This past Sunday, November 30, 2014, whatever was left of the defunct gaming/tech/Cheaters channel once know as G4 was finally put out to pasture. Maybe you, like me, feel a twinge of heartfelt sadness about this. Maybe you have no idea what G4 is, or was; and maybe you don’t care. Still, for both educational and entertainment purposes, it’s absolutely worth taking a 23 minute walk down G4’s memory lane in this video from
GoodBadFlicks titled “The Rise and Fall of G4 TV 4 Gamers.”

G4 actually went on its first farewell tour in late 2012 when it was announced that the channel would be rebranded. (It eventually became The Esquire Channel.) At that point, G4 was a becoming a husk of its former self, but I still watched it occasionally. The news struck enough of a chord that I wrote a piece about it for my blog, which I’m sharing here today.

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(The following article was edited from the original post, Fare thee well G4, and godspeed, I guess, from Recollections of Play, 9/26/12.)

Alas poor G4, I knew it well.

Well, not that “well.”

Actually, I probably knew Yorick better, but this isn’t Hamlet. It’s the demise of a TV station, a TV station that’s been dying slowly of several years now, kept on life support by the sweaty fumes of college kids/all of America behaving badly.

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