Random: Push Square Was a Question on a UK Quiz Show

That's actually amazing. Brilliant stuff!

Wow Graham, getting outed as a Fake GamerTM on public TV hehe

@get2sammyb I have known Pushsquare for a long time. However, for some reason I have noticed much more content from u guys in recent 1-2 years... don't know what it is honestly but good job.

You’ve finally made it fellas. This is the big time!

Considering Push Square have been mentioned on numerous video's that promote Games with Review scores, its not that surprising to me - especially not in the UK and about a UK based site too.

Pure Xbox (and NL too for that matter) does give away the answer so its perhaps the only option dedicated to a single platform that doesn't contain the name of the Company/Hardware to ask that Question.

Ok that's pretty neat

Worldwide babeyyyy

That's so cool! The guy that got the question wrong should be forced to read every single article in the site, though.

I love this, the answer makes it 👌

you mean this isn't an XBOX site...

Waiting for the inevitable new load of Tipping Point groupies flooding the forums

I watched that particular episode with my wife. Even she answered it correctly! I was thinking about letting you guys know, but @BlaizeV beat me to it. Good on ya, buddy! You’d be surprised by how many gaming-centric questions are featured on Tipping Point, but they’re usually related to Mario and Sonic.

Love that.

Also, in weirdly connected news, I featured in the first series of Tipping Point. Episode 19 to be precise!

@itsfoz Love that!

@get2sammyb I watched that episode, I tried to tell you about it on Friday when I saw it, I commented on the knights of the old Republic article on Friday but didn't know how to tag you guys

This is brilliant and so random

Haha.that was funny.its Crystal clear this guy dont know about pushsquare.pushsquare is the elite PlayStation website.word up son

That's awesome! Over the years Push Square has become the first place I check for both timely news and great features and reviews. Love the work you do!

this is cool. I was hoping it had a more niche question though, like which Western RPG that launched in 2015 was editor @get2sammyb initially uninterested in?

How did they get that wrong? I thought everyone should know by now that Sony is PlayStation.

Ah yes, the good ole Sony Xbox. Great find.

@CutchuSlow

He's obviously just a filthy casual Xbox noob LoL. /s

Yeah, funny to think someone can hear "square" (as in the button, named after the shape) and "sony" in one sentence and still think Xbox.
Clearly, the only console he knew the name of.

Poor Graham obviously bought a copy of the horrible ET game back in 1982, and in a fit of anger swore to never play a video game ever again.

Many non gamers most likely still think of Sony for just making the Walkman or CD players and TVs. Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox must be a little jel🦧

@johncalmc
Love the profile pic

Has Sony acquired Xbox now? They do get owned by them.

It means you made it 💯

That's pretty crazy.

@itsfoz is your success mainly based on the timing on when you drop your coin so it lands flat rather than standing up which makes it more likely to ride? And if so, do they give you tips on when to drop your coin in?

My Mom would have said Nintendo. Every video game related thing has always been a Nintendo in her eyes.

look mum, we’re on the telly!

Major leagues, Push Square.

Honestly very cool. It’s like a proper hitting the mainstream sort of moment.

Come on, who here is a question writer for garbage UK daytime TV quiz shows? It must be a member who works on the show to set this as a question 😂

Own up 👀

I was at my nan's and she had it on in the background and I couldn't believe my ears lol

I come here because I thought this was a quietly unknown site, but I can see you've sold out now.

Push Square - Netflix documentary series next!

Shout outs aside, its nice that the site is now synonymous with PS news.

At quick glance I thought that was PJ Riely from Pure on the right of the banner - am I the only one?

My takeaway from watching the video:

People still say "dot com" after a website name? 😂

Really cool to see!

"Ahhh, I remember like it was yesterday our Push Square was a little lad, now they are all grown up and getting mentioned on TV."👵

Seriously though, happy for the Push Square staff and community.😊
I haven't watched a quiz show since the early 2000s so I know nothing about Tipping Point, only that they sometimes do VG-related questions like this time.

That's amusing. I don't blame him for getting it wrong though. The useful part of the question, that it's a Sony console, was tucked away at the end. Plus, the mention of Push Square might have been distracting, since boxes are square.

as the wrestling community would chant..."you deserve it! clap clap clap-clap-clap !

@straw-hat-crew *YES! chant breaks out

@theMEGAniggle No tips of when to click it and as it lies flat, you just opted for wherever had most coins.

Which given I was out first, I was bloody awful at

Well done!!!

I reckon the question writer on the show is definitely a forum member here and I really wonder who it is!! 👀

As opposed to the series of Sony consoles that aren’t PlayStation?

Graham doesn't play games, he plays twitter haha.

Awesome! Congratulations! Love this site.

@itsfoz 😂😂

I knew it was a lot harder than it looks, sometimes I'm baffled as to how many people time it so badly when others are perfect. I'll have to give your episode a watch

I've never seen Sammy and Ben Shepherd in the same room. I'll leave it at that.

