GamesMaster Series 1 Was... Certainly Something

[@IanRossLyricalDigital]

This was a blast! Hope you do Series 2 soon - I worked on S2 as a researcher...look out for my dour Scot action in a couple of reviews lol

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Hey Ross! I just finished off episode 3 yesterday, and found it so enjoyable you would think that British Rail had a hand in the design.

[@IanRossLyricalDigital]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum LOL.. I see what you did there! In order to avoid the celebs being smashed by the kids, and make for a more exciting match, they decided to up the celebs game by training them in advance...enter moi! Amongst others, I spent an afternoon at Vinny Jones' house training him up on Soccer Brawl. You'll see him beat his kid 2-0...get in!

[@markbrooks4709]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum I stumbled across this and was instantly amused having been an early teen during this period, heavily into gaming and loving GM and BI. Your running commentary has me pissing my pants (not literally) You've got a new subscriber in me, and can't wait to see much more of your content 👏👏

[@MichaelBoogerd]

@@IanRossLyricalDigital I was going to ask... what did you research? but teaching celebs that X means Jump kind of makes sense :D

[@IanRossLyricalDigital]

@@MichaelBoogerd Research took many forms...games which were clear enough to portray what was going on to a wider audience than just games players, all dredged from a sea of blocky 90's releases ...finding celebs desperate enough and dealing with their agents. I recall going to a stand-up night in Soho to see Hattie Hayridge (Holly on Red Dwarf) with a view to getting her on the show. She agreed...only for the production team to turn her down because they'd never heard of Red Dwarf lol. ...finding arbitrary locations to bewilder and delight viewers for decades to come ...sorting the audience and liasing with parents of contestants so that they all got there for the shoot ...planting our friends 'randomly' amongst the audience because you can never have enough Gamesmaster Golden Joysticks aligned haphazardly on the Star Trek TNG VHS collection lol

[@whatevermakesyouhappy5932]

Playing my Master System, watching Fresh Prince on BBC2 then straight over to channel 4 for Gamesmaster. I want to go back 😢

[@LJAndrews1986]

This just made me shed a tear of pure nostalgia. The 90s were the best.

[@tomwilko7841]

Omg that took me back very specifically

[@Rosseboi]

Fresh Prince was channel 4 mate. Can't remember gamesmaster, ITV I think because of the advertisements halfway through.

[@Rosseboi]

But yes, great days!!

[@ty194]

​@@RosseboiNo, Fresh Prince was on BBC - no adverts.

[@JosephByrne]

This show was absolutely fierce. When it launched it was the height of the 16 Bit console era and we all thought we were part of something.

[@NoDebut]

💯 I lived everyday waiting for this show. So good 😊

[@quincynufc]

Absolute appointment viewing. And one of those programmes where everyone talked about it in the playground the day after.

[@bigboibenz]

To be fair, we kind of were.

[@jeremy4375]

In the US I caught this a few times. It felt very forced and awkward.. like early MTV 🤷‍♂️

[@JosephByrne]

@@jeremy4375 nope, that's just British culture.

[@TheVanillatech]

Watching Gamesmaster made me learn who Patrick Moore was, which in turn led me to watch Sky At Night with my Dad, which in turn led me later to Carl Sagan's Cosmos which in turn made Sci-Fi my number one book and movie genre and turned me into a deep thinker about the universe. Thanks, Gamesmaster!

[@MrElusive79]

It worked out well for you, I just tell cock jokes to my mates in the bar

[@EdDnB]

Respect to that 🫡 My fellow deep thinker 🤔 of are universe 🌌

[@robins3352]

I knew Patrick, he hated being Games Master and only did it because his pay went to charity! I told him it was awesome and did not harm his rep. at all! I should have asked him how to enable god mode in BF2! But we ended up drinking whisky instead, once the sun went down the liquor was a running! RIP Patrick - good times!

[@brendan5419]

wow interesting, always thought it was a bizarre pairing. new found respect for him amazing he did it for charity!

[@smash461986]

He hated it but people loved him for it and it boosted his popularity. I hope he knew that in the end.

[@djgeneralbounce]

​@@smash461986 it would never have worked without someone like him involved, I can't think of anyone else who would've done it so well. But he gained a whole generation of fans from it.

[@CyclicscoobyFlyer]

Cool to have known such an icon... Definitely in a Top Ten "drinking whisky with" list... x

[@13strong]

Aw, that's a nice story. Remember that time he was at an Age Concern event and said ""We are being swamped by parasites. Call me a racist but I would send them all back to where they came from. Everything we do for them takes away from what we can do for ourselves."

[@pgr3290]

It is terrifying to realize all the kids in this show are now well into their forties and anyone an adult is at least fifty. Long time ago now.

[@cjspartacus]

Yup, I was 13 years old and I thought the sun shone out of Dominik Diamond's nether regions. Looking back at this, I can safely say I was an idiot. Although, I met him about 15 years later in Glasgow when his band played at a local pub. He was actually a pretty nice guy in person.

