I was one of the few people to have the 'pleasure' of playing The Young Ones at a friend's house in the mid 1980s. Its eventual fate was sellotape over the tabs and being recorded over with some of the album 'The Pursuit of Accidents' by Level 42, thus starting a love affair with slap bass.
Until seeing this video, I thought Wang computers were not real because I only ever heard the name on a sitcom in the 80s and so I thought it was a crude attempt at a sex joke
John Watson is the F1 driver featured in the Enduro ad (if it hadn't been for his surname on his helmet I don't think I would've placed him). I doubt his is a name many know nowadays, but he would've been pretty well-known at the time - he was third in the F1 championship the year before _Enduro_ came out - but there are so many much more well-known drivers in that year's F1, at least for me.
@@RetroSteveUK Possibly, but I think it's because he was the most successful UK driver in that championship, and would've been recognisable. But that championship also had the likes of Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell, who have certainly left more of a stamp on the public consciousness.
I don't think I've ever heard of _The Young Ones_ game, but I do clearly remember having the (tangentially-related) game adaptation of Adrian Edmonson's _How to Be a Complete Bastard_ for my Amstrad, and feeling a little thrill that I probably shouldn't be playing it and that my parents wouldn't be happy 😄 (I remember little of the game, though, beyond putting cling film on the toilet, setting light to coats on the coat rack, "Monster Get Pissed Fast" lager and the term "Destructobas".)
I actually have the Book that the HTBACB game was based on. As it's out of print, I converted it to a PDF and you can download it here: app.box.com/s/3xfhp9ks9xbsgm0cm214s1012sybaah1
@@RetroSteveUK Thanks for the link. Wouldn't like to try printing that foreword nowadays! Used to have HTBACB, as well as the Young Ones book. Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine did loads of great books like that back in the day.
3:20 I thought I was the only person that had a Acorn Electron. My parents must have thought ‘Stanley Baxter, he will know about computers, let’s get that one’.
04:20 The Young Ones computer game! I never came across that one. I remember the Sega and PlayStation ads. Did anyone ever play the joystick destroying Daley Thompson's Decathlon?
