28:16 I grew up with it myself.

Mmm, sounds like Aoife Wilson (the narrator)

I cannot believe you have so few followers. I would subscribe to watch you talk about delightful British children's shows series by series because you have such a calm voice! We had a lot of these shows broadcast in Canada as well. Thank you for introducing me to the likes of Huxley Pig and The Herbs however. Hope to see more from you in the future!

Old CGI cutscenes in games always felt like a reward, because there were usually only a couple of them and they were short. Games can look amazing nowadays, to the point where gameplay and cutscenes look the same. That combined with how it feels like a lot of the triple A games have too many cutscenes just makes it way less rewarding and skippable

i understand how you feel about pre rendered cutscenes and the sense of accomplishment! seeing them pop up motivates me to keep playing to see them all

i loved fifi and the flowertots, koala brothers and postman pat :] and i completely forgot about hilltop hospital!! so happy to see your success with this video!

You did give a small mention to COD: Infinite Warfare zombies in spacland, but it’s one of my favorite amusement parks in an fps. Rides and attractions play into the actual gameplay. Bumper cars can knock down you and zombies. The roller coaster is infested with zombies dressed as alien mascots. Tickets can be earned from an arcade to purchase equipment and prizes. All the while David Hasselhoff is the DJ

Woah, that took me back. Recognise a lot too. Good times

We need more evil carnival games...

I'm Canadian and I grew up with a lot of British and Irish shows. And I didn't even notice it. I remember being obsessed with Thomas, In the Night Garden, and Angelina Ballerina

I'm American, but I have always adored British cartoons. I was so obsessed with Bob The Builder as a kid that every time I went to Chuck E Cheese, I HAD to ride the Scoop-themed ride that played the BTB theme song. I also had a lot of Thomas stuff. Fireman Sam and Postman Pat were on Sprout and Qubo respectively, but I also liked watching them. I have recently discovered Engie Benjy, and I have become completely obsessed with the show! Benjy himself has such a cool design and I love how he's basically a machine doctor [kinda accurate to how mechanics are]. There's a lot of fun wit and even some sarcastic moments in the show, courtesy of Cosgrove Hall, and I don't know why there wasn't even an effort to bring Engie Benjy to America. Then again, they would probably ruin it, especially if Mattel got their hands on the franchise. I'm still mad over the Bob The Builder, Fireman Sam, and Thomas [All Engines Go] reboots, they are dumbed down and not as fun as the original shows.

British TV is infinitely superior to American. I will die on this hill.

I recall a good number of these, some I didn't know until later, or only saw the VHS trailers for. My absolute favourite, and I do believe shaped my life the most was Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.

I like both the stop motion AND the CGI Noddy

The one I remember the most but can't find anywhere is a show that featured a pink telephone (or fridge?) that was as big as the human characters. They used to always hang around in the same room and honestly, it was fairly similar to dhmis. When I first watched dhmis I thought it was parodying that exact show

I feel like a lot of these shows were very good at telling children important lessons and I guess “fables”. Me and my brother grew up watching a lot of VHS tapes of these shows and I feel like we have a good moral compass because of the stories we learnt in the shows. It’s such a shame that children’s tv is just CGI and totally disposable content now. The whole art form of puppetry and 2d animation is almost completely lost now in kids tv, replaced with easy to digest mindless content not dissimilar to TikTok videos. It was nice having a walk down memory lane and I’m really glad I got recommended this video!

Good to see so many of these, there are so many I watched regularly. Woahhh I can't remember a Funny Bones episode with ghosts, the lore of that show is more expansive than I thought, and I already thought it was pretty expansive. The head from art attack is the most scared I've been of anything- I literally just mentioned the exact same point in an Inside No. 9 analysis that I only uploaded about 2 days ago- wonder if the algoritihim brought me here because of that coincidence. I vividly remember Titch and the theme song with his lil' jigsaw trike. The Theme tune of the riddlers is....susprisingly dark and dramatic for a show about some puppets cheerfully loitering in a garden. GIVE YOURSELF A SHINY. EL NOMBRE can't be long before he gets a darker edgier reboot, surely. Same with yo ho ahoy. Hotch Potch House is one I like a lot that's so rarely discussed now. P.s my brother looked uncannily like a boobah as a baby, but he was born prior to the series- it's a shame he didn't copyright the look.

Baroque for the sega saturn and ps1 has a very interesting artstyle. the FMV cutscenes are also pretty good. My favorite dreamcast game is one called "Despiria" its a Myst style JRPG where all the graphics are prerendered and it has a dark and merky dystopian feel to it was some gross looking monster designs. It's one of the most Unique looking games ive ever seen

I really enjoyed this, we grew up around the same time and watched similar shows. Love your narration style and the way you tell your story and nostalgic memories. Great work!

Most of these shows were my jam, along with the American and Canadian ones too.