[@sheppeyfishtales]

I used to love this show. I'm 43 years old now 😢

[@NoDebut]

​@@sheppeyfishtaleshi brother ❤😊

[@Carson-pv4hr]

I'm 37 still remember watching this

[@zubrhero5270]

@@cjspartacus D'ya know what's weird, it's ALWAYS "I met them when their band played/when they were DJing a set at " with 80s-90s TV personalities lol, especially kids TV. I genuinely forget how many I've seen. _I've seen zero willingly, lol,_ but I've ended up being dragged out on nights out to see Neil Buchanan's band, Jason Donovan DJing a set, _Dave Benson Philips DJing a set..._

[@D187S]

I'd love a golden joystick even now in my 40s. I loved this show in my teens.

[@simplesimonhadapie]

@@D187S if you are willing to pay I am sure someone on Etsy offers them just pretend you won it

[@rwlynch3468]

Im slightly younger than you, but wanted one more than an Oscar.

[@thefuturist8864]

@@rwlynch3468They were spray-painted and the paint faded *very* quickly.

[@ottoweininger8156]

​@@thefuturist8864 the Oscars, you mean? I'm sure the joysticks were solid gold.

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

I loved Games master. I remember in 1990 and I was 11 years old and my dad had left to be with a younger woman. My mother worked so hard and saved up for a sega megadrive and she brought mickey mouse castle of illusions. It was almost magical thinking back. Even though my dad had left me and my mom played games for hours. Speedball 2 was a great game.

[@rabbittmuffinable]

Sorry to hear that

[@higherspirit7784]

my mom left for a younger man, worked hard for me to get a md but my dad hated computer games (even tho he was good at basic) and never played it with me once :)

[@maddave1113]

Who remembers Knightmare, Think it was on CITV bk then. I loved that shit 🤣 Channel deserves way more subs. Great work mate.

[@Mike-ms6he]

I remember them all. Knightmare, crystal maze, gladiators, baywatch and obviously loads of drugs.

[@jamesgornall5731]

Top, top show

[@SamuelBlack84]

Awesome tv

[@richardjameskemp911]

Of course. It was awesome, great theme tune too.

[@maddave1113]

@@Mike-ms6he well don't know about the drugs i was little young for that in the 90's lol

[@lemagreengreen]

Bring back the 90s.

[@tigermunky]

Yup. Then I'll be 10 again and will be allowed to play with my Jurassic Park toys in public without receiving shameful glares from people on the street. Turns out, being 40 and playing with toys outside is frowned upon.

[@MrJhonB184]

When the world was a bit more normal

[@CH-gb7hf]

@@MrJhonB184 I was a teenager in the 90s, it was mental.

[@MrJhonB184]

@@CH-gb7hf same here n thank fuck we got to live in a world before social media,crackpots n posers ffs.

[@hupekyser]

Just any time between 1980 up to 2010 would be good. It all started going down hill from there

[@nascompares]

I cannot stress how grateful I am for this vid mate. Currently attacking my editing pile for my own channel and needed something to watch and give me some jolly cheer up vibes. This was SPOT ON and the premium nostalgia kick I needed. Thank again. I'll savagely attack your Bad Influence series over a pint(s) this weekend.

[@timcroft109]

Not sure I’ve ever watched a one and a half hour video on KZbin in one go. Subbed

[@battfinkz]

Man, I so wanted a golden joystick award lol. GM, Nightmare, Red Dwarf and playing my SNES, that was a huge chunk of my childhood. Take me back.... 😢

[@MSJChem]

The early 90s were a great time to be a gamer. The 8-bit machines like the ZX Spectrum, etc were on their way out and consoles like the Sega Megadrive and SNES were what most kids were playing. But you also had the 16-bit machines like the Atari ST and the Amiga 500 which were becoming more affordable.

[@GIBBO4182]

Ahh…the Amiga 500! I remember going round my mates house to play on his brothers!! I only had a commodore, he had a spectrum!

[@MSJChem]

@@GIBBO4182 The Amiga was a great machine for the time but if I remember correctly it was priced at £399 which was a lot of money back then. More than double the price of a Spectrum or Megadrive. It was only the kids whose parents were better off had one. And we’d go round their house just to have a go.

[@GIBBO4182]

@@MSJChem yeah, my mates brother had just got his first job and was living at home, he had a lot of disposable income! I remember I went from my commodore, to a master system then to a SNES…the good old days! 🤣

[@Solaar_Punk]

We were too poor to spend money on stuff like that. An old man with dementia (probably from playing it) donated us a Sam Coupe. Beggers can't be choosers, but that thing was wack 😐

[@TheVanillatech]

@@MSJChem The A500's were around £400 yes, without a monitor. But given an Amstrad CPC was just a few quid less (albeit with a monitor included) but SUCKED BALLS in comparison, the A500 was the way to go for anyone informed. It did really well in Europe for that reason. The Atari ST was also great hardware wise but lacked the support of the Amiga. Far less titles. My Dad made that mistake and came home with a CPC464 when practically spending Amiga money. I never forgave him.

