GamesMaster Series 3 was... An Actual Disaster

[@ReleaseTheCanines]

Fun observation: I just noticed that "Andy" who wins the date with Monie is actually Andy Collins. Who worked for Hewland International, who made the show... so not a plant in the slightest eh (though by all accounts, a lovely chap - how did the date go Andy?). He later went on to present Family Fortunes. I don't know what his role was (if any) on Games Master, but on its sister-show on Sky, Games World, he was an off-camera, kid-safe, standup comedian and warm-up presenter who was there to get all the yoofs cheering, energetic and hollering just before the cameras started rolling and Bob Mills took the stage for the actual recording (a role he's even continued until recent times for Ant & Dec, or as they're more famously known "PJ and Duncan"). I wouldn't be surprised if he did the same for Games Master, but only an audience attendee would be able to confirm I expect, unless some of the old crew are still floating around online and want to chip-in (used to chat to a fair few of them, but lost contact a long time ago). He later got promoted to presenting season 4 of Games World (the low budget final season that used Games Master's desert island set and aired for 15 minutes in the pre-school graveyard slot of 7am, practically "Up with the Partridge"), and later also presented Game Over on The Computer Channel/.TV which was also produced by Hewland, featuring what last few GM/GW production crew that could still be hired for a tenner... though that said, Game Over actually started the comedy career of future-star Matt Berry, just as Games World had done for David Walliams, so is actually an integral part of television history. I hated this season, but I still watched it at the time, since I was a child with low standards, but it introduced me to Mortal Kombat, which I've been a lifelong fan of to this day, so can't say it was all bad (definitely miss Daniel Pesina's energy in the franchise). Great video, can't wait for more... hope you may one day tackle Games World too?

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Interesting stuff, and now you've pointed out who he is, I recognise him immediately! Games World is certainly on the cards, though finding a full set is proving tougher than GamesMaster, sadly

[@adamsalmon8076]

@@ReleaseTheCanines Daniel Pesina seems a like genuinely good guy. Something great about people having their 15 mins and just enjoying it to the full.

[@tolindaniel]

How did I not recognise him as Andy Collins, that's wild.

[@simplesimonhadapie]

Yeah the oral history of gamesmaster talks about all the behind the scenes stuff and why series 3 has this ridiculous kids championship which is because the UK government started using Oxford prison to rehouse prisoners after they filmed the first block of the series and so had to use the house setting instead and make up the tournament to save the series. This series also had a new director and producer and explains why it's so disjointed making Dexter fletchers life a lot trickier when he was told to ad lib about a subject he knew nothing about. Also girl from series ones name is definitely dolat as she is in the book pictured with DD so that mystery is also put to bed

[@sperrin]

The date never happened as covered in my book GamesMaster: The Completely Stuffed Pair Of Trouser

[@Larry]

I own the golden joystick Kris Akubusi gave to the girl that lost in this series. I didn't mind the series, but again, like shows such as Bullseye and The Crystal Maze, it's a show that heavily relied on the persona and charisma of its previous host., and you never realize how dry a premise it can be until after they've left.

[@rossvegas7]

Missed the Christmas speech again this year mate 😢

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Fletcher is a good 6 or 7 notches down the list when it comes to what's wrong with this series, haha

[@Arkhan_The_Black]

@Larry Hello you!

[@blahmcblahface3965]

You were better when you were fat

[@vermis8344]

"I own the golden joystick that Kris Akubusi gave to the girl that lost in this series" Larry, I get a sudden mental image of you waiting behind the shop wheelie bins with a domino mask and a cosh.

[@Spanner1971B]

I absolutely died at the Gabrielle autotune. I appreciate your sacrifice of enduring this material for my entertainment!

[@MoriartysDemon]

Series 3 is so bad that I wouldn't be surprised if British Rail didn't have a hand in it's design.

[@MajorT0m]

You made me do an actual lol, just like the cool kidz!

[@zx85]

That was a megamungous comment.

[@TheFoggyjones]

It's Jurassic.

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

I think Dexter was putting Pablo Escobar's kids through college at this point in his career.

[@NarcissistAU]

Thanks to Press Gang I spent a large chunk of my life thinking Fletcher was an American with a dodgy cockney accent, it was during the credits of Layer Cake when realisation dawned. In some ways I'm still sitting in that bastard cinema with tears streaming down my face.

