Over 1001 Boys Games is an exhaustive list, a personal, often vulgar and cynical collection of possible male activities, attitudes, sayings and word games, which form the script of a performance, first performed by Yeadon at Events Week, Coventry Polytechnic in 1984. This text, over 2,000 lines, is a marathon reading which lasts for over one hour and is a hypnotic endurance test for audience and performer alike.

John Yeadon collaborated with Steve Partridge on the video One Thousand and One Boys Games, in 1984, which combines computer-generated drawings by Yeadon from his Impossible Lovers series, (see Happy Families section on Art menu for 'Impossible Lovers') with animation and digital video effects in a stream of images complementing the narration of the 'poem' by the dramatist Tom McGrath. (a Quantel Paintbox and a BBC micro computer were used to create the hundreds of 'cells' features in the work).

ISpeech returns, but still highly manipulated, in Partridge's tour-de-force 1001 Boys Games, 1984, a video-vision of John Yeadon's chanted poem, recited by Yeadon, Tom McGrath and Partridge himself. Graphic text, line drawing and video image counterpose each other. The wit of the poem inspires the complex counter-rhythms of the video, just as Yeadon's relentless and quasi-logical categories echo Partridge's own taste for philosophical equations (as in the line 'Boys called John; Boys not called John', for example). Al Rees