THE MAKING OF GAMES WORLD
Who were the Videators? The answer lies in the Friday showcase featured within Games World: ‘Beat The Elite’. This game show had members of the public come in and challenge the show’s collection of champions. These were the Videators, and they became recognisable characters that would appear weekly on Games World’s ultimate event. If you were a kid in the Nineties and wanted to prove you were more than just the best Mario Kart player on your street, the only way to prove your mettle was to come on the show and take on the Videators.
There’s no better way to test your strength than to take part in a showdown with the Videators. Tracking down and challenging these champions today will be a sure-fire way to experience a slice of Nineties TV, as well a chance to learn what it was like behind the scenes of Games World.
But before we get to that, first an explanation of Games World is needed. Created by Hewland International as a small-budget TV show in early 1993, the show was a five-day-a-week videogame programme that did everything from tips and reviews, to game shows like the aforementioned Beat The Elite. This wasn’t Hewland’s first attempt at creating a gaming TV show but it was hugely popular at the time, helping to grow the then humble Sky One channel into what it is today.
The first Videator we found was
