Yeah, I liked them in this show. They actually have a UA-cam channel, and have done for a LONG time.....yet they haven't even got 5k subs! I just find it so weird that despite doing this for 20 years, and somehow appearing on a Charlie Brooker TV show on mainstream TV, they never seemed to build much of an audience! but, like you say, they seem very watchable!
Ever since Brooker spoke about being on the nose with his choices of music in season 3 of Black Mirror's Junipero, I can't help but notice EVERY. SINGLE. SONG!!!
Oh, look... a comment I made 7 years ago... I was about to post about how the instrumental of Wicked Game behind GTA in the controversial games segment was a clever song choice. Looks like I already made a similar comment before.
Your wish is granted....! Check out "How Video Games Changed the World" (also by Charlie Brooker) which is also available (in most countries) here on my you tube channel. If it's blocked where you are...then just Google another source.
I think all of the shows that Craig Charles presented were secretly deleted episodes of Red Dwarf where Dave Lister got bored and started messing around with some holograms in the other rooms on board Red Dwarf.
Pebble Count Simulator 2018 just came out. It's SO much better than Pebble Count Simulator 2017 (and I'm talking about after the 6th and final patch). A great game for when you're stoned
He emphasises that first person shooters and shoot-em-ups aren't to be confused because in an article he wrote in which he mentioned Doom, his editor helpfully clarified for him that Doom was a shoot-em-up.
Holy shit that CRT whine at the end. That must have been one hell of a program to watch on your own CRT television whining away. Nobody misses that noise.
@emperorcringe-son4023 I actually didn't know that until you pointed it out. But two possibilities occur. One, to "diss" 50 Cent (which the whole segment is about). Plus if they had used a 50 Cent track they might have problems with copyright clearance since "fiddy" (and/or his business associates) might not want his music used in such a negative/critical context.
Ah, how times change. What was once a small corner of entertainment for outcasts is now a worldwide phenomenon that nearly anyone can and does enjoy. 7:14 ah, hello my old friend. Masochism, that is. Still can't get the combination of blaring trumpets and Geiger Counter-esque graze sound effects out of my head.
Not sure how many times i've watched this video but FINALLY it's time to post "Dara............I LOVE Mountain and I love Mississippi Queen" Nantucket Sleighride is Awesome. Just sayin'......finally.
I like the Consolevania guys, but the premise of Jet Set Willy was not a guy trying to avoid his wife. Willy was forced to clean up his mansion before his housekeeper, Maria, would let him go to bed. They were right about the original release being so buggy it was impossible to complete.
This thing is full of fantastic quotes. My personal favourite must've been "a firework display being sick", although I may be biased, being one of those masochistic maniacs who genuinely enjoys shmups like PCB. Still, he's not wrong.
The fact that twitter was ranked by CB as the number 1 video game in the world and it clearly radicalised glinner into a total nutjob is QUITE INTERESTING to behold in 2024
Huh I forgot about Parodius (Surely pronounced Parody-us, since it's a Gradius Parody... not 7:06) . Shooting penguins, octopus and big boobed ladies in space was fun.
Boris Müller Too many nitpickers complained so I changed the title. Apparently saying "Thanks for this free upload of a quality documentary" (or nothing at all failing that) is asking too much of some people. It's STILL the.best quality of it anywhere on the net and it's COMPLETE!
Mountain were made famous by Weekend World, which used the apeshit parts of Nantucket Sleighride as the theme music. (Go and listen to it now; you're welcome).
I want to be offended by the fact that he calls strategy gamers armchair hitlers, but when I try to imagine the kill-count I've racked up after going through all the Warcraft, Starcraft, Total War, Paradox, and Dawn of War games, I can't argue. The difference being that Hitler started making people kill each other due to the Versailles treaty and a dodgy racist fantasy. We conquer digital worlds whilst minimizing my casualties and maximizing theirs. For fun.
it is said that ,''ignorance is bliss''...as for video games and I, I'm in a constant state of orgasm. the last arcade game I played was a pinball machine called 'Centaur'...I'm really Olde.
