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TV Videogame shows: Have they always sucked ass?

The accepted wisdom is that TV just doesn't 'get' games, but is that really true? Time for a look through the archives...

Words: David Houghton, GamesRadar UK

Gamezville: 2003 - 2004

That maturity spectacularly failed to appear with the start of Gamezville, Sky One's horrific 2003 attempt to follow up Games World. Hampered by knuckle-scraping presenters of the most painfully cliched "Yo! 'Innit mate!" variety and a daily, hour long format that it struggled to fill, Gamezville was a horrible mess of a show, rounded off with the horror of yet another 'whacky' cheats expert character, The Guru. Seriously guys, get another idea.

Gamezville's misjudged run was mercifully short, but the terror it wreaked will not be soon forgotten. As GamesMaster presenter Dominik Diamond once commented in an interview with Edge magazine, "Gamezville is the equivalent to eating your own s**t". Note to future gaming TV producers: Trying to be 'down wit' da kidz' will only make the world hate you. And all of your future descendents.


 
5 Comments
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BossTom  - 3 months 4 days ago 
I loved 'bits', It was great. Watched GamesMaster but the rest escaped me. The Gadget show occasionaly mentions games but thats not the same thing is it.

Bring back Bits!
Kleptzilla  - 3 months 4 days ago 
A show that shoulda been on here is Gamer TV, that show that ran on Bravo until recently, when it got replaced by Playr.
THORSTEINTHESTAFFSTRUCK  - 3 months 3 days ago 
umm.. Olivia Munn ... wha's the question? Olivia, yeah she is hawt.
88Meters  - 3 months 3 days ago 
I still watch X-play it ain't that bad to me. BTW anyone see Gphoria yesterday?
Ombit  - 3 months 3 days ago 
PurePwnage is gonna be on TV next year in Canada. They got an 8 episode contract with some network.

Interesting article, Only show I knew on there was Nick Arcade
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