Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe: Computer Games

Charlie Brooker is an incredibly satirical British journalist/cartoonist/comedy writer; the Screenwipe series is a TV version of his hilarious Guardian Guide column: Screen Burn. I've read him over a decade ago in PC Zone gaming magazine - I love his over the top, savage, surreal, profane & pessimistic rants!
westysays...

Games have the potentail to deliver narative and story in a fair more relivent and personal way than tv ore films ever could. the problem is people are unaware of the difrent narative techneeks that have to be used in games to convay a story unlike in film where it is very transparent. this has two negative afects alot of developers are not conchouse of how to make strong narative games and players and reviwers donot reolise the resoins behind why a game thay are playing has sutch a profound afect on them. an example of games with incredably strong embeded narative

half life 1
operatoin flashpiont
duesex

spoco2says...

Upvote almost entirely for the last bit about them transmitting code over the end credits of the show. We never had such shows in Aus (I don't think so anyway), but that's cool... although quite a pain to have to hook up your cassette deck to your tv in order to tape the sound to then play back to your computer.

old school interactive tech tv

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