In 1997, BBC Multimedia asked Studio Fish to create an interactive Dr. Who PC CD ROM game called "Destiny of the Doctors" where you play Graak, a entity created by the Doctor in the time of an emergency....like NOW....all 7 of the Doctor's incarnations have been captured by the Master. Only you can save the Doctor. The game is SUPER COOL, easy to play and tests your Doctor Who trivia to the max with sights & sounds from the show.

Anyone else have this game?

I don't have it, but I once got it out of the library (Kensington Central, for any Londoners out there anxious to give it a try). I found it impossible to play and the exact opposite of super cool - every time I just about mastered how to get around the TARDIS a Dalek or something came along and exterminated me - but I have to admit I'm not exactly au fait with computer games.

I've been wanting this game since it came out, but sadly never could. Glad to see I can check it out next time I am in London. I'll make a copy of it.

Thanks Emily

to all don't try the game. i have a copy but it must be for old computers you can get to and resque the first 2 doctors but after that the game errors and shuts down!

I just got it, and I'm trying to play it- but going out of my mind as the videos are all wackily-colored in-game! I can watch them externally with no problem, but while playing the quicktimes, the master's face is blue, his surroundings green, etc. I think the colors are inverted... anyone have a fix for this?

Haven't a clue. Come to think of it, why hasn't there been a proper computer game for the new series? It's not as if they've exactly been shy at churning out every OTHER tie-in product known to humanity...

Well, they do have a series 3 Top Trumps game... sort of the card game war with 5 or 6 variations. (And no, not a proper game at all! :-) )

I believe a game for all the major consoles and featuring the series voices etc, is in development at the moment.

Probably a platform game with sections of logic puzzles.

They mentioned it on OG a while back.

The third instalment of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games will be available from 27th August.

The game will be based around the TARDIS with players exploring the famous blue box and visiting rooms created specially for the game

Well, let's face it. They'd HAVE to be created specially for the game...

The first two were interesting- although Matt Smith sounded like he was sitting in a room reading a script...which, funnily enough he was.

*Bitterly* Oh, it's alright for people who can actually download the things, instead of getting a nasty red cross against Operating System, Processor, Graphics Card, Memory AND Hard Disk Space whenever they try to do so...

Are you saying our Eleventh Doctor can't actually ACT? I'll admit that he's a very physical actor and must seem rather different when you can't SEE him doing his Drunken Giraffe thing...

oh he can act alright....but for these, he's just reading the script...and it actually sounds like it. Karen Gillan is far more believable.

Yeah, just discovered this on Direct2Drive for download:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/doctorwhotheadventuregames/index.html?tag=result%3Btitle%3B3

Time to get yer game on!

And, of course, there's also this one:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/doctorwho/index.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssimilargames&tag=similargames%3Bimg%3B1

I just finished Episode 1: City of the Daleks. It was quite good actually, if you're 10, even if it does star the iDaleks.

As someone who's used to first-person shooters, the movement controls were really, really clunky. Fortunately the threats were equally blunt, and the puzzles were fun.

Yes, it's true, Matt doesn't give the best voiceover, but it wasn't distractingly bad.

"Eye of Time"? What happened to the Eye of Harmony? And Amy was fading in and out like Michael J. Fox in "Back to the Future."

Amy was WHAT? Why? They've just had someone doing that on K9 and I specifically said that this is NOT how people work in the Whoniverse if their timelines are rewritten...unless it was just because of bad graphics?

No, Amy was definitely doing the Michael J. Fox thing. It was worked into the plot though as she could sneak past enemies in her transparent form (you had to be there).

You'd have loved the Daleks' sensor scans; they were green wedges on the floor. And apparently when they lose their vision, they fire continuously in a straight line (or perhaps that's an iDalek thing).

And boy, that emperor Dalek was fat!

*Sigh* Amy didn't fade in and out of existence EVEN AFTER HER PARENTS GOT SWALLOWED BY A CRACK IN TIME THAT MEANT THEY (AND THEREFORE SHE!) HAD NEVER EXISTED!

Bloody computer games.

Bloody computer games.

No kidding. The second one, Blood of the Cybermen, stops working during the second act. Just freezes up. Apparently it has some software glitch the BBC can't be bothered to fix as there are no patches for it.

I did get through enough of it to wonder when the TARDIS started keeping people warm when they went outside in mini-skirts. Didn't do anything for Sarah Jane in the Arctic nor Donna when they visited the Oodsphere.

Some things remain a constant though. The Doctor promises to protect someone moments before they're doomed by a Cybermat bite. Par for the course.

Finally managed to download the wretched things. Rather wish I hadn't. It turns out I really hate computer games - incredibly boring, difficult (yes, no doubt this is due to me being rubbish at them) AND addictive.

TARDIS (at least I managed to FINISH this one, thank the gods for no Daleks, Cybermen, and Vashta Nerada exterminating/deleting/eating me every thirty seconds):

Are the Doctor and Amy Gangers? If not, why do they look so weird? If so, does this explain their mysterious ability to come back from the dead all the time?

The Doctor manages to breathe an awfully long time outside the TARDIS before its airshell is extended.

Boy, do they manage to get between the console room and the whatever-the-other-room-is fast, despite it being miles away.

'Blimey, talking to myself already, that's a new record' - doubt it. McGann did it ALL THE TIME.

