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didnt they make a shit game based on that virtual fighting robat wars thing they did a while back?

I for one would like to see more games aimed at a more British/European demographic.

Eastenders the game? How dull.

Life on mars point and click.

lol fightbox

Does anyone else remember the days when you could download BBC Model B computer games off Teletext enabled tellies? Page 800 on Ceefax if my memory still works :)

They were all either crap or didn't work....still, I thought it was really cool 'Back in the Day' as Beyonce would say.

They already made an Eastenders game for the Speccy back in 1987. One of the weirdest games ever.

And let's not forget the Grange Hill adventure game, where you had to get Gonch's Walkman back. You even got to say "NO" to an evil drug pusher.

I won a trophy for Fightbox :D

They should definitely make an eastenders game. it would be ace.

darts and pool minigames in the Queen Vic, fixing cars with Phil in the arches, catfighting with the Slaters, driving away from the square in a taxi as the credits music kicks in, all good stuff.

I've got my fingers crossed for Only Fools and Horses Theft Auto!

Or maybe a Mario Party style game based on Last of the Summer Wine. With fun mini games such as stealing Nora Batty's bloomers or guiding that blind guy with the jamjar specs across a busy road.

So many possibilities....

@monkey_puncher


dont forget racing down a hill in a bath!

I'm sure the BBC views games as a primarily children’s pursuit. I won't be expecting anything worthwhile from them.

Didn't pretty much every episode of Last of the Summer Wine end with someone rolling down a hill in a comedy fashion, often rolling past a car full of old ladies who would then give disapproving looks or make an "ooooo" shape with their mouths?

/keeps stum

"My Little Flufties"

@kanga

Yes.

They also usually started that way. If you were lucky the middle bit would be different and usually involve the one that looked like a tramp trying to boff Nora Batty

So let me get this straight I am paying a licence fee to the BBC to provide entertainment TV wise etc etc, now I am giving them money to make a game TO SELL BACK TO ME.. only in the UK can no one give a shit about things like this???

@ wingZero21

IMHO the BBC is a necessary evil. If you had lived in the US and listened to Radio stations that are 90% adverts and 10% music (and TV stations that are nearly as bad) you probably would think so too ;)

So let me get this straight I am paying a licence fee to the BBC to provide entertainment TV wise etc etc, now I am giving them money to make a game TO SELL BACK TO ME.. only in the UK can no one give a shit about things like this???

Would you rather they gave the games away for free and thus definitely diverting funds away from programming?

Based on the current trend for reality TV - yes.

Who said the BBC were going to sell the games for all we know they might be free

Perhaps they're planning to convert the Going Live phone in games to consoles, complete with useless AI ignoring your voice commands... Up... no back down... up again... down a bit... up up up up... down....."Sorry, your times up"

An East Enders FPS please.

Monkey tennis?

Top Gear Beach Volleyball, with nude 3D digitized Jeremy Clarkson.
Now that would be something.

How about the BBC get back to doing quality tv & radio programming and to stop chasing every single commerical market? It is, after all, why they exist! Oh, and to stop chasing the lowest common denominator viewer, and leave that to ITV and Sky. More *intelligent* programming please, less reality/soap opera shit.

Manpuncher vs Boxhead?

MANPUNCHER VS BOXHEAD 2?

So let me get this straight I am paying a licence fee to the BBC to provide entertainment TV wise etc etc, now I am giving them money to make a game TO SELL BACK TO ME.. only in the UK can no one give a shit about things like this???

Anything funded by the license fee must be free to the public - including radio, television and online.

BBC Worldwide is a legally separate limited company set up to handle BBC properties in commercial markets. All the BBC magazines, comics, and these games, would fall under this. It is not funded by the license payer. Now, you could argue that this create a monopoly, where only BBC Worldwide gets to license BBC properties, but that's an entirely different argument.

The license fee is paid to keep the BBC free-to-air, and to fund a broad range of programming to appeal to as many people as possible. Anyone who thinks that the BBC only offers "reality and soap opera shit" should look beyond the BBC One evening schedule. BBC Two and BBC Three have nurtured some of the best comedy around. BBC Four produces fantastic documentaries. CBeebies is an absolutely superb pre-school channel. There's a whole host of free radio stations, covering loads of niche audiences. The BBC website is one of the most comprehensive on the internet.

Don't get me wrong - I have my problems with the license fee and how its implemented, but to pretend that the BBC just takes your money and gives it to Graham Norton for more theatrical talent shows is spectacularly wrong.

Oh geez. Their TV is so fucking bad.

BBC is by far the best TV on the planet. I can't get it here in my country,
but I downloaded at least a 100GB of their documentaries, series etc.

So, anyway, I think a "Louis Theroux weird weekends" game is in order ;)

perhaps similar games to those children would ring up Going Live or Live'n'Kickin to play where they'd shout out directional moves to collect apples.

@ lambtron

You do realise that people get sent to prison - unjustly - for not paying the telly tax, and yet your concern is with not having to put up with adverts. That doesn't sound like such a great trade off to me, y'know, I'd much rather have innocent people not convicted of a so-called 'crime' - as described by the extortionate greedy Beeb and those thugs they hire to chase people who they think should have to pay - than not to have adverts.

Please, make the game on the Wii and let us play the Dr. Who music with the Wiimote just like a theremin. Thanks.

It's also worth pointing out that all the profit made by BBC Worldwide (except for a limited amount reinvested in the business for growth purposes) is then gifted back to the BBC itself and goes into the license fee pot for making programmes.

ps. I worked on FightBox at the BBC, it broke me.

Oh please,

Fireman Sam: The Game - I finally get to stick it to Naughty Norman Price - any parent will understand