[@jokerfleckcast3196]

Lol

[@kirstinline]

no better pleasure than watching a place turn to shit when you leave.

[@Totalcultzonepresents]

I actually entered that team challenge. me and 2 mates headed off to Camden for the audition on the wettest coldest day of the year, stood around for ages waiting for it to start and, to get the instructions for the day while getting soaked, then all the systems we had to play were outside or, located on a old double decker bus. We then proceeded to absolutely shit the bed on every challenge in super quick time

[@MrJimithee]

This is like finding another present under the tree... Love these vids!

[@humbertoacosta8199]

Paused as it starts - thank you so much for making these. I watch the new ones for the visual gags and editing and the old ones to help me sleep. Much appreciated

[@tolindaniel]

I think the most important takeaway we have from series 3 is that without Dominik, the fire is just gone from Dave Perry's loins.

[@simplesimonhadapie]

I think Dave is part of the reason this series is less enjoyable as he dominated dexter (especially after they had to hold an impromptu tournament) and while Dave is fine enough unlike games world where they had the video game players to fight back in this series so little pushback makes it a bit dry

[@andrewhiggins43]

I don't know, I think season 3 needed to happen because Dominik doesn't give a shit when he returns and is more raw and snarky than before, and I loved it!

[@ajlomax603]

Agreed 👍🏾

[@RoyStantz]

Once Dom comes back, and we get to Series 5, the Dominik Diamond and Pals Era properly begins.

[@LazlowUK]

Your music remixes are awesome, was laughing at the Gabrielle skit

Push ya button! That needs a full length mix!

[@alloriginalpirates]

The quality of these videos man. Of all the KZbin I watch, I think yours has the biggest disparity in terms of quality and subscribers. You deserve so many more. The songs on this one are so bloody well done too.

[@Siege181]

Randomly on this channel… really impressed! Subbed and looking forward to trawling through the back catalogue

[@olliepriddey1161]

Dexter Fletcher reminds me of how Craig Charles presents Robot Wars, same kind of style.

[@B3tanTyronne]

Thankfully, Dexter never created his own version of AWWWWOOOOOGGAAAAHHHH! So, small mercies and all that.

[@smutleybutcher]

I think he did a decent job. It’s a bit of an immature big energy style but I didn’t mind it when I saw it as a kid.

[@iaincowell9747]

It's funny that he has gone on to be a movie director now.

Awooooogah!

[@olliepriddey1161]

At least he had passion for it. He knew nothing about gaming, though.

[@paulwinter6982]

"Asmongold's looking well" 😂😂😂

[@Sephnroth]

this made me lol as well xD

[@____chris]

Thank you...I will be stuck on flights all morning and now I have something I can download and watch on the plane

[@shellsuitwarrior]

I interviewed Dexter when he was doing a promo tour around bars in Manchester to promote the VHS release of Lock, Stock - he was a really nice fella. I asked him "Gamesmaster...why?" Basically said he had bad advice from his agent and doing the gig just left him with a big tax bill.

[@Resimaster]

From what I've heard, he's a really nice guy but struggled in the presenting role. It's good to see he's gone on to have a successful career behind the camera though.

I really liked him in Layer Cake. Played a great character!

[@sperrin]

He had a massive cocaine addiction and took the job to keep himself in white powder.

[@nickmullen2830]

He also played Sergeant Martin in Band of Brothers and did a passable american accent. The diner scene here was practice for it it seems lol.

[@alanbalan3539]

I just remember being inordinately mad that they had a bunch of football game segments as a tournament (maybe its next season, not watched this yet). Gamesmaster was my escape from a school life and brother that already made me feel excluded for not liking football, now its regularly HERE too!

[@Chernobylkinsman]

90% of the guys who played football would despise you for playing computer games then too..

[@Resimaster]

I've never liked football. I play it, but I don't watch it. There was a definitely a stigma at school.

[@davidmuldowney]

lol, I used to be annoyed at any sports games ‘wasting’ space in whatever gaming magazine I bought!

[@DangerousDave1874]

that Scottish cut was fucking great 🤣😂

[@bihuyamori5805]

Funniest bit!

[@thomasvarley380]

😂

[@Zomerset]

😂I was gone when I heard that.

[@thediamonddust]

Lol, the subtle editing is gold.

