 Bob Mills and Dave Perry present "The Eliminator" in Series 3 of Games World. Games World was a British computer games-based television programme, made by Hewland International and broadcast on Sky One each weekday from 1993-1995. The overall concept of Games World was quite similar to Hewland International's GamesMaster (1992-98), which was shown every week on Channel 4 and had a new set for each series. Image File history File links GWElim2-200x129h. ...
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Format
The main body of the show took place on Mondays and Wednesdays, and was an elimination contest between several youngsters over several different video games, where winners would go on to Friday's edition. Every Friday, a single winner from the previous day staked points on various matches at differing games, and would go up against various WWE-style characters known as 'videators'. Winners received a Games World bomber jacket, and series winners would receive an arcade machine if they were to claim the top prize. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...
Bob Mills was the presenter from 1993-95, along with 'GamesAnimal' Dave Perry, Jeremy Daldry and Tim Boone; Bob Mills (born 1957) is a British comedian, notable for his appearances in cult TV series such as In Bed With Medinner, and The Show, an attempt to do a British Larry Sanders Show with one difference: it wasnt fictional. ...
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The Videators were the most memorable characters of the show. Season one saw the emergence of Big Boy Barry (played by Alex Verrey) who became the series' most popular character. Others characters over the first year included Master Moriarty, a stuck-up schoolboy, Letty Edwards (who could only play one game- Columns), the Ninja and The Exectutioner; the latter 3 were all dropped for Series 2. Barry won the majority of his games (primarily Sonic 2) as did Moriarty. Columns (also called Jewels) is a puzzle computer game, arcade game and console game with many similarities to Tetris. ...
Sonic 2 title screen Sonic the Hedgehog 2, or simply Sonic 2, the sequel of Sonic the Hedgehog, is a side-scrolling platform video game made by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis. ...
Season 2 saw the return of Barry, along with Master Moriarty. The most notable Videator that stood out from the new guys was Mr Mathers played by Martin Mathers who after a shaky start, found his feet and went on a winning streak. Videators such as Combat Kal, Persian Prince of Perfection and the Violet Blade tended to lose more often than win and all but one were dropped for season 3. Time has not been kind to Martin, circa 2006. ...
Season 3 saw the return of Barry, Moriarty, the now-established Mathers and the Violet Blade (portrayed by Rik Henderson, one of the series' writers). New videators were Trixie Belle, Colin the Console Cowboy, Ragga D, and Electric Eddie.
Season 4 never materialised like it was supposed to in 1995/1996. There was early talk that Barry, Mathers and Eddie would have returned as the domineering players/characters of the show (Mathers and Eddie moreso as players, Barry as the figurehead). New Videators would have been brought in but Hewland decided to cease any plans to do Gamesworld Season 4 for the time being.
Games World ultimately returned in 1998. Bob Mills was gone and replaced Andy Collins and the set became an Aztec-themed environment. Even though Dave Perry remained as the last of the original team, he left half way through the series, reportedly disillusioned with the new format and setting. Dave Perry. ...
The show also had different formats during the week, these would be The Peep Parlour which was a computer-designed peep-parlour where videogamers would ask for advice from "Madam Pixel" on their games playing queries. This feature had "Master classes" presented by the various vidiators in which they would guide viewers through particular parts of a selected video game.
This was dropped for the second series, with "Big Boy Barry" hosting a same sort of show. It was known as "Barry's Joypad", and then "Barry TV" or "BTV" for the third series, and also showed reviews including cheats and features, as well as being a comedy show starring Barry himself. This segement of the show, was David Walliams first TV appearance playing the part of Lesley Luncheonmeat, Barry's sidekick. David Walliams, (born David Williams) August 20, 1971 in Surrey, is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show Little Britain. ...
Recently, an unaired episode from 1994 leaked onto YouTube. Sky refused to show it as they were unsatisified with Hewland International's approach in the episode to promote GamesWorld magazine. YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ...
There was also an interactive phone-in show where callers would play video games live on the air, against other members of the public, with a celebrity guest at the controls while the viewer gave directions. The games were specially designed for the series, but from the mid-point of series two technological advances were brought in allowed players to press the buttons on a touch tone phone to control the games, and were from this point games that could be found on the high street.
The theme was slightly changed so there were two teams involved in this format of the show, with players on telephones and players on telphones in their home shown live on TV cameras. Mostly the contestants playing on the phone but not seen on the show would normally win, the contestants shown live on the show would be picked at random on the street and a filming done earlier in the day of the production crew tracking them down would be shown.
By the third series this format had the added twist of forfeits, in which if the challenger in the home would lose a game. One was that of ripping from the bedroom wall of a young boy a poster of Pamela Anderson, after losing on Super Street Fighter II. Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-American actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Street Fighter II. (Discuss) Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers was the penultimate release of a long string of fighting games in the Street Fighter II series. ...
At the end of the week would be the main afforementioned challenges feature of the show.
Cast
Presenters Bob Mills (born 1957) is a British comedian, notable for his appearances in cult TV series such as In Bed With Medinner, and The Show, an attempt to do a British Larry Sanders Show with one difference: it wasnt fictional. ...
Dave Perry. ...
Videators - Big Boy Barry (played by Alex Verrey)
- Electric Eddie (played by Rob J Nathan)
- Colin the Console Cowboy
- The Executioner (played by Gary Harrod)
- Radion Automatic
- Combat Cal (played by Cal Jones)
- Mr Mathers (played by Martin Mathers)
- The Violet Blade (played by Rik Henderson)
- The Persian Prince (played by Hussain Ghafoor)
- Ragga D (played by Cecil Dyer)
- Master Moriarty (played by Tristan Moriarty)
- Trixie Belle (played by Pushpa Chopra)
Radion Automatic (real name Edward Laurence) started out on UK multiformat videogame magazine Mean Machines. ...
Cal Jones (Cal Jones, born June 17, 1967) is a games journalist from London who worked on magazines such as PC Review and PC Gaming World (the UK edition of Computer Gaming World) during the 1990s. ...
BTV (known as Barry's Joypad in series 2) - Big Boy Barry (played by Alex Verrey)
- Lesley (played by David Walliams)
- Charlene (played by Sarah Phillys)
- The Games Mistress (played by Diane Youdale)
David Walliams, (born David Williams) August 20, 1971 in Surrey, is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show Little Britain. ...
Diane Youdale (born February 13, 1970 in Billingham, England) is a British television personality, who was best known for her role as Jet on the television series Gladiators, a game show where players competed in athletic contests against a cast of athletes. ...
External links - Presenter Dave Perry's new website
- Games World @ UKGameShows.com
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