Dave & Steve's Video Game Explosion-Burly TV
 

Anyone see these guys on this video game show on TBS? Thursday nights late at night. Where the hell did they find these tools? They totally ripped off the Twitch idea, with the Siskel & Ebert look. The larger guy even has Kevin's glasses. But Kevin doesn't look like a pig like this dude. At least Kev's a good looking guy who can get a date. And the skinny guy is a total tool. He doesn't even look at the camera. Makes me want to punch him. Kev, you gotta see this thing and laugh. This makes me want to do another video game show real, real, bad...Right after I pop some crystal meth and wonder how this show got on the air. They have this ad thing with Sobe drinks too, that they talk about throughout the show. It is the worst video game show I've ever seen. Gamepro TV was better than this. Ya, I'm hatin'. They're on TV, I'm not. But how they got there is beyond me.

I'd be happy to mail you my copy Kev, so you can see it. If I see them at E3 I'm choking them with an X-Box controller cord. It's also a big enough controller for bludgening!

[This message has been edited by George Roush (edited January 11, 2002).]

I forgot to mention I saw that show, it was really late, sometime in the morning. First thing I thought of was Twitch, but this *show* can hardly be called a show, it's really bad. I mean is it that hard to make a quality VG show? Seems pretty easy to me, do reviews, previews, release lists, news...and these two dorks do none of that. The episode I saw they had just gotten a Cube and talked about Rouge Leader...for the entire show. Oh they also interviewed some guy by the name of Miyamoto (not THAT Miyamoto). I guess it was a joke because he talked in Japanese and they didn't translate anything. Oh, and they showed some Sobe drinks too. Why do the dumbest people get the best jobs and do nothing but **** it up? Dumb people. Dumb stupid people.

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--Life is full of tasks to be completed, but right now I am so far behind I will never die

From where I'm standing, it's just SSDD.

"Here comes 2!"

Here's the link about the show as well. I say we all e-mail them asking who they blew to get on TV.
http://www.burlybear.com/shows/videogame/index.html

Admittedly, I haven't seen the show; but after watching the clips on their website, I can already tell how heinous this show's gotta be. First of all...that guy is HUGE. Admittedly, I'm not a thin man...and television makeup and sitting him next to a skinny guy DOES make a big man look even bigger. But...DAMN. The joke interview with the Japanese man was weaksauce and a major time-waster.

It really isn't as easy as you'd think to do a good game show in the States...there are politics involved with distribution and networks that are tough to slog through and every single person you involve wants to have their own "creative input" on what goes into the show. You start with one vision and what ends up on screen might be completely different from what you imagined. But unless you have the money to finance the thing yourself, that's the nature of the beast. These guys obviously shacked up with Sobe for financing, which is the reason for constant plugging. Twitch had assistance from EA, which meant at least eight interview segments with EA personnel, each one plugging their games. But at least we got into the EA Sports bar at E3 that year http://www.ve3d.com:81/wink.gif

Twitch was 100x better than this crap, though...at least we were somewhat credible, and the show had good production values. *Sigh* It really does make you wonder why a show like this gets done and we have to just suffer, knowing that we have the experience and ability to do something that trounces it, but haven't got the connections yet.

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Kevin, the erstwhile "Hi-Fi"
www.videowrestling.com

Hehe...well, read the message boards on that site, with regard to the game show, and you'll see the intellectual level of the audience they're drawing. I don't feel so bad now http://www.ve3d.com:81/wink.gif

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Kevin, the erstwhile "Hi-Fi"
www.videowrestling.com

Speaking of fat dudes, I was looking at the extras of Jeepers Creepers, and you see the director Vincent Salva (I think that's his name, there may be another "i" somewhere in there). He is freaking HUGE. I mean, there is chubby, big, overweight, and then this guy. Holy mother of cracked pavement. He seems cool though...he did some cool shots in JC (most notably *sliding* from car to car in a dialog scene). He also did Powder a few years back...don't know how this guy got his start or how he gets to do a movie every 5 years or so. From watching all of extra stuff, it seemed to me like he was really open to suggestion from everyone, and changed quite a bit of stuff...makes me wonder what ideas he had are his, and if they even made it on screen. Movie could have definatly benefited from more money as the last half really suffers (plus he cut 20 pages out of the script...I'd like to see the original script).

So Kev and Thomas, any updates to the E3 thing? I've already put aside the dough for it.

That and I'm sharpening my X-Box controller cord and writing "For Dave & Steve" on it.

For the love of all things funny you HAVE to get George on tape doing that Dave & Steve run-by at E3. Complete with slow-mo, diffrent camera angles and a rocking sound track, it could be the surprise hit of the season (look at that clever pun!). I'll pay to see it. It would be great as a hidden feature on the DVD.

Just noticed I've passed the 500 post mark. That means between Kev and I, we cover half of the posts on this board. I've never felt such pride. http://www.ve3d.com:81/wink.gif Kev you post on any other boards here? I can never seem to catch up to you...that must mean your cheating.

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--Life is full of tasks to be completed, but right now I am so far behind I will never die

From where I'm standing, it's just SSDD.

"Here comes 2!"

I've seen that show a couple of times. I thought that it would get better after the first time but that obviously didn't happen. How much time do they have per show anyway? I swear they waste 95% of the time talking about that damned drink or how they were suppose to review a game last time (and they STILL don't review it). What a bunch of doorknobs.

Rumpy, big Victor Salva fan? You should check out his early stuff...

...like his tapes of him f'ing a twelve-year-old boy.

I had no idea anybody was allowing Salva to work again, after the flap with "Powder."