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Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe

ZagrebZagreb
edited October 2009 in Chit chat
Did no one here see it? I don't think the Spectrum's had so much screen time in... well, ages.

There's a review of it by your's truly here:

http://mattyongames.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/gameswipe/
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited September 2009
    yeah we watched it, but being lazy wotsits we just talked about in other threads that drifted off stonkers Topic. Crisps.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited September 2009
    im downloading it off iplayer now :)
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited September 2009
    fancy graphics and a “good” (ie sub-Hollywood-B-Movie) storyline. Brooker’s dismissal of the new Wolfenstein in favour of the 1992 original because the latter is a bit more, well, fun was a perfect case in point. Who cares about the protagonist? Who cares about what blokey has to say about the super nazi-gun? Just get on with it! This is a game!

    I really liked Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and if you bothered with the barely hidden at all easter eggs, there was a lot of humour in there. Seems a shame that Wolfenstein has taken a step in the wrong direction from the sounds of it.

    As for Dara O'Briens moan about unlockables, I agree. I've mean moaning for years that "boss levels" are an old tired, worn out idea, that are little more than choke points ruining games. Doom 3 is my Gears of War there.

    I remember buying Gran Turismo and being annoyed that I couldn't play a lot of it, cos I couldn't get the driving licenses. Driver on the PS1 got a mention, but that had a tricky unlockable right at the beginning, though that was do-able once I had read a simple walktrough.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited September 2009
    im struggling with the title

    is it.......................

    game swipe?
    or games wipe??

    :)
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited September 2009
    mel the bell wrote: »
    im struggling with the title

    is it.......................

    game swipe?
    or games wipe??

    :)

    "Games-wipe", it's kind-of a spinoff from Screenwipe.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited September 2009
    Zagreb wrote: »
    "Games-wipe", it's kind-of a spinoff from Screenwipe.
    years ago i used to have a pretend advert (audio) called arsewipe

    hmmmmmmm
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited September 2009
    For anyone outside the UK that missed it:

    Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe, BBC 4

    Part 1/6:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjFiTd2nmI4

    Part 2/6:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdQK4Wp10qo

    Part 3/6:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIinXbSNMIo

    Part 4/6:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLMv9Kvei7A

    Part 5/6:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b92suHPxYw

    Part 6/6:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pBYB1PqUlg
  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited September 2009
    the guy playing on the speccy couldn't have had much fun there was only an rf lead plugged into the bloody thing

    loved the speccy loading stripes tho
  • chevchev
    edited September 2009
    "Just like real hedgehogs don't". :)

    Although Wolf3D wasn't as ground-breaking as all that:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Underworld
    zx.itch.io
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited September 2009
    cheveron wrote: »
    "Just like real hedgehogs don't". :)

    Although Wolf3D wasn't as ground-breaking as all that:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Underworld

    Or Hovertank 3D, for that matter:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertank_3D
  • joefishjoefish
    edited October 2009
    Is this a series, or a one-off for this BBC4 season?
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • DunnyDunny
    edited October 2009
    joefish wrote: »
    Is this a series, or a one-off for this BBC4 season?

    A one-off. But there might be the possibility of more, next year.

    D.
  • DunnyDunny
    edited October 2009
    mel the bell wrote: »
    years ago i used to have a pretend advert (audio) called arsewipe

    "Anal muscles that have been stretched to the limit by a bog-blocking turd the size of a submarine"

    God, that was hilarious. I've still got it, actually :)

    D.
  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited October 2009
    Matt_B wrote: »
    Or Hovertank 3D, for that matter:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertank_3D

    Er, Catch 23 anyone?

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000842
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited October 2009
    Dave_C wrote: »
    Er, Catch 23 anyone?

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000842

    Oh, stuff it. Let's go straight to Battlezone:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)
  • mermanmerman
    edited October 2009
    Thought it was good, but seems unlikely to be made into a series.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited October 2009
    Dunny wrote: »
    "Anal muscles that have been stretched to the limit by a bog-blocking turd the size of a submarine"

    God, that was hilarious. I've still got it, actually :)

    D.

    heh thats the one :P
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited October 2009
    I'd completley forgotten about the Micro Live program. As soon a I heard that music again, I was taken right back :D

    Very good program, but that presenter gets on my nerves after a while.
  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited October 2009
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    I'd completley forgotten about the Micro Live program. As soon a I heard that music again, I was taken right back :D

    Very good program, but that presenter gets on my nerves after a while.

    I hope you are referring to that Ian McNaught-Davis bloke, and not Fred Harris (or the luverly Lesley Judd)?
  • NickHNickH
    edited October 2009
    Dave_C wrote: »
    I hope you are referring to that Ian McNaught-Davis bloke, and not Fred Harris (or the luverly Lesley Judd)?

    Is there a woman associated with computers on TV who *isn't* lusted after?!
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited October 2009
    NickH wrote: »
    Is there a woman associated with computers on TV who *isn't* lusted after?!

    That woman who did that ITV program with that fellow, what's his name (or hers for that matter) Andy something or other...

    I couldn't stand her :-P
  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited October 2009
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    That woman who did that ITV program with that fellow, what's his name (or hers for that matter) Andy something or other...

    I couldn't stand her :-P
    Violet Berlin?
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited October 2009
    Dave_C wrote: »
    Violet Berlin?

    That's her. I can't stand her :(
  • John ElliottJohn Elliott
    edited October 2009
    So how many versions of Push Myleene Klass into a Pond are we to expect for this year's CSSCGC?
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited October 2009
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    That's her. I can't stand her :(

    ....."and now wee have a weview of tthhhuper Mario on the tthhhheth" :lol:

    I always used to look forward to here introducing a Snes game it was funny, cos' almost every "Thneth" game had thuper in fwont of it :lol:
    Every night is curry night!
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited October 2009
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    ....."and now wee have a weview of tthhhuper Mario on the tthhhheth" :lol:

    I always used to look forward to here introducing a Snes game it was funny, cos' almost every "Thneth" game had thuper in fwont of it :lol:

    Yep. That pretty much sums it up for me too :lol:
  • frobushfrobush
    edited October 2009
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