When Games Attack
| When Games Attack | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Entertainment |
| Created by | Johnny Ffinch |
| Presented by |
Dominik Diamond Caroline Flack |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Bravo |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 2004 – 2005 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Gamepad |
When Games Attack is a British television show, that originally aired on Bravo from 2004 to 2005. The show is presented by Dominik Diamond and created by Jonny Ffinch with whom he had previously worked on GamesMaster. Its focus was video games.
When Games Attack was not based in a studio, instead, it was filmed in a different location for each episode with the locations usually dictating the sort of humour and jokes Diamond used in each 30 second link between segments.
Examples of locations:
Each 30-minute show featured several sections such as:
"I'm Famous, Give Me My Joypad!"
Eight Premiership and Championship football players took part in a head-to-head tournament playing Pro Evolution Soccer. Alternately, it featured a dancing contest with five glamour models. The girl would usually wear clothing that was not suitable to dance in and compete at Dance Dance Revolution or DDR for short. Before and after the girls danced, Dominik would often flirt with them, only to be shot down every time.
Behind the Game
A history of certain games ranging from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto. Viewers would be told the story of how the game was created, where the ideas came from and what impact it had on the world as footage of the game played with small facts scrolling across the bottom of the screen.
Head to Head
This section starred Dominik and two mute teddy bear puppets: a rusty-coloured one with a cream-coloured face and ears called Cugly and a white one with pink ears and paws called Queeny. For comedy purposes, Diamond and the two bears would appear to have been caught the act of something (often illegal) such as a seedy chat line and selling uranium on the black market.
Each puppet would pick one of two video games that were similar such as Tekken vs Virtua Fighter or Grand Theft Auto vs True Crime: Streets of LA. Dominik would then rate each game on Graphic, Gameplay and so forth with the losing puppet doing a "forfeit" which was usually either bizarre or very violent. The segment closed with a corny joke such as, after losing Cugly is stuffed into a washing machine as Dominik exclaims "Don't worry, Cugly! It's all good clean fun!"
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