[@genomstudios2159]

Perfect timing for this... love these... can't think how many times I've watched them.. just have them on repeat at work instead of the radio

[@DrymouthCWW]

You sir. Deserve a golden joystick for those music bits

[@78monkeymike]

I must of completely blanked this out of my memory...thanks for bringing this nightmare of a memory back..

[@mehallica666]

Same here. Don't remember a thing.

[@TheBeird]

Poor Dexter. The only memories I have of this series is finding it strange that even as a kid, I wasn't having fun, and the live episode where they ran out of time playing Street Fighter 2. And if I can remember that just before it's shown in this video, then I've spent 30 plus years filling my head with absolutely nothing of value. Still, the setting of the second half of series 3 seems more familiar. Maybe they realised what a step down setting the show in the opening of Porridge was from the oil rig.

[@simplesimonhadapie]

The actual story is they lost the prison location mid series due to overcrowded prisons and so had to move location and pretend they were in the bowels which is why the tournament happened at all. The producer saving it (and himself) from going tits up

[@DrMxy]

The highlight for me is that little kid telling Dexter to "shutup stupid".

[@JoeDouglas]

Came for the historical interest, stayed for the brilliant commentary and editing. I may have spilt out my tea at one point. Brilliant video. As an aside, the first time I saw Dexter Fletcher (I'm not British) was in Lock Stock. Thought he was awesome.

[@dominicpayne4393]

Christmas is now complete. Thank you so much,

[@JimbobSonOfRiber]

I'm gonna guess that this was actually Dexter Fletcher method preparing for his upcoming role: an alien that hasn't interacted with humans before. (On the plus side: Patrick Moore really does a good job all the time)

[@Sketcz]

Wow. All these episodes blend together so much it's difficult to keep track.

[@Arkhan_The_Black]

Been waiting in pure anticipation for this.l one! Nice one RTS you absolute legend you, I KNOW I'm going to thoroughly enjoy this one. Also merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and your family dude.

[@TimberwolfK]

I can't get over how much Fletcher's presenting style reminds me of Adam & Joe's People Place segments. Gamesmaster S3 challenge: finish a sentence without being interrupted.

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Oh damn, that's a good shout!

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

If Dominic wasn't put off by the McDonald's sponsorship he doubtless would have been when episode 1 turned out to be a 30 minute infomercial for Mortal Kombat. I wonder how much Acclaim paid for that. I would have liked to see him hosting that episode because I don't doubt he would have snuck in some sly digs at the situation.

[@sperrin]

He had no problem with advertising or GM having a sponsor, he just hated McDonalds for no reason.

[@dellzincht]

​@@sperrinand then came back for series 4, when McDonalds were still sponsoring the show!

[@sperrin]

@dellzincht Yep. They offered him a ton of money, and DD was heavily into cocaine at the time. It's funny how a person's morals can change when money for drugs is involved.

[@CruelestChris]

If that was Acclaim this would be their least weird promotion of that period. Didn't even involve renaming anyone.

[@katieheys3007]

Once again, the music is perfect! Ak-bar! Amazing job yet again RTS!

[@FentonWenge]

1:20:30 - I remember being baffled by this feature at the time. The episode aired in November so not even like it was April fools joke or something.

[@DJ-vh2uh]

Thank you for posting this video. Had a missribe Christmas and your videos make me belly laugh so thank you very much

[@RetrodudeG]

Interesting fact, I was on the gamemaster show with my family as the crowd & got the gladiators autographs. After they played Clay fighters! Man that made my childhood so Fantastic :D

[@Sparkypark]

Diamond’s filth is sure missed when compared to Fletcher’s obnoxiousness. Thanks Rose Tinted Spectrum for making the unwatchable watchable again.

[@andybarnes888]

Oh yes, what a way to finish off the year 🤘 “How does Gamesmaster work without Dominik?”. The answer: badly😂 Look forward to getting through this. I salute you 🫡

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

Oh, the second half is going to be a blast.

[@cliffjenkinson6717]

So I was in the crowd for this when I was little a load of us all bused in down from Liverpool to Oxford where the prison was. Fun classic production tale re episode 7. They just fished the Liverpool lad out of the crowd and told him to say he'd played the "cosmic space head" game before. he then played the Japanese champion and beat him THREE times in a row and after each take the production company said "reset there was a problem we didn't get that" and essentially kept refilming until the Japanese guy won 🙈

[@MrVictorRong]

Oof…like that lad that lost to his sister on Buster Douglas boxing because they kept doing takes until she beat him

[@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539]

@@MrVictorRongYep, that was Evander Holyfield’s Boxing.