How the hell do I get that card under the gramophone? At first I was completely nonplussed by the bizarre idea of wandering around Dalek-blitzed London etc collecting cards for no readily apparent reason (and chocolate-flavoured jelly babies? Are these people MAD??) but now I find myself stopping in the middle of a Vashta-Nerada-ed corridor in a vain attempt to pick one up.

FACT! It's 'Time Lord' not 'Timelord'.

As if triple deadlocks needed any MORE sneering at.

FACT! Every Doctor encountered the Cybermen on-screen except the Eighth and Ninth. What about the Third? He didn't see Vorg's Cyberman, did he?And Tenth Planet isn't an episode.

(And FACT! I can't see any FACTS! without thinking of the 'Good fact! Bad fact!' Grel from the Benny books and audios. It's really distracting.)

Was Four really the first Doc to wear a scarf? Didn't the First Doctor wear one occasionally? Or have I got some uncanonical photo in mind?

Launching the TARDIS would be a LOT easier if the dematerialisation lever and the inertial dampners didn't look identical.

Help! Blood of the Cybermen: I'm in the base, there's a Cyberman guarding a door and a room with a Cybermat in it and I have NO BLOODY IDEA how to progress.

And help! City of the Daleks: I've collected the Dalek eyestalk, I need to collect the Dalek gun but I've run round those rooms being Varga'd and exterminated a hundred times without finding it.

look up those titles with strategy guide on google

Or "walkthrough."

THANK you! SONIC THE CYBERMAT! Why didn't I think of that...

At least it works on your computer... <grumble>

Yes, I am indeed, um, blessed...those were some REALLY frustrating hours of my life I'll never get back...

City of the Daleks:

This was INCREDIBLY difficult...OK, so I was a complete novice AND naturally rubbish at such things, not to mention my lack of anything remotely resembling a sense of direction was (literally and repeatedly) fatal, but still...

DON'T keep repeating the instructions to THE SAME PLAYER about what to press every time they continue the game (though if you ARE for gods' sakes mention that centre button to access the sonic. I don't want to THINK of the amount of my life that was squandered trying to tie a ******* rope onto a ******* winch without the sonic's help in Blood of the Cybermen).

It would be REALLY REALLY nice if 'TALK' only flashed up when Amy had something NEW to say. And not only does she resemble an exceptionally irritating parrot, but her advice is sometimes bizarre (Doctor: 'We need to catch up with Sylvia.' Amy: 'Why don't we hide behind those sandbags!' Not to mention the time she suggests 'Perhaps there's a hole in the floor somewhere' for the millionth time...AFTER we've (they've. Whatever.) climbed down said hole.)

How come the Daleks can only 'see' with coloured beams, anyway?

If the TARDIS protected her, why did Amy start going funny while in the TARDIS?

Why the hell would Daleks invent mind-reading lifts?

The Eye of Time, more power than every TARDIS, possessed by the Time Lords centuries ago, used to benefit the universe not to crush it, goes walkabout after the Time War...where do I start? WHERE DO I START??? This puts the unexpected survival of Skaro in the shade...

LOVE the way the Doctor 'picks up' the rope - as if he's sucking it into his fingers.

How does AMY know the lift doesn't work any more? Don't forget it's wonderful magical Dalek technology...

Vaaga plants! BLESS!

Never mind Amy's life hanging by a thread as she fades in and out of existence - I thought I'd be dead - of old age - by the time I found that wretched Dalek gun. The Doctor's 'Brilliant! You found both of them!' sounded distinctly sarcastic, as well it should.

And as for the BBC site's 'Breakthrough' - THAT hasn't been updated recently, what with the fourth story 'tba'. And it's 'route' not 'root', guys!

Why the hell would Daleks invent mind-reading lifts?

Given their lack of manipulative members, psychic tech seems like a good idea for them.

Do you know what happened to the last person to imply that suckers were useless? Do you? DO YOU?? He was SUCKERED TO DEATH!!!

Yeah, but I have a small cutting board I can use as a shield. Can't sucker your way through that!

Blood of the Cybermen:

I did get through enough of it to wonder when the TARDIS started keeping people warm when they went outside in mini-skirts. Didn't do anything for Sarah Jane in the Arctic nor Donna when they visited the Oodsphere.

Well, QUITE.

Some things remain a constant though. The Doctor promises to protect someone moments before they're doomed by a Cybermat bite. Par for the course.

For your information, the Doctor, aka ME!, rustled up an antidote and actually managed to CURE the infected Mr Chisholm. Eventually. I ROCK.

Sorry, but anyone who goes round digging in the Arctic is just ASKING for it.

The Doctor taught Elvis to play the guitar? Why didn't he mention this in Idiot's Lantern?

Why won't this let me run off cliffs?

'Looks like your ankle is sprained' - how the hell can the Doctor tell? It's moving OK and he's got big boots on.

Amy has ample time to nip into the TARDIS and CHANGE her shoes instead of moaning about them all the time.

Well, at least the Doctor's breath sometimes turns white in the cold. That's more attention to detail than SOME TV stories I could mention...

'You brought me back! They'll get us all!' Chisholm screams...as he exits the TARDIS and shuts the door behind him.

'Maybe Meadows isn't infected' says the bloke who two seconds earlier said everyone was infected.

'Spiders? I'd rather we changed the subject!' - ah bless, is he still traumatised by Spiders since they caused his third regeneration?

Chisholm is the chief engineer AND the archaeologist??

