UCP: The GamesMaster Retrospective

Martin Mathers makes his third (and final) appearance on GamesMaster as he plays two copies of Virtua Cop 2 at the same time, while Uri Geller drops by to bend some spoons and play the MindDrive.

There's reviews of Killer Instinct Gold (N64), Star Gladiator (PSX) and Virtua Cop 2 (Saturn), plus a preview of Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair. There's also news on a new Sega driving game in the arcade, Barbie's Fashion Designer, and Sony's first 3D TV.

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Macca from the DOOM Championships in series 5 returns to take Mad Dog's Quake mod map to win the Golden Joystick, while Hollyoaks' Paul Leyshon drives around like a mad dog himself on Die Hard Trilogy.

There's reviews of Tomb Raider (PSX) and Street Racer (Saturn), while Dom visits The Human School in Japan to learn how to make video games. There's also news on Sonic The Fighters, T2-3D: Battle Across Time and Pac-Man VR.

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Some real life athlete kings in the form of John Regis and Tony Jarrett drop by to play four rounds of Athlete Kings on the Saturn. Is it the greatest celebrity challenge ever? Could be...

There's also news on Virtua Fighter 3 and the Independence Day CD-ROM, and a little feature on Privateer 2: The Darkening.

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It's King of Combos 96 as Philip Cook, Mark Griffin and Roy Waterman battle to get the highest combo on Killer Instinct Gold on the N64, while Red Dwarf's Danny John-Jules drops by to race two laps of Wipeout 2097.

Meanwhile, Rik and Ed review Soviet Strike (PSX) and Fighting Vipers (Saturn), Dom looks at this new fad called 'retro gaming', and finds Peter Molyneux in a toilet. There's also news of Rev Limit on the N64, Segaworld London and 9: The Last Resort starring Bobby De Niro.

Plus, we're joined by Larry Bundy Jr!

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Luke and Ash dive into a deep sea domain along with Nathan Souch as he tackles a two-part challenge on Super Mario 64 (no, it's not *that Super Mario 64 challenge), and Samantha Fox joins Dom for a bit of water sports on the arcade game Aqua Jet.

Meanwhile, Rik and new-face Ed Koskey review Wave Race 64 and Pilotwings 64 on the Nintendo64, and Dom visits the Seagaia Ocean Dome out in Japan.

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The second part of our (probably) unnecessarily long detour before hitting series 6 concludes as Luke and Ash look at the movie, TV, video game and pop culture news of June-Oct 1996.

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As we countdown to the Super Mario 64 Incident, Luke and Ash take a quick detour through the months of January-June to recap the movie, TV, video game and music news that would have been missed outside of the episode timeline. And - because 1996 is a crazy year - this has been split into TWO episodes!

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While GamesMaster would last for another couple of years, this was the end of the road for CITV's Bad Influence with Andy Crane and Violet Berlin.

This aired during the fifth series of GamesMaster, and looks at the biggest games of 1996 and the most important news coming out of 1995. Plus jugglers.

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5 down, 2 to go of our run through of the original GamesMaster, so it's time to take a look back over the past 18 episodes in heaven, pick our favourite (and least favourite) challenges, celebrities and moments, as well as take your feedback!

This was recorded live and you can watch the uncut video version here.

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In a small change to the schedule, Luke and Ash look at GamesMaster Magazine's Buyer's Guide for 1996 - giving you everything you need to know about your purchase of an Amiga, MegaDrive, SNES, Saturn, PC and PlayStation - and even the Jaguar and 3DO.

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