[@simplesimonhadapie]

Yep I wrote above that Danny curley bloody failed the shadow dancer challenge first time even though he owned the bloody thing so they let him re do that as well. There was a lot of this behind the scenes since they wanted a good narrative for gaming in general and better TV plus there were lots and lots of crashed naturally to be fair when it comes to this stuff given the nature of the consoles so by series 3 they had specialist consoles like development platforms etc to show off games but by their nature way less stable. They even ran straight debug versions and what would I give yo go back and cherry pick stuff out their storage

[@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539]

@ That celebrity challenge that got mentioned in a trailer but never got shown, I wonder if that’s still in the archive?

[@MrVictorRong]

@@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539 ta. I owned buster Douglas boxing so brain fuzz from me misremembering

[@simondean3670]

Amazing content! Laughed so much! Well done 👏🏻

[@lonewolfheart1697]

Oh, I remember being a particularly angry young teen when Dom disappeared and got replaced by loudmouth Dexter Fletcher. My loathing for Fletcher and the abysmal 3rd series didn't let up once. Nothing came close to Dom's charm and thinly veiled cock jokes... Your dedication is much appreciated to have endured watching this series and working hard to make it entertaining. Wishing you and your family all the best for 2025. EDIT: I unashamedly loved Puggsy!

[@gordonirvine726]

Sixty quid for Street Fighter 2 turbo in the freakin' 90s?! Thats like eight million in today's currency.

[@tarnetskygge]

Average house price in 1990 was £60k so that cartridge was 1/1000 of a house. Today that would be about £250.

[@RightNowMan]

Eight hundred million I think you'll find!😁

[@4_am]

To sharpen peoples minds on that would have been, that is 600 Freddos!

[@bighammyrfc]

I always laugh when people say £70 is too much for a day these days when I paid close to that for Turok on the N64 in the mid 90s.

[@NarcissistAU]

Tracking against wage growth or disposable income instead of house prices might explain it.

[@drwhotvwam]

It's strange, because my memory, is that I watched this show religiously every week, but I have no memory of Dexter Fletcher hosting it. I must have somehow missed this series The first I heard of it was, in a recent interview with Dominic where he said he felt bad for Dexter kinda being thrown into the show , which clearly didn't suit him as he's more of an actor .

[@miniflem1]

Lucky, lucky you.

[@robertl426]

Same here, I have very fond memories of the show, but I must've skipped this series as it's a total blank for me.

[@drwhotvwam]

@@miniflem1 Haha 😂😂

[@CerberusLives]

The return of Diamond's cheeky Celtic charm will be sweet anodyne after the massively irritating Cockney bollocks that was GM series 3. Kudos for enduring this shouty shite for our entertainment, RTS.

*Sad cockney noises*

[@sinister066]

the scene with fletcher hearing the magic roundabout theme in his head just sums up how he knew absolutely nothing about games. I nearly died laughing😂😂

[@absolutechaos8936]

All that's missing is a wind up monkey clapping cymbols together on his forehead

[@bryngunn]

Great work as always. I had totally forgot that Dexter Felcher was the presenter for this series

[@SAMwise-ps6zo]

the Gabrielle samples and remix is just 'chefs kiss' love this video so much! instant subscription

[@bihuyamori5805]

Even as a bored teenager from a tiny village starved for decent telly, I knew this was shit at the time... Yet somehow it's even worse than I remember.

[@vermis8344]

Well done to Simon Amstell for turning up and making Dexter Fletcher only the _second_ most unlikable presenter on Gamesmaster.

[@845SiM]

Best thing about the series at oxford prison was my dad was on the security crew, (sarg) got free ticket. Met dexter aswell was a good laugh filming that day.

[@angryoldgamer4845]

Yes...best belated Christmas present, thank you

[@thekameru6058]

Holy crap RTS, your GamesMaster vids be doing NUMBERS. Congratulations : D

[@RoyStantz]

I will admit Series 1 and 2 were both tough acts to follow, but Series 3, despite its shortcomings, still stayed true to the competitive gaming nature of the programme It's Series 5, 6, and 7 when things really went downhill, because it was less about the games and more about Dominik's comedic talents, frequent innuendos, constant flirting with female celebrities, and getting his friends on TV.