@johncalmc Superb work

@Splat lol yep. My mom says Nintendo to refer to all video games.

@theMEGAniggle Haha definitely harder than it looks. And what people don’t know is how many people work on the crew so you’ve got everyone watching you fail hard, you know it’s getting filmed AND you could potentially win thousands. Lot of stress which means a simple penny machine becomes an assault course 😂😂

@stu123 glad I’m not a “Graham” 😂
I think the Push Square lexicon now has a new entry. Poor guy didn’t know his name will now forever stand for “someone who is uninformed of something that the rest of the Push Square user base is well aware of”

That’s awesome! Congratulations! 🥳

Actually genuinely cool.

How fun! Congrats!

Legit question, why you guys choose Square over the other 3 buttons?
Well X I sorta understand I guess.

@rjejr well otherwise how do you know it isn't .org or .co.uk even .io, .tv, or whatever the latest TLD hotness is?

You are, alongside your sister site Nintendolife, my 2 favourite gaming sites now. Well done. Stay awesome.

@theheadofabroom "how do you know it isn't .org or .co.uk "

B/c if it was 1 of those things, THEN you say it, when it's .com, well you don't need to say it, everybody knows it is.

When's the last time you heard somebody say out loud "I shop on Amazon.com" or "Have you been on twitter.com lately? Or I suppose X.com these days. Which is why he should have never renamed it as X b/c we all know what X.com implies.😂

@rjejr nobody here shops on amazon.com because shipping from the states is extortionate (we have amazon.co.uk, which we just call amazon). Did you forget that the rest of the world exists? The default over here is co.uk

@theheadofabroom "Did you forget that the rest of the world exists?"

I know things. So you are telling me that everyone who buys something on Amazon and tells their friends about it says "I got it on Amazon.co.uk" b/c I don't even know how anyone would say that out loud?

Hey nice sweater where did you get it?
I got it on Amazon dot co dot you kay.

@rjejr you evidently didn't read my message fully. I said we default to co.uk for most things, so .com is worthy of note

20 years from now on a trivia show will be name the guy that said he believes in generations but didn’t even keep his job in 1 generation.

That's amazing

@theheadofabroom So you're saying the quiz show host said "dot com" so that people would know the website was in the UK, even though most websites in the UK use co.uk thus making it even more confusing for the contestants?

I'm not sure that's what you meant but that's how it reads.🤷‍♂️

New question, if Pushsquare did use co.uk rathe than .com how would the quiz show host pronounce that - co dot you kay or is it see oh dot you kay? Now you've got me curious. 😁

@rjejr it's pronounced Coe dot Ewe Kay. He specified dot-com because that's the URL. If it was co.uk they may or may not have said it anyway for completeness (I don't think they even mentioned that it was a UK website), but what I was saying is that .com isn't the default. amazon.co.uk, google.co.uk, ford.co.uk - they're all American companies but the UK facing websites are .co.uk because that's the default here. If you tell someone from the UK to go to the website for Amazon, Google or Ford, those are the sites they'll have bookmarked, or type in, or find in their search results. In Germany it might be .de, in France it might me .fr. Some sites use .eu for all of Europe.

@theheadofabroom So, you're saying the host said "dot com" b/c even though it's a UK website he wanted people to know it wasn't co.uk?

Whatever the reason, it's still weird to hear people say dot com. or dot doe ray me la doe, just say Push square website, we all know what it means. 🤷‍♂️

@rjejr eh, I mean if you know you know, but if you don't... like the URL for B&Q is diy.com, which nobody would guess without a search engine.

You also get websites where the .com is singing completely different to the .co.uk or .org or whatever

@theheadofabroom "B&Q is diy.com"

That works if b&q is a website for homemade barbecue recipes, if not, that's weird.

Full disclosure, I'm old from like the days when there was only .com. .org and .edu. Well maybe it was .gov not .org. Whatever it was, I think there were only 3. Don't know about the rest of the world. I blame AOL. 😂

@rjejr it's a big box hardware store, I think it might be similar to Lowe's or Harbour Freight?

As for domains, co.uk had been around as long as I've been around, and I remember 28k dialup. Technically though .uk is the tld and domain name registrar's are free to create whatever subdomains of that as you want (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk)

@get2sammyb Great insight! PushSquare rolls off the tongue better than PressSquare so smart choice in the end.

@theheadofabroom "co.uk had been around as long as I've been around, and I remember 28k dialup"

Well for you that makes sense, we're very self centered over hear across the pond. And besides that the internet seems very, or at least it did, US centered, almost as much as we are.

So I'm guessing you didn't have AOL over there on your 28 modem, did the BBC run everything like your tv? Besides AOL we had Compuserve and Prodigy but I never got into the whole BBS thing.

@rjejr AOL did make an appearance at some point, and I seem to remember friends on AOL could use the phone at the same time as the internet somehow, whereas I was on a pay-by-the-minute ISP where essentially you got your internet via a premium rate phone number, so we'd pay BT through our phone bill, and BT would pay them for the time we were connected.