[@youtubegarbage7876]

23:00 when you name your daughter "Donut" you have to expect she'll end up the hypotenuse in a devil's triangle.

[@pinkdebugger]

As a non-Brit the most fascinating thing about those gaming shows is how much of a focus on people they have. Here in my country (Russia) we had several of those but they were entirely dedicated to showing footage of games. No guests or anything. And even hosts were usually just animated characters with voice filtres. Which I took for granted back then but now I wonder if they could’ve been more memorable otherwise.

[@Sparkypark]

How old are your shows? This one is 30 years old. We have no games programmes now, but thank god for the internet.

[@pinkdebugger]

@@Sparkypark I think the last time I was able to catch one of those on TV was about twenty years ago. And by that point it was way past the expiration date. No budget meant no new systems to review, so they regurgitated games from PS1 era. It was sad.

[@arostwocents]

When did they start (I assume early 90s?) and were they covering Spectrum games? Or Pentagon/Scorpion/all the varying Russian Spectrums

[@pinkdebugger]

@@arostwocents Early nineties, yes. It was mostly about console games, specifically released for Famiclones (as they were extremely abundant) and Mega Drive - the first popular real console in the country. Speccyclones were already pretty niche for most people but they did have its audience. I distinctly remember (even though I can’t pinpoint the exact date) seeing Laser Squad on TV, and this game blew my mind, making me a lifelong fan of turn based tactical simulators.

[@SteelExoskeleton]

I bet it was impressive to see Putin win every challenge 😂

[@kylereece1979]

1992. Sega Megadrive. Terminator 2 on Video. Nirvana's "Nevermind" on tape. 2024. Sega Mini Megadrive loaded with Games. Terminator 2 Online. Nirvana's Nevermind on the Playlist.

[@ianwalters11]

@@kylereece1979 oh yeah Nevermind on tape, picked up in August 92 while on holiday in Austria with my friend and parents. Lithium was on rotation on MTV in our hotel room and I’d loved Teen Spirit when it came out as a single in late 91. Not playing guitar back then I was surprised to find Nirvana were only a 3 piece band with how loud the music was. We had a Sony Walkman in the hotel with a pair of speakers I was listening to Nevermind back to back, never heard anything like that and was hooked (was a big Guns n Roses fan at the time). Nirvana was and remains my favourite of all time.

[@kylereece1979]

@@ianwalters11 Fantastic story, mate. Thanks for the memory. 👍 That, is the power of a great band. The ability to be there at a moment in life- on Holiday in Austria like that- and that cassette was the soundtrack to that time, and whatever happened afterwards. They made such a brilliant racket for a Trio, didnt they. My best friend was into them that Summer of '92, and impressed and influenced by him, I wanted to be part of the new big thing in his life aswell. He lent me his copied cassette of Nevermind after school that October. And really, things like that, you just dont forget. 1992 was an amazing year! Nirvana too for me, all time favourite. And T2 is still one of, if not the best Sci-Fi Action movie ever. 👍👍👍

[@ianwalters11]

@@kylereece1979 glad to hear you have those memories in 92. There were kids I didn’t like at school ask to borrow that tape and ordinarily I’d say no but as it was Nirvana I wanted to spread good music so let them borrow it and make their own copy. I queued outside the record shop in September 93 on release day of In Utero the shop said “if you are waiting for new releases they don’t come until later”, i banked off last lesson that day to get my hands on a copy of In Utero. I remember being sat in the lounge of my old house listening to the radio announce Kurt was dead six months later, I was traumatised, the sound track to my life at the time and the band was no more. All these years on at least we have tons of demos, b sides, live shows to watch. My favourite shows are probably pre 92 when Kurt had more energy before fame had jaded him, although there are some really good shows in 93 and a couple in 94. His voice changed over the years I think the late 93 and into 94 live shows with Heart Shaped Box his vocal has a deeper range. Nothing else like them. And yes T2 is a classic, up there with Aliens.

[@ishmael2586]

​@@ianwalters11 guns n' roses to nirvana was the common switch from about 91-93 for just about every teenage rock fan.

[@ianwalters11]

@@ishmael2586 indeed it was. Totally different take on things. It felt personal like it was just wrote for me. I guess that’s the beauty of Cobains lyrics some songs are specific (Scentless Apprentice based on a book, Lithium based on joining a cult) but most songs he added lines from his scrapbook and made them into songs, 100 people could listen to one song and make it all about separate things.

