Bad Influence! began during the 16 bit-era of computer and video gaming, and featured in-depth news, previews and reviews about the very latest in gaming and computer technology.
The show was originally presented by then children's TV presenters Violet Berlin and Andy Crane (of 1980s CBBC Broom Cupboard fame), who were studio based, and US teen actor Z Wright, who filed location reports from the US. There was also a cheats segment character called Nam Rood, an anarchic "furtler" who lived in a shed. He would give viewers gaming cheats (written on cards he would stick to his forehead) in between mock experiment comedy sketches three times per episode.
Other features included three game reviews per episode - one in depth and two in brief - by teenagers local to the area where Bad Influence! was produced, namely the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire.
There was also a weekly competition towards the end of the programme, directly before one of the show's most distinctive features - the 'Datablast' sequence. The Datablast - which viewers were encouraged to record on their video recorders - consisted of a number of pages of gaming articles and information that were flashed rapidly onto the screen during the credits. Viewers could then read the pages by replaying it in slow motion on their video player. The information consisted of a watered down version of most of that episodes features, as well as some exclusive content, such as Top Ten video games charts.
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