{"id":13111,"date":"2020-08-01T13:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13111"},"modified":"2020-08-01T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T12:11:24","slug":"gameshows-in-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13111","title":{"rendered":"Gameshows in games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hopefully interesting things will start picking up again soon, <strong>Supermarket Sweep<\/strong> starts filming today (intrigued to see how they&#8217;ll get round social distancing), next Saturday sees the launch of <strong>Rolling In It<\/strong> and <strong>Freddie and Paddy&#8217;s Total Wipeout Takeover<\/strong> (which is obviously extremely cheap, however is it any different to various channels re-editing and commentating the same episodes of <em>Takeshi&#8217;s Castle<\/em> and <em>Ninja Warrior<\/em> ad infinitum?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday <em>Fall Guys<\/em>, the videogame Takeshi-esque Battle Royale is released on PC and PS4 and I&#8217;ll be doing a Plays Badly of it. Microids will be releasing a <strong>Who Wants To Be A Millionaire<\/strong> game in the Autumn, and it&#8217;s looking totally Microids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the meantime, what&#8217;s the best gameshow segment that has turned up in a video game? Famously there&#8217;s the one in <em>Banjo-Kazooie<\/em> on the Nintendo 64 (which you can also play on XBox), my attention has turned to <em>Shy Guys Finish Last<\/em> in the recent Paper Mario game, based largely around its ring sliding battle system. Please be aware that the following video contains story slight story direction spoilers (and the game&#8217;s got a delightful story) but nothing too bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uzGC6Njhn8A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully interesting things will start picking up again soon, Supermarket Sweep starts filming today (intrigued to see how they&#8217;ll get round social distancing), next Saturday sees the launch of Rolling In It and Freddie and Paddy&#8217;s Total Wipeout Takeover (which is obviously extremely cheap, however is it any different to various channels re-editing and commentating\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13111\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3pt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}