[@jonathanlamb9024]

I loved watching this program being a keen gamer in the 90s this is pure nostalgia for me,I miss those days very much 😢

[@TurboMintyFresh]

I miss the 90s so much I cant put it into words. Was such a fun time

[@jthfear]

reviewers of interest: 33:22 joe dever is a hero of mine, author of the best selling Lone Wolf gamebooks which i love (passed 2016 r.i.p.) 1:27:21 jane goldman here is a full 3 years into her marriage to jonathon ross (and still together), now a very successful movie screenwriter (incl kick-ass and kingsman)

[@leewhite2195]

Always thought JD was American.Good of him to make his work available for free.I downloaded the Lone Wolf and Grey Star's from the app store.

[@JonjoLyonsReviews]

Thank you so much for making this video. I feel like a kid again haha. This and Crystal Maze were the best. Please cover every series.

[@KrooTon]

The dance cut of him clipping his shoe on the stair at 20:45 caught me off guard and had me cracking up! 😂

[@IanDavis_66]

And me. Absolutely brilliant!

[@__1t__1__r3]

I used to play this back on VHS and laugh my ass off at it hahaha

[@fatherofdragons4880]

Same

[@mattfantastic9969]

Whoever made the power metal "you can't catch for shit" song is amazing

[@trailersic]

Mr AI

[@ycylchgames]

It's in the video description, AI generated.

[@Savagetechie]

@@ycylchgames a rare thing: good use of AI!

[@ycylchgames]

@@Savagetechie True, AI used correctly.

[@sb6482]

the young Sunny from Ealing beating Emelyn Hughes is my mate from Univeristy. He’s now a West London GP but i’m sure the golden joystick is his lifetime achievement

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

@@sb6482 pass on my regards, and ask him how to get rid of this terrible rash

[@IanRossLyricalDigital]

@@RoseTintedSpectrum Road Rash?

[@pbplauralfilms]

​@@IanRossLyricalDigitalRoad Rash was far from terrible

[@bunchofwordsaftertheurl]

That's got to get added to a Wikipedia page.

[@Malabus73]

I was 18 in 1991. Game Master was my highlight of the week back then, gaming couldn't get any better than this...😅

[@AgentsofRush]

Yes mate was a gem 👍

[@blackcurtains4710]

Pretty sure the 90s had more shows than just GAMESMASTER. Gladiators, Red Dwarf, Rosanne, Baywatch, Noels House Party, The National Lottery, Movies Games and Videos to name but a few.

[@BootneckAlphaKilo]

@@blackcurtains4710imagine putting the 'national lottery' on that list... it was the 90s and that's the best you can do 😂😂

[@blackcurtains4710]

@@BootneckAlphaKilo Back then they had an entire programme for it. Mystic Meg and the anticipation of the draw itself was entertaining. 30 years later I am no richer though.

[@nickwilkins3655]

In the area where I grew up in South Wales, I could not get a good TV signal for Channel 4 . It was very fuzzy, and had white lines going through it. Watching Games Master was very challenging to say the least. Instead I used to watch Games World on Sky One (1993-1995) In was on 5 days a week, it was video game heaven for a teenager. plus no fuzzy TV reception neither. Did anybody else watch Games World?

[@bloodrunsclear]

'Carl Sagan's ghost on ketamine' That's...poetry

[@louisdanger914]

I laughed for 10 minutes straight when I hard that😂

[@priestfan81]

68% for Lotus 2 is a joke. A classic of its time.

[@pitiedvod]

I am still in shock at the score for Wing Commander 2. I seen riots start for less of an insult.

[@jamesgornall5731]

​@@pitiedvodmos def

[@glenmcl]

Lotus was amazing and Rock n Roll Racing

[@skepticalbadger]

One of the only decent games on the Archimedes.

[@GnrMilligan]

Your review had a very Charlie Brooker feel to it. Luckily I like Brooker! A like and a sub! I went to the Gamesmaster live show at the NEC and Dominik Diamond was ruthless to the kids doing the challenges. Some of them must have gone home crying. We went home with several boxes of blank discs to copy Playstation games onto!

[@simoncotterill9660]

I thought exactly the same thing about Brooker. I miss his work in this format but hell if this guy doesn't absolutely get that feel down perfectly. Just awesome work.

[@wapbamboogie7213]

I went to Gamesmaster Live with my dad. I remember him being furious with how Dominik Diamond was with the kids doing the challenges. “Totally unprofessional” 😂

[@superfurryfox1]

Even sounds like him innit

[@CerberusLives]

The blatant animosity Diamond develops for Dave Perry as the series go on is bloody marvellous and I Iook forward to seeing it again.

[@andyjohnson4907]

Perry sans bandana is a very strange sight. Is this before he started losing his hair? I bet he drives a German car and never uses his indicators.

