<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Reminds me of Knightmare]]></title><description><![CDATA[Other shows or games that remind you of Knightmare but aren't official derivatives.]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/category/49</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:24:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.knightmare.com/forum/category/49.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 10:50:56 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Unintended KM references on Youtube]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, I THINK it's unintended anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At_LNDO1eq0
Wow, and we thought the place-of-choice scenes in the series went on too long.....
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3458/unintended-km-references-on-youtube</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3458/unintended-km-references-on-youtube</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[HStorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 10:50:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popeye on Knightmare?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thank you to fellow forum member Snowcat (Andrew) for finding this: a restored clip from the 1934 Popeye cartoon Can You Take It showing a blindfolded Popeye tackling an obstacle course that includes circular saws.
Instagram post, Facebook post
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3448/popeye-on-knightmare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3448/popeye-on-knightmare</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 14:20:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merriam-Webster]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to a recent social media post from Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 'If you have 'vim,' there's a 99% chance you also have 'vigor.'' Not on Knightmare!
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3447/merriam-webster</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3447/merriam-webster</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:35:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echoes of an Elusive Age]]></title><description><![CDATA[They wanted to know how it was done - what was real and what was not.  Earlier this year, we had a trip to 'Wolfenden', too (https://www.wealddown.co.uk/).
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3408/echoes-of-an-elusive-age</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3408/echoes-of-an-elusive-age</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[s4t8brett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 08:37:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historical reminders of Knightmare]]></title><description><![CDATA[In passage 61 of The Quest for the Dragon's Egg (a.k.a. the gamebook section of The Forbidden Gate), Pickle remarks that a large pineapple "Looks like a hand grenade" then adds "At least, it will do once hand grenades have been invented" when 'he remembers that Knightmare Castle exists in medieval times.'
However, there is evidence of grenade-like projectiles being used at the time of the Crusades. This post in The History Blog has details.
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3407/historical-reminders-of-knightmare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3407/historical-reminders-of-knightmare</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:31:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The REAL Great Corridor Of The Catacomb!!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cheers, although it's not exactly a 'find' in the way you mean. I lived on the hill opposite to the Roman wall as a kid, and I was aware of the Catacombs long before Knightmare began.
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3381/the-real-great-corridor-of-the-catacomb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3381/the-real-great-corridor-of-the-catacomb</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[HStorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:14:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jason Karl & The Satellite Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was just reading the article on this website by Jason Karl (formerly Julian Smith) about his appearance on "The Satellite Game". The piccy of his team is slightly blurred, but are they his Knightmare-winning teammates Mary Dixon &amp; Vaughan Simpson?
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3353/jason-karl-the-satellite-game</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3353/jason-karl-the-satellite-game</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Morghanna]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:24:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A live interactive RPG show on US cable TV in 1982]]></title><description><![CDATA[No, this isn't April 1st. I've found evidence on YouTube that there was at least one episode of an honest-to-goodness live interactive RPG show on a US cable TV network as early as 1982. Calling it RPG might be a touch strong - it's really "choose your own adventure", but with off-brand fantasy tabletop RPG trimmings. It's fascinating, more for its potential than anything else.
Prepare to scroll through 21 seconds of test card before you get to the content. With that warning in mind, I present to you 'QUBE Cincinnati - Swordquest', months before Atari would use the title for an unrelated, but coincidentally similarly doomed, series of adventure games for its 2600 console. The same YouTube channel has examples of other programming from a short-lived US cable TV network called QUBE which had simple live interactivity with its viewing audience through buttons on their remote controls. When the TC show prompts people to "touch now", it wasn't kidding. The cable network started in 1977, lost money hand over fist, and was shut down in the early '80s. Other interactive game shows on the channel made a virtue of featuring live polling data from as many as 168 families who were watching, despite having (in context) a big star at the time hosting.
The quality of the show is better than you might expect in some places, and towards the lower end of your expectations in other places. I suspect the gameplay was pretty heavily railroaded, though slightly more subtly than you might expect. I don't think its existence is at all well known, even among people who are interested in adventure games on TV.
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3304/a-live-interactive-rpg-show-on-us-cable-tv-in-1982</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3304/a-live-interactive-rpg-show-on-us-cable-tv-in-1982</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[chrismdickson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:47:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baker Knight and the Knightmares]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Baker Knight Jr. (a.k.a. Baker Knight) is perhaps best known for writing The Wonder of You. In 1956 he started a group called Baker Knight and The Knightmares. (This may be the earliest known use of the pun.)
This is one of their songs: Hallucinations (1967).
