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''Games World'' was an entertainment video games show that was broadcast on Sky One each weekday from 1993-98. The overall concept of ''Games World'' was similar to ''GamesMaster''. ==Format== 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. 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". Winners received a ''Games World'' bomber jacket, whilst the overall series winner would receive an arcade machine. Bob Mills was the presenter for the show's original run from 1993–95, along with "GamesAnimal" Dave Perry, Jeremy Daldry and Tim Boone. The original show also had different formats during the week, called ''The Peep Parlour'', which was a computer-designed peep-parlour where videogamers would ask for advice from "The Games Mistress" related to their video game playing queries, and featured Diane Youdale, better known as Jet from Gladiators, and a selection of other characters. This feature also had "master classes" presented by the various Videators in which they would guide viewers through particular parts of a selected video game. The show became 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 and replaced by ''Barry's Joypad'' starring the Videator Big Boy Barry. It featured video game reviews, cheats, features, as well as being a comedy show for the Big Boy Barry character. This segment of the show had David Walliams in his first appearance on TV playing the part of Lesley Luncheonmeat, Barry's sidekick. 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. The games were specially designed for the series, but from the midpoint of series two technological advances were brought in that 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. The theme was then 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 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 recorded earlier in the day of the production crew selecting them down would be shown. By the third series this format had the added twist of forfeits if the challenger in the home would lose a game. One forfeit involved a boy having to rip a poster of Pamela Anderson off his bedroom wall, after losing on Super Street Fighter II. ''Barry's Joypad'' was renamed ''Barry TV'' or ''BTV'' for the third series. An unaired episode from 1994 was leaked onto YouTube. Sky refused to air the show as it contained a feature on ''GamesWorld'' magazine, which was published by a rival company (Paragon Publishing) to Sky's News group. A fourth series was scheduled to air in 1995/1996 but never materialised. Hewland decided to cease any plans for series four until 1998, when the show ultimately returned under Hewland's penative new title of ''New Games World''. Bob Mills was replaced by Andy Collins and the set became an Aztec-themed jungle environment. Dave Perry remained as the last of the original on-screen team though he left towards the end of the series, reportedly disillusioned with the new format and setting. Relatedly, the games strand on the now defunct "The Computer Channel"- another Hewland production- was called "Games World" until the channel became ".tv", which would generally take the format of a review show, hosted by Big Boy Barry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Games World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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