{"id":11,"date":"2008-01-17T20:30:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T20:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sull.co.uk\/wp\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-01-17T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T20:30:03","slug":"videogaiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Videogaiden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>17-01-08 &#8211; VideoGaiden<\/h3>\n<p>After close to 30 years of home consoles and computers, the modern media has always struggled to bring to televison a show which covers gaming and isn&#8217;t plain shit. From being a young lad in the 80s watching spotty gimps play Paperboy and Hyper Sports on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Class_%28game_show%29\" target=\"_blank\">First Class<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-8790853500392771335&amp;q=gamesmaster\" target=\"_blank\">Gamesmaster<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bad-influence.co.uk\/\">Bad Infuence<\/a> in the early 90s, the absolute bag of shit which was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Games_World\" target=\"_blank\">Games-World<\/a> (only good for featuring a leather clad Jet from Gladiators), through to Bits, Thumb Bandits, Bravo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamer.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamer TV<\/a> there has always been something missing for the people who a) aren&#8217;t kids, b) have some intelligence, c) manage to fit in gaming around a social life and beer. Even in this day and age of a thousand channels transmitted directly into the idiot box in the corner of your room, the only &#8220;dedicated&#8221; channel is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xleague.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xleague.tv<\/a>, which is another graduate from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cult\/classic\/titles\/whydontyou.shtml\">Why Don&#8217;t You<\/a> school of TV.<\/p>\n<p>So this brings me to Attempt #5631 by UK broadcasters to try and create a half decent adult based gaming show which doesn&#8217;t make you want to claw your eyes out and stick the squashed up remains into your ears. The BBC, specifically BBC Scotland, have managed to make it to series 3 of VideoGaiden, which is actually half decent, and you don&#8217;t even have to be in Scotland to watch it. You can watch Episode One below but you can watch the entire third series at the show&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/videogaiden\/\" target=\"_blank\">website.<\/a> Be aware that it features some potty mouthed languague. Of course that&#8217;s only a good thing but try not to have it on if the in-laws are round for tea though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"410\" height=\"258\" data=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/videogaiden\/media_player\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"bbcPlayer\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"##101010\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"bbc_external_player=true&amp;bbc_videoId=44533507&amp;bbc_start_image=\/videogaiden\/media_player\/play_video.gif&amp;bbc_link=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/videogaiden\/video\/44533507\/&amp;allowFullScreen=true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/videogaiden\/media_player\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17-01-08 &#8211; VideoGaiden After close to 30 years of home consoles and computers, the modern media has always struggled to bring to televison a show which covers gaming and isn&#8217;t plain shit. From being a young lad in the 80s watching spotty gimps play Paperboy and Hyper Sports on First Class, Gamesmaster and Bad Infuence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/?p=11\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Videogaiden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sull.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}