[@michaelmartin9022]

There was a Sky games show where the hosts came to hate each other too, they'd just trade insults on air, but always kid-friendly ones. It was just bizarre to see grown men calling each other "poo poo face" on TV

[@sargonsblackgrandfather2072]

@@michaelmartin9022I remember that wasn’t Jet from Gladiators in it and the host was that dude who had another ITV show called In Bed With Me Dinner

[@ruledtrendy5066]

​@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072 I'm trying to think of his name. He was a bit of a twat and got found out for doing a soft porn shoot

[@deanothemanc5281]

Yep they genuinely HATE it other. Tbh it's one of the things I've always remembered lol!!!

[@moonchild666]

Fate of Atlantis is an all time classic. One of the best point and click adventures ever made. The story was so good, rumour has it that it was considered for the next Indy movie.

[@Joe0161]

I wish it would have been. That would have been awesome.

[@ishmael2586]

Face of Atlantis, Monkey Island 1&2 and by 95-96 Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars. What an era.

[@jaispartacus]

I really enjoyed this. Can't believe I spent an hour and a half watching this through. I didn't even watch that many episodes when it aired back in the 90's. Looking forward to series 2 though. Subscribed.

[@Taystesouth]

Fate of Atlantis was an amazing game deserving of 93% - I only completed it once. My favourites were Full Throttle, Monkey Island 2 and Sam & Max hit the road but Fate of Atlantis was up there too

[@DorisDay-lw4xs]

And Day Of The Tentacle ?

[@beardedchimp]

No way, my favourites were also Full Throttle, Monkey Island 2 and Sam & Max. I'd heard good things about Fate of Atlantis but alas never had the opportunity to play it. My siblings and mum still make Monkey Island jokes all these decades later. When Full Throttle remastered came out, after travelling back to Ireland seeing my parents, me and my ma completed it again almost non-stop together. Felt really special.

[@Taystesouth]

@@beardedchimp I played Full Throttle Remastered too. "When I think of Maureen I think of two things... Asphalt, and trouble"... "When I'm on the road, no one can stop me... but they try" hehe. I loved Monkey Island 3 too, which I got for Christmas when it came out. I've not actually played 3 since those old days but loved the graphics.

[@olly6675]

Knightmare, eerie Indian, dungeons and dragons, stunt masters, sharky and George, Fraggle rock, challenge anneka, thunder cats, dogtanian, around the world with willy fog, the story teller, banana man, dinosaurs, boy meets world, the wonder years. Who can think of more?

[@fatherofdragons4880]

Terahawks!

[@bezenby9804]

Trapdoor

[@BggProductions]

Ulysses 31, Round the Twist, Art Attack

[@fatherofdragons4880]

@@bezenby9804 coz there's something down there.....

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

In retrospect, the numerous and explicit double entendres and knob gags in GamesMaster (a children's show) worked perfectly for that era because it was competing with shows like Jim'll Fix It and Rolf's Cartoon Club. They had to fit in with the trend of that time regarding behavior towards children. It was just a marketing decision, nothing more.

[@rnw2739]

Rolf's Cartoon Club was well finished by the 90s.

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

@@rnw2739 My comment was a darkly humorous remark on the amount of pedophilia embedded into children's television. GamesMaster was just trying to fit in.

[@AuralVirus]

Pedo presenting was the norm, yeah, sounds about right on retrospect. Thank fk there's a few positives in the current woke shite of a decade. Pedo outing is easier now, back then it was damn near, if not actually, institutionalized.

[@OtakuBenny2210]

And rolfs finished the freak.

[@MrVidification]

@@rnw2739 GM started in 92, RCC ended in 93, Fixit ended in 94 and started up again for specials in in 95 and 2007

[@msquared6695]

Around this time we had a guy that would go around renting out games from the back of his car.I still remember his favourite line “ay it’s a good platform,it’s a good game” in an Irish accent

[@DuggyDarko]

The reason there's so many sports "stars" is because in order to get the show commissioned they had to categorize it as a sports show.

[@Charlottesville798]

Never noticed the rotating 'Butt-Plug' on the screen in the 'Tips & Cheats Zone,'....!

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

It was part of my script to mention this from episode 1, got to episode 10 and completely forgot about it, haha. I may well bring it up in S2.

[@mrrootytooty5797]

my train of thought was "how come Moore's cybernetic eye is casting a wireframe buttplug" then "how come this hasnt been mentioned?" then "better watch the whole vid he might bring it up at the end..." But yeah, thats the CAD file for an amazon basics AAA powered arsehole rattler if ever i saw one....

[@Charlottesville798]

@@mrrootytooty5797 Agreed 👍

[@KingSidJames]

@@mrrootytooty5797 Arsehole rattler!!! 😝😝😝😝

[@InternetVegetable8541]

There's absolute levels to the innuendo. Channel 4 were definitely having a laugh at gamers expense. Incidentally, in a "recent" (as in about 2 years ago) interview with Dominik Diamond, he says he regrets the way this show was presented because didn't treat its audience with respect. Easy to say in hindsight..

[@mysterycrumble]

aww. Gary Mason visited me in hospital. he was huge, hands like shovels and an absolutely lovely chap. RIP Gary.

