No, The Other 90's Gaming Show: Bad Influence

[@starstruckjoker]

Violet Berlin was immortalised as a playable character in Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament

[@madquest8]

OMG i remember that!!!

[@FlamingMonocle]

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!

[@d2dar459]

Yep. I remember the episode, too. 🔥🔥

[@jackgatford1295]

Rolf harris hasnt got anything to worry about......... mmmmmmmm 😂😂😂😂😂

[@centrevezgaming4862]

Yeah he rotted and died in prison.

[@JDJay86]

😂😂

[@gunsharck]

Tie me kangaroo down sport

[@MrBumlicker]

No he's dead

[@coppershark1973]

Yes. He’s dead…

[@ANJIN79SAMMA]

COMING HOME TO THIS AND NIGHTMARE WAS EPIC!"

[@ControlAllDa1337]

Bad influence tricked my into getting a barcode battler one Xmas and I never got over it

[@MrBaldypete1]

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.

[@sasgayable]

😂

[@alexojideagu]

@@MrBaldypete1Violent should have given you a free w@nk for that

[@skylined5534]

Bad Influence! staffers chortling up their overly long sleeves 😂

[@incredibleflameboy]

Bar code readers get resurrected every few years and it never takes off. There was a Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh one a few years back which kind of makes sense in the context since they worked with the cards in some way and I think the second or third generation Digimon digital pets had one built in but tamagotchis made them pretty obsolete.

[@adamstar7516]

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

[@TruculentSheep]

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.

[@skylined5534]

Your comment made me laugh, nod my head in agreement and also make me feel wistful for times past!

[@D00M3R-SK8]

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.

[@angrypandagames1792]

😂 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 😆

[@hahanah1463]

Now he cries himself to sleep everynight as he has no backbone

[@RickMyBalls]

@@hahanah1463 'everynight' oh my god.....

[@richardlyth]

I never thought I'd see Andy Crane shout "Eat rubber johnny!" at Robbie Williams but there you go!

[@HighHoeKermit]

To be fair, I think it was always 50/50 😂

[@FunkyM217]

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!

[@ETownLive]

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.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

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.

[@SAM-ru4vx]

Imagine comparing this to computer chronicles (PBS) or whatever was on Nickelodeon. 😂

[@centrevezgaming4862]

Because it wasn’t syndicated to other countries in the United States they had similar shows.

[@iaincowell9747]

​@@TheRetroManRandySavage I hated Dominik Diamond. GamesMaster was a good show, but he just annoyed me

[@gunsharck]

@@iaincowell9747Oh Christ aye but now?? He’s a woke bag of 💩

[@TheRelaxingRide]

ah the days when there was wonder in the world! amazing nostalgia, thank you!

[@97channel]

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.

[@TallulahBel1]

Your breakdowns of some truly awful British TV are made all the better by the odd sneaky Alan Partridge reference. Thank you for the laughs. Keep it up, please!

[@thadonis.]

I'd say Violet looked more like the singer from Roxette.

[@folksurvival]

Nah, Marie Fredriksson from Roxette was good looking.

[@80srenaissance67]

And didn't have a massive irritating lisp

[@CycolacFan]

I thought Paula Yates had done some serious time in re-hab.

[@LeTon75]

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

[@80srenaissance67]

Did she spit on you with every word with an s in it ?

[@davekennedy6315]

You look like Gonch Gardener from Grange Hill too but that might just be the poor quality VHS and pixelation?

[@seansersmylie]

Fond memories of Violet as a young teen🤣

[@johnafirth]

14 year old me was in awe.

[@folksurvival]

@@johnafirth Why though? She wasn't attractive at all.

[@bigbabatunde1218]

​@@folksurvivalShe was.

[@cloudfactory2000]

​@@folksurvival,not attractive? You must be gay. She was stunning.

[@defragsbin]

Ahhh this is a nostalgia hit and a half. Loved your datablast, too.

[@EddieFrenchComedian]

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.

[@YuanMekong]

My pal had a barcode battler, it was terrible

[@danpearson2311]

I remember that exact segment too! The second barcode battler was mentioned on this, it was like it unlocked a very hidden memory!

[@teevok]

"Don't think Rolf Harris has much to worry about". 🤣

[@skylined5534]

He's currently having his kangaroo toasted as we speak 😂

[@benedikte8813]

Glad to see this video getting 55k+ views so far, you deserve way more than you've been getting, brilliant content.

