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Uh, we've got an incredible, uh, lineup of guests as well.

I'm gonna be on stage with, uh, Dominik Diamond of, uh, Gamesmaster fame.

Uh, we're gonna be doing a panel about, um, uh, of explorers as well with, uh, Tony Warriner and, uh, Stu Cambridge.

Looking forward to that.

I'm really confused

... you, you, you read in the, the trade press, or you see on Barry Norman or whatever, Movies, Movies, Movies, or even GamesMaster, they announce they're making a Street Fighter movie, the game that you've been playing loads.

It's from the guy who wrote Commando and Die Hard, and it's starring-

You're 14 years old.

um the seagulls um but the the the big draw for me at the time was to to go on the the main arcade at the front of the palace pier um which is still there now and still has some games in it but you know it tends to be more the the modern games a lot of ufo catchers um and penny falls and things but there was this one day and i was already i guess a semi-regular at the arcades 13 years old something like that um allowed to go downtown on my own because that's how it was back in the 80s um walked on the pier one day and they'd i can't remember what was there before front and center in the the big hall but this day i walked in and they had up on literal up on on literally up on pedestals they had two space harrier hydraulic machines and there were crowds around both Bear in mind, I don't know what the demographic of this show is going to be, but there's probably some folks listening who won't remember a time when you never saw a video game, you didn't know anything about a video game before you rocked up and it was just there like magic.

No previews, not necessarily a review if you hadn't picked up the right magazine, certainly no video or discussion about it or whatever, no TV programs, imagine that.

So you would just walk in and technology was coming on a pace and i'd probably seen like i'd seen some 3d stuff by this point that's in obviously pole position have been around for a few years some of the other sort of uh proto pseudo sprite scaling games probably but roger's planet of zoom sega's own earlier one but this one day two space harrier machines massive crowds around and the sound was cranked up And I could hear the bass line and I could hear the sound of the guy playing.

Is he a flying man with a gun? Who knows? Or a flying gun with a man? I mean, I didn't care.

And over and above that, Ruffian, I'm not quite sure whether you remember him or not, but coming out tomorrow on our programme, we have a straight talk one-to-one with Dominic Diamond.

Do you remember him? He used to host the Gamesmaster on Channel 4.

He's on a tour at the moment, loves his football.

Thought I'd have a wee chat with him.

It's something like your dad would say.

Anyway, who's this talking you're all thinking at home, even though it says on the episode? Yeah.

Joining me to be that guy...

Huh?

So you do Cheap Show, obviously.

I do, yes.

And you've just had your 500th episode.

Depending on when this comes out, it's either just...

So it says here, the game's...

Games Master gave this a 94%.

Now, is Games Master, is that the TV show boat? It is, right? Yeah.

And then the 92, it says, was from...

Because I'm looking here and I don't even see a 92.