'I'm not really ventilation duct size' - ooh what a liar! He was QUITE HAPPY in ventilation ducts in Death of the Doctor!

Meadows is quite happy to work with the door OPEN, all of a sudden? What happened to the Cyberslave out there?

Why can't I just nip out and get some sound-equipment from the TARDIS instead of having to search the whole stupid base for it?

Chisholm has NOTHING BUT the Capacitor in his locker?

Why does Amy say 'Let's have a look around' all the time when they're SUPPOSED to be getting the antidote to Chisholm - first things first?

This ship crashed before the last Ice Age, eh? I suppose if this wasn't blatantly uncanonical we could start debating whether they were Mondasian or er...Lumician?

'The ship will have been sentient since it crashed' - UH?

'Why are we even trying to get up [to the control room]' says Amy, who a) really ought to be able to work it out, and b) had been telling the Doctor to get up to the control room via the lift a minute ago.

'So you were a Cyberslave from the start' - she WAS? Why didn't she look like one, then? Why was she looking for a cure?

'Yes, I'm doing fine, thanks' - I wasn't asking after your health you git, I was trying to get PAST you in my rush to get OUT of here before the EXPLOSION.

Well, my computer somehow managed to get the rest of this game to run.

Why won't this let me run off cliffs?

It let me walk through walls and then I'd fall into nothingness.

'So you were a Cyberslave from the start' - she WAS?

Yeah, even I spotted that. She was shifty. Her arm was probably already cyberneticized.

It let me walk through walls and then I'd fall into nothingness.

Ah, haven't managed to do that yet. My favourite part of the games, though, is when I walk through that box in the Vashta story...

'So you were a Cyberslave from the start' - she WAS?

Yeah, even I spotted that. She was shifty. Her arm was probably already cyberneticized.

But what possible motive did she have to hang round being shifty while the Doctor and Amy were running round warning people off and using her equipment to create cures (which SHE started!) and suchlike? I mean, what was the POINT of her pretending to still be human? And how come only her arm was affected when it took hours (or minutes, if you're considerably better at computer games than me) for half Chisholm's face to Cyberneticise?

Presumably she started the cure before the Cybermen got to her. As to why she was hanging around waiting for someone to deceive, no idea.

Finally got around to downloading and finishing "TARDIS." Boring as hell. Seemed to consist of hopping between the console room and the drawing room to retrieve various bits. Oh, and throw in some time-eating entity for good measure.

How can the console possibly be this hard to operate? The Doctor doesn't jump through this many hoops to launch normally, nevermind being pathologically unable to simply walk around the console without constantly turning around and/or trying to talk to Amy.

Good lord, could that light-hopping in the Vashta corridors be more annoying? How can a 10-yr-old expect to get from A to B with such clunky controls?

Ha! I KNEW you'd be pining for the simplicity* of TARDIS once you got onto those Vashta...

*Well, give or take that ******* TARDIS console.

Downloading Gunpowder Plot now.

Shadows of the Vashta Nerada:

Confusing start...unless you remember the end of the previous game.

'The tunnel isn't there any more, which means...' 'We can't get back to the TARDIS!' - yeah, you'd think THAT would be addressed sooner but it takes half the adventure for Amy to bother raising the issue, whereupon the Doctor helpfully tells her that they'll cross that bridge when they get to it.

75% of Earth's land masses drowned thanks to Global Warming but hey, don't worry, everyone! We just moved under the sea! No problem!

Remarkably EMPTY base given the overcrowding, though...

God, does this HAVE to save every time you go through a DOOR? Yet then FAIL to save later when you're running up and down corridors and could REALLY do with not having to go so far back every time you get killed...

'Can't you boost the lights with your sonic?' 'Poseidon 8 is where we need to go' - Amy's 'advice' is not just grossly repetitive, it tends to come just AFTER you've done whatever she'll TELLING you to do...Conversations with Jones can also get repetitive but then this is more forgivable, what with Jones being a computer.

Great! After killing us off the last umpteen thousand times we stepped anywhere dark...we're supposed to cheerily walk into a pitch-black generator room...and survive.

Why the HELL don't light switches in the whatever-century-this-is manage to light up an alcove for more than a few seconds? GOD I got stuck for hours (and killed more times than Rory Pond himself) thanks to this.

The Doctor and Amy should be really good at running. Sadly their computer versions...aren't.

The plot switches around in an abrupt and confusing manner. Suddenly it's all about dangerous alien radiation and 'that chip thingy' for some reason.

All the Christmas decorations are a bit weird.

'I should ask Dana about those codes' - and as she's approximately two feet away from you, you might try asking her DIRECTLY. (Apparently she can TELEPATHICALLY input codes, as I certainly didn't see her do it.)

FACT! The Cat-nun hospital was 'later shut down' - no wonder all those cretins perished due to a virus! Serves 'em right!

The Rory card claims that 'He can get exasperated by Amy's friendship with The Doctor, but he leapt at the chance to join them on their adventures' - it's not Amy's FRIENDSHIP that's the problem, 'The' shouldn't be capitalised, and I can't say Rory exactly went eagerly adventuring. He just realised he needed to keep an eye on 'em.

Ninth Doctor card says 'He survived the Time War' - surely that was EIGHT?

Time radiation? Oh, puh-lease.

Amy already KNOWS that the TARDIS can extend oxygen outside herself. Y'know...when the Doctor shoved her out the doors in deep space.