[@chriswright6245]

Knew a guy who did doors with him after he finished boxing. He said Gary was a lovely bloke

[@BruceLeroyUK]

57:14 how very dare you. James Pond 2: Robocod, was a great game.

[@ctrlaltrees]

This is art

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I know all the nob gags are both childish and relentless, but it beats the uber-boring puritanical 2020s.

[@Sovvyy]

It's okay, we can call sex and knob jokes towards children inappropriate too lol.

[@ishmael2586]

​@@Sovvyyyeah, now we just have outright trans and the gay agenda promoted to kids. Much better, apparently.

[@Teab8g]

This video is pure gold, Not just because it's gamemaster but you are genuinely funny.

[@whitetroutchannel]

your destroying my childhood and making me laugh about it, keep up the good work and please do the next series 😂😂

[@TheBeardsShow]

I can't stop laughing at the "have a go: song 😂😂😂😂😂

[@rallyeluke]

I had never seen your channel before until yesterday and then I binged the entirety of the gamesmaster series 1 video. It was awesome and really funny! Thanks. You have a new sub

[@XRL7official]

Love it.. It's wild looking back on this with adult eyes, used to love it as a kid and a lot of references went over my young head! Great video, well done!

[@jakeperalta3625]

This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[@System_Sega]

Strange how many NES games are in this Series. Even stranger considering we all had Master Systems.

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

Nope, the Master System was the NES's poor second cousin. We all had Nintendo's.

[@BADC0FFEE]

​@@OvercookedOctopusFeetnot in europe

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

@@BADC0FFEE I'm in Europe. Always have been. Since birth.

[@wesbanderson664]

i keep hearing people say the nes wasn’t a big deal in the uk.. i was a kid in the 80/90’s and the big rivalry in the playground was nes vs amiga. most my friends had a nes. didn’t know anyone with a master system 🤷

[@duffman1863]

​@@OvercookedOctopusFeetEurope was predominantly Master System at that time, especially UK. NES never as popular as Master System in Europe.

[@jptovee]

Great upload 🙏I love how Dominic Diamond didn't bother pretending to respect or care about the games and Patrick Moore probably had a similar disdain being from a bygone era but read all his lines with complete conviction like a seasoned pro.

[@djdeemz7651]

20 years later everyone was smashing COD and GTA V - that’s some crazy progress when you think about it

[@stolensentience]

meh. still prefer those games to cod and gta

[@RopeDrink]

Knightmare and Gamesmaster were my bread and butter growing up. At the time, gaming was often sneered at as a boys-only loser activity, and being high on Commodore and Spectrum before the Nintendo and Sega console wars, nothing pleased me more than seeing a game show plumbing the depths of all those shiny gaming systems that were too expensive for my childish ass to even dream of owning. Looking back, it's definitely a vibe in a 90s bubble, but hey, you can't deny that it was a very brave and oddly endearing little show.

[@ieatwobblebassforbreakfast627]

Mate, this is hilarious, and I forgot about those refrigerator sized VR headsets that nobody ever saw anywhere ever. Great work bud, too funny.

[@davidrenton]

i used them once in the trocadero , London, near Picaddilly. I can't remember exactly how much it cost but it was something like a fiver for 10 minutes, it was about 10FPS if you where lucky. But it was genuine VR in the early 90's They had the complete setup and multiple units

[@rabidben]

This is perfect nostalgic comedy, great job 👏🏻

[@hocicotat2]

5.53 - the first onscreen appearance of Nathan Barley's Dave Bikinus 😂

[@ErmacFellwalker]

What a fantastic video. I really hope you do the other seasons so we can see the classic Dave Perry tantrum episode 😂

[@whatthefox6303]

I haven't laughed this much at a YT video in my life. Going forward, anytime people need an example of dry British wit this is going to be what I point to. No sarcasm, just perfectly timed jokes and editing.

[@Mountain-Mac]

Top level piece of entertainment you’ve created with this upload. This will be revisited again.

[@trailersic]

14:00 Alex actually revealed on a forum that he failed the challenge the first time but because he died so early on they gave him a second go because it would make better TV.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

@@trailersic hahaha, snitches get golden joysticks

[@s-b6218]

Games Master, Robot Wars, Fresh Prince, Gladiators and Crystal maze were my favourite shows in the 90s

[@Flip_91FTW]

Yeah same with videogames and movies as well. In the 90s budgets started to get higher but were still cheap enough that studios could take risks and produce new ideas and if it doesn't stick then that's okay, just move onto the next one. But now everything has to always have insanely high budgets so its too expensive to risk anything new and interesting because that's now potentially millions of £ lost.

[@AFCManUk]

What used to annoy my mates and I with Gamesmaster, back in 1992 we were all still rocking with the Amiga and Atari ST, and the show was mainly just one big advertisement for Nintendo and Sega consoles and games!

[@sudstahgaming]

Atari St! brother I love you! You know! You know! You was there!

