-copying operation. I vaguely remember the pirates were running out of a marquee tent (?!) and I thought I was super clever recognising as a child that the whole scene was staged
I didn't really notice how much of a bellend Andy Crane was at the time, at least I can quite confidently say that I wasn't affected by this show at all
Bad influence told me how to find that last small key in bottle grotto - Zelda links awakening on game boy. Before Internet, I had been stuck on that puzzle for weeks.
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 can’t recall the name of the artist who did it but I once saw a triptych canvas in Glasgow’s old print works exhibition space which had portrayed violet Berlin as three types of muscular heroine. £4K the artist wanted.
This was hugely synical, sounds like you hated the 90s lol. I don't look back on the tech and think "thank god tech is better now, look how shit it was!" I look back with fondness. Games were better then. Violet Berlin was hot. Remember gamepad?
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. 🔥🔥
COMING HOME TO THIS AND NIGHTMARE WAS EPIC!"
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!
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 😂
I think that black kid got bummed by Harrison himself
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.
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!
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
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
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.....
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?
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.
ah the days when there was wonder in the world! amazing nostalgia, thank you!
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!
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 don't remember this show being so freaking weird, everyone looks and talks like they are dying on the inside.
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 💩
Your man wasnt wrong bout Indiana jones III thought. it WAS total shite.
"Don't think Rolf Harris has much to worry about". 🤣
He's currently having his kangaroo toasted as we speak 😂
Andy Alan Partridge Crane
He was OK. Less annoying than the likes of Andi Peters.
"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
No, the OTHER other 90's gaming show: Games World!
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 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!
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
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 ?
Bad Influence was more informative, Games Master was more entertaining.
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.
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.
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.
"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"
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.
Credit to Violet Berlin though. She's a playable character in MicroMachines 2 and that's kinda cool.
Dominik's from Arbroath - he would butcher the entire cast and crew of Bad Influence while half asleep and hungover.
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 TH-cam shows took off. Props to the creators.
What country was it just out of interest?
@@MarcZERO1980 Czechia
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
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! 🙂)
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.
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
Ahhh this is a nostalgia hit and a half. Loved your datablast, too.
I fancied Violet SO much 😅❤️
Still do tbh 😁🤷♂️
1:31 Violetthhhh Berlin and Gathhuuthh Topp ....like a room full of snakes when they talk.
Gamesmaster was shit by comparison for kids really. Gamesmaster was more titillating and sweaty nerd. Bad influence was schoolyard chat.
The show Bad influence was recorded at the emmerdale studios formerly known as Yorkshire television in kirkstall road Leeds.
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.
Ivan drago hair cut😂
I got a proper drago cut, recently. Just bleached it a couple of days ago. What a coincidence!
I wonder what retrospective my next haircut will channel?!
What I like about you is that you remind me of Charlie Brooker before he did Black Mirror.
You're not as good as him, though. He's like a rich man's you.
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 TH-cam 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.
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.
Andy Crane somehow reminds me of Colin Furze
I think those kids were told what to say.
4:45 KILLED ME!
Another certified Millard classic.
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?
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 😂
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 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.
8:14 I thought it was BAAASTAN in American...
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!
"Andy calls the police on himself if his shirt comes untucked" LOL!
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 😂😂
And there you go, turns out Gaz Top once had a more amazing mullet than Pat Sharp! And nah, i never knew he's married to Violet Berlin.
Preferred Games World on Sky
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...
Look how many females are in that show playing with tech and the Gameboy. Simpler times!
Memories of Nam Rood slapping the cheat codes onto his head.
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.
Had to google to see where Andy Crane is these days. He's on digital radio, should of expected that really.
" the vibe of a hip youth pastor " 😂😂😂
How they failed with the VR stuff it never caught on shame
I loved Bad Influence back when it was on TV, and much preferred it Games Master.
The only thing I remember about Violet was the lisp not ever attraction in any sense at all.
I wanted to like her but the huge head on that small body and a lisp put me off as a kid. Id be all over it now im nearly 50 lmao.
I always thought she was fairly attractive, but it the fact that she was pretty much the only woman that talked about video games back in the 90’s probably helped!
@@deanlowdon8381 Can you not remember Bits, three women hosting a video game show, Emily Booth was the hottest woman who talked games on TV IMO, the other two were still attractive though but little sad teen me tuned in for Emily, to exclusively watch about new games, of course 🤔🤣
@@RighAlban Yeah, I remember Bits, but that was quite a few years after Bad Influence wasn’t it?
@@deanlowdon8381 I can't remember how close they were, to be honest.
£4 per hour for the Sega gamegear? It killed the battery in under an hour had to plug it in might as well have got a megadrive?
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.
Glad to see this video getting 55k+ views so far, you deserve way more than you've been getting, brilliant content.
Nearly 30 years ago it was magazines and that cheesy game shows that came on you had to make sure you recorded it if you wish a code, but let's be honest we miss those days don't we guys seems more authentic then today
Yes!!!
violet was my first bone. god this makes me cringe that i used to watch
As much as Bad Influence wasn't too bad - and it was a good watch, it was a good filler until GamesMaster came on.
I recall one episode they covered floppy-copying piracy and showed a police raid on a mass-copying operation. I vaguely remember the pirates were running out of a marquee tent (?!) and I thought I was super clever recognising as a child that the whole scene was staged
Wow I had completely forgotten this show, great trip down memory lane. Somewhere I still have my Amiga, & deluxe paint!
I couldn't stand Andy Crane! I always thought Violet had a cracking pair of legs!😅
I didn't really notice how much of a bellend Andy Crane was at the time, at least I can quite confidently say that I wasn't affected by this show at all
Me never knew she was married to top from how 2
Bad influence told me how to find that last small key in bottle grotto - Zelda links awakening on game boy. Before Internet, I had been stuck on that puzzle for weeks.
@7:44 Was that the world's first ever "Something, something....NOT!" joke?
The domain of people who don't understand how sarcasm works
got an Atari ST in 1993 and it was a buzz
Violet was never anyones crush 🤮
Emily Booth on the other hand 😍
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.
Bits was a better show.
Bits wasn't better than Bad Influence, maybe for quality of women lol
I can’t recall the name of the artist who did it but I once saw a triptych canvas in Glasgow’s old print works exhibition space which had portrayed violet Berlin as three types of muscular heroine. £4K the artist wanted.
Bargain
This was hugely synical, sounds like you hated the 90s lol. I don't look back on the tech and think "thank god tech is better now, look how shit it was!" I look back with fondness. Games were better then. Violet Berlin was hot. Remember gamepad?
I don’t think he hates it at all it’s just his sense of humour is how I took it.
My fave bit was nam rude
Andy Crane was the Sid Visious of CITV
I had a Barcode Battler, it was shit
Can't wait for this to eventually catch up to MY childhood pile of wank video game show - sky1's Gamezville.
This was my one too, played so many flash games from it as well. 😂
At no point do you buy Andy as a gamer, ouch
I got busted with my Eurotrash tape and had to have “the conversation” with my parents. Good times.
should've checked the kitchen cupboards