The Fish
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I saw it when it was shown. The problem with Virtually Impossible was that the technology wasn't ready for it and the format didn't quite work. Only now is VR technology good enough to present something that (a) the audience can really get into, and (b) can be played seamlessly (as I recall, several teams appeared to have problems controlling their play).
More than that, though, the sort of games on that show demanded player control through handsets and such; and the game was dictated solely by that. This made it difficult to get into because all the audience would see was the reaction of the game to some unseen action by the player(s).
The new Km will not, I predict, have this problem. This is because the said action by the player(s) will be choosing clue objects, answering riddles/questions and acting on clues - a far cry from pushing buttons, which no-one would have been able to connect with.
Knowing the cause of an effect (especially if the effect is negative - the result of a bad decision) will involve the audience to infinitely greater degree and will build tension (particularly when predicting a negative effect such as a messy death!)
If you've read right through up to this point, you win a prize!
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I must have been pretty sad. I watched every episode. It used to remind me of "Cyberzone" presented by the very annoying Craig Charles. Does anyone remember that programme?
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Right, well, I was a big fan of Virtually Impossible, I even applied to go on that show!
No, it wasn't as good as Knightmare, mainly because of the lack of plots, characters, and so on. Also it was based around points rather than a real adventure - you couldn't even die (well, you could, but then you had to buy another life - I always wanted the teams to refuse!).
Thinking back, it wasn't a very good show, but I enjoyed it - not knowing that Knightmare would be cancelled at that time, I just saw it as a show to tide me over until KM series 9, which didn't happen...
...still, meh. I liked it. Kinda. At least it tried.
Oh, and Cod-P looked like a pooka, which helped.
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It was all done on 486s I think. Do you remember Thesp?
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I wanted to use that stupid fish as a tennis racket .
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They may have used that stupid pie/cake as energy for all the good it did in Knightmare s8!!!! then the fish might have died from food poisoning thus no recomission!!!!! Oh sorry i forgot, it didnt get re-comissioned as the fish might have dies or was it splattered????? Who knows?? or maybe Lord Fear found it and kidnapped it so Knightmare would come back????
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Didn't 'Codsby' return later as a Channel4 late-nite presenter? I think the program was a 'pop-up video' type clone but can't remember the name...
VI? Nice idea... CRAP execution!
Computer hardware at the time simply wasn't up to the rigours of what TC attempted.
If they tried something like that today.....
(What am I saying?!? THEY ARE! The VR demonstrator........)
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Thank you to YouTube user Mitogen for recently providing an episode of Virtually Impossible. Here is Part 1 of 3. At the time, the series completely passed me by, so I was pleased at this opportunity.
I now appreciate why Codsby has been battered by previous posters. Under different circumstances, I might have been willing to defend him as cute; but sadly, he has the voice of Barney the Dinosaur while being only slightly less of an affront to evolution.
I wonder if he was named after Bill Cosby.
http://knightmare.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1297&p=24540#p24540:
Didn't 'Codsby' return later as a Channel4 late-nite presenter? I think the program was a 'pop-up video' type clone but can't remember the name...
That'll be 'Karaoke Fishtank'. Can't remember its name but it wasn't the same fish.
Though interestingly, it turns out that the same actor-comedian, Logan Murray, was behind both. As Debz_g said in an earlier post, they were from the same aquarium, and there is still a picture of Vince Finn on televirtual.com.
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hmmmm havin watch the fish programme it looked a hurried job as we of course expected 15 weeks of knightmare. it might have worked 2 years later after knightmare had gone. the problem was the show wasn't long enough nor the games. the baddy, well she wasn't up to much
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When Virtually Impossible appeared on our screens at the end of 1994, I, like most of this thread's posters, had no time for it; I think I watched only two or three episodes before I had had enough. The main reason for this was that it was not Knightmare. However, seeing that someone had posted a "YouTube" link to an episode of VI, I figured that, after a fifteen-year grudge, it deserved another chance.
To be fair to it, it does not appear as bad now as I used to think. The games remind me of the SNES game (and movie) The Lawnmower Man, while the set looks a bit like the one used in Scavengers (hosted by John Leslie). Indeed, were it not for its unfortunate time of release, I am sure I would have enjoyed VI, since the games actually look quite involving (if a touch short).
Now to the problems with it:
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It is not Knightmare (yes, the grudge is still there).
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Codsby is extremely annoying and overuses the word "congratulations".
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The episodes are self-contained, removing the "cliffhanger effect" that worked so well in Knightmare.
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The main antagonist is not a patch on either Lord Fear or Mogdred.
By far the best thing about VI was the use of Series 8 sound effects. No doubt about that at all.
Finally, does anyone know if the same four games were used in every episode? If so, it is a shame; a bit of variety would work nicely.
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It is not exactly the same four games each time, although the end game is always the same, but I remember they had at least one more game, which involved the "Ranger" walking around on a virtual pinball machine.
Read my thoughts about Virtually impossible in The Eye Shield Issue 62, coming your way March 2010!
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Just in case anyone's still interested: http://www.knightmare.com/tes/issue62/4.htm
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