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Finale Season: Series 7 was this - The very first line of the series was Dominik informing the viewer that it was going to be the final series of the show.Fake-Out Opening: Series 2's Cold Open.This was repeated of sorts in the second half of Series 3, where new host Dexter would order a large man known as the "Caretaker" to eject losing teams off the premises.On one occasion a girl was released the following week by her boyfriend winning a challenge. This was only however done in exceptional cases and Dominik would consult GM himself for a final decision to do this. In Series 2, the Diver who awarded winners with joysticks would occasionally also escort particularly dreadful challengers into the smoke filled pit she appeared from.

Deadpan Snarker: Both Dominik Diamond and the Games Master.

Darker and Edgier: Series 4 ended with a "Gore Special", focusing on games they couldn't show in the normal pre-watershed timeslot.

I'm sorry, I feel quite responsible for all this, so I guess I'd just like to say, well, apologise really, to all the old people who feel I've made terrible jokes at their expense, to all the parents who felt we've corrupted or tainted their children in any way, I personally would just like to say.

Curse Cut Short: The final link of Series 6 culminates with one.ĭominik: We are in, quite literally, a lot of trouble, I'm hearing the Channel 4 No-Fun-Police are on their way down, and the future looks grim, so.

Curb-Stomp Battle: A Japanese Tetsujin faced 100 British challengers note it was actually 50 kids from Dominik Diamond's mother's drama school, but the challenge was heavily edited to make it look like the Tetsujin was beating 100 players in consectutive games of Virtua Fighter 3 in Series 6.

Cheaters Never Prosper: In the race stage of The Aquatic Games in Series 3, one challenger used the cannon to get an early lead and still managed to lose.

British Brevity: Series 1 and 7 were both 10 episodes long the intervening series were all upward of 20 episodes long.

Over the course of the episode, each piece of innuendo causes the bar to fill up, before the show starts receiving phone calls from Channel 4 warning that Dominik is one offensive word from getting the show cancelled. Biting-the-Hand Humor: The Offence-O-Meter from the last episode of Series 6, where the idea was that the show was on its last warning from Channel 4.The show got a reboot that aired on E4 in November 2021, with Sir Trevor McDonald playing the Games Master. Two of the show's trademarks were the setting changing changing each year, much like levels in a video game and the titular Games Master, a disembodied head (played by Sir Patrick Moore) who dispensed advice on video games to those who needed it, albeit with a sharp tongue. A large part of the show was the challenges, which saw gamers competing against each other over the course of the series to be crowned " GamesMaster Champion" through a variety of different games and challenges (For example, a speedrun through Sonic The Hedgehog 3's Angel Island Zone), before focusing more on the actual games than the challenges.ĭebuting between the launches of the SEGA Mega Drive and the SNES, the show originally had a target demographic of pre-teens, but as time went on, the show shifted to targeting teenagers and young adults instead. GamesMaster was a British television show, airing from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.