Welp, Fred Harris nailed it. P.S. I find it insulting for any such show made in Britain not to mention either Simon the Sorcerer nor Cannon Fodder. Disgraceful.
"...run around a hospital having sex with women in a coma without getting caught. Not as good as the real thing obviously." Jeez. Times have changed. I doubt Charlie could get away with this today.
Of course he could, it's obvious satire: There's plenty of comedians in 2024 who push boundaries in this way. Stop letting internet culture war nonsense cloud your judgement: Get down your local pub and crack a dick joke, it's *fine*.
I'm going to identify all the snippets of music. Stevie wonder - superstition. Phill oakey - electric dreams. Royal philharmonic orchestra - wicked game. Grandaddy - AM 180. Henry Purcell - Music for the funeral of queen Mary.
"Games deny you content if you're not good enough" - this guy hasn't played since like the mid 90's. These days games deny you content if you didn't shell out extra cash over the original 60 buck pricetag for the ultra mega shit of the year edition :D
He (Dara O'Briain) now hosts "Go 8 Bit" a comic/celebrity gaming competition series here (in Britain). I think that anecdote was probably part of his act. But "since the 90's" is a bit extreme....! I have had a good few games I struggled with that I would have loved to have seen to the end. (I have also helped a few people get to the end of others! Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, The Thing and the original Quake to name a few. I have noticed though the move to "in app" purchases. I have abandoned one or two games because they were too hard without weapons upgrades, etc. However I DID manage to complete "Zombie Roadkill" without paying a penny!
I think was made before all this extra stuff really kicked off. Well 2009 actually, which was before it was in EVERY game. Kinda funny, I was playing Timesplitters 2 with a mate who only plays CoD, FIFA or destiny, He was wondering why loads of stuff was greyed out. I was like "Dude you have to complete the game on hardest difficulty to unlock everything..." That's what Dara was talking about.
Also 'The Last of Us' Never have I ever said. "Sorry, I haven't caught up with Walking Dead. I'm not allowed to even start season 3 because I'm shit at stealth sections of videogames. Yes, I know it's apparently a great story. I'll never fukken see it, though!"
But back in the day there was always (deliberate?) cheat codes to help you progress if needed, is there anything comparable to that in modern games, add-ons and DLC?
Watched this for the first time since it aired. Had the video off and just the audio on. Every time he mentioned a genre I correctly guessed what games he would talk about. Very surface level stuff.
The visuals are too surface level for you? As long as the point gets across I don't care if it's Gears of War or Hello Kitty Island Adventures on screen. This was aired or British TV, think they'd use gameplay from your favourite obscure game?
This is very outdated now, but still great. Games stories have gotten a lot better. Many of the stories in games recently have been better than most of the stories in recent movies.
They really haven't. You'll get a half-decent one now and again, which inevitably get lauded by the industry with ridiculous hyperbole, "The best writing since Shakespeare!". The writing and storytelling in 99.9%+ of games is dreadful. The plots are unoriginal to the point of cliché. Ditto most story settings. The motives for your character actually doing what they're doing, range from simplistic cliché, to paper thin, to non-existent. The character themselves are lucky if they reach the level of two-dimensional. The complexity of human interaction and character usually portrayed with all the profundity of a shallow, inexperienced teenager. As I said, there is the odd exception but they're incredibly rare and even in theses exceptions, the writing is little more than decent. The only writing style in which games ever exceed this level is with humour.
The game with the subliminal messages was called Endorfun. It was meant to be a puzzle game with whispered messages hidden in the music. The messages were all positive things like "We are glad you were born". It was widely criticised as being dull and boring and was mockingly nicknamed End-of-fun.
I miss Charlie Brooker programs
Well, hopefully he'll be making more soon. His annual wipes were wonderful.
