The Fish
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Talking of Broadsword productions, has anyone ever seen the Satellite Game - is it any good?
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Does anyone remember that program. Okay, this is a Knightmare site I know, but I can't find anymore about it?
Knightmare Theme Tunes at:
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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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