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3288/baker-knight-and-the-knightmares</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3288/baker-knight-and-the-knightmares</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2021 11:06:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book: It's not Knightmare, but it's called Knightmare]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently got this for my Kindle; -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/KNIGHTMARE-Beverley-Cann-ebook/dp/B08TCGFZQP/
It's got nothing to do with any TV series you may be thinking about - although it is about someone from the modern world going back in time by mysterious means to the 12th Century and spending a lot of time in an English Castle in which people die frequently and in rather gruesome ways - but it is rather good....
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3273/book-it-s-not-knightmare-but-it-s-called-knightmare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3273/book-it-s-not-knightmare-but-it-s-called-knightmare</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[HStorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:13:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jedi Temple Challenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently watched Star Wars series The Mandalorian. Interestingly, Jedi Master Kelleran Beq - the host character in Jedi Temple Challenge, played by Ahmed Best - appears briefly in The Mandalorian.
I wonder if there are any other examples of a gameshow character appearing in a full-fiction TV series or film. Imagine if Hugo Myatt appeared as Treguard in a drama!
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3209/jedi-temple-challenge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3209/jedi-temple-challenge</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:08:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crystal Maze: Virtual Knightmare]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thanks for the links, James. I'd like to think that Virtual Knightmare is an official name, but it may just be what The Crystal Maze Database has called this game.
Al Murray's (successful) attempt at the game was particularly enjoyable, with excellent guiding by Ashley Taylor Dawson. It included an instruction for Al to sidestep to his left.
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3178/the-crystal-maze-virtual-knightmare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3178/the-crystal-maze-virtual-knightmare</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:21:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treasures of the Mindlord]]></title><description><![CDATA[My book - which features a few pages on Treasures of the Mindlord - is now out at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0858VPCJV if you want a little more detail on the show. Thanks!
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3168/treasures-of-the-mindlord</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3168/treasures-of-the-mindlord</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[curiousbritishtelly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2019 19:03:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Escape room inspired board games]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi People
Quite possibly covered in the forum already- with rise of escape room experiences, can see a trend
in escape room board games. This one particularly looks knightmare inspired and thought would appeal
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/255675/exit-game-catacombs-horror
Thanks
StockErs
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3162/escape-room-inspired-board-games</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3162/escape-room-inspired-board-games</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[stockholmsyndrome]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 23:29:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keith Richards]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Saturday Review section of today's Times has a photo of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on the cover, with the caption 'Never too old'. It reminded me of the caption competition on Interactive Knightmare in 2004, where the prizewinning caption of a picture of Beveryafraid (a.k.a. Garstang, the orc/goblin from Knightmare VR) was 'Keith Richards was beginning to show his age'.
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3158/keith-richards</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3158/keith-richards</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:48:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[2001: A Space Odyssey]]></title><description><![CDATA[At one point in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the camera moves towards a black oblong standing in a room.
A moment later, the camera pans down from a full moon, which of course is how most episodes of Knightmare Series 1-5 started.
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3152/2001-a-space-odyssey</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3152/2001-a-space-odyssey</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:27:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knightmare Games: goblin miniatures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Spanish company Knightmare Games sells a variety of fantasy miniatures, including goblins. Among them are a Samurai Goblin and a Goblin Witch, which in Knightmare Series 6 would have constituted most bizarre lovechildren.
http://knightmareminiatures.com/search?keyword=goblin
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3142/knightmare-games-goblin-miniatures</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3142/knightmare-games-goblin-miniatures</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2019 13:22:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gruagach and Merlin in Hellboy (2019)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new Hellboy film, out next month, will feature the character Gruagach. Unlike the mysterious evil being in the first Knightmare book, this Gruagach is referred to as an 'iconic pig-fairy villain'. There are some glimpses of it in the trailers.
Merlin will also be a character in the film, played by Brian Gleeson who is a couple of months younger than Knightmare.
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3141/gruagach-and-merlin-in-hellboy-2019</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3141/gruagach-and-merlin-in-hellboy-2019</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2019 13:14:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost In Time]]></title><description><![CDATA["Oh no! Brace yourself for a crash, dungeoneer - the end of the tunnel's coming up but the cart just won't slow down!"
[image: Lost_in_Time__sesong_1_Original_77226.jpeg?1491401887]
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3060/lost-in-time</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3060/lost-in-time</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Canadanne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:30:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintended Knightmare references: puzzles and quizzes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Word Watch quiz in today's Times asks whether the definition of Pooka is:
a. Excellent
b. A smoking apparatus
c. A sprite or hobgoblin
I'm trying not to imagine one saying, "I'm excellent! I'll tell you about my smoking apparatus!"
