Saturday Night

Today, we've landed on Saturday the 8th of October, 1994, and a helicopter game from Electronic Arts has just flown to the top of the cartridge chart.

Before we take off, there's the number one single, what the shops were charging, uh, the reviews, Saturday night telly, um, the, the year's must-have toy, and a new console, and then the game itself on three Sega and Nintendo machines.

Mark Webb's in the co-pilot seat.

Morning, Lee, and I've got my headset on and everything because the Strike games were a proper big deal on the Mega Drive.

Dixons put it on sale on Friday the 30th of September, so it took just over a week to get there.

But first, the radio.

The number one single was "Saturday Night" by Whigfield, which is pretty handy because the 8th was a Saturday.

Uh, Whigfield was really a Danish singer called Sannie Carlson fronting an Italian, uh, dance project, and she was the first act ever to go straight in at number one in Britain with a debut single.