Dave Perry trying to be a YouTuber in 2018 shows some things are best left in the 90s

"Here's something I made earlier," Dave Perry says to camera, a Union Jack bandana wrapped around his head and a smirk on his face. He looks to our left, as if a newsreader waiting to watch a film they'd just introduced. Then we fade to... bikini babes waving their breasts around for a minute and a half to a song whose lyrics are limited to: "bikini babes on beat 'em-ups. Up and down. Up and down."

No, you're not reading about a 90s video game TV show. You're reading about Dave Perry's debut on YouTube, episode one in the GamesAnimal TV Show series, which comes nearly 20 years since the UK's most famous gaming "expert" left the video game industry.

Perry, who's best-known for walking out on an episode of GamesMaster because he lost at Super Mario 64, asks his viewers what they want from the series. Do they want him to play Super Mario 64, or "this fucker" as he puts it, for the first time in 22 years, for the first time since he fell off that slide during the GamesMaster Christmas special? Perhaps they want him to tell old stories sparked by memorabilia he's kept instead? Either way, Perry is back, and he's bringing the 90s and all its cringe with it - in 480p resolution.

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