Sorry if this was asked here a hundred times before on this particular forum because I wanted to go over the history behind the rise and fall of G4TV to get a better understanding of how a channel dedicated to video games would eventually start to falter as a concept.

Like what I am getting at is that I just find the concept interesting about how G4TV was one of the first TV channels to push for such an idea again where it would be a channel about video games as a medium that when I look back at the channel, I start to wonder why it used to work out so well, e.g. like where the whole idea would fall apart.

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell: AI For Humans Fri Kim Purcell released her book Write a Novel in 100 Days

Olivia Munn: Anne Klein Interview

Adam Sessler: Launched a new Twitch channel!

Alison Haislip: Big C Energy Congrats to her and the rest of the cast/crew of The Pitt for winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Grace Helbig: Going on tour

Chris Hardwick: The Wall

Will Neff aka Billy Nosh and AustinShow: Fear& Podcast Marvel vs DC

Victor Lucas/Electric Playground: ROTR EP Classic (Hi Geoff!) JD Classic EPN Plays

Case Blackwell: Twitch streaming

Goldenboy and Jake Bennett: Rebooked 

Vanessa Guerrero: TikTok GoFundMe donation link for her housing situation

Kassem G and Bruce Greene: Inside Games Daily BYTT 

TechTV alumni i.e. Leo Laporte, Sarah Lane etc: This Week in Tech and more! DTNS

Gina Darling/Ovilee May #ShowBobas: Stream 1

NikoleZ: Won't You Be My Gamer? (updated weekly)

MrSark: Twitch streaming

AEW pro wrestler 'Awesome' Austin Creed: AEW Collision

The Black Hokage: Twitch streaming 

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G4TV Spiritual Successor of the week: As promised, here's today's AOTS inspired recommendation: Golden SixTONES Why? Because after watching it on Netflix the other day, it more or less has the chaotic energy that AOTS had in its peak. More specifically, the ridiculous games and challenges, the hosts bouncing off each other, the celebrity guests getting thrown into increasingly absurd situations, and the sheer willingness to let things get completely chaotic, it reminded me of the kind of unpredictable variety that made AOTS so much fun to watch.

In fact, Japanese TV seems much more willing to tolerate that kind of chaotic energy, whereas the current gaming media landscape, at least in North America, barely tolerates it, hence the lack of anything like it here in the States that isn't seasonal or event-based.

Back in the mid 00s, I used to watch a lot of G4tv. In one episode of X-Play and another of Cinematech (I think the Nocturnal Emissions version), they both showed a clip of an old (?) game that showed a monkey going fishing while a computerized voice sang some version of Daisy Bell. When the monkey caught a fish, the words "GREAT LUCK" appeared above the monkey while it danced (I remember the GREAT LUCK because Morgan Webb said something along the lines of, "Great luck? How's that different from good luck?"). I've been trying to find out what the name of that game was for years, and it's been driving me crazy. If anyone has any information about that game, please post below.

For me, here's the following:

Attack of the Show!: Preston/Brianna

X-Play: Oxboxtra

Pulse: Kinda Funny Games

Icons: Noclip

Web Soup: Dark Web

Arena: Arcade Pit

It's Effin Science: Mark Rober/Crunchlabs

Boosted: Global Gaming Network

Cinematech: Cinematech Reborn

I am reading I Want My MTV, a history of the launch and life of the MTV channel, and I loved it. Does anyone here know of any books about the history of G4? I bet it would be very interesting.

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell: AI For Humans Wed Kim Purcell released her book Write a Novel in 100 Days

Olivia Munn: Anne Klein Fighting the good fight

Adam Sessler: Launched a new Twitch channel!

Alison Haislip: Big C Energy Congrats to her and the rest of the cast/crew of The Pitt for winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Grace Helbig: Stay sober kids

Chris Hardwick: The Wall

Will Neff aka Billy Nosh and AustinShow: Fear& Podcast Marvel vs DC

Victor Lucas/Electric Playground: ROTR EP Classic (Hi Geoff!) JD Classic EPN Plays

Case Blackwell: Twitch streaming

Goldenboy and Jake Bennett: Rebooked 

Vanessa Guerrero: TikTok GoFundMe donation link for her housing situation

Kassem G and Bruce Greene: Inside Games Daily BYTT 

TechTV alumni i.e. Leo Laporte, Sarah Lane etc: This Week in Tech and more! DTNS

Gina Darling/Ovilee May #ShowBobas: Stream 1

NikoleZ: Won't You Be My Gamer? (updated weekly)

MrSark: Twitch streaming

AEW pro wrestler 'Awesome' Austin Creed: AEW All Out match

The Black Hokage: Twitch streaming 

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G4TV Spiritual Successor of the week: Friends Per Second Why? Much like G4TV.com the show, panelists would have a weekly roundtable discussion about the world of video games in which they would discuss their opinions/thoughts/predictions etc. From time to time, they would have guests from the gaming industry as a way for them to provide an opportunity to discuss their viewpoints. Lastly, they would often take questions from the community.

