UCP: The GamesMaster Retrospective

Before we depart the GamesRig and set sail for the GamesMaster Academy, Luke and Ash look back at series two and discuss their favourite moments, challenges, celebrities, features and more!

What was the best challenge of series 2? Which celebrity left them smiling? What feature left their nostalgia batons stirring?

Plus, we hear from YOU the listeners with your feedback on series 2, and find out what you can expect from series 3!

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The end is here, and the GamesRig is sinking! But before then, David Newland from Exmouth slays some beasties on Shadow of the Beast 3, ice hockey takes on field hockey as Kevin Conway takes on Sean Kerly on NHLPA Ice Hockey 93, and it's an incredible main event as Andy Thomas challenges Jim McGuyver on the arcade game, Mortal Kombat. FIGHT!

Final Fantasy II (SNES), Dungeon Master (SNES) and Cyberspace (PC) get reviewed, GamesMaster helps struggling players on The New Zealand Story and Gobliins, and we get a look at two upcoming Amiga games in Uridium 2 and Goal!, and a special preview of Michael Jordan In Flight.

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Jamie Spencer unsheathes his sword on ActRaiser, big beefy arm wrestlers break Arm Champs 2, and it's a double celebrity challenge as Duncan Goodhew get us all wet on Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun!

Radio Automatic returns to the review zone to look at Eliminator Boat Duel (NES), Micro Machines (MegaDrive), and Dirty Racin' (GameBoy), we find out the winners of the Easy Amos competition, and GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Gobliins, The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, and Super Addams Family. It's a podcast that will warm your cockles given half a chance.

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Aaron Hill from Newbury tackles a tough challenge on Super Mario Bros., world record holder Steve Backley tosses on Summer Games, and it's the excellent final of the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 tournament. Gotta go fast!

Danny Curley returns to GamesMaster for a hilarious feature, GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Super Mario World, Final Fight and Wonderboy in Monster Land, and it's time to evolve in the Review Zone, as a returning Dan Tootill gives his thoughts on Mega-Lo-Mania (MegaDrive), Lost Vikings (SNES), and Joe & Mac (GameBoy).

Plus, Dan also makes his return to Under Consoletation to talk about his time on the show, and his thoughts on the games nearly 30 years later.

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Emily Taylor fat shames Captain Dynamo, the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 tournament continues on Chemical Plant Zone with Paul Mellerick from Mega and Dean Mortluck from Sega Power, and poor Ben McClusky gets battered by Aston Villa's Tony Daley on Striker.

GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Populous and The Legend of Zelda 3: Link to the Past (but not Streets of Rage 2), Ash gets mad at Les Gray's explanation of what CD-ROM is, and it's a special Review Zone this week as Nick Watfee, Dougie Johns and Tom Boone look at the highly anticipated release of Starwing. SFX? More like SEX!

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While GamesMaster ruled the video game challenge landscape on Channel 4, and Bad Influence provided something slightly different on CITV, Sky asked Hewland International to pitch them their own challenge-based TV show. That show would become Games World, a 5-night-a-week extravaganza of challenges, cheats, reviews and Videators. In this special bonus episode, Luke and Ash review the first episode of Games World - The Eliminator - which sees challenges on Cash Dash, Super SWIV, Pilotwings, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Plus we speak to one of the show's researchers Rik Henderson, who would not only become an on-screen Videator, but also the lead producer for the revival fourth season. Follow Rik Henderson on Twitter.

And speaking of that fourth season, we speak with Larry Bundy Jr. once again to talk about his experiences being a contestent on Games World - and getting screwed on 1080 Snowboarding. Follow Larry on Twitter and YouTube.

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Gavin Hansperd saves lives on Lemmings 2: The Tribes, Who's Line Is It Anyway star Josie Lawrence shoots up on Mad Dog McCree 2: The Lost Gold, and it's the first semi-final of the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 tournament, as Paul Davis from Mean Machines Sega takes on Dave Goodyear from MegaDrive Advance Gaming.

Get your fists up in the Review Zone as we get reviews of Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop (Atari Lynx), Best of the Best (SNES), and Sonic Blastman (SNES), GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Super Star Wars, Pinball Fantasies, and European Club Soccer, and Lettie Edwards returns to GamesMaster as she and some other Gaming Grannies attack The Trocadero! It's enough to give you chapped lips and a runny complexion.

Plus, we talk about the great Lettie Edwards and her time on both GamesMaster and Games World with the help of her daughter, Emma Edwards.

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Helen Williams from East London gets green to save Bill's Tomato Game, Walthamstow bad boys East 17 fly out to the GamesRig to play Super Probotector: Alien Rebels (aka Contra 3: The Alien Wars), and it's *that* brother vs. sister challenge on Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing.

Get retro in the Review Zone with reviews of Track & Field (GameBoy), Dropzone (NES), and Paperboy 2 (NES), we get a look at new computer game peripherals (including one that looks like a dildo), and GamesMaster helps struggling gamers on Pushover and Pinball Fantasies.

Read Ellie Gibson's Eurogamer article on the history of GamesMaster here

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Chiptune remix of "No Limit" by 2 Unlimited by Machine Gaming

Chiptune remix of "Stay Another Day" by East 17 by 8-Bit Arcade

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