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== Host == | == Host == | ||
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Gaming expert: Ellie Gibson | Gaming expert: Ellie Gibson | ||
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== Broadcast == | == Broadcast == | ||
| - | DLT Entertainment for Dave, 5 September 2016 to | + | DLT Entertainment for Dave, 5 September 2016 to 16 April 2018 (27 episodes in 3 series) |
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| + | Additional coverage: ''Go 8 Bit DLC'', 15 May to 17 July 2017 (10 episodes in 1 series) | ||
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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
| - | + | Comedians play video games in front of an audience. | |
| - | + | Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon team up with this week's guest celebrities for a romp through computer game history. Ellie Gibson explains the history of the game, and how it did (or didn't) alter game history. | |
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| + | <div class=image>[[File:Go 8 bit set.jpg|400px]]''Cubes and cubes.''</div> | ||
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| + | The best way to explore games is to play them, and ''Go 8 Bit'' has lots of challenges. Complete a level, out-score your opponent, shoot them in the points. The show mixes 8-bit games from the Spectrum and Atari, later Nintendo and Sega games, and some of the weirder ones on the market now. | ||
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| + | <div class=image>[[File:Go 8 bit audience votes.jpg|400px]]''Do you wanna bet on it? Don't fret, get set, are you ready?''</div> | ||
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| + | Each week's final challenge is done live in the studio - a controller that works by tapping people, for instance. | ||
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| + | <div class=image>[[File:Go 8 bit rotate stage.jpg|400px]]''[[Cilla Black]] called, she wants her [[The Moment of Truth]] revolving stage back.''</div> | ||
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| + | ''Go 8 Bit'' is adapted from a stage show, hosted by the games expert. For this television version, they brought in [[Dara Ó Briain]]. He leads the conversation with the players, teasing out why the celebs have nominated their games. | ||
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| + | <div class=image>[[File:Go 8 bit chuckie egg.jpg|400px]]''Let's get clucking.''</div> | ||
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| + | It is a contest, they do keep score - the audience votes with an app on their mobile computers to allocate a value. | ||
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| + | <div class=image>[[File:Go 8 bit lets play tetris.jpg|400px]]''Let's play <del>Global Themonuclear War</del> Tetris.''</div> | ||
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| + | And there's a gimmick where the stage rotates - the big sofa is at right-angles to the big screen, and that's no way to play games. | ||
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| + | <div class=image>[[File:Go 8 bit title sequence.jpg|400px]]''The title sequence appears to come from 1984.''</div> | ||
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| + | ''Go 8 Bit'' has rough edges - the rotating stage gimmick is used too much, and the audience voting appears random. The programme is honest and respectful, it treats video games as a mature cultural work suitable for critique. | ||
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| + | <div class=image>[[File:Go 8 bit ellie gibson.jpg|400px]]''Dara's pointless friend (or at least the female counterpart of his pointless friend), Ellie Gibson.''</div> | ||
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| + | The show proved enough of a hit for Dave to commission two further series straight off the bat, together with a fanzine-type programme, ''Go 8 Bit DLC'' (it stands, a tad anachronistically, for DownLoadable Content) hosted by Ellie Gibson. DLC survived one series before being quietly dropped. | ||
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| + | == Inventors == | ||
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| + | Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon | ||
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| + | == Title music == | ||
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| + | Liam Tate, who used 8-bit synthesisers. Obviously. | ||
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| + | == Trivia == | ||
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| + | Voted the Best New Show in this site's [[Poll of the Year 2016#Hall of FAME 2016|Poll of 2016]] | ||
== Web links == | == Web links == | ||
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| + | [http://dave.uktv.co.uk/shows/dara-o-briains-go-8-bit/ Official site] | ||
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| + | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_O_Briain%27s_Go_8_Bit Wikipedia entry] | ||
[http://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/dara_o_briain_go_8_bit/ British Comedy Guide entry] | [http://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/dara_o_briain_go_8_bit/ British Comedy Guide entry] | ||
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| + | Spin-off DLC has its own [http://dave.uktv.co.uk/shows/go-8-bit-dlc/ official site] and [http://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/go_8_bit_dlc/ British Comedy Guide entry] | ||
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| + | == See also == | ||
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| + | [[Weaver's Week 2016-10-23|Weaver's Week review]] | ||
[[Category:Comedy Panel Game]] | [[Category:Comedy Panel Game]] | ||
[[Category:Computer Games]] | [[Category:Computer Games]] | ||
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Revision as of 19:13, 6 December 2018
Contents |
Host
Co-hosts
Team captains: Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon
Gaming expert: Ellie Gibson
Broadcast
DLT Entertainment for Dave, 5 September 2016 to 16 April 2018 (27 episodes in 3 series)
Additional coverage: Go 8 Bit DLC, 15 May to 17 July 2017 (10 episodes in 1 series)
Synopsis
Comedians play video games in front of an audience.
Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon team up with this week's guest celebrities for a romp through computer game history. Ellie Gibson explains the history of the game, and how it did (or didn't) alter game history.
Cubes and cubes.The best way to explore games is to play them, and Go 8 Bit has lots of challenges. Complete a level, out-score your opponent, shoot them in the points. The show mixes 8-bit games from the Spectrum and Atari, later Nintendo and Sega games, and some of the weirder ones on the market now.
Do you wanna bet on it? Don't fret, get set, are you ready?Each week's final challenge is done live in the studio - a controller that works by tapping people, for instance.
Go 8 Bit is adapted from a stage show, hosted by the games expert. For this television version, they brought in Dara Ó Briain. He leads the conversation with the players, teasing out why the celebs have nominated their games.
Let's get clucking.It is a contest, they do keep score - the audience votes with an app on their mobile computers to allocate a value.
Let's play And there's a gimmick where the stage rotates - the big sofa is at right-angles to the big screen, and that's no way to play games.
The title sequence appears to come from 1984.Go 8 Bit has rough edges - the rotating stage gimmick is used too much, and the audience voting appears random. The programme is honest and respectful, it treats video games as a mature cultural work suitable for critique.
Dara's pointless friend (or at least the female counterpart of his pointless friend), Ellie Gibson.The show proved enough of a hit for Dave to commission two further series straight off the bat, together with a fanzine-type programme, Go 8 Bit DLC (it stands, a tad anachronistically, for DownLoadable Content) hosted by Ellie Gibson. DLC survived one series before being quietly dropped.
Inventors
Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon
Title music
Liam Tate, who used 8-bit synthesisers. Obviously.
Trivia
Voted the Best New Show in this site's Poll of 2016
Web links
Spin-off DLC has its own official site and British Comedy Guide entry
