The first televised video games award show.
It’s that time of the year when the Game Awards roll around to try and provide the industry with a glossy video game alternative to the Oscars. But what you might not realize is that it wasn’t actually the first attempt to combine video games with a big-budget televisual award format. Or even the first award show to include Geoff Keighley as part of the production team.
No, that honour instead goes to TBS and the Interactive Academy of Arts & Sciences’ Cybermania ’94, an event that took place on November 5th, 1994 at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, which featured the participation of a fifteen-year-old Keighley as an “interactive product specialist” – a job that he got through his parents that basically meant writing the blurbs for the games that were nominated on the night.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
The first televised video games award show.
It’s that time of the year when the Game Awards roll around to try and provide the industry with a glossy video game alternative to the Oscars. But what you might not realize is that it wasn’t actually the first attempt to combine video games with a big-budget televisual award format. Or even the first award show to include Geoff Keighley as part of the production team.
No, that honour instead goes to TBS and the Interactive Academy of Arts & Sciences’ Cybermania ’94, an event that took place on November 5th, 1994 at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, which featured the participation of a fifteen-year-old Keighley as an “interactive product specialist” – a job that he got through his parents that basically meant writing the blurbs for the games that were nominated on the night.
Read the full article on timeextension.com