You do realize he creates Black Mirror too? But yeah I miss him as a presenter on these Newswipe style shows too
I think reality became so ridiculous it was difficult to make fun of
They were the best!
@@apukdcfc Fcuk Darkish Mirror, I want sarcastic hummor which CB does best.
“Wandering around endlessly retracing your steps in a depressing little town looking for jobs to do. It’s like living in Stoke.”
I’m dead! 🤣🤣🤣
I live in Stoke and can confirm the truth in this
If you play video games you're probably an award-winning television writer married to Konnie Huq.
Nunya Bidnis yeah what a complete loser he is!!
@@JHashcroft or you're another television presenter that cracks one off to her (Dara)
These consolevania boys are incredible. So watchable.
Games are sheeiite!! 😂
Yeah, I liked them in this show. They actually have a UA-cam channel, and have done for a LONG time.....yet they haven't even got 5k subs!
I just find it so weird that despite doing this for 20 years, and somehow appearing on a Charlie Brooker TV show on mainstream TV, they never seemed to build much of an audience!
but, like you say, they seem very watchable!
Ever since Brooker spoke about being on the nose with his choices of music in season 3 of Black Mirror's Junipero, I can't help but notice EVERY. SINGLE. SONG!!!
Oh, look... a comment I made 7 years ago...
I was about to post about how the instrumental of Wicked Game behind GTA in the controversial games segment was a clever song choice.
Looks like I already made a similar comment before.
Thanks for uploading this!
49:11 my name in the credits :D
Oh Hey! Its You!
Did you ever write in to PC zone for one of Charlies kindhearted and friendly replies (and £50)?
What did you do for the show? Was you a researcher?
I provided them information on the retro stuff, gave them clips of old gaming TV shows and lent them some of my old consoles.
Cool 👍
"......Suck it!......no don't!" brilliant
Thanks for the upload. Really appreciate it.
Thankyou. Your're welcome!
Genuinely one of the best histories of both games and the culture surrounding them.
The theme is an 8-bit cover of Grandaddy's AM 180! Hope you enjoy it!
Eew, Graham Linehan. Yuck!
Or the screen wipe theme.....
We know.
Great upload thanks
07:10
Here's the Touhou mention. Go wild.
"like a fireworks display being sick"
Yup.
"That's Christmas f**ked for your kids."
Yeah! I always like that one.
We need an updated sequel
Your wish is granted....! Check out "How Video Games Changed the World" (also by Charlie Brooker) which is also available (in most countries) here on my you tube channel. If it's blocked where you are...then just Google another source.
pistol71 thank you
I think he's kinda busy with black mirror atm.
This was brilliant
Jet Set Willy, a game that was released unfinished. 33 years later and nothing has changed...
2025 and that blue/yellow striping took me right back to loading a game from a cassette tape onto my Acorn Electron in 1985.
@@virtualatheist Sinclair ZX Spectrum for me.
I love how he intentionally misses out Super Mario Bros. 2 when listing good Mario games.
I recognise the Dara O'Briain jokes from a set he did. Everything from commuting, Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the cock-sucking joke.
I think all of the shows that Craig Charles presented were secretly deleted episodes of Red Dwarf where Dave Lister got bored and started messing around with some holograms in the other rooms on board Red Dwarf.
Graham Linehan watches this over and over because it reminds him of way back when he had a family and a career
and his mind
Graham Linehan - Absolute Legend
@@Alt-gy7se I too think he is an absolute bellend!
I bet now there's a game about counting pebbles on the beach
Yeah on greenlight somewhere
Pebble Count Simulator 2018 just came out.
It's SO much better than Pebble Count Simulator 2017 (and I'm talking about after the 6th and final patch).
A great game for when you're stoned
He emphasises that first person shooters and shoot-em-ups aren't to be confused because in an article he wrote in which he mentioned Doom, his editor helpfully clarified for him that Doom was a shoot-em-up.
I might start playing video games again if that Charlie Brooker side-scrolling game becomes a reality.
