Alas, all good things must come to an end (as well as the crap things) and we come to my final episode on Gamesworld.
This episode it’s Beat the Elite, where I face up the resident in house gaming masters, the “Videators”.
First of all I was told to keep quiet while the videators did their intro blurb, shame as I’d have loved to have mouthed them off, had ideas and everything 😀
Anyhoo, couple of things were quite memorable for this part of the show, first of all, the first Videator, Metro, after I filmed the bit where I took my hand away from shaking his, Andy Collins came up to me and said I had really pissed him off doing that, seriously! It was just a joke, but he really took it personally for some reason, so he barely spoke to me, other than some snide retort to when I asked him does it feel odd playing in your pants (can’t remember what he said, something along the lines of “doesn’t it feel odd…”) anyhoo, he stormed out the building the moment this finished filming.
And the second Videator, Lord Leslie Mathers, the only videator to return from previous seasons (albeit in a change of character, he was “Mr. Mathers, the Megabyte Millionare” in previous series’) and Games Master viewers will remember him as that bloke who beat Virtua Cop on one credit and played two Virtua Cop 2 machines at once…
Anyhoo, blathering on. We played 1080 snowboarding and 2/3rds down the race, it’s pretty close and I’m beating him, Mathers pauses the game and complains that his joypad isn’t working properly and demands we re-start the game from scratch. It didn’t seem anything wrong to me, we were quite close and there wasn’t anything erratic about the way he was moving, or complaining. (1080 is notorious for having difficult controls anyway)
Anyhoo, we had to restart the entire challenge from scratch and I lost as a result. If you watch closely you can see the joypad change colours in his hands.
It did piss me off, it didn’t matter to him whether I won or lost, and it was also the end of the series. So I’ve always been highly suspicious that he pulled the oldest trick in the book as he was losing.
The other thing when he moved away he cracked my knuckles with his blunderbuss when he swung round, hurt like hell too, but obviously he didn’t do it on purpose or notice it.
Mathers I do actually speak to quite a bit now, he lives down the road from me and he’s been commenting a lot on these videos when I post them up on Facebook. So he’s in for a surprise when this one appears 😀
But there you go, my week on Gamesworld. Sadly I literally got knocked off the grand final list, by some police man who got lucky with points, so I never went any farther. This was also the final ever season of Games World, so my aspirations of becoming Philip the levitating Owl were sorely dashed.
But six years later, I did finally become a presenter on a video game TV show, Game Guru, Which is where I got my “Guru Larry” moniker from.
I’ll upload an episode of that someday if you’re ever interested!
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