They had to rename Mad Max 2 the Road Warrior because there was a really bad dubbed (into American?) version of the original Mad Max.
Channel 9 still shows Farscape. IIRC, it is Saturdays at 4:30 PM, during the kiddie time slot.
At least it's not in the usual Australian TV Kiss of Death time slots. All of the follwing are/were shunted to the graveyard shift and get bounced by the sport of the week: Buffy, Angel, B5, Star Trek: All of them, Roswell, West Wing, The Sopranos...
Of course, the excuse is that these shows don't rate well. Sound like circular logic.
Dragon's Lair was developed by a former disney animator (I believe).
That's possibly why it worked better as a Saturday morning cartoon. It even cut to the ads with "So Dirk, do you kill the monster or run like hell?" or some such.
The game itself looked really good, but had poor gameplay. Hmmm....
'fraid so - they too have to deal with clueless users - maybe their plight is even more difficult to bear. If you have an MCSE, aren't you supposed to know how to do every function of Excel, Word, Access, Powerpoint, etc? Users think so. Users ask me all the time about things like that. Not that I couldn't figure it out in a couple of minutes, but I am not really interested and take the attitude RTFM.
It's even better when they start with: "I learned this on my Advanced Word|Excel|Powerpoint course. Why doesn't it work?"
Usually, I walk to their machine, pull up the online lack-of-help and get the answer. Of course they didn't see the secret code I used so they're back the next day. (And of course they checked the help before calling.)
Oh well, I'll resign myself to being the custodian of the secret knowledge of F1.
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Channel 9 has season 3 on Sarurday afternoons in Perth. Maybe they can't show it in Sydney unless it's a sellout game.
Channel 9 still shows Farscape. IIRC, it is Saturdays at 4:30 PM, during the kiddie time slot.
At least it's not in the usual Australian TV Kiss of Death time slots. All of the follwing are/were shunted to the graveyard shift and get bounced by the sport of the week: Buffy, Angel, B5, Star Trek: All of them, Roswell, West Wing, The Sopranos...
Of course, the excuse is that these shows don't rate well. Sound like circular logic.
Kinda like the old joke: Why do they call it XXXX?
Because Queenslanders can't spell Beer. :)
That's possibly why it worked better as a Saturday morning cartoon. It even cut to the ads with "So Dirk, do you kill the monster or run like hell?" or some such.
The game itself looked really good, but had poor gameplay. Hmmm....
It's even better when they start with: "I learned this on my Advanced Word|Excel|Powerpoint course. Why doesn't it work?"
Usually, I walk to their machine, pull up the online lack-of-help and get the answer. Of course they didn't see the secret code I used so they're back the next day. (And of course they checked the help before calling.)
Oh well, I'll resign myself to being the custodian of the secret knowledge of F1.