‘Wicked Game by Chris Isaac’ playing over footage of grand theft auto is sheer genius!
Holy shit that CRT whine at the end. That must have been one hell of a program to watch on your own CRT television whining away. Nobody misses that noise.
Best description for touhou I've seen in a while.
29:00 I think this guy just described No Man's Sky
Amazing time capsule
at 30 minutes,"..and nooo ....all these browny, greeny muddy--real looking places...games are s^%te"LOL in a Scottish accent
5:41 - He's right, we do like to hear games being discussed on TV!
Great Video
touhou as a firework display getting sick is kinda pretty cool
The first minute is a fairly accurate description of me 😂
Liked the Dopefish graffiti on the canal when he pushed Mylene Klass in!
24:28 Why is it playing a snoop dog song during a section on 50 cent
@emperorcringe-son4023 I actually didn't know that until you pointed it out. But two possibilities occur. One, to "diss" 50 Cent (which the whole segment is about). Plus if they had used a 50 Cent track they might have problems with copyright clearance since "fiddy" (and/or his business associates) might not want his music used in such a negative/critical context.
It's really funny to me how Graham Linehan is praising The Last of Us.
@@rbdriftin Why's that?
@@pistol71because the sequel has a sympathetic trans character and he’s a massive transphobe
@@rbdriftin Yes I assumed you meant as much. But I haven't played either game OR watched the TV Series so I wouldn't know.
TLoU was released 4 years after this TV show was aired.
Yeah I think he is confused with left 4 dead
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer
Ah, how times change. What was once a small corner of entertainment for outcasts is now a worldwide phenomenon that nearly anyone can and does enjoy.
7:14 ah, hello my old friend. Masochism, that is. Still can't get the combination of blaring trumpets and Geiger Counter-esque graze sound effects out of my head.
Anyone know the music during the genre descriptions? The Superstition cover.
Charlie should really do a new up to date one of these. Games have come such a long way since then.
Maps is a good song
Great program, although why would you show the spectrum version of exploding fist?!
CW: glinners (skip to 24:00)
This was almost 9 years ago . . . . .
I seriously hope Dara O'Briain has improved his gaming skills over the years 😂
Seriously
5:43 Oh hey! It's Splinter Cell Double Agent!
there for sure are games now where you count pebbles on a beach :D
Can anyone tell me what the piano piece is after the intro song, after he starts his monologue?
No
Jason Lytle's Fürget It?
Not sure how many times i've watched this video but FINALLY it's time to post "Dara............I LOVE Mountain and I love Mississippi Queen" Nantucket Sleighride is Awesome. Just sayin'......finally.
Hover Bovver is a deceptively difficult game; Never really got too far in it.
I like the Consolevania guys, but the premise of Jet Set Willy was not a guy trying to avoid his wife. Willy was forced to clean up his mansion before his housekeeper, Maria, would let him go to bed. They were right about the original release being so buggy it was impossible to complete.
Yes, I spotted that. Such a basic mistake of one of the most iconic UK games ever made.
Brooker seemed pretty confident he had no chance of ever meeting 50 Cent.
Not so certain now.
7:13 "Ludicrous Lunatics" would be a better way to describe them honestly
whats all the music used in this?
I spotted a version of "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder
Ba ha ha ha
best quote....
"its alright.... he's a Nazi."
classic.
This thing is full of fantastic quotes. My personal favourite must've been "a firework display being sick", although I may be biased, being one of those masochistic maniacs who genuinely enjoys shmups like PCB. Still, he's not wrong.
was that opening tune a grandaddy song?
graeme welsh yes
I would pay money to watch Dara O’Brien play Dark Souls.
Gamesmaster thrilled millions with celebrity cameos - Josie Lawrence? Dear me.
Oh wow, I forgot Glinner was in this. It’s bizarre seeing him back before he got obsessed with trans people and ruined his marriage.
