Bad Influence!, GamesMaster and Digitiser three British gaming TV instutions, but where are they now? Join me and a whole host of other retro tech and gaming YouTube people for memories, homages, modern interpretations and more. What was on your telly in the '90s, and did you ever successfully campaign to be allowed to watch people play Sonic instead of the continuing adventures of Harold Bishop?

Because I didn't, and that's why everybody else had to help me remember GamesMaster.

Thank you to the vocal and visual talents of:

‪@aBadEducationTV‬
‪@MoreFunMakingIt‬
‪@Yesterzine‬
‪@Digitiser‬
‪@RoseTintedSpectrum‬

And the everlovely Chris Bell for Super Page 58, the greatest Digitiser archive this world has ever known. Visit it today. Or another day of your choice. https://www.superpage58.com/

Digitiser Live (28th/29th July 2023) event info and tickets:

FAQ: https://www.digitiser2000.com/mainpa...
Tickets Friday: https://harrowarts.com/whatson/event...
Tickets Saturday: https://harrowarts.com/whatson/event...

Breaking Bad Influence:

Uno:    • Breaking Bad Influence Season 1  
Due:    • Breaking Bad Influence Season 2  
Tre:    • Breaking Bad Influence Season 3  
What'sa matter you:    • Breaking Bad Influence Season 4  

Mr Biffo has an excellent Patreon with tiers to suit all budgets:   / mrbiffo  
Rose Tinted Spectrum also has an excellent Patreon. You could be called a beanie baby!   / posts  

Photo of James Marsters for that one terrible pun by Patrick Lee, licensed under CCBY 2.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...]. I modified it from the original source.

Bad Influence! and GamesMaster clips supplied by the Internet Archive, originally by Yorkshire Television for ITV and Hewland International for Channel 4 respectively.

Digitiser and Breaking Bad Influence clips used with permission.

Supplementary stock footage from Pexels.
Some imagery from Wikimedia Commons public domain collection.
Sound effects from Freesound CC0/public domain collections.

This week Z is reporting on:

0:00 A difficult relationship
1:36 I don't half say 'in the nineties' a lot
2:40 A vital question
3:16 Of course you were
4:30 Micro machinations
5:20 Bin with an openable flap
6:03 Children are rubbish at reviewing things
6:37 Rise of the regrets
7:25 Don't tell the Supervision people
8:03 Nam Rood
8:50 Nam Wolf
9:45 Stand by for Datablast
10:46 Michael Heseltine content
11:16 Illuminatus
11:40 GamesMaster Live (with aBadEducationTV)
14:05 Cows in space, sheep on TV
15:57 Repeatable and reheatable
16:35 Lesley Gore Special
17:18 The rules of the land
17:47 Competition time (with More Fun Making It)
19:45 The disembodied head of Moore
21:01 The ballad of Bandana Dave (with Dudley of Yesterzine)
22:54 Recently revived
23:35 Digitising
24:49 Connect up via modem
25:40 Whatever you do, don't mention retro Kickstarters
26:59 Really, you could just watch this instead
27:32 Translating Teletext (with Mr Biffo)
28:55 David Braben's toilet habits
29:18 Bringing Back Binfluence
29:50 This is another thing you could watch instead
30:49 Mystery Science Theatre 1996
31:03 WHY? (with Rose Tinted Spectrum)
32:06 It concludes
32:58 I am officially less good at this than Andy Wear

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Bonus fact: at the time of writing I've still got three of those damn ciders to get through, because the local shop only did them in packs of four. This is what we call dedication to the craft.

Er... alright, these days Violet Berlin produces interactive exhibitions for museums and that, including a recent exhibition on war games for the Imperial War Museum. Andy Wear appeared in Mr Biffo's Found Footage, in a homage to GamesMaster. Andy Crane probably still exists somewhere. And we hope Sohail continued his redemption arc to have only the best opinions about games.

I really hope everyone understands the idea of taking the piss out of something you genuinely loved otherwise that's going to be a LOT of unnecessary defending of Bad Influence to get through...