CYBERZONE: The World’s First VR Game Show (Is Very Bad)

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BBC’s 1993 show Cyberzone was the first game show to consist entirely of real-time 3D Virtual Reality games! And alas, it was pretty terrible. We’re looking at this show alongside other Broadsword efforts like The Satellite Game and Virtually Impossible, and also seeing how they affected the studio’s main show — Knightmare. Awooga!

A huge thanks to @ChrisVHS89 and @malthusdire4348 for uploading episodes of Cyberzone, The Satellite Game and Virtually Impossible.

SOURCES:

The Interactive Knightmare Lexicon: https://interactive.knightmare.org.uk/home/lexicon
Tim Child’s Official History of Knightmare: https://www.knightmare.com/backstage/history/
Interview with Tim Child at Bother’s Bar: https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?page_id=193
UKGameshows – Cyberzone: http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Cyberzone
ACE Magazine – Issue 44 (May ’91): https://archive.org/details/Ace_Magazine_Issue_44
G&TV – Cyberzone: https://www.ganymede.tv/2019/06/gtv-cyberzone/

0:00 Intro
1:31 Broadsword Productions and Knightmare
2:52 The Satellite Game: Broadsword’s First Attempt at VR
9:09 The Origin and Creation of Cyberzone
10:56 What Is Cyberzone and Why Is It Bad?
12:48 The Tech is Weak
14:54 Why Cyberzone Failed and Got Cancelled
16:31 The Great Awooga Swindle
21:20 Virtually Impossible and the End of Knightmare

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