re: Video Game Television the Canadian Way, Eh?

Dan — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:39:09 GMT

How about Kids of Degrassi Street? And Degrassi Junior High... both those made it here to England. Goddamn they were depressing. But refreshingly so.

re: Video Game Television the Canadian Way, Eh?

Roto13 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:23:02 GMT

I used to love that show. Apparently the world has forgotten it exists, though. The Wikipedia article is like one line long. Also, I've come to the conclusion that there are no pictures of Nicholas Picolas anywhere in the world. I want to make him my MSN picture now.

Oh, hey, I found one. Apparently he has a morning radio show somewhere. He looks the same as he ever did.

http://www.kiss985.com/

That show was great because the hosts didn't try to be cool. Probably because it's very hard to make four-year-old games cool. I remember a few times they played T- or even M-rated games. I was like "None of these kids are more than ten years old."

Oh, those kids. I'm pretty sure they had a checklist they used on every episode. "Alright, let's get one kid giving a thumbs up, one with his arms crossed (either to try to appear badass or just to cover up his boy bossoms), one Indian kid, and one with his mouth hanging open." That was their formula for entertaining contestants, apparently.