[@paulsmartialarts]

"I can give you memories, like Violet Berlin in the 90s" - Jonathan Richman

[@darkglobe80]

And I would bleeeeeeeeeed....

[@iaincowell9747]

Who's Jonathan Richman?

[@productionf1lms]

Is that seriously one of his lyrics? Ha ha

[@battlemode]

"Andy calls the police on himself if his shirt comes untucked" LOL!

[@kitezzz360]

I think that black kid got bummed by Harrison himself

[@RSChris1980]

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!

[@makara80]

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! 🙂)

[@monkeynova2012]

The Golden age of everything! I'm so glad I was part of this era, it truly was the best time to be young and alive. We still went outside, but had these shows and games to rush back home to. I bloody miss it! Does anyone the magazine that Andy worked called TOTAL!? I used to get it every month through my door. I repeat... I bloody miss it!

[@edgarbeat2851]

Holy cow that's a flash back. Grew up this era and loved BI and GM. Good Times as you say out rushing back to watch. Older Brother used to get that magazine. Used to nab it .

[@discosucks604]

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.

[@craiggilchrist4223]

Loved this show so thankyou.

[@samuraijaydee]

I Loved this show, happy memories. Thank you!

[@jakehands]

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.

[@mikebrown5819]

Thanks for your work on the show. Loved it. Ignore this fool

[@lucasoheyze4597]

The show was absolute garbage.

[@tomasburian6550]

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 KZbin shows took off. Props to the creators.

[@MarcZERO1980]

What country was it just out of interest?

[@tomasburian6550]

@@MarcZERO1980 Czechia

[@joeydeaconblues]

Credit to Violet Berlin though. She's a playable character in MicroMachines 2 and that's kinda cool.

[@madmonk7134]

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.

[@Kamau1865]

This video actually freaks me out. I haven't thought about or even remembered this show since the actual 1990s. A proper blast from the past. Violet Berlin! The nostalgia is so strong, thanks.

[@tournaline3448]

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.

[@martinwalker6172]

No, the OTHER other 90's gaming show: Games World!

[@eddiepurple]

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.

[@deathshead357]

Just like Tommy Lee?

[@1stBlood]

Whatever became of nam rood

[@gamesmasteruploader4863]

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.

[@lmcgregoruk]

She was in Gabriel Knight 2, Normality and Eve too.

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

I *knew* she'd cameod/had a homage in Normality somehow! ​@@lmcgregoruk

[@infosuge]

Must find out what happened to the kid who reviewed Indiana Jones. Absolutely crushed it aged 14

[@centrevezgaming4862]

The show Bad influence was recorded at the emmerdale studios formerly known as Yorkshire television in kirkstall road Leeds.

[@lucian2701]

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).

[@craiggilchrist4223]

I watched that vid too. Loved Knightmare.

[@Nosaveddataretro]

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

[@adamstar7516]

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.

[@Pumpkinhead77]

I still have some of this programme on VHS tapes. They were nice times.

[@danielheffernan7897]

Wow I had completely forgotten this show, great trip down memory lane. Somewhere I still have my Amiga, & deluxe paint!

[@DarkWhite1]

Memories of Nam Rood slapping the cheat codes onto his head.

[@bertrammemberberry4568]

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 😂😂

[@MarkusMaximus2000]

"There's nee poorn on it!" 😂

[@aking-plums6985]

Classic I'm Alan Partridge. From the Colour of Alan, where Michael is "in charge of the Internet computer"

[@centrevezgaming4862]

Continue: other shows including Countdown, Duty Free and through the keyhole was also recorded there to say I was an audience member for a recording of the popular guess the celebrity whose home belonged to. Carol Voorderman shared her frustration that channel four moving production of countdown from the Emmerdale studios to London many years ago a show that launched the channel in the early eighties.

[@xxFORDIExx]

21k views, you are definitely deserving of way more subscribers. Wonderful video once again 😂

[@dinogoldie9716]

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.

[@kerbal666]

Oh yeah remember violet being in that game

[@80srenaissance67]

" the vibe of a hip youth pastor " 😂😂😂

[@cambs0181]

Had to google to see where Andy Crane is these days. He's on digital radio, should of expected that really.

[@apollosungod2819]

Watching the old episodes of Bad Influence! Makes me wish it was broadcast here in the U.S.A., seems way better than any "videogame" shows we had which were nearly none.