Disappointing that the final, solving-everything lever-pulling doesn't have any sort of puzzle attached.

'Whoever you are...wherever you came from' - quite. Why aren't the natives more curious? The Doctor didn't even have to psychic-paper them.

The Gunpowder Plot:

TERRIBLE mistake not to have chapters like the previous games, and not to save MUCH more often. This goes on forever even WITHOUT having to start again from scratch when things go wrong or you just want to take a break.

Roricus Pondicus! About time too! His hair is WEIRD, though - looks more like feathers. He's not secretly the Black Guardian or something?

Doesn't Rory realise he can slam the TARDIS doors shut by hand instead of asking the Doctor to operate them from the console?

'Lord Staff' is an odd way of referring to the Time Lord staff.

FACT! 'The Tenth Doctor sealed the Time Lords and Gallifrey in a time lock' - nope, the War was already time-locked, he just sent 'em back to it.

FACT! 'The Cybermen have encountered every Doctor on screen, except for the Eighth and Ninth' - oh, was there a Pertwee Cyber adventure I somehow MISSED?

FACT! 'The Tenth Doctor freed [the Ood]' - the HELL he did! It was all that Friends of the Ood bloke who no one gives a •••• about (including me obviously, as I can't remember his name)...

Love the way the Plotters keep standing around in corridors announcing their plans to each other.

The Plotters just DON'T NOTICE that 'Lady Winters' has SERIOUSLY glowing green eyes? Even the STREET URCHINS know that 'her eyes glow like emeralds lit with cold fire', for heaven's sake...

And it's almost equally amazing that she doesn't notice the clearly-visible-and-audible Ponds.

Blimey, Rory is astonishingly good at history. (Ah. I forgot - he LIVED THROUGH it...)

'Raise that place above us to ruin' the caption helpfully reads. I think you mean 'raze'...See also 'Looks like I'm not important enough to chat too.'

EVERY TIME I (i.e. Amy) nearly catches the ***** up this makes me stop and say 'Where is she going?' in astonished tones - very annoying.

Ooh, oochie!

Oh. RUTAN oochie. Never mind, it's STILL adorable.

Why does the herbalist never CHARGE for her services?

Charlie is 'desperate to find a way to help Annie' - well, not THAT desperate as during our many subsequent encounters with the ungrateful brat, Annie isn't mentioned ONCE.

How can Margaret on her balcony POSSIBLY see the Doctor's psychic paper?

The Sontarans are an EXCELLENT monster for this - the slightly plastic look of the New Who ones that I've always hated works very well on computer, where EVERYONE looks plastic.

Rory's never heard of Black Rod? So much for his historical expertise. And, indeed, his knowledge of modern politics.

When offering you a choice of questions, things don't always work out properly - e.g. 'What traitors would those be then' is a complete non-sequitur unless you happen to choose the 'Traitors' button at the right time.

'Wait for my signal then come towards me' - there's NO WAY the nearby Sontaran wouldn't have heard THAT.

'Nearly there, doing well' - yeah, well, try CUTTING this particular line when I've (i.e. Rory's) just been SHOT DEAD.

Rory didn't think to take a peek at the bit of paper he'd risked his life to nick SOONER?

And how come there's a whole page of writing when the Doctor reads it as ONE SENTENCE?

That gibbet is WAY too small to fit a human in.

How come I float down (but up!) back where I came from every time I fall off the river-platform-thing?

Why won't this let the Doc pick up Valerian before he's had his chat with Alice? He already knows he needs to make a sleeping draught, and he should hardly need HER to tell him what to make it from...

The game just FREEZES UP when I try to pick up the rope which shouldn't be there cos I've ALREADY picked it up...

With amazing attention to detail, the puddles reflect the local scenery. Sadly they do not, however, splash when you step in them...

The Doctor knows about the Duck and Drake meeting BEFORE being told about it.

'I'll think of something' - when did Rory become so macho? Well, not THAT macho, as he's later saying 'Ladies first' and leaving it to his wife to run around disabling the Rutan ship and getting electrocuted about a hundred times in the process. Plus he later has to mutter 'I'm not a nurse, I'm an action hero' to himself twice, despite the fact 'I'm not a nurse I'm the Lone/Last Centurion' would have made MUCH more sense.

Rory and Amy have to work out the Sontaran back-of-the-neck thing, as the Doctor DIDN'T BOTHER to tell them about it.

LOVE the way Rory's head vanishes into the Rutan ship's screens.

Rory reached the hand on the clock-face HOW, exactly?

Only 10,000 years of war for the Rutans and Sontarans?

How exactly did the Rutans manage to lose two energy conversion units and one doomsday weapon in the crash? How fortunate that - unlike the Rutans - Amy and Rory take two seconds flat to spot all said items.

'Sound carries in the TARDIS. I hear everything. Sometimes I wear earplugs' - lovely, thanks Doctor, perhaps a TEENY bit too much information...still, how many people can tell their wife that they heard her being conceived...? (Hang on, doesn't this TOTALLY contradict the Doctor's embarrassed 'How the hell should I know when they have sex' splutterings in A Good Man Goes To War?)

James I/VI was 'highly educated and intelligent. Catholics hoped James might be more tolerant towards them because of his education' - this isn't history as I know it...

When I click the 'Nod' button the Doctor...shakes his head.

