{"id":216,"date":"2019-10-14T11:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgu.tv\/?p=216"},"modified":"2019-10-14T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:03:41","slug":"remembering-g4-part-2-blister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgu.tv\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBERING G4 PART 2: BLISTER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G5OCbmRrOmk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Credit: G4TV Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part 2 of my G4 Remembrance Maxi-series.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello welcome to the second edition of LosHarrowGames\u2019 special feature \u201cRemembering G4\u201d focused on Blister. And while I may not be Bill Sindelar I am a ginger who is knowledgeable about a niche video game channel that no longer exists. Now if you don\u2019t mind let\u2019s get&nbsp;<s>jiggy with it<\/s>&nbsp;started!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to the launch of G4 in April of 2002 there was a game of&nbsp;<em>Pong<\/em>&nbsp;and after the inaugural program to launch on the newly formed channel was Blister, a show dedicated to action-adventure games. Compared to the revamp of X-Play later on in the decade; Blister was, simply put, a bare-bones action-adventure game coverage show. Much like most G4 shows from the early 2000s the show and everything it represented reflected the state of video game media compared to how things have changed in the near twenty years since. Now these days the show garners a nostalgia reaction more than anything else. As one of the producers for the show during its year or two existence, Jon Solin would later join the X-Play production staff and as a result of that would become a character on X-Play as the \u201cI love Canada\u201d guy. Since 2008 I have been accrewing a library of G4 videos from the beginning, middle, and near the end. After watching an episode around a couple of years ago I saw Solin\u2019s name as a producer and tweeted out something along the lines of \u201comg @____ was a producer on Blister?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He responded with something along the lines of \u201cwhy would you watch that?\u201d I was stunned as G4 had a cult-like fanbase that seemingly got more culty after it went off the air. Adam Sessler said it perfectly now that I think of it when talking on Kevin Perreira\u2019s Pointless podcast. He said \u201ceveryone seems to miss G4 now\u201d he then followed this with \u201cwhere were you then?!?!\u201d Which says everything really about G4 and its audience. Something I just noticed is that Rick Damigella aka SVOT from the good old G4 Stickam video chats from the early part of this decade was the supervising producer. However there were certain gimmick episodes during the run of Blister that worked sometimes and in one case, was upended by TechTV merging with G4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were two special \u201cBlister \u2013 Declassified\u201d episodes revolving around Bill Sindelar trying to locate a game that at the time was an urban legend but now? Not so much. That game being\u00a0<em>Polybius<\/em>. It was literally an urban legend of the new millenium as it began in February of 2000 and got to a point where someone requested the Freedom of Information Act. This seemingly pointless use of time over an alleged arcade game would prove nothing being in the vacuum of reality for this game. If you don\u2019t believe me here\u2019s the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8c\/EFOIA_Request.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"529\" \/><figcaption>Credit: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other notable Blister gimmick episodes were the seasonal episodes. For example, there was a Halloween episode where Sindelar was paranoid about not being able to find his games. The last two are connected in a sad way that would prove to be the future of the network. First is the \u201cEnd Year Sindeletacular\u201d which was the holiday episode which was supposed to be a traditional format for the following year. Unfortunately, the following year G4\u2019s parent company also known as Comcast bought the majority stake of TechTV when the late Paul Allen who had said majority stake sold it and if you remember the first episode of the LosHarrowGames Podcast (which you can find&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/los-harrow-games\/embed\/episodes\/Episode-1-Rockstar-Crunch-WWE-2019-figure-inside-e2ellc\">here<\/a>) I\u2026 mocked a dead man\u2026 I, well, am trying to reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a time period during mid-late 2004 at G4TechTV where shows were either getting cancelled or changed or even both. Some examples are the changes made to shows such as The Screensavers, Unscrewed with Martin Sargent, Portal, and others. In the case of The ScreenSavers the show (which had been based in San Francisco, CA was moved to Los Angeles, longtime hosts Patrick Norton and Leo Laporte departed, leaving Sarah Lane, Kevin Rose, Dan Huard, Yoshi, and Brendan Moran the only TechTV on-air staff and newcomers Chi-Lan Lieu and Alex Albrecht to man the fort. Unscrewed wouldn\u2019t last to the next year while Portal and Blister would soon be cancelled to make room for the TechTV arrivals. Blister\u2019s final episode wouldn\u2019t have much to do with video games as it was one big parody of MTV\u2019s \u201cPunk\u2019d\u201d series but in Blister\u2019s \u201cSkunk\u2019d\u201d version it didn\u2019t really fit and felt like something different altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some reason when X-Play did their Breakfast Club parody and reviewed classic games I got a little offended when&nbsp;<em>Midway Arcade Treasures&nbsp;<\/em>was reviewed in the X-Play voice. Not because of interest for the game but I have watched the Blister clip and I have a certain combination stuck in my head. That being&nbsp;<em>Sinistar<\/em>, \u201cpart sinister, star, and sindelar\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-black-color wp-block-paragraph\">Now let us all bid Blister entry into Valhalla, as now its watch has ended.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of my G4 Remembrance Maxi-series. Hello welcome to the second edition of LosHarrowGames\u2019 special feature \u201cRemembering G4\u201d focused on Blister. And while I may not be Bill Sindelar I am a ginger who is knowledgeable about a niche video game channel that no longer exists. 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