Mostly the contestants playing on the phone but not seen on the show would normally win, the contestants shown live on the show would be picked at random on the street and a filming done earlier in the day of the production crew tracking them down would be shown.īy the third series this format had the added twist of forfeits, in which if the challenger in the home would lose a game.
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The theme was slightly changed so there were two teams involved in this format of the show, with players on telephones and players on telephones in their home shown live on TV cameras.
The games were specially designed for the series, but from the mid-point of series two technological advances were brought in allowed players to press the buttons on a touch tone phone to control the games, and were from this point games that could be found on the high street. There was also an interactive phone-in show where callers would play video games live on the air, against other members of the public, with a celebrity guest at the controls while the viewer gave directions. Sky refused to air as it contained a feature on GamesWorld magazine, which was published by a rival company to Sky's News group. Recently, an unaired episode from 1994 leaked onto YouTube. This segment of the show had David Walliams' playing the part of Lesley Luncheonmeat, Barry's sidekick. It was replaced by "Barry's Joypad", and then "Barry TV" or "BTV" for the third series, and also showed reviews including cheats and features, as well as being a comedy show starring Barry himself. This feature had "Master classes" presented by the various videators in which they would guide viewers through particular parts of a selected video game.ĭespite being the highest rated British produced TV show on Sky One - beaten only by The Simpsons and WWF Wrestling - The Peep Parlour was dropped for the second series. The original show also had different formats during the week, these would be The Peep Parlour which was a computer-designed peep-parlour where videogamers would ask for advice from "The Games Mistress" on their games playing queries, and featured the delights of Jet from Gladiators Diane Youdale and an hilarious selection of characters with David Walliams - in his first appearances on TV. Winners received a Games World bomber jacket, whilst the overall series winner would receive an arcade machine.īob Mills was the presenter from 1993-95, along with 'GamesAnimal' Dave Perry, Jeremy Daldry and Tim Boone. Every Friday, a single winner from the previous day staked points on various matches at differing games, and would go up against various cartoonish characters known as 'videators'. The main body of the show took place on Mondays and Wednesdays, and was an elimination contest between several youngsters over several different video games, where winners would go on to Friday's edition. The overall concept of Games World was quite similar to Hewland International's GamesMaster (1992-98), which was shown every week on Channel 4 and had a new set for each series. Games World was a British computer games-based television programme, made by Hewland International and broadcast on Sky One each weekday from 1993-1998.
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