[@elderwitch8632]

Nice 'moving screenshot' video friend. brings back memories. I also enjoyed 'Bits'

[@RighAlban]

Bits was the mutts nuts I had a major crush on Bouff, Emily Booth

[@gunsharck]

Cybernet was itv, I absolutely LOVED that. Was gutted when they stopped showing it. Games movies and videos was brilliant too

[@gunsharck]

@@RighAlbanEmily was right tasty on that ch5 cult programme Outthere

[@blackthorn5709]

Your description of Andy Crane is comedy gold. "Plain cheese, one to share." 🤣

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

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.

[@gunsharck]

Aye!!! Wasn’t until years later I got a decent enough one but by then the time had well passed

[@AutoAndChill]

The sentence "eat rubber johnny pop star" was mercifully never uttered on television again.

[@bigd5090]

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!

[@markdaly1648]

Ahhh the amiga my first computer

[@lanceuppercut3498]

Amiga was my 90s computer after I had a ZX Spectrum. Also Amiga was used as FX for the pilot of Babylom 5.

[@darthwiizius]

The Amiga was bloody advanced for it's day, they were used to do the CGI effects on The Last Starfighter and Babylon 5.

[@zombiebiker5581]

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.

[@lambco6424]

I had absolutely no idea Violet Was married to the How 2 guy! Loved Bad Influence

[@centrevezgaming4862]

Both are still married

[@diluteduk]

@@centrevezgaming4862 to each other? :P

[@dwinterx]

@@centrevezgaming4862 To each other as well! 🤣

[@skylined5534]

​@@dwinterx Even better!

[@docwallace]

​@@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.

[@freemansteinslab]

I loved this programme! This...Gamesmaster... Knightmare and Cyberzone were always highlights of my childhood after-school telly time

[@bigbabatunde1218]

Do you mean Cybernet?

[@freemansteinslab]

​@@bigbabatunde1218Oh wow...I had completely forgotten about Cybernet!! I used to watch that too!! Cyberzone was also a thing though...it was a shortlived virtual reality gameshow on the BBC, hosted by Craig Charles and created by Broadsword, who also made Knightmare.

[@Perfect_Rice]

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.

[@guyverjay1289]

Me and my mum used to mock the lisp too 😂

[@BoomDoll]

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.

[@XXLaffinGravyXX]

1:31 Violetthhhh Berlin and Gathhuuthh Topp ....like a room full of snakes when they talk.

[@retro2vr]

That is very well written video. Well done. So many hidden jokes that you will only get if you are of a certain age.

[@05Rudey]

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.

[@mattstamp699]

I spilled more spunk over Violet Berlin than I did £'s on games back then. I spent a lot.

[@mattstamp699]

It really was@@davidpearson6346

[@merlin5476]

For me, it was Nanna Maskoury.

[@mcfcguvnors]

yeh she caused more seed to be spilt than michael j fox at a bird feeder

[@k1dn1ce76]

Was always a bit too dykey for me but to each his own...

[@davekennedy6315]

Yeah, I get ya on that. She looked better in the pic shown where she had normal long brown hair.

[@DC-uf6ve]

This was excellent, lets have that Gamesmaster episode, there's so much ammo there it's ridiculous. Dave Perry chucking a strop is legendary. Also had no idea Violet was being poked by bloody Gaz Top the whole time, I'm gutted 💔

[@StuartMillard]

GamesMaster is coming next month

[@DC-uf6ve]

@@StuartMillard Looking forward to it, keep up the good work!

[@DAFFYLONDON]

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!

[@ivanmcgann1989]

4:45 KILLED ME!

[@homerjnick]

Woah totally forgot about this...great watch to take me back to those times!

[@SnackboxOToole]

Another certified Millard classic.

[@camptube7621]

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. 😂

[@revivedfears]

Surely more barcodes would have given him an advantage though?

[@SurvivingTheApocalypse]

Violet Berlin was an absolute smoke-show.

[@skylined5534]

Could not agree more! Still is to be fair!

[@killerhertzmercedes]

Andy Alan Partridge Crane

[@gmann6269]

He was OK. Less annoying than the likes of Andi Peters.

[@UKProgRock]

I used to watch this after school, even entered a few of the competitions 😂

[@bookofdaveandsteve]

Enjoyable vid - I appreciate your editing style and delivery

[@jazzygeofferz]

Brilliant video. I lost it at the Datablast at the end.