'It is even rumoured that the letter was written by one of the plotters' - EVEN RUMOURED?? That's surely the obvious explanation??

The Sontarans could have slow-roasted and EATEN Amy in the time it took Rory (well, ME) to come to her rescue after hearing her scream...

Surely the Sontarans and/or Rutans could eventually work out whether THEIR doomsday weapon had been reprogrammed by the Doctor? And change it back if necessary and USE IT?

At least Gunpowder Plot worked for you. Mine wouldn't even initialize. Rubbish BBC software.

No more Adventure Games! MEAN! The fact I didn't consider it the BBC's job to spend a fortune of taxpayers' money developing free computer games for Who fans in the first place is ENTIRELY BESIDE THE POINT.

They've gone for something cheaper - http://www.doctorwhowit.com - the Doctor appears to be grabbing random aliens in pyjamas,giving them a room in the Tardis and a sonic screwdriver, then sending them out to save the Earth while he fiddles with the console.

Urk. Save London and earn a Time Lord robe? Have they asked the TIME LORDS what they think of this? Not that I have to worry about that, as I was shot three times by an Auton before I could find a single whatever-it-is-I-was-supposed-to-collect.

Couldn't they afford Matt's voice?

Doesn't even work for me.

Well, you're not missing much. Except the sudden realisation that the other computer games (yes, even TARDIS) were really good.

Have they asked the TIME LORDS what they think of this?

The Time Lords are all dead, but I really can't see the Doctor being very pleased.

Apparently, the Nestene Consciousness has been secretly manipulating human development, so we'll produce plenty of plastic. Just how many secret manipulators can one planet have? Nor do any of the three Auton invasions appear to know they'd already claimed this planet.

Apparently, the Nestene Consciousness has been secretly manipulating human development, so we'll produce plenty of plastic.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Just how many secret manipulators can one planet have?

Ooh, let's see, the Osirians, the Exxilons, the Daemons, the Time Lords (well, ONE of 'em anyway), the Fendahl, Scaroth of the Jageroth...does Fenric count? The Racnoss?

The Silence.

Oops.

Well, it's not MY fault if they made me forget them...

"FACT! 'The Cybermen have encountered every Doctor on screen, except for the Eighth and Ninth' - oh, was there a Pertwee Cyber adventure I somehow MISSED?"

The Five Doctors?

Oh.

Yeah. Forgot about that.

DID Pertwee and the Cybermen actually ENCOUNTER each other in that story, though?

I don't remember them meeting, or even being aware of each other's presence in the death zone.

Yes they did- The Third Doctor saw them and explained them to Sarah-Jane.

I don't remember them meeting, or even being aware of each other's presence in the death zone.

It's quite possible that Pertwee glimpsed the Cybermen as the Raston Warrior Robot got distracted from him and set about massacring 'em, but THEY certainly didn't spot HIM. So it can hardly be described as an encounter. No one's saying 'Davison encountered the Yeti!' just because they both happened to star in the same story.

Yes they did- The Third Doctor saw them and explained them to Sarah-Jane.

Sarah doesn't need the Cybermen explained to her! Are you getting them confused with the Raston Warrior Robot?

Nope.

SARAH-JANE: I can't go along there. I get vertigo.
3rd DOCTOR: Well, I'll help you. And anyway, we can't go back.
SARAH-JANE: Why not? We've shaken the Cybermen off.
3rd DOCTOR: They don't get tired, that's why not. And they never give up.
SARAH-JANE: Oh, no, no. I remember. Okay, well let's go then. And if I don't fall off that path, I'll probably die of fright.

Source

Seriously, have you two seen The Five Doctors since it first aired?

BTW, to the best of my recollection, it was never established anywhere else that Sarah got vertigo, was it?

Are you talking to me Kevin? yes I have seen it a number of times thank you very much- and not all that long ago either.

Not at all. I'm talking to the people who don't remember Pertwee and the Cybermen. You're the one getting it right.

Seriously, have you two seen The Five Doctors since it first aired?

I must have seen it an ABSOLUTE MINIMUM of ten times (it could be double that - I regret not making a note of how many times I've seen each story, which is why I HAVE for New Who). I just don't remember that bit.

BTW, to the best of my recollection, it was never established anywhere else that Sarah got vertigo, was it?

Not that I remember (though we've just established my memory is pretty shaky). She never was the kind of wimp who shrieked her head off when rolling down a gentle slope either. I believe her role was originally written for Jo Grant (though I seem to recall HER clambering a sheer mountainface to the Peladon Citadel without any fuss), with Sarah SUPPOSED to accompany Tom.

I haven't seen The Five Doctors in almost two decades now, yet I remember the scene in question too.

But do you remember anything else? I tend to find ONE scene from each childhood story lodges itself in my brain - THAT HAND wriggling, someone saying 'I've brought the thumbscrews', Sarah (OK, it was Romana I but I REMEMBERED her as Sarah) being swooped on by hooded figures...

Bits and pieces. Someday I must make myself watch it again.

MAKE yourself? It's one of the greatest joys known to humanity! What's your PROBLEM?

Huh. The Worlds in Time online computer game is to close. This is all our fault! Nitcentrallers should have made more of an effort to USE the thing! (I just...didn't really LIKE it. But always intended to go back and give it a proper go...one day...)

Not a Nit, Just a Silly Game.
http://www.cultbox.co.uk/blog/9266-doctor-who-pac-man-game

That made my day

Ooh!

