Cybernet!

MalicE

MalicE

Party time! Excellent!
Not a games out of the olden days, but it was a gaming program from that era.
If I remember correctly it was on every Friday afternoon, and I never missed an episode.
It ran for 13 years (1995 - 2008), but I think we only got a couple of those years through SABC.
And it was hosted by Lucy Longhurst, ah Lucy, always teasing me by showing me amazing games I can probably never play. And then of course there was the silent TV-headed mascot...

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I still remember sitting there, waiting with pen and paper for the "Cheats" section of the show to come up so I can scribble them down, even if it was for games I don't have... one day I might... but they rambled it off so fast most of the time I couldn't get it all
 
Dude...It was and for me still is a proper gamers show.
I had a VCR recording of the show, where i wanted a specific trick bike game on the consol.But because VCR's cant be marked with important i lost the title of the game.
Anyways i wish they could bring it back, or bring back a show with that ladies voice.


I still however wonder what the dreamcast was.....Was it those machinces at magic company?
 
hahaha, yeah she had a sexy voice, but keep it at that, trust me, I googled her and... well, lets just leave it at the voice :p
 
I think Cybernet made a gamer of most people that watched it. It just fueled my fire ^_^
 
ArchieChoke:655663 said:
Dude...It was and for me still is a proper gamers show.
I had a VCR recording of the show, where i wanted a specific trick bike game on the consol.But because VCR's cant be marked with important i lost the title of the game.
Anyways i wish they could bring it back, or bring back a show with that ladies voice.


I still however wonder what the dreamcast was.....Was it those machinces at magic company?
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Funny you should mention the VCR part, my brother and I did the same thing. I just posted a similar post also on Cybernet mentioning that and before I was made aware that someone had already posted on Cybernet(sorry Malice). Coincidence? Nonetheless it brings back some fond memories.
 
ArchieChoke said:
Dude...It was and for me still is a proper gamers show.
I had a VCR recording of the show, where i wanted a specific trick bike game on the consol.But because VCR's cant be marked with important i lost the title of the game.
Anyways i wish they could bring it back, or bring back a show with that ladies voice.


I still however wonder what the dreamcast was.....Was it those machinces at magic company?
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The Dreamcast was Sega's last console, it was 6th generation and more powerful then the PS2 and was released a year earlier, though it initially did well, it eventually failed because of easily pirated games even with their funny DC Disc format.
 
Back in the days when you couldn't afford most games and pirating wasn't really an option with crappy SA internet, you had to be content with just watching awesome games on Cybernet. :) Such an epic show.
 
MOnk said:
Back in the days when you couldn't afford most games and pirating wasn't really an option with crappy SA internet, you had to be content with just watching awesome games on Cybernet. :) Such an epic show.
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Pirating was big, even with bad internet, not sure how but it was from a friend of a friend.
 
MOnk:655789 said:
Not saying it didn't happen, it was just less of a thing at least in my circles.
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Well that's because one game had to fit on a good 2 10 packs of 3.5 diskettes and later on we got cd writers but they were kinda expensive and the guys that had them were douchebags that didn't want to share, at least in my circles :)
 
madtazz said:
Well that's because one game had to fit on a good 2 10 packs of 3.5 diskettes and later on we got cd writers but they were kinda expensive and the guys that had them were douchebags that didn't want to share, at least in my circles :)
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In my circles it was simply pay for the blank and then the dude would burn it for you, or go to LANS and get tons of stuff.
 
Lupus said:
Pirating was big, even with bad internet, not sure how but it was from a friend of a friend.
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HAHA! back then, growing up in the small town of Springbok, it was the only way we could get games, from a friend of a friend of a friend...

Piracy was a foreign concept back then, we we just sharing our stuff

I still remember the frustration as I was playing Monkey Island 1 I got "from a friend" and nearing the end and the up pops the message
"PLEASE INSERT DISK 7"

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Just remembered there used to be a guy that stood in for Lucy when she off doing something else.... it just wasn't the same without her, those episode I enjoyed a little less
 
My brother had many VHS recordings of Cybernet. That was our show on a Friday.

Watch it over and over. Never got old.

Was also in love with Lucy Longhurst's voice :o
 
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