[@user-qk5ux6mk2x]

Still rocking? Amiga (500?) and Atari ST were way more expensive than the original consoles. You were lucky, you just didn't know it.

[@AFCManUk]

@@user-qk5ux6mk2x i was even luckier than most, as my Atari ST (and about 50 copied games!) was a 12th Birthday Present. I literally spent a good 4 or 5 years of my teenage life playing Sensible Soccer!

[@justinium77]

​@@sudstahgaming Shadow of the Beast was great on the Atari ST😮

[@DorisDay-lw4xs]

@@justinium77Dungeon Master. Bitmap Bros games. Plus it was a fantastic music making machine.

[@alloriginalpirates]

Really, really enjoyed this... very funny. Great work.

[@tobysmith8925]

Just discovered this channel - how do you only have 9k subs?!? Brilliant video, made me laugh and brought back warm memories of my youth

[@hendoiii3487]

You have earned a new subsciber. Very entertaining from you and good memories of this show when i was younger. 😂

[@fox0mulder]

Holy shit balls, just when I think you couldn't get any funnier, you bring out Indiana Jones and Rik Mayall in the same segment.Never been done before, but you did it.

[@Jorquay]

Subbed, this is just the bit of random 90s nostalgia I needed during my school holidays (as a teacher 😅). Also, being a Brit, the humour had me in stitches! 🤣

[@simplesimonhadapie]

This is the first known appearance of one Paul Michael Gannon who was the first person called gammon on British tv

[@cheapshow]

"Gamnon"

[@garybrown8117]

Bless him, he got trigger happy

[@LuminalSpoon]

Haha Paul from Cheapshow with an actual Scouser accent 😂

[@zx85]

I was wondering!

[@aaronmolloy6934]

I'm sorry, I've never watched any of your other videos but this popped up and as a kid back then, watching gamesmaster and buying the mag long after the tv show died I had to watch. I just want to say, your edits and commentary is absolutely phenomenal.

[@simplesimonhadapie]

@@aaronmolloy6934 check out his other videos it's a constant theme. My personal favourites are the blue force video and the commodore/speccy episode with the rap

[@lestat1uk]

One of my personal favourites is Alchemist, it has one of the greatest songs about an Alchemist

[@KingSidJames]

@@simplesimonhadapie The Blue Force episode is the gold standard and one I will always enjoy....so make some more like that Rosie or we will send Andy Crane round your house with a box of rampant Ed the ducks!

[@simplesimonhadapie]

@@KingSidJames the voice acting truly took it over the edge. I will never not laugh at the "hombre" gangbangers 🤣

[@simplesimonhadapie]

@@lestat1uk I love the way rosetintedspectrum adds those musical influences to the videos. I started watching the channel because of the horizon spectrum tape video and the game life where he played that f'in song. That was it for me and thanks for reminding me just how good that video was

[@micgreenson7308]

Nostalgia hitting hard ❤ Funny commentary 😂😅 Great video Subbed

[@lanceuppercut3498]

10:00 The best gundiddlyslinger in the west.......Diddly. A Flanders suddenly appears. Great funny take. So 90s in a nutshell. I just loved the show, was appointment viewing for me for the whole 7 series (Well and maybe series 3, but lets gloss over that one ;) ) . And as most know Dominik's innuendo's was him seeing how far he could take it until Channel 4 noticed. And of course they never cottoned on and Dom got away with it. God I miss this show

[@bedbug182]

Her name was Dolat and she was part of the production crew.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

@@bedbug182 the puzzle is solved!

[@-OK-Fine-]

Don't listen to this guy, he can't even cook chicken

[@mehallica666]

I wasn't expecting to sit through the whole hour and half. Great stuff. Subbed.

[@jameshardy6277]

LMAO... Oh my god! What a trip down memory lane. I was around 15-16 when these aired. The Frank Butcher skit in episode 6 is comedy gold.

[@Fatty2-sj8vr]

I was just talking about this the other day with my Mrs discussing the 90s programs . It's a time that we'll never see again sadly.

[@hanoiramone]

That Jimmy White game was very good, brilliant ball physics!

[@user-gz6hp7ef6w]

I have great memories of watching this show as a young lad. Dominic Diamond was hilariously funny, always making snarky quips. He was the first person I ever heard declare something that wasn’t very good as “pants”. Pants is widely used in the UK to this day to describe something being rubbish. I’m pretty sure Mr Diamond invented that, what a legend. Great video 👍 definitely not pants.

[@jaymac7203]

I was 15 years old 😭😭 lol I'd completely forgotten about this show 😂

[@jamiepiller77]

I've just encountered your channel and I'm loving it!! As a lad born in 1977, the ZX Spectrum was a massive part of my life. 🤣Much respect, boss man.

[@johnnybravo9096]

This, Knightmare, Fun House, Dungeons and Dragons, and The Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles kept me entertained during thd 90s.