[@jonmacneil1350]

Bad influence is where I first clapped eyes on Worms, got it not long after and was obsessed with it for years 😂

[@brayster1979]

This is so freaking awesome - Thank you

[@samuraijaydee]

I loved Bad Influence back when it was on TV, and much preferred it Games Master.

[@hobbified]

I think those kids were told what to say.

[@RDJ134]

I watched it every week here in The Netherlandsm also German TV had a familiar program but forgot the name of it. (we had GameForce One, Gammo, GameQuest, PowerPlay and GameKings) Always enjoyed Bad Influence.

[@HolidayPirate]

Magical. The way the hauntology moment flew in was chilling and hilarious at the same time, somehow. Would love to see you cover Virtually Impossible.

[@skylined5534]

"Me, when I finally feel like I'm getting life figured out-" "It's... Oh, I'm dead" 😂😂😂😂

[@ashhowey]

Andy Crane happened when Tony Hawk and Colin Furze went back to the 90’s in Colin’s Deloreon but the flux capacitor failed somewhere along the M180.

[@johnblue5399]

I'd struggle to explain to anyone why the Cannon and Ball info blast caused me to laugh myself to tears, but it's now locked away as some of the most profound absurdist humour I've ever borne witness to. I loved this show as a lad, and definitely freeze framed my way through the end credits once or twice. Andy was a sweetheart really and Violet was a definite early crush, but Dominic eventually led me to the dark side with his impressively long and thick catalogue of knob jokes.

[@Dave_H834]

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.

[@antfrancis9941]

This jogged a memory i had totally forgotten.👍

[@nbh1111]

Great video, the future entertainment show shown at earls court was the only one I went to, the arm of the person holding a pen and paper was the friend I went with, I didn't quite make it onto the camera.

[@DPF1]

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.

[@dinogoldie9716]

Cosign "Bits" (and "Thumb Bandits" starring one of the Bits lasses with Iain Lee).

[@davidprice5563]

Heck yeah, I remember Bits - late night tele prog, >anything on KZbin on this???

[@VeritasAbsoluta]

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.

[@davidprice5563]

@@VeritasAbsoluta Yeah I think it was.

[@dinogoldie9716]

@@VeritasAbsoluta Correct: Nigel Buckland & Stef Gardiner presented "Vids." It was superb.

[@redcanvasltd3267]

I don't remember this show being so freaking weird, everyone looks and talks like they are dying on the inside.

[@JamesStocks]

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

[@jameshutchinson367]

Thanks Stuart, brilliant video.

[@c6jones720]

Games master was just great with its style, futuristic 3d graphics, and Patrick Moore. Bad influence showed you the latest games and high tech innovations like CD-Roms, the Atari Jaguar, play station, and virtual reality.

[@revivedfears]

INTERACTIVE CEEDEEROM!!

[@xtraspecialmango]

Andy Crane was the Sid Visious of CITV

[@strongcoffee7]

I had no idea Violet Berlin's partner was Gaz Top.... Millard is now my Google

[@caeserromero3013]

I thought it was well known myself...

[@strongcoffee7]

@@caeserromero3013 I'm embarrassed for myself...

[@bankylaw3745]

Bits was he king of video game shows. I had completely forgotten about this

[@jeffjefferson7384]

I remember Andy Crane and Rolf's Cartoon Time, but had no idea this existed lol. Btw a shout out for BITS on Channel 4 around '98-99. That show was ace.

[@MrBaldypete1]

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.

[@mrnaughtycat]

My fave bit was nam rude

[@bangerbangerbro]

Hahaha as someone who wasn't around at the time, this was the first video games show of the time I became aware of. I quite like the show really, probably for the tomorrow's world type bits, but this evaluation of it was quite amusing to be honest.

[@THEJAM-EATERS]

Road Rash was amazing!

[@ArzHole]

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.

[@RighAlban]

The only thing I remember about Violet was the lisp not ever attraction in any sense at all.

[@craiggilchrist4223]

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.

[@deanlowdon8381]

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!

[@RighAlban]

@@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 🤔🤣

[@deanlowdon8381]

@@RighAlban Yeah, I remember Bits, but that was quite a few years after Bad Influence wasn’t it?

[@RighAlban]

@@deanlowdon8381 I can't remember how close they were, to be honest.