The Obscure Sitcom Files – A Prince Among Men

Introduction

Ah, sports – one of the greatest pastimes of the human world. I personally never really got into sports – I was one of those nerdy kids who would much rather prefer to linger in the toilets all class rather than do P.E. (well, I didn’t really – I was one of those who cared deeply about my grades but I would have if I could have). Still, it is a pastime so timeless that there have been numerous attempts to adapt it into comedy, some more successful than others. Modern comedic takes on it include Ted Lasso and The First Team, whilst earlier attempts include Renford Rejects and Fantasy Football League. Did you know however that there was an attempt at a mainstream sitcom starring Chris Barrie in the 1990s? Well, you might do, but let’s read on anyway, shall we?

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The Wonderful World of Red Dwarf Fangames

After my previous blog post on the history of Red Dwarf video games a while back, I thought – have the fans looked into this topic themselves? After all, they’re a creative bunch – the amount of good fics on AO3 and Fanfiction.net is proof to that – so some games must have been at least created and in the demo stage. As it turns out, they do exist, although there aren’t many out there.

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Red Dwarf and Video Games: A Brief History

Red Dwarf is a long-running sitcom that concerns the misadventures of a group of misfits, including the presumed last human alive, onboard a mining ship 3 million years into the future. Despite the depressing subject matter, it is nonetheless very good at mining such a situation for laughs and has proven to be quite successful. How successful you may ask? Successful enough that it has a wide amount of tie-ins, including a superb book series, a magazine, and a tabletop game. With this in mind, you might be thinking, were there any video games? The answer is actually yes, and this blog post aims to give a brief overview (as well as my opinions) of each game.

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