[@hindercorp105]

your editing is masterful, comedy gold

[@Bodcut]

I remember dexter hosting the first episode and never watched another one

[@diligaf1000]

I remember being super disappointed that Dominic left , the show never worked without him

[@RoyStantz]

It's kinda like when John Fashanu was forced to leave Gladiators temporarily, and his spot as co-host was taken by Jeremy Guscott for Series 6 and 7.

[@ManiacOfNoise.]

Hilarious! Highlight of the week so far! Also, thank you for making series 3 more palatable.

[@Phillyjoe2]

Ah yes, season 3! 12 year old me, my sister & my dad were in the crowd for episode 9 with Monie Love. I just remember all of us having to constantly look at the screen to pretend GamesMaster was actually on there and also meeting the kid who won a golden joystick in the crowd. Great Monie Love/Cool Spot mashup ❤❤

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

You weren't the squashed kid were you?

[@Phillyjoe2]

Ha ha, nah! I vividly remember getting to the taping and thinking "why is the bloke out of Press Gang here? Where's Dominik?" Bullshit series but thank you for the laughs 🤣

[@Kalbot84]

Fletcher could barely hide his disgust at that boring third kid

[@absolutechaos8936]

Series 3 was definately the same as shitting off a balcony then looking at the mess it made

[@ricperry8743]

Your editing is hilarious.

[@theadventuresofoldmort1746]

I had hundreds of pirate copies of Amiga games. When I saw the prices of the games in this it blew my mind.

[@slicktrick9640]

Yep Me to only 79p for a blank disc or format them when you ripped them of magazines in the shops.

[@AdamDziobek]

Me to and most of them wasn't even worth the pirate cost .

[@JP-cu2gm]

I’ll be back for the next video. I been your pain on this one, some of it is so cringe. How did I not notice it at the time? Loved the Soulfly cricket song.

[@Strummingintheshed]

Loving this series! Keep up the good work fella.

[@alanrockunited]

'Bring back Dominic" A sentence no one had ever expected to use.

[@retrotap]

Brilliant work 🎉❤ I'm pretty sure episode 1 of this series was the last one I ever watched. Looking forward to seeing DDs return for sure. Some classic games covered this series though - peak 16-bit era I guess.

[@Cunaverse]

Thank you sm was looking forward to this sm, i hope your holiday season going chill and interesting to see how they changed show for s3

[@Sparkypark]

It seems this gig got Dexter Fletcher the McDonalds voiceover job for the next 20 years or so and earned him millions.

[@kins749]

"End me now" - that single phrase sums up my views on the whole series, Fletcher is a car crash, come back Dominik!!! Another hilarious video made my day laughing.

[@bailey3209]

Flip me, the laugh i gave at the Scottish footy team voice over and Gabrielle was so loud, my kids face were lioe "shut up, you weirdo"

[@TheInfiniteMiseryJumper]

Just packed the folks off after three days of Christmas celebrations, time to crack open an enormous Toblerone and settle in for this epic. Thanks for the extra prezzie mate, top stuff!

[@TheDeepOne85]

Saw in the news recently the guy who was Shadow has been arrested for armed robbery

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Who is shadow?

[@stevenwhitelaw1306]

​@@jean-lucpicard5510gladiators guy

[@KingSidJames]

In 2021 King was part of a criminal gang whose members were charged with a range of offences in connection with the kidnapping, beating, and false imprisonment of Aaron Ali in Acton, west London, in March 2020 and a subsequent blackmail attempt on members of Ali's family. At Isleworth Crown Court, King and one other man both pleaded guilty to charges of blackmail and were remanded in custody awaiting sentencing. Four other defendants in the case denied the charges against them. He was jailed for six years and three months.

[@RoyStantz]

@@KingSidJames Shadow also probably sold his two Golden Joysticks for drug money.

[@KingSidJames]

@@RoyStantz let's not ask what happened to his pugil stick

[@KC_Runz]

My thoughts & prayers go out to 'Squashed Kid' at this difficult & troubling time....

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Some say he's still being squashed in that audience to this day

[@simplesimonhadapie]

I got that behind the scenes gamesmaster book for christmas a few choice bits a)jim bowen got down to the last 2 for gamesmaster and b) danny curely had not only played the game before in shadow dancer but bloody failed the first time so they gave him another shot 😂 he was told the game the week before he went on apparently and he went on the write for loaded magazine...

