Button Mash: “Max Headroom” for the Commodore G4. The screen tells you “press fire to start”. Why? What’s wrong with a simple “press start”? Even those badly translated games that tell you to “push start” make more sense! Anyway, the game doesn’t star right aay. You have to tap o the button to light the areas that form a digital number in order to select which floor you want to go…and there’s a time limit. What a shitload of fuck! What’s wrong with a simple stage select screen? So, the game takes place in the floors of this building…I don’t know, I never watched the TV show…and to get to a single floor, you have to wait till the elevator takes you there. But the buldinmg is enormous, so you can spend an entire ten minutes just waiting to get to the damn floor! So, once you are on the floor, you have to find the door that lets you get out of the floor. To do that,l you have to type in a sequence of colors, and then try EVERY SINGLE DOOR until you find the one that lets out of of the flor! This is like someone put “Back to the Future 2 and 3” for the NES with the Simon toy in a blender! This game is ass! I’d rather drink cat piss than play this game! This game is a piece of shit!

@DudeManGuy  
He was surprisingly, quite the celebraty (even appearing in the olympics, Coke commercials, and on Sesame Street) back then.  
Funny thing is, I never heard of him until a few years ago. They should make an actual CGI-version of him voiced by Matt Frewer, but it’d probably be hard to pull that off live.

@Beau Skunky  
Gullibility is timeless.

@Background Pony #11D6  
That’s kinda the point, he was supposed to look like a fake CGI-rendered human. Ironically, the ‘80s didn’t have CGI/3D graphics that good yet.
 
I heard some people back then, really thought he was an actual A.I., or something. lol

@FloydPinkerton  
It’s pretty ironic because Max’s actor, Matt Frewer, looks nothing like him in real life!

@Packer dash 52  
Yeah, you have a point. Plus that was probably considered quite shocking back in the ’80s.  
Nice touch humming “Clutch Cargo” to. (Which was also a weird-ass show.)

@Beau Skunky  
i gotta disagree with you the spanking at the end is a nice touch to the bit of insanity. like a shot of whiskey after a long day. it just fits

@DudeManGuy  
Let me fix that link for you. I remember seeing that on Youtube before. That was a pretty good public-trolling, but the ending with the fly-swatter was kinda creepy.  
“I stole CBS!”

And at one point in 1987, somebody hijacked the signal for two TV channels while wearing a Max Headroom mask. The culprit was never caught. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs

I remember watching this as a kid.

Also, funny li’l fact, his creator/s were the people who directed the 1993 “Super Mario Bros.” movie.

@DudeManGuy  
Adding a bit, he started out in a failed British sci-fi pilot. The character was salvaged for use in the talk show, the popularity of which led to the pilot being remade in America and running for two half-seasons. The actor was Matt Frewer, whose disembodied head also appeared on computer screens in “Lawnmower Man 2” and the failed live-action “X-Men” pilot.

@PrincessFutamoon  
A character from the ‘80s who was referred to as the “World’s first computer-generated TV host,” except he was actually a guy in heavy makeup because computer graphics weren’t advanced enough at the time for him to actually be computer-generated.

@PrincessFutamoon  
A character from the ’80s that was popular before we were all born (or in some cases just babies) basically, google it, or look him up on Youtube. Some of his remarks are amusing.

@PrincessFutamoon  
read a book

Catch the wave.

wtf is max headroom.

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