New Capaldi Computer Game

About Time claims that merchandising has reached such levels that 'A whole subplot of "Asylum of the Daleks"...required one to have played a not-very-good computer-game to understand how Skaro was now magically exempt from the seal that kept the Time War out of everyone's reach' - I don't recall City of the Daleks explaining THAT? And weren't fans a lot more puzzled by the fact Skaro actually EXISTED (something also not explained in City) after being blown up in Remembrance?

Space Helmet for a Cow: 'The Mines of Terror was the first official Doctor Who computer game; written by a 17-year-old fan - so a bit over-the-hill by programmer standards - it featured the fifth Doctor (in so much as the tiny blob of pixels was vaguely beige in colour) in Who-themed variations on arcade classics...' - hey, everyone's gotta start SOMEWHERE. And what, realistically, IS the difference between some vaguely-beige pixels and the REAL Fifth Doctor?

The Doctor is going LEGO. He's going to show all those so called heros how it's really done.

What the...?!

What's MY DOCTOR doing with these FICTIONAL CHARACTERS? Gandalf (?), Batman (?) and...the American female one...?

Come back Santa, all is forgiven...

DANIEL in New Series: Season Nine: Sleep No More:

Lego Games always play their source material for laughs DID YOU WANT FOUR SUGARS DOCTOR OR FIIIVVEEE?

*Winces* I thought Terry Nation's estate were supposed to be guarding our metal meanies against such blasphemies?

'And next year, we release a fun pack with Cyberman and Dalek minifigures, which become playable in the game. If you like the Cybermen, and want to see how they defeat Scooby-Doo, then that's the pack for you!' says the Lego Dimensions associate producer, VERY helpfully in view of the fact that approximately the last thing on Earth I want is to see the Cybermen defeat Scooby-Doo, thanks all the same.

But hey, let's look on the bright side - it's 'something special for the fans, right down to the finest of details...on the First Doctor's TARDIS you can see the wrinkles in the roundel wallpaper that they've used on the TARDIS walls where they couldn't actually afford to make the whole TARDIS with proper roundels!' - you people are WEIRD. The alleged wrinkles are SO not canon.

If you like the Cybermen, and want to see how they defeat Scooby-Doo, then that's the pack for you!

Hey! Scooby-Doo ALWAYS defeats the bad guys, NOT the other way around.

*Scooby voice* Rats Right, Rancois!

*Cyberleader tied to a chair, Fred pulls off his mask*
Fred: It was old Mr. Johnson the whole time!
Mr. Johnson: And I would have got away with it if wasn't for you meddling kids!

Of course, since I never liked Scooby-Doo I prefer the next scenario.

*Daleks have the Scooby gang surrounded*
Daleks: EX-TER-MIN-ATE!
*screen goes negative image as the Scooby gang die*

;-)

Wouldn't work - The Scooby gang are protected by the Main Character Shield.

Yet another DWM article on computer games:

Destiny of the Doctors: 'The first three Doctors, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee - who had passed away during development - featured via audio clips' - my GOD how long did development TAKE!

The Adventure Games: 'The BBC was very serious that what we created under their guidance was part of the canon' - well, would the canon like to explain how the hell the Doctor n'Companions came back to life again every time they died?! WITHOUT regenerating or ANYTHING!

The Gunpowder Plot won a BAFTA?!

Well, it WAS rather fun. No explanation HERE for why the TARDIS game was so inferior to the other four, though.

'With a new games team in LA - a city famous for its world-class game developers - there was some optimism that Doctor Who's disappointing history with videogames would continue' - !

The Eternity Clock: 'We weren't able to finish it in time. When it came out, it didn't even have objectives in the game...The was released with a load of bugs, and that's death for any game' - er, it didn't occur to anyone to DELAY RELEASE until it was READY? I mean this is, unfortunately, a universe where the Who Executive Producer can just decide he can't be arsed to make any DOCTOR WHO ON TELEVISION this year...

'My conclusion is that you can make a good Doctor Who game, but you can't play as the Doctor. A game where you play the companion would be interesting, because that's who you relate to' - well, I relate to the Doctor. Except the Sixth one, obviously. And I really didn't notice any difference in my level of enjoyment (or lack thereof) in the Adventure Games, where you switched between being the Doctor and being Amy (and, eventually, Rory).

my GOD how long did development TAKE!

Well, Pertwee passed away during development but the others did not. Pertwee had agreed to be in the game, in fact.

Yet another DWM article on computer games:

I trust they remembered to mention Splinx the robot cat!

(Viewable here in all her 8-bit glory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Mines_of_Terror#/media/File:Doctor_Who_and_the_Mines_of_Terror_in-game_screenshot_%28BBC_Micro%29.png)

You know, this 'Mines of Terror' phrase is rining the vaguest of bells, but they most certainly did NOT mention such an adorable oochie-coochie...

I like frustrating games. No incentive to beat them otherwise.

I've always preferred games where you inch along, step by maddening step, so those where you just sort of float along dispatching baddies.

Of course, some games manage to give you the worst of both worlds - in TARDIS you plod along for ages collecting stuff (not even as interesting as dispatching baddies) before that INFURIATINGLY DIFFICULT flurry of activity at the end when you have to programme the wretched machine.

I've always preferred games where you inch along, step by maddening step, so those where you just sort of float along dispatching baddies.

