{"id":1061,"date":"2021-04-06T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/it-had-to-be-slightly-weird-how-we-made-gamesmaster\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T14:49:43","slug":"it-had-to-be-slightly-weird-how-we-made-gamesmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/06\/it-had-to-be-slightly-weird-how-we-made-gamesmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It had to be slightly weird’: how we made GamesMaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018I got this call: do you want to audition for a show about video games? It sounded exactly the thing a dweeb with round glasses could do\u2019<\/p>\n

I was a single mother and had just launched my own production company in the midst of a recession. My son Harry was 10 and for Christmas in 1990, he asked for a Nintendo. It came with Duck Hunt,<\/a> a game where you shot at ducks on the screen with a little plastic pistol. The first time I watched him playing, it struck me that I was getting excited. That was when I had the idea for a TV show of people competing at video games.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2018I got this call: do you want to audition for a show about video games? It sounded exactly the thing a dweeb with round glasses could do\u2019
\nI was a single mother and had just launched my own production company in the midst of a recession. My son Harry was 10 and for Christmas in 1990, he asked for a Nintendo. It came with Duck Hunt, a game where you shot at ducks on the screen with a little plastic pistol. The first time I watched him playing, it struck me that I was getting excited. That was when I had the idea for a TV show of people competing at video games. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018I got this call: do you want to audition for a show about video games? It sounded exactly the thing a dweeb with round glasses could do\u2019 I was a single mother and had just launched my own production company in the midst of a recession. My son Harry was 10 and for Christmas in …<\/p>\n

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