[@SmoMo_]

It so does exist, and I know because I was a programmer on the PS1 game Colony Wars, and the lead artist Lee was the designer of Puggsy. And if you look it up on moby games you’ll find it is an early Travelers Tales game, and TT had their office in Liverpool right opposite Psygnosis ( who made Colony Wars)

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

Sounds like conspiracies within conspiracies to me

[@sperrin]

Series 3 was great, at least the first half. They tried to cram too much into the second half with the tournament and it was an utter mess. Series 4 onwards is when GM went downhill as DD's ego took over.

[@RoyStantz]

Again, the Team Championship could've worked if it was just two teams per episode.

[@MrGoldenV]

Dave's got his do-rag on

[@StreetSoulLover]

It just occurred to me, isn't the set some dismal cheap copy of the Alien 3 - Prison/Furnaces...

[@thespochanal2]

what a chrismas present a new series of gamesmaster my night sorted love these videos keep them up

[@MrFunsocks]

Just as I remember about him doing that annoying whistle, I see him doing it but thankfully you're commentating over it (only to then mention it and replay the clip 30:10 ) and also his physicality was making me think he moves like one of the "Good Robot Usses" from Bogus Journey, so hoping that comparison crops up shortly...

[@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539]

I remember him reading that he was originally supposed to be a guest contestant, then got asked to be a presenter after Dom left. Dex produced the Eddie the Eagle film that was on BBC 1 not long before this video got posted. As much as Dex is a talented actor and director, Dom will always be the best host and this will always be his show.

[@deadofthesean]

As a Scottish person , i just cant hahaha

[@prawnk1ng]

Jeffrey dharmer in the consultation zone in episode four 😂

[@nigelcarren]

I had forgotten about Dexter Fletcher's Gary Crowley Mockney style. 10/10 👍🇬🇧

[@lloroshastar6347]

Imagine being a parent of one of these kids getting the chance to appear on GM or be in the audience and you have to drive them up to an old unused prison to be part of it.

[@PoonSpelunker]

What an absolute treat and one of the most fitting ways to end. The banter on this channel is top tier. Thanks for enduring 10 hours of this shitshow series. Great channel.

[@robertl426]

I've been waiting for this... but I must admit it's just not the same without Dominik Diamond. I was born in 1982, and I must have just blanked this series from my memory.

[@kirstinline]

turning the banal fletcher commentary into the menswear single nobody knew they wanted was exceptional. well done.

[@nekospaw]

hey now, the mrs and me have had many drunken nights shouting at both the king of the monster games

[@RoseTintedSpectrum]

I don't even hate it that much, I just find it funny to get angry about such an inconsequential game

Push ya button!

[@Virusman26]

Best retro gaming video with a death metal song about cricket on the internet 😂. You sir, are a genius 👍🏼

[@HugeAckMan420]

39:01 there's so much blood and guts, and plenty of fest action violence that I wouldn't be surprised if British Rail had a hand in it's development.

[@GRF_DB]

The Pinhead chatterer reference just after "what the fuck was that" made me laugh out loud 😂

[@timidwolf]

This was actually the first series I watched, because of that I thought for ages afterwards that Dexter was the first host. Was confused when you said he only did one series as I did distinctly remember him in the "Hell" series, not realising it was still the same one.

[@johnnywallaceuk]

These reminisces of Games Master you do are the best retro gaming thing on KZbin that ever happened. Genius. I can't wait to see again the series where Dominik Diamond thought he'd become "Brit Pop" cool.

[@Danbotology]

Seriously, if you grew up loving Dizzy then the Megadrive version is well worth a play. It's like a 'remastered' version of all the memorable bits of the old games all rolled into one big game. I honestly believe you can do no better without straying from the Dizzy formula.

[@remembershooting2064]

Despite everything, I can't help but feel for Dexter on some level. While you'd tune in for any glimpse of games back then, Dominik was the main draw. Watching awkward children and minor celebs play games badly is fundamentally not entertaining, and Dexter clearly sensed that without knowing how to fill the vacuum. Unfortunately, the hard sell of manic noise and forced enthusiasm only emphasised how shit the product was. Full marks for effort, zero for aptitude. Great video, as usual, big laughs from the cricket segment.

[@preferredimage]

16:40 and 32 years later this is the Google Dino Run browser minigame....

[@LuminalSpoon]

Yes! 2 minutes in we already have a remix!