I’m an American here, and I enjoyed watching a lot of these shows. Heck, some of them goes as far back to when I used to watch them on PBS Kids Sprout or KZfaq as a kid, and to this day, I still enjoyed them. Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Noddy, Kipper, Rubbadubbers, Little Robots, Charlie Chalk, Sooty, Danger Mouse, Angelina Ballerina, The Wombles, Bill & Ben, etc. Of course, it’s not like I’m gonna be gatekept by anyone from watching these shows just because some of them never aired on US TV.

When I moved to Canada with my parents, I have seen television channels such as TVO Kids, Kids' CBC and Treehouse. The programmes that you have showed and mentioned were airing in those channels that I have mentioned. I, too, miss days when I watch television ever since I was young. If I can find the time to do it, I would gladly do it in a heartbeat.

Underrated as hell video. The editing is hilarious.

Have you seen the live action model animated series, Thomas and Friends and Tugs?

This is a trip down memory lane, a lot of them i forgot existed. Brum is class!

I really hope you can do an follow up video talking about kids' TV from other countries, because those countries have a lot of great kids shows that I think are truly different to what the states have. (one of my personal favorites being an series of 5 second bumps that played during ad breaks on public tv channels in the Netherlands featuring an stop motion lion character named "Loeki De Leeuw".)

You didn't mention anything about other great shows like Pingu, Sooty or even the best one ever Thomas the Tank Engine.

What a lovely trip down memory lane, it was nice finding out the names of shows which were just a fuzzy memory😊😊

I'm a Californian and do remember liking Thomas and Friends when I was a kid then do rn.

The relief that came over me when I realised the whole 32 minute video wouldn't have the mic quality at the start!

25:57 Ahh Kipper

cool video

You and I both have in common a wee bit because I have some vhs’s 🇬🇧

Something about how weird and otherworldly outdated CGI looks is always what appealed to me about it. Feels like I'm entering another world.

i really resonated with the intro, love seeing & hearing about what affected you as a child, amazing video as always!!!!

I adore fmvs despite never growing up with them (since I was a baby) I was always drawn to the inherent dreamy feel they incite! Thank you for introducing a lot of new games I’ve never heard of<3

Love these types of cozy videos.

This was, well quite beautiful actually.

It never fails to amaze me how few of these shows were ever brought over to the US. Networks spent tons of money localizing both Japanese and French productions when I was a kid, but getting shows that were already in English never occurred to them. Also, I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one frustrated with the CGI reboots of classic children's shows. Most of the time, it takes so much character out of the original aesthetic.

I loved the vibe of the intro! Really drew me in!

I do love pre rendered fmvs for two reasons. First, the gamey design philosophy that was nust imposed by the technology limitations. You just can't constantly interrupt game play with faux gameplay that is just some hollywood action sequence where you have to hold foward all the time so the player can be psychologically conned into thinking they're playing not just watching. So you don't do that, and you don't design a game around that, you design a game where the non fmv session is mostly actual play. Second, because the fmv made better graphics but not pseudo realistic ones yoo well, it forced artists to make their own style, which is much more timeless than "as much realism as the technology allows, which means it will look dated in a but a few years". Stylized art is literally most art throughout human history for a reason, and that reason is not mere lack of technology.

There’s an indie game called Alisa that recently came out which is one of the few PS1 styled indies to actually include FMV cutscenes in that style. As various animation tools become more accessible, I would love if more indie games get to replicate the late 90’s/early 2000’s look.

I still own ( Blam) Machinehead ( PS1 version) and I still play it on my PS2, the intro and game used to scare the crap outta me when I was a kid, the whole game had an uncanny feeling.

I'm not entirely sure how I came across this video but it was pretty thought provoking. I used to be exactly the same as you, jumping between games all the time and rarely finishing them - which often lead to a sense of decision paralysis about what I should actually play. I "solved" it by deciding I'd just play one game at a time and not move on until I beat it, even if I found myself not enjoying it. Weirdly that self imposed rule made me enjoy games a lot more and really motivated me to finish what I was playing and appreciate games in full - rather than always playing 60-70% then ducking out or swapping between 4 different games and not really taking them in! I highly recommend it although like you said in the video - people should just do what they personally want

i love the Bujingai fmvs

Just found your channel and wanted to stay it's so amazing! Love your style and thoughts, keep up the great work! ❤

i was here.

I love the video!!! If you'd like check out some more incredible fmvs, D-2 for the Dreamcast - something about them are hypnotic almost?? Elements of parasite eve make its way in too, it's great. Thanks for making this!!!

i have endlessly game suggestions, but speaking of this style of art i suggest checking out Blam! machine head, also it has great soundtrack also in my opinion Brave Fencer Musashi released in 1997 with a dd8 demo disk is the best game ever released for original playstation

Amazing vid! i hope you get a lot of views!