Bulletin 1000 – ’80s British Video Game Show
Larry Bundy Jr
Ever wondered what an Internet video game show would look like if YouTube existed in the 1980’s?
Well meet “Jeremy” host of Bulletin 1000, a man who cant eyeball the camera for more than half a nano-second without having to read his bloody script! and then do stupid voices for the preview segments.
But if you’re wondering the back story to this show, it was created by a video game distribution company (like Centersoft) to promote forthcoming video games and would air on video walls/screens in 80’s video game stores (well, I say video game stores, but they didn’t exist in the 80’s – so really places like WH Smith, John Menzies, Dixons, Boots (when they sold games) and possibly Woolworths).
From what I can obtain the show only lasted two episodes, or that’s how many I’ve ever managed to recover. But it’s an interesting lil’ tidbit of British video game nostalgia that surprisingly hasn’t been shown on YT before in it’s full form!