And in the writers episode for Screenwipe, sad. What a dick!
Welp, if it isn't the consequences...
Me too, and I also remember really enjoying this bit in the show and what he had to say back then. It seems like a different person almost but nope.
The fact that twitter was ranked by CB as the number 1 video game in the world and it clearly radicalised glinner into a total nutjob is QUITE INTERESTING to behold in 2024
@@DaddyMorphosis Safe to say he lost Twitter then, among other things.
Gameswipe is probably my favorite one that he's done.
If we are doing UK retro. Sleepwalker!
I had to Google that one.
@@pistol71 it was made for comic relief and it was amazing
I will never forget the cheat code for that game, which I only recently learned were lyrics from a song. "DINGADINGDANGMYDANGALONGLINGLONG"
I love the music to that one.
Huh I forgot about Parodius (Surely pronounced Parody-us, since it's a Gradius Parody... not 7:06) . Shooting penguins, octopus and big boobed ladies in space was fun.
Does anyone remember Adrian Mole for the C64?? Or Warhawk?
"HQ" ....240p
Best they would allow me!
bad internet, eh? : / anyways, it's not HQ innit...
Where does it say HQ?
Boris Müller Too many nitpickers complained so I changed the title. Apparently saying "Thanks for this free upload of a quality documentary" (or nothing at all failing that) is asking too much of some people. It's STILL the.best quality of it anywhere on the net and it's COMPLETE!
@@pistol71 Thank you pistol71, this was indeed a free and very good quality documentary.
Wish he’d do a remake for 2025!
TIL: Im basically a little armchair Hitler... im austrian tooo.... guess Charlie got me.
Mountain were made famous by Weekend World, which used the apeshit parts of Nantucket Sleighride as the theme music.
(Go and listen to it now; you're welcome).
I want to be offended by the fact that he calls strategy gamers armchair hitlers, but when I try to imagine the kill-count I've racked up after going through all the Warcraft, Starcraft, Total War, Paradox, and Dawn of War games, I can't argue. The difference being that Hitler started making people kill each other due to the Versailles treaty and a dodgy racist fantasy. We conquer digital worlds whilst minimizing my casualties and maximizing theirs. For fun.
Maxajax I.loved Command and Conquer, so even though this is MY.upload I STILL think "f***you" when he says that!
Oh I loved Red Alert 2 as well, it was like the cold war turned hot, meets cartoon logic.
Marble madness what a game
it is said that ,''ignorance is bliss''...as for video games and I, I'm in a constant state of orgasm. the last arcade game I played was a pinball machine called 'Centaur'...I'm really Olde.
Was Braid any good?
Rab's was spot on!
got a re-release, if you like puzzles and platforming and can cope with pretentious plot then it's a good time
Welp, Fred Harris nailed it.
P.S. I find it insulting for any such show made in Britain not to mention either Simon the Sorcerer nor Cannon Fodder. Disgraceful.
I NEED to know if Dara O'Brien got past that stage of gears of war!!?
And did he ever get to see Manhattan?
0:14 Vic Viper is the Actual Villain of Gradius Now...
Is that the golden one at the end ?
12:27 Try Finnegan's Wake
Mountain's one of my all-time favourite bands, but Dara's completely right here.
Games are taking over
Huge if true
Anyone know the music starting at 26:07 ?
[20:47] Hollywood, listen and take heed.
and now wolfenstein 09 is delisted
oh I guarantee there is an actual game out there where you count pebbles on the beach, there's too many nutters on the internet for their not to be!
Marble Madness was a great game
7:52 I can't be the only one watching this and thinking damn this guy reminds me of Jim Sterling? Or Jim Sterling reminds me of this guy?
I had to Google him....but yes I suppose. IF Charlie Brooker went on an all burger and chips 🍟 diet for five years!
@@pistol71 referring to his bit not his appearance
@@burningflag3679 Yes I get it. That too....
british scott the woz
"...run around a hospital having sex with women in a coma without getting caught. Not as good as the real thing obviously." Jeez. Times have changed. I doubt Charlie could get away with this today.