Have you ever played a game called Unreal? That's Unreal, NOT Unreal Tournament, which was its successor. It came out in 1998 and has a GREAT single player adventure, dozens of levels with all sorts of puzzles, challenges and adversaries. Its graphics are primitive by today's standards, but they were jaw dropping then and they still hold up reasonably well today. Hours of fun, I recommend it.

'There aren't 13 episodes of Doctor Who this year, there are 17 - four of which are interactive. Everything you see and experience within the game is part of the Doctor Who universe' - BBC press release, 2010. So you're ignoring the existence of the Christmas Special, whilst attempting to canonise the computer games in which the Doctor and his Companion repeatedly die and get resurrected with NO explanation??

'The first computer game with a connection (albeit tenuous) to the television series arrived on users' monitors early in 1983. Unofficial, unlicensed and even untitled, the game was published within the text of the March edition of Computer and Video Games Magazine and readers were invited to input - by hand, no less - hundreds of lines of raw machine code into their Atari 400/800s...they could then interact with a very simple pyramid game that pitted the Doctor's pixelated wits against the Master's. To win the game, the Doctor has to kill his arch-nemesis' - The Eleventh Hour. Awww, BLESS!

'This disturbing trend reached its nadir with "Dalek Attack" (1992), a game that featured the Doctor leaping from tall buildings as he blasted swarms of Daleks with his very large gun...Sylvester McCoy was moved to comment: "When I got the job of the Doctor I didn't want him to be violent...I'm really against it"' - I'm sorry, wasn't he the guy who had a good sneer to Davros about rice-pudding whilst blowing up Skaro??

whilst attempting to canonise the computer games in which the Doctor and his Companion repeatedly die and get resurrected with NO explanation??

As opposed to the Moff-era TV series, in which the Doctor and his Companion repeatedly die and get resurrected with some, not very sensible explanation?

EXACTLY!

There are EXPLANATIONS!

CPR, Cracks in Time, data-ghosts, time-travel, memory, Autonisation, paradoxes, splintering, extraction chambers, Mire tech, universal rebooting, dreamworlds, faking it, hallucinations...lots and lots of rubbish explanations!

But those wretched computer characters just keep getting exterminated/deleted/whatever-Sontarans-do-to-you and standing up again and carrying on as if nothing has happened. It's just WRONG.

Destiny of the Doctors.

On the one hand, we get to see Ainley and how he'd be free of the JNT Machine, but on the other, it's in a script by Terrance Dicks so he's not writing for the Ainley Master per se.

When was this made? Ainley died in 2004.

1997. See Ainley's video links for the game here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJ_m5pH0-o

I guess I'll stick Who Virtual Reality Game here for the moment, for some reason when Nitcentral was set up a VIRTUAL REALITY section wasn't deemed necessary...

I looked at the artwork and assumed the female figure was a new companion. Not a good likeness of Jodie.

There are a couple of unused video scenes in the directory on your hard drive for "Destiny of the Doctors" - for example the Master's "Wrong incarnation of Doctor! Get back in, where and when you were given the clue, idiot!", obviously done before they figured out a way they could stop the player from changing Doctor levels during a mission.

This has been out awhile, but I've been listening to/enjoying it again: The composer for 'The Edge of Time' VR game released his version of the theme tune (that was ultimately unused in the game).
https://youtu.be/cCPMmVDkOGY
I have to say, with apologies to Segun Akinola, this is what a worthy successor to Murray Gold sounds like!

June 5 2020 marks ten years since the release of City of the Daleks, the first in the Adventure Games, although technically it was three days earlier for Beta users:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6G5d6tU7Xk

Written by Phil Ford.

Curiously Amy is wearing the same thing that she wore in her first encounter with the Daleks in Victory of the Daleks a couple of months earlier.
The TARDIS lands in 1963 with the Doctor and Amy hoping to see the Beatles.
Just before stepping out of the TARDIS, the Doctor referenced John Steed and Cathy Gale, the Avengers team-up in 1963.
In a sad coincidence, Cathy Gale actress and Terror of the Vervoids guest star Honor Blackman had died on April 5 2020, exactly two months before the tenth anniversary of City of the Daleks.
When they step into 1963 London it is not what they expected as it is overrun by Daleks.
When their investigation led them into Charing Cross tube station, Amy jokingly said that she wanted to see the Beatles, the band not the bugs!
They meet the last surviving human of this Dalek run world Sylvia but she is soon exterminated.

The Doctor and Amy then went back to the TARDIS and go to the said city Kaalann on Skaro.

It was at Kaalann that they noticed that Amy was fading in and out due to Earth's timeline being changed by the Daleks which meant that by all accounts Amy was never born and the TARDIS is able to protect her but only for so long.
When they came across the Daleks records room, Amy funnily came up with a Dalek librarian. I would like to see that.
A couple of times, the first after meeting the Dalek Emperor, the Doctor and Amy has a great fall.
They will later have another great fall in later Dalek episode Asylum of the Daleks.
As well as Daleks, another menace they had to deal with are the Varga plants which still hasn't been seen in live-action Who since the Daleks Master Plan in 1965.
Amy's state of fadeness allows her to be invisible to the Daleks and the Vargas at critical times.
On the subject of invisibility, City of the Daleks was released on June 5 2010, the same day with Vincent and the Doctor which had the invisible Krafayis.

Ultimately the Doctor and Amy solved what they needed to be solved in Kaalann with Earth's - and Amy's - timeline restored.

