Australian TV Gaming Show

Sneaking into the TV programme guide on Channel 7 this Sunday (in Sydney at least) is a show called Control Freaks, which is apparently an Australian made show dedicated to gaming:

You won’t learn how to bake a cake or wallpaper the kitchen but you will have a thumping, pumping, roller-coaster ride through the virtual world of computer and video games. Woo Hoo!
Hyperbole aside, and the fact that it’s on at midday during a non ratings season, this has been a long time coming, and should be worth seeing at least once. From the press release, it seems like it’s only 2 shows - perhaps to test audience reaction.
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posted by devo · at 9:53 am · filed under News

 

4 Comments (RSS)

 shadow 5 years, 11 months ago

Cool … Maybe, depends on how it turns out. Most shows on TV that have featured games or technology (that I have seen anyway) pretty much sucked! … Here’s hoping!

 Biggles 5 years, 11 months ago

I watched Control Freaks I thought it was more like watching Video Sales Catalogue. Most Games were given small amount of time to display the quality of the game. The Adverts were mostly sponsored by Intel , so even they were boring .

Overall it was just one big sales push by the distributors to get that extra cash for christmas sales.

2/10

 devo 5 years, 11 months ago

Bang on. A shocker. At least they were upfront about accepting the mid show adverts. And what was that bit about “the Gamecube plays DVDs and has online capabilities”. Huh ? And the motocross game shots where they seemed to have forgotten the voiceover ? Smacked of corporate sellout - but then who’s going to fund a serious video gaming show other than ABC or SBS.

 shadow 5 years, 11 months ago

Yeah… It was like watching an infomercial! … In regards to the GCU comment about it playing DVDs, if I remember correctly they said it uses DVD’s (as in small ones) but you can not play your movie DVDs in it… Something along those lines. As for online, well it has the capability, it’s just not implemented yet ;)

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