Of course he could, it's obvious satire: There's plenty of comedians in 2024 who push boundaries in this way.
Stop letting internet culture war nonsense cloud your judgement: Get down your local pub and crack a dick joke, it's *fine*.
I'm going to identify all the snippets of music.
Stevie wonder - superstition.
Phill oakey - electric dreams.
Royal philharmonic orchestra - wicked game.
Grandaddy - AM 180.
Henry Purcell - Music for the funeral of queen Mary.
Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin
8:16 suck it..no dont *rofl*
Used to love games like Sam and Max or Day of the Tentacle, bring these types back!
"Games deny you content if you're not good enough" - this guy hasn't played since like the mid 90's. These days games deny you content if you didn't shell out extra cash over the original 60 buck pricetag for the ultra mega shit of the year edition :D
He (Dara O'Briain) now hosts "Go 8 Bit" a comic/celebrity gaming competition series here (in Britain). I think that anecdote was probably part of his act. But "since the 90's" is a bit extreme....!
I have had a good few games I struggled with that I would have loved to have seen to the end. (I have also helped a few people get to the end of others! Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, The Thing and the original Quake to name a few.
I have noticed though the move to "in app" purchases. I have abandoned one or two games because they were too hard without weapons upgrades, etc. However I DID manage to complete "Zombie Roadkill" without paying a penny!
I think was made before all this extra stuff really kicked off. Well 2009 actually, which was before it was in EVERY game. Kinda funny, I was playing Timesplitters 2 with a mate who only plays CoD, FIFA or destiny, He was wondering why loads of stuff was greyed out. I was like "Dude you have to complete the game on hardest difficulty to unlock everything..." That's what Dara was talking about.
Also 'The Last of Us'
Never have I ever said. "Sorry, I haven't caught up with Walking Dead. I'm not allowed to even start season 3 because I'm shit at stealth sections of videogames. Yes, I know it's apparently a great story. I'll never fukken see it, though!"
Liam McNeaney It is a great story... you could watch a walkthrough on UA-cam if you were bothered.
But back in the day there was always (deliberate?) cheat codes to help you progress if needed, is there anything comparable to that in modern games, add-ons and DLC?
Watched this for the first time since it aired. Had the video off and just the audio on. Every time he mentioned a genre I correctly guessed what games he would talk about. Very surface level stuff.
The visuals are too surface level for you?
As long as the point gets across I don't care if it's Gears of War or Hello Kitty Island Adventures on screen. This was aired or British TV, think they'd use gameplay from your favourite obscure game?
This is very outdated now, but still great. Games stories have gotten a lot better. Many of the stories in games recently have been better than most of the stories in recent movies.
They really haven't. You'll get a half-decent one now and again, which inevitably get lauded by the industry with ridiculous hyperbole, "The best writing since Shakespeare!". The writing and storytelling in 99.9%+ of games is dreadful. The plots are unoriginal to the point of cliché. Ditto most story settings. The motives for your character actually doing what they're doing, range from simplistic cliché, to paper thin, to non-existent. The character themselves are lucky if they reach the level of two-dimensional. The complexity of human interaction and character usually portrayed with all the profundity of a shallow, inexperienced teenager. As I said, there is the odd exception but they're incredibly rare and even in theses exceptions, the writing is little more than decent. The only writing style in which games ever exceed this level is with humour.
Oh hey, it's Dara.
aw bless, this was made around the time of the shit Wolfenstein game. It gets better Charlie!
The World needs more of Charlie Brooker and less newscasts.
7:14
I know right
Kato is kay-toh
The game with the subliminal messages was called Endorfun. It was meant to be a puzzle game with whispered messages hidden in the music. The messages were all positive things like "We are glad you were born". It was widely criticised as being dull and boring and was mockingly nicknamed End-of-fun.
7:14
Touhou!