[@_deadcruiser]

"You Can't Catch For S#*t" is way too enjoyable on repeat than it has any business being.

[@Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo]

This was literally my favourite programme. I was on there once 😂

[@handheldgaming4life]

Dude! Its a golden Quickshot 2 turbo! Everyone wanted one! 🤣

[@MT-cd7cs]

I would never miss an episode in the early to mid 90s. Even when it feel on a Boys Brigade gathering.. I’d try hard to say I wasn’t well, failing that I’d have a VHS tape at the ready. And I could never understand why my dad would say he didn’t like Dominic Diamond cause he was crude - and once took my sister out on a date in Edinburgh - but then he would laugh his head off at a number of Joystick comments that I didn’t get until I hit my teens. Brilliant RTS is now covering this after Bad Influence 👍

[@KingSidJames]

Dominik Diamond once took your sister out on a date???....OMG thats epic ...and worrying.

[@MT-cd7cs]

@@KingSidJames​​⁠ haha yes!! I was about 8 or 9 at the time so she would be 19-20. I remember thinking it was cool, my dad was probably thinking ‘that’s the bloke that does the knob jokes on the kids show’ 😂

[@KingSidJames]

@@MT-cd7cs Well I hope that he treated your sister with respect and kept the nob jokes to a minimum.

[@MT-cd7cs]

@@KingSidJames now that I couldn’t tell you but what I do remember about my sister at this time was she was a bit of a ladette - I believe was the 90s term - so she was probably providing him some new Joystick-oriented material while downing a pint of Boddingtons 😂

[@sirlloyd6386]

What a wonderful interlude to the trading coaches this has been. Thank you 🙏 from the bottom of my tired 1990’s gaming heart.

[@wiLLsofsteeL84]

My friend, lost to his dad at zany golf, on the Amiga. However, his dad got disqualified for being ‘too, old to play video games’😂 God, I was jealous of that cheap, golden joystick!

[@kylereece1979]

One of the best parts of the show was the addition of people from various magazines to review the games. I absolutely Loved Mean Machines Magazine, it had such a rock n' roll, often comical approach to writing which was brilliant and entertaining. A style that, would in no way fit with today's generation, and I liked seeing people like Jaz Rignall on the show.

[@Bow-to-the-absurd]

If anything This reminds me just how western society has regressed since the 90's. You could be anyone you wanted.

[@pbplauralfilms]

Nowadays I can become a lady on the NHS. Beat that Major's Britain!

[@WanderlustZero]

1:27:00 Jane Goldman... scriptwriter for Kick-Ass (among others) and later to be Mrs Jonathan Ross

[@fplgregfrost]

I had to scroll down a fair way to laud the lovely Jane Goldman.

[@kasterborous1701]

My god, it’s footage of Dominik Diamond in the womb!

[@mustlearnmore4884]

I loved this show as a kid back in the 90s. As naff as it was, I still looked forward to watching it in the evening after school. This was over a decade before KZbin, so this was the closest thing we had to watching video game reviews-and I LOVED it. Thanks for bringing back so many fond memories! 🙏🏽❤‍🔥💪🏽

[@mairsh]

You've just made my week. Absolutely glorious from start to finish. I enjoyed the different format from BBI. I recall a surprising amount of the episodes, for better or worse. It's like watching something completely different through adult eyes, though. The Sega ad song was sheer platinum. Thanks for all your efforts on this one 👍🏻

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the patronage! Much appreciated

[@IanDavis_66]

Absolutely brilliant stuff this. Your editing and humour are a superb combination. I couldn't stop laughing!

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

Loved this show ..used to collect the magazine

[@foreverhungry84]

The magazine was the bollox back in the day. Sega power a close 2nd

[@quandary1382]

I used to love this show!!! lmao. One of those nostalgic things you didn't even remember until you saw the imagery.

[@adamwest8711]

I can’t believe that got Joe Dever and Karl Sagan to appear on this. They must have been lied to…

[@SamuelBlack84]

Also Patrick Moore

[@shirlierox]

Dave Perrys bandana used to fill me rage every time I saw him haha

[@sirrandomtastico4337]

Your commentary has me howling 🤣🤣🤣 are you gonna cover all the series of gamesmaster?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

That's the plan!

[@fatherofdragons4880]

​Good man

[@jasmith85]

This video just OOOZES 90's British Charm, my era perfect :), for some reason I remember a challenge with Lemmings (seen in Episode 2) Big Boy Barry wasn't that another TV game show here in the UK on sky? Oi More respect for Bubble Oh Seven and not one of them got the Earth cheat.

[@tonyp3824]

You really have done the Lords work with this, mate. ❤

[@gamesmasteruploader4863]

Fantastic work, very happy seeing this explode in hits, well deserved!

[@GSGDaveyBoy]

This is glorious. Please tell me you’re doing the rest. Subbed.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

@@GSGDaveyBoy that's the plan!