Funny that it ends with what the Doctor said as a follow-up to what he said at the beginning of this adventure.

June 26 2020 marks ten years since the release of Blood of the Cybermen, the second in the Adventure Games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6z62qH3KMA

Written by Phil Ford.

Guest stars Sarah Douglas (Ursa in Superman II).

Douglas played Elizabeth Meadows.

It is mentioned that Meadows has a daughter named Daisy.

Incidentally my beloved Karen Gillan later played a character named Daisy in NTSF:SD:SUV::

As stated in the title this has Cybermen and in the previous week viewers saw the Doctor and Amy facing off a Cyberman in The Pandorica Opens.

Blood of the Cybermen was released on the same day with the broadcast of The Big Bang the finale of the 2010 season.

This is set in the Arctic Circle where members of a survey team has been converted into Cybermen.

With the setting in the Arctic anyone who thought that The Thing had an influence here got this confirmed when it was referenced by Amy and the Doctor asking which version.

On reflection Meadows feels kind of like Mercy Hartigan from the TV Cybermen episode The Next Doctor.

This plus the somewhat unexpected way the resolution was achieved.

Good luck getting past Doc 9 on this

My kingdom for an undo key...

I managed, once, to get as far as Eccleston, but mostly I can only get as far as Hurt.

Well thanks SO MUCH for providing me with a new addiction.

Haven't even reached Eccy's darling treacherous face yet, am stuck on Eight.

WHAT have they done to the poor First Doctor?

Also haven't gotten past 8. High score is 3080 and I haven't come close to that again.

The first Doctor(maybe all up to Smith) is from the 50th anniversary art. It has always looked off to me in thumbnails but okay in full-sized renderings.

I wonder if it's even mathematically possible to reach 13.

Or if it is, if you can achieve it in a human lifetime.

Don't SAY that!!

I have made my Doctor dance and die a thousand times and my only justification is that it'll all be worth it when I get myself some JODIE!

OK, at this point I'm just aiming for some Eccy.

Any tips from those of you who actually reached Nine welcome.

I've STILL not got any further than a singular Eccleston, and I'm fairly sure I only got that far due to luck. I have discovered that just randomly mashing the arrow keys at the start can get you surprisingly far.. sometimes.
And, yes, an undo would have been useful so many times, particularly when it thinks I've pressed the same key twice in a row!

Almost two weeks of my life I'll never get back and I STILL haven't got further than War. It's not paranoid to think that Eccy is DELIBERATELY avoiding me, I mean, it's just a FACT he's been deliberately avoiding me for, like, the last FIFTEEN YEARS.

Anyway, I'm not the only one going mad...

I did a little back of the enveloppe calculation. Assuming you make one move per second, you'd need to play for a minimum of around 85 minutes to get to the 13th Doctor. That's assuming every move you make results in at least one successful merger.

Is there enough space I the board to get that far?

August 24 2020 marks ten years since the release of Wish You Were Here:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/d11s01/wish_you_were_here_james_moran.pdf


Written by James Moran, it is a special short scene released on PDF serving as a teaser to his Adventure Game episode TARDIS released three days later.
Intriguing that this has the Doctor and Amy meeting horse-faced aliens who are very angry with them.
Their leader Tanik accused of doing something they haven't done yet.
As Amy says, timey-wimey.
Funny how the Doctor and Amy made their getaway, all because Tanik was distracted with a cannon.
The Doctor and Amy barely escaped in the TARDIS but not before the TARDIS gets hit by the cannon leading to the consequences of this in the said Adventure Game.

With their next destination, the Doctor suggested ancient Rome, saying third time lucky.
The last time the Doctor being in ancient Rome was in The Fires of Pompeii also written by Moran.
The Fires of Pompeii had featured the Soothsayer played by my beloved Karen Gillan who of course later played Amy.

Almost two weeks of my life I'll never get back and I STILL haven't got further than War. It's not paranoid to think that Eccy is DELIBERATELY avoiding me, I mean, it's just a FACT he's been deliberately avoiding me for, like, the last FIFTEEN YEARS.

Have now achieved Ecclestonian heights on several occasions. For some reason this has totally failed to bring about the expected feelings of blissful achievement. Maybe I will finally reach catharsis if and when I get to smash two Ol' Big-Ears together to make myself a Tennant. THAT'LL learn him.

I have reached Tennant but that was pretty much it for me.

You have reached Tennant?!

WORSHIP YOU!

The best I have achieved so far is John Hurt.

For long time I couldn't pass Hurt. Then one day I had a super long game, got up to Ecleston and more than doubled my high score. I never played again.

The Runaway:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RPe6aNiotA

The Runaway is the 2019 VR game starring Jodie as the Doctor.
This is the presentation of it in 360 degrees.
Very enjoyable with the Doctor protecting a creature, the said runaway from a SPUDS officer.
Very amusing what SPUDS stands for.

Gods but I love our JODIE! even when she's a weird cartoon-blur with unfeasibly long arms...(Well, Romana did claim in Destiny of the Daleks that Time Lords could fiddle around with the length of their arms...)

Daleks-Eve Online crossover:
https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=doctor-who-eve-online-fight-the-daleks&fbclid=IwAR1YyE8Sm5LsW6gJXFXEO1789QTKW8Isq961K2qtaGmj-5nzLd6gMRGeRic

EVE Online:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Online