X base

This article covers the youth program X Base; for the group of programming languages ​​of the same name, see xBase .

X Base , the Computer Future Club, was a ZDF youth program with a focus on computer games and multimedia . It was broadcast from 1994 to 1995. A total of 144 episodes were produced. The 30-minute long show was produced at ZDF in Unterföhring near Munich by MME Me, Myself & Eye Entertainment . The show ran live Monday to Saturday from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. and was given by a man and a woman as well as the virtual co-host Eddy Highscoremoderated. In the daily broadcasts during the week, a daily winner was won in various computer and console games, and the weekly winner was then determined in the Saturday broadcast. The song "Love Religion" from the music project U 96 was used for the opening credits of the show .

At the end of the broadcast there was a band live in the studio or a music video clip, which was (almost always) only shown incompletely and ended with the logo of the production company MME.

The attempts by X Base to address especially younger computer gamers through their youthful demeanor were often parodied by the computer game press. For example, in issue 12/1994 of the computer game magazine PC Player, the X-Base parody “Poing Base” appeared on the enclosed CD-ROM in the section “Multimedia Letters to the Editor”, which is extremely popular with PC player readers pleased. There were even more X-Base parodies on PC Player. Oliver Kalkofe also made fun of a show in which "Donkey Kong Country" was presented for the Nintendo SNES by squeezing into a monkey costume and having bananas thrown at him.

Moderators

• Katharina Schwarz , who also moderated Film ab , a film magazine on the music channel VIVA .
• Tanja Moldehn was seen in an episode of the ZDF traffic court as an accident victim.
• Niels Ruf , who later hosted the Kamikaze program on Viva Zwei .
• Juri Tetzlaff , today mainly works as a moderator at KiKA .
• Andreas von Lepel has been developing computer games for the international market since 1982, and has held managerial positions at various publishers since 2000.

Web links

• Production company MME ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (short summary)
• tv wish list
• ZDF for Kids - Logging instead of zapping , article in the evening newspaper , September 30, 1994

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas von Lepel. In: Kressköpfe . Retrieved January 17, 2020 .