Animated comedy Dave's Games to air on BBC Three (starring Jamie Demetriou, Jess Gunning, Emily Atack)

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BBC Three is to broadcast Dave's Games, an animated comedy set around a video games shop in 1995, as part of its BBC Comedy Short Films strand.

Written by Jon-Lee Martin, directed by Kyle Webster and starring Jamie Demetriou, Emily Atack and Jessica Gunning of Baby Reindeer fame.

The plot is described as follows: "It's 1995, and welcome to Dave's Games: your one-stop shop for all things video games, from computers and consoles to poppers and Pogs - and how can you forget the floor-to-ceiling piles of plastic game cartridges? Self-appointed 'gaming legend', shop owner and father (in that order), Dave is the king of his own crumbling kingdom. Sure, there's mould on the ceiling and some of the oldest video games you've ever seen (even for 1995), but it's the only games shop in town. At least until the gigantic, shiny, futuristic rival shop Turbo Gamez opens just down the road. And they also happen to be releasing the newest and most sophisticated piece of gaming technology the world has ever seen: the first ever PlayStation..."