GamesMaster is back!

Bluecube · 22 Nov 2021 at 10:57

Rab Florence is a brilliant presenter. I haven’t seen his previous game shows but his comedy shows have been very funny. He’s a real geek and really knows his games. Can’t wait to watch the new series later today.

elh_2009 · 22 Nov 2021 at 11:07

I am looking forward to watching the first episode tonight once I finish work. Lots of nostalgia for the original, I loved that show so much as a kid. Its good to see the positive comments on here for the reboot. Cant wait!

DereksDontRun · 22 Nov 2021 at 21:59

Bluecube said:
Rab Florence is a brilliant presenter. I haven’t seen his previous game shows but his comedy shows have been very funny. He’s a real geek and really knows his games. Can’t wait to watch the new series later today.

Rob Florence is a massive gamer and a great choice. check out VideoGaiden and Consolevania - far better than this reboot, but they're probably showing their age now too, saying that, I've just seen a load of recent Consolevania content on YT - that's me sorted for a while... I thought it finished about 10 years ago.

lovelyhead · 23 Nov 2021 at 16:34

Just watched the first episode. I went in thinking there was no chance it was going to live up to the 90's series' but I was pleasantly surprised. It is clearly aimed at the 30 something age group who grew up watching Gamesmaster and I like that. I like the presenters. I didn't think Trevor McDonald was the right choice for the gamesmaster but I was wrong. He's perfect. I am looking forward to the next one.

McManicMan · 23 Nov 2021 at 16:48

Its was good, liked how they are keeping the theme and style of the original.

Moonpie2 · 26 Nov 2021 at 00:58

I was on an episode back in the day.
The series where it was themed as Atlantis.

Well.... technically I was on. You could see me at the back, head shining in the studio lights.
The idea that day was a Japanese Testujin at Virtua Fighter 4 came over and challenged 200 of the best VF4 players in England like we were all rolling off a factory production line.
In the show he won.

In reality there were only about 100 of us and most of us were just plebs they dragged in off the street, not 1337 playerz.
Also someone did beat him

I did not

Maybe it was VF3 now I think about it...

Zatoichi.uK · 26 Nov 2021 at 06:56

Moonpie2 said:
I was on an episode back in the day.
The series where it was themed as Atlantis.

Well.... technically I was on. You could see me at the back, head shining in the studio lights.
The idea that day was a Japanese Testujin at Virtua Fighter 4 came over and challenged 200 of the best VF4 players in England like we were all rolling off a factory production line.
In the show he won.

In reality there were only about 100 of us and most of us were just plebs they dragged in off the street, not 1337 playerz.
Also someone did beat him
I did not

Maybe it was VF3 now I think about it...

I remember that one. The kid who beat him was just a button masher and got lucky. Great episode though.

Hedge · 26 Nov 2021 at 19:39

Really enjoyed this!

R4z0r · 28 Nov 2021 at 07:10

That was great, enjoyed it a lot more than I expected!

Deleted member 77746 · 30 Nov 2021 at 22:41

EP2 come out 2 days ago on youtube if anyone wants to see it.

Ixon · 1 Dec 2021 at 05:53

Really enjoying the new Gamesmaster reboot & Trev is doing a stellar job as The GamesMaster keeping it similar to how Patrick Moore use to do it, well done E4.

Never missed an Episode back in the 90's was gutted when it finished in 1998.

Now somebody needs to do is a reboot of Digitiser that was on Teletext.

http://www.superpage58.com/digitiser-vault-teletext-screenshot-image-archive-1997-11-06.htm

ic1male · 1 Dec 2021 at 11:05

It's just a shame that half these Twitch streamers don't end up in a real abyss.

ic1male · 4 Dec 2021 at 00:14

That was another good episode (apart from the Switch nonsense). Really warming to Sir Trev now.

lovelyhead · 5 Dec 2021 at 20:04

I really hope they make more than 3 episodes.

ic1male · 5 Dec 2021 at 20:41

lovelyhead said:
I really hope they make more than 3 episodes.

There are 10 altogether in this series.

D4N · 5 Dec 2021 at 22:06

ic1male said:
There are 10 altogether in this series.

Are you sure about that? The thumbnail on episode 3 on e4 YouTube says “The final episode of Gamesmaster”

ic1male · 5 Dec 2021 at 22:08

D4N said:
Are you sure about that? The thumbnail on episode 3 on e4 YouTube says “The final episode of Gamesmaster”

Not 100% sure, I'm sure I've seen it somewhere unless the original was a 10 episode run and I've remembered that instead.

And you're quite right -

The 3x60’ series will premiere on E4’s YouTube, followed by a linear play on E4.

E4 ANNOUNCES ALL NEW GAMESMASTER PRESENTING LINE-UP | Channel 4

Well that sucks. I wanted more.

JoeBoi · 5 Dec 2021 at 23:21

Overall, I really enjoyed Games Master. The presenters were good, Sir Trevor McDonald was great. Shame they only made the 3 episodes, hopefully we get more.

Felt like they'd run out of those Golden Joysticks on the last episode!

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Dec 2021 at 15:58

3 Episodes? is that it?

Exactly what the Gamesmaster said = " ******** "

iamtheoneneo · 13 Dec 2021 at 20:10

Just watched this. This is good stuff from everyone involved, they have got the feel of the show pretty spot on and would genuinely like to see it return with a bit more budget (mainly in the green screen department) and time for everyone to get really settled in. Guests were great and really engaged!

Though I guess nothing will happen for at least a year if Frankie is going off on mat leave soon.