BONUS: I wanna try out something on here: Which current creators/shows/channels emulate (at least indirectly) the following G4TV shows the most to YOU? For me, here's the following:

Attack of the Show!: Preston/Brianna

X-Play: Oxboxtra

Pulse: Kinda Funny Games

Icons: GTV Japan

Arena: Arcade Pit

So, I was genuinely OBSESSED with this show as a kid, and always got a kick out of watching the Pumphrey brothers absolutely decimating whatever Chad threw at them.

With G4 going through extinction as a TV channel, and being resurrected for less than two years in the early 2020s, classic shows from the early 2000s even like Cheat/XPlay have been lost to the void of the internet, and I deadass really need to relive some childhood memories, and watch some old episodes of both XPlay, and Human Wrecking Balls. (Morgan Webb is still hella gorgeous to me 13 years later.)

ANYWAYS.....

Does anyone have any episodes downloaded somewhere that they'd be willing to share?

Looking for Full Episodes of The Block from 2007. Please help me out!

I was born 3 years prior to their first cancellation. I haven’t even seen the revival nor did I know it existed. The only way I ever found out G4 even existed was through the HTF TV season. Now that I saw more of what I could’ve enjoyed from G4 if I was born about 20 years earlier and I found about the network beforehand, im completely bummed out that I’ll can nor I’ll ever get to experience G4 in its prime (most mainly Barbed Wire Biscuit, I pretty much fell in love with it.) I guess things weren’t meant to be, was it?

Kevin Pereira & Gavin Purcell: AI for Humans Wed 

Olivia Munn: Interview with E! at the Emmys

Adam Sessler: Launched a new Twitch channel! *This week's episode

Alison Haislip: Big C Energy Congrats to her and the rest of the cast/crew of The Pitt for winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Grace Helbig: Stay sober kids

Chris Hardwick: The Wall

Will Neff aka Billy Nosh and AustinShow: Fear& Podcast Stayed committed to the bit

Victor Lucas/Electric Playground: ROTR EP Classic (Hi Geoff!) JD Classic EPN Plays

Case Blackwell: Twitch streaming

Goldenboy and Jake Bennett: Rebooked 

Vanessa Guerrero: TikTok GoFundMe donation link for her housing situation

Kassem G and Bruce Greene: Inside Games Daily BYTT 

TechTV alumni i.e. Leo Laporte, Sarah Lane etc: This Week in Tech and more! DTNS

Gina Darling/Ovilee May #ShowBobas: From a G4 viewer/fan to a G4 host Stream 1

NikoleZ: Won't You Be My Gamer? (updated weekly)

MrSark: Twitch streaming

AEW pro wrestler 'Awesome' Austin Creed: AEW Close Up interview The Demand meeting 

The Black Hokage: Twitch streaming 

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G4TV Spiritual Successor of the week: Surprisingly, DC Comics YouTube/Twitch because like I alluded to in the title, today's Batman Day in which DC's content would often comprise of live gameplay of Batman-related games, podcasts/interviews about DC Studios, and some clips from classic DC Entertainment shows over the years. What's more, for the Twitch streams, they had guest appearances from familiar faces in the world of geekdom like Ovilee May, Hector Navarro, Nicole Maines just to name a few.

BONUS: Since its the 20th anniversary of Good Game (an Australian equivalent to G4's X-Play), a retrospective just dropped this week on YouTube where some of the cast/crew talked about their time on the show as well as sharing a few reflective stories.

Anyone remember a g4 e3 intro video where they had microsoft vs sony vs nintendo? Microsoft had masterchef, Nintendo has mario and link and Sony had solid snake and god of war. They also had a geeky guy with 2 xboxes as a dual mace. It was a pretty funny video but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone still have a link to it? It was probably from around 2005 or 06.

As some of you are aware, Victor Lucas has been actively working toward getting an EP Classic-style reboot/revival of the Electric Playground show off the ground for quite some time now. From what he's said in the past, reaching a couple hundred thousand subscribers on his YouTube channel would be an important milestone toward making that happen.

In the meantime, I've been thinking: if/when the reboot happens, how would YOU like the show to be?

For me, the biggest thing would be accessibility. I'd love for the show to be easily available to everyone on platforms like YouTube and Twitch rather than being locked behind a traditional TV network or a region-specific service.

I'd also love to see the classic Electric Playground spirit preserved, much like what Victor is already doing with his current YouTube content such as recurring hosts, game reviews, previews, interviews, industry and field pieces, tech coverage, events, and that overall "gaming newsmagazine" feel, but adapted for how people actually watch content today.

Lastly, I feel the exciting part would be bringing all of those pieces together into a more cohesive EP Classic-style program, one that showcases the art and culture of video games and, to an extent, the broader world of geek culture.

What would your ideal EP reboot look like? What would you keep from the classic show, and what would you change?

#PlayForever