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I've
been lucky enough to be called upon to contribute to a couple
of TV programmes for the BBC. The first of these was "I
Love 1978."
The
series takes one year and looks at the biggest popular culture
events. Things like telly shows, music, movies etc. One area they
chose for 1978 was the coin-op game Space Invaders. They
brought me in to tell them all about it. The coolest thing was
that they got the creator of Space Invaders, Tomohiro Nishikado
to appear. The
official BARB rating figures for "I Love 1978" were
3.9 million viewers.
Click
here to read a transcription of the
Space Invaders segment.
In
January I was on "I Love 1980" to talk about
Pac-man. I think the show really conveyed how much fun the game was.
Once again they got the creator of the game, Toru Iwatani to talk
on the programme. This one got 3.7 million viewers.
Click
here to read a transcription of the
Pac-man segment.
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