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3056/unintended-knightmare-references-puzzles-and-quizzes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3056/unintended-knightmare-references-puzzles-and-quizzes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:21:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researcher Vacancies – CBBC Fantasy Adventure Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just to let you know, this IS Raven!
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3028/researcher-vacancies-cbbc-fantasy-adventure-show</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3028/researcher-vacancies-cbbc-fantasy-adventure-show</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[GranitasIsCute]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 20:56:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music videos that remind me of Knightmare]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
The very start makes me think of Series 5 and Smirkenorff flights.
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Elf portal at the back (once the door's open).
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
The corridor at 2:41 reminds me of the Series 3 dwarf tunnels. (Also, as a reference to another CITV series, in the lead-up to 3:15 try saying, "This is an art attack... this is an art attack... This is Art Attack!")
*"If everything stops for time out, why don't I stop for time out?"
"I'm working on it, madam. Believe me, I'm working on it!"* - Majida and Treguard, Series 8
"Just you shut your mouth" - David Bowie, China Girl
[image: China-Girl-Knightmare.jpg]
Puppy - Arabella
As written about on Knightmare.com last year.
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3021/music-videos-that-remind-me-of-knightmare</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/3021/music-videos-that-remind-me-of-knightmare</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drassil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 15:41:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Satellite Game: more episodes]]></title><description><![CDATA[I know Freyja Westdal doesn't have as demanding a role as Hugo Myatt - she's not onscreen at all, so she can read most of her lines directly from a script - but I do think she's just as good at responding immediately in character when the team say something unexpected. David Learner is great at improvising too, but then we already knew that! The other characters are... not exactly of Knightmare standard. 
I can't understand why there is SO much scripted talking and SO little gameplay in this programme. It was tedious enough how Knightmare Series 1 had exactly the same intro and outro for every episode, and that was with an intro that took up less than 40 seconds and an outro of about 50 seconds. In The Satellite Game, the outro is just under 40 seconds - not too bad - but the intro takes more than THREE MINUTES each time, not including the recap of their earlier adventures! Why on earth didn't they cut it down a bit? And then Coco has to give these long, unnecessarily detailed speeches about everything, like whenever there's a Killerdroid and she spends the best part of a minute listing all of its weapon specifications, when all they actually need to know is that it's capable of destroying Lari. 
Then on the rare occasion that the team actually has to do something... it's pretty much impossible to figure out what they're supposed to do, thanks to the rubbish graphics and lack of useful information provided! The team that died in the latest uploads had absolutely no chance in that final game. It wasn't clear what anything in the room was supposed to be, what their actual task was, or how they could achieve it. They tried every apparent option, but kept being told they were wasting time - I certainly had no idea what they were doing wrong! They weren't given any kind of meaningful clue until they were just about to run out of time and get destroyed. A very harsh death if you ask me! (They had the same problem in most of the previous games, too - constantly having to ask what the various shapes in front of them are, and being nagged to repeat actions because they can't tell that they haven't done enough to complete a task.)
Also, sometimes it's not clear if they were even meant to do anything at all - on several occasions they get screamed at to take action, but it seems probable that Lari was always going to get blown up so the team would have to control him for a while. (A bit like when Chris turns into a goblin - we'll never know if the team chose the wrong spell or if that outcome was intended and inevitable!) Not to mention the utterly pointless chase sequence at the start of the next quest, where they spend almost 2 minutes desperately trying to outrun a missile, only to find it wasn't a threat (or indeed anything relevant to their quest) after all...!!
There are brief moments, like when Lari navigates the kitchen worktops and appliances, when I think I would have been quite enthralled if I'd seen this as a child. I also like it when they show different views of the same environment (e.g. using the mine scan to guide Lari safely through the minefield). Some good ideas, just buried underneath all the waffle and poor design! This is very similar to the Cyberzone viewing experience, except that Craig Charles gave that show a great deal more energy than this one has. The contestants on TSG look understandably bored out of their minds...
If anyone missed it, Weaver's Week did a review of the first episode a couple of years ago:
http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Weaver%27s_Week_2014-02-02#The_Satellite_Game
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/2921/the-satellite-game-more-episodes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/2921/the-satellite-game-more-episodes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Canadanne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:55:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Knightmare moment at work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Got a bit of a chuckle when I logged on to my workplace intranet today:
[image: Vim.jpg]
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/2894/a-knightmare-moment-at-work</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/2894/a-knightmare-moment-at-work</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[JamesA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:07:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technomancer Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[http://store.steampowered.com/app/338390/
]]></description><link>https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/2892/technomancer-game</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.knightmare.com/forum/topic/2892/technomancer-game</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[lonefairy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2016 06:27:27 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>