14 Nov
2004
14 Nov
'04
4:59 a.m.
This is much fun. It's a contest on some UK channel for people to come up
with concepts for the most crap 1980s games. This is not picking crap
1980s games mind you, but coming up with parodies of games in the 1980s
that were such crap they were memorable.
http://www.b3ta.com/features/crapcomputergames/
Some highlights:
Invaders from Space
http://www.mrandmrswheatley.co.uk/invaders.html
Father Jack Nun Attack
http://www.distaste.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Father%20Jack.php
Paintmash Dungeon 2
http://www.mrandmrswheatley.co.uk/princess1.html
Spazz Attack
http://www.mrandmrswheatley.co.uk/spazzman.html
Super Bog Run
http://www.lskerton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bogrun.html
There are also what I'm sure are UK-centric jokes that are above my head
but that will make the blokes howl.
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14 Nov
14 Nov
5:31 a.m.
There are also what I'm sure are UK-centric jokes
that are above my head
but that will make the blokes howl.
Well, the "Father Jack: Nun Attack" is pretty funny :^) But it helps
if you've watched "Father Ted".
Zane
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8:42 a.m.
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 10:59 -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
This is much fun. It's a contest on some UK
channel for people to come up
with concepts for the most crap 1980s games
Ohhhh... thanks for posting that. I caught the first series of Look
Around You and it's one of the funniest shows I've ever seen on TV. Glad
there's another run coming up! :)
cheers
Jules
5:18 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 10:59 -0800, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
I've heard a couple comments to this effect so far. What, basically, is
the show about? Any chance to get a taping?
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This is much fun. It's a contest on some UK
channel for people to come up
with concepts for the most crap 1980s games
Ohhhh... thanks for posting that. I caught the first series of Look
Around You and it's one of the funniest shows I've ever seen on TV. Glad
there's another run coming up! :) 
6:33 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Vintage
Computer Festival
Sent: 15 November 2004 07:18
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Brits so Wacky
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
I've heard a couple comments to this effect so far. What,
basically, is the show about? Any chance to get a taping?
Back in the early 70s we had a series of educational programmes 'for schools
and colleges' that featured typical boffins of the day wearing massive
collars, horrible shirts, beards and lab coats doing experiments that us
kids had to watch and write down the results.
Look Around You was a perfect pastiche of those programmes that basically
took the piss from start to finish. Each show was 10 minutes long with loads
of background jokes and visuals and daft experiments, with plenty of
opportunities to 'write that down' for later. At several points me and the
missus were in tears :o))
Best thing to do is for me to get the DVD from home and try and compress
some snippets into interweb-friendly format.....I can tape some of it but
you'd need a video that can play PAL-I broadcasts.
cheers
w
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 10:59 -0800, Vintage
Computer Festival wrote:
> This is much fun. It's a contest on some UK channel for
people to
come up
with concepts for the most crap 1980s games
Ohhhh... thanks for posting that. I caught the first series of Look
Around You and it's one of the funniest shows I've ever seen on TV.
Glad there's another run coming up! :) 
6:51 p.m.
Heh. I've seen that (my neighbour bought it and brought it round) and it
was hysterical. It isn't exactly like the American version, but they did
show movies very much like it when I was in school in Tempe Arizona.
The American ones were more like the one in the Simpsons...
Troy: Nothing beats a stroll in cattle country. Hi, I'm Troy McClure.
You may remember me from such educational films as "Two Minus
Three Equals Negative Fun" and "Firecrackers: The Silent Killer".
Jimmy: Mr. McClure?
Troy: Oh! Hello Bobby.
Jimmy: Jimmy. I'm curious as to how meat gets from the ranch to my
stomach.
Troy: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down Jimmy. You just asked a mouthful.
It all starts here, in the high density feed lot. Then, when the
cattle are just right [swipes his finger along the top of a cow
and licks it] Yum...it's time for them to graduate from Bovine
University. A klaxon blares out a siren and the cattle begin moving
up a conveyor
belt into the meat packing plant.
Troy: Come on Jimmy, let's take a peek at the killing floor.
Jimmy: Ohhh!
Troy: Don't let the name throw you Jimmy. It's not really a floor,
it's more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice
through so it can be collected and exported.
They walk throught the door of the plant accompanied by the sounds of
moo-ing and startled cows. Electricity noise sparks in the background
as the camera pans down the length of the factory to a truck marked
"Meat For You" being loaded with raw chunks of meat. Troy and Jimmy
emerge, with Jimmy visibly pale and queasy.
Troy: Gettin hungry Jimmy?
Jimmy: Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says its wrong
to eat meat. Is he crazy?
Troy: Nooo, just ignorant. You see your crazy friend never heard
of "The Food Chain". [Flash to a picture of "Food
Chain",
with all animals and arrows pointing to a silhouette of a
human.] Just ask this scientician.
Scientician: [Looking up from a microscope.] Uhhh...
Troy: He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably
eats another creature to survive.
[Images of various wild carnivores attacking and eating
others appear.]
Don't kid yourself Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance,
he'd eat you and everyone you care about! [Image of a cow
quietly chewing cud.]
Jimmy: Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a grade A moron to ever question
eating meat.
Troy: [Laughs.] Yes you were Jimmy, yes you were. [Briskly rubs
his hand on Jimmy's head.]
Jimmy: [Timid] Uhh...you're hurting me.
-- Troy McClure, the silent hurter, "Lisa the Vegetarian"
Film's over.
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From: "Adrian Graham" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
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Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:33 AM
Subject: RE: Brits so Wacky
Look Around You was a perfect pastiche of those programmes that basically
took the piss from start to finish. Each show was 10 minutes long with
loads
of background jokes and visuals and daft experiments,
with plenty of
opportunities to 'write that down' for later. At several points me and the
missus were in tears :o))
Best thing to do is for me to get the DVD from home and try and compress
some snippets into interweb-friendly format.....I can tape some of it but
you'd need a video that can play PAL-I broadcasts.
cheers
w
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15 Nov
15 Nov
1:59 a.m.
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Adrian Graham wrote:
Best thing to do is for me to get the DVD from home
and try and compress
some snippets into interweb-friendly format.....I can tape some of it but
Please! Thanks!
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14 Nov
14 Nov
9:26 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Vintage
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Sent: 14 November 2004 18:59
To: Classic Computers Mailing List
Subject: Brits so Wacky
This is much fun. It's a contest on some UK channel for
people to come up with concepts for the most crap 1980s
games. This is not picking crap 1980s games mind you, but
coming up with parodies of games in the 1980s that were such
crap they were memorable.
http://www.b3ta.com/features/crapcomputergames/
as advertised on my index page since the owner of b3ta told me about it a
few weeks ago :) I happen to go drinking with some of that lot from time to
time, I've been part of the b3ta community for a couple of years now. They
do weekly 'competitions' that primarily concentrate on manipulated images,
jokes, parodies etc.....some gifted people on there.
Some of 'em collect old machines too, some of you might remember this tune
that b3ta head honcho Rob put together a few months ago:
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
cheers
w
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