Old video game TV show...

[Dobbs 3K]

When I was like 10 years old, in the very early '90s, I remember a TV show being on in the mornings before I'd go to school. It was like, this game show based around video games. The host was this kind of dorkish guy, and kids from the audience would get to compete against each other playing video games. At the end of the show, the kid who won would get to run through this obstacle course/shopping spree thing, and grab as many games and gadgets as he could get his hands on. (I'm pretty sure this show also had a predecessor with the same name and host, and the game show concept was kind of a re-vamping of the program). I also remember some of the ads run during the program being pretty hillariously bad. Does anyone remember what the hell I'm talking about?

[devo]

Nick Arcade? The last bit about the shopping spree doesn't sound familiar, but the rest is dead on.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski]

I know what you are talking about and it was not on Nick Arcade. I remember wanting to be on that show. Wasn't it sponsored by Nintendo because all I remember is that the kids won Nintendo games.

[Guest The Spike]

Yes, I remember this show as well. I can't recall the name though, but I do know that it wasn't Nick Arcade. Wasn't it on The Family channel?

[Guest Leelee]

Video Power, I believe.

 

It was really short-lived. I remember it was a cartoon show, for a while.

[BUTT]

Yeah, Video Power. With JOHNNY ARCADE!

 

 

It lasted two years, I believe. The first season was a video game tip show with a cartoon in the middle called "The Power Team" featuring characters from Acclaim's licensed games: One of the dudes from NARC, Kuros from Wizards & Warriors, Kwirk (no, I don't even know who that is), Tyrone from Arch Rivals, and Bigfoot. Yes, the monster truck.

 

The second season it became a game show with a totally radical, dudical rap theme. The Power Team was discarded for this incarnation. They will not be missed.

Edited December 15, 2005 by Sensei John Kreese

[AndrewTS]

Nick Arcade I reminder fondly. It was the only game show where they'd put kids into a video game...

 

...via a lame super-imposed effect. For the time it was pretty neat, though.

 

Melissa Joan Hart seemed to be the worst Sonic 2 player of all time. I think she had like 45 seconds to collect 30 rings in one of the acts the Green Hill Zone, and failed miserably. It didn't even seem harder than the retail version, either.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

There was an older one than that. Back in the '80s I believe...

[ChrisMWaters]

There was an older one than that. Back in the '80s I believe...

 

Well, there was Starcade...where you played popular arcade games of the time.

[BUTT]

Remember the GamePro TV show with JD Roth? I liked that one. I remember being absolutely stunned when they did their review of Super Wrestlemania for SNES and seeing the huge digitized picture of Hogan on the title screen.

 

Man, I'm glad I never bought that game. It sucked ass.

[Scroby]

Does anyone remember this one cartoon show back in either the 80's or 90's that had characters from various Nintendo games. It had heroes like Simon from Castlevania, I think Samus was on the team as well and it had villians like Mother Brain and King Hippo from Mike Tyson's punch out. Oh and there was this kid who used the Nintendo System and controller to fight off the villians, I can't remember the title for the life of me. It was on USA I think at the time, it was around the time the Nintendo breakfest ceral came out.

[ChrisMWaters]

Does anyone remember this one cartoon show back in either the 80's or 90's that had characters from various Nintendo games. It had heroes like Simon from Castlevania, I think Samus was on the team as well and it had villians like Mother Brain and King Hippo from Mike Tyson's punch out. Oh and there was this kid who used the Nintendo System and controller to fight off the villians, I can't remember the title for the life of me. It was on USA I think at the time, it was around the time the Nintendo breakfest ceral came out.

 

"Captain N: The Game Master"

 

Was often packaged with the Super Mario Bros. show of the time (Either 3 or World. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show had a whole half hour to itself)

[Scroby]

Nintendo should seriously release all those episodes on a dvd set. I know the Zelda ones are out there but I heard the Mario super shows are incomplete on the dvds.

[Rendclaw]

God I remember Starcade... thanks for making me feel old....

 

::goes off to long for the simpler days where all that mattered was getting his allowance and going down to the arcade...::

[Jericholic82]

back to the topic, yea I remmeber watching that show before school in the morning. I used to want to go on it so I can do the grab thign and get some free stuff. nick arcade was fun of course too.

[David Blazenwing]

They still play Nick Arcade on occasion on the Nick GAS (games and sports) channel on digital cable. This same channel also plays Legends of the Hidden Temple. Both of these shows were two of my favorites growing up, so you can imagine how much I love this channel. Plus, they play like EVERY incarnation of Double Dare. And if you don't like Double Dare, you're a racist. There, I said it.

 

On another note... there's a show I'm thinking of, don't remember the title... it was a game show, I believe JD Roth was the host of this show as well (dude got around in the early 90s). There were like mazes and challenges to go through, like a maze of mirrors and an area where you got blinded and your partner had to walk you though the area via headset... and guys jumped out and got you... and there was some big thing at the end where you had to answer questions from statues to win the game... I cannot remember what this show was called, and I know it exists! Help?

 

EDIT: Found it on IMDB... it was called "Masters of the Maze". And it was hosted by Slater from Saved by the Bell. I forgot about that.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166448/

[Guest Coffey]

I've been trying to find someone with Video Power on tape somewhere so they could upload a torrent of it for over a year now. When I saw this thread, I instantly thought "he's trying to remember Video Power" then opened the thread and sure enough, I was right.

 

Everyone remembers it and loved it but no ones seems to have ever recorded it.

[Jericholic82]

They still play Nick Arcade on occasion on the Nick GAS (games and sports) channel on digital cable. This same channel also plays Legends of the Hidden Temple. Both of these shows were two of my favorites growing up, so you can imagine how much I love this channel. Plus, they play like EVERY incarnation of Double Dare. And if you don't like Double Dare, you're a racist. There, I said it.

 

On another note... there's a show I'm thinking of, don't remember the title... it was a game show, I believe JD Roth was the host of this show as well (dude got around in the early 90s). There were like mazes and challenges to go through, like a maze of mirrors and an area where you got blinded and your partner had to walk you though the area via headset... and guys jumped out and got you... and there was some big thing at the end where you had to answer questions from statues to win the game... I cannot remember what this show was called, and I know it exists! Help?

 

EDIT: Found it on IMDB... it was called "Masters of the Maze". And it was hosted by Slater from Saved by the Bell. I forgot about that.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166448/

I wish I had that channel (I mean it is avaliable here, but its too expensive to have the digital package in addition to digital hbo and HS Net access)

[Dobbs 3K]

Yeah, Video Power was the show I was thinking of originally. Honestly, I don't remember the show as being all that great, but it was just something my sister and I would watch before taking off for school. I had totally forgotten about the cartoon portion in the first season. Those characters were all pretty annoying and forgettable. Especially the stupid talking tomato guy.

 

Captain N was an OK cartoon, I guess. Simon Belmont really annoyed me...it seemed like they took what should have been an awesome cartoon character and turned him into this really annoying guy who'd always pull stupid crap from his backpack. Mega Man was dumb, too.

[daileyxplanet]

On Captain N, didn't he use the Duckhunt gun?

[ChrisMWaters]

On Captain N, didn't he use the Duckhunt gun?

 

Yes, he used the Zapper as a weapon.

 

And I believe in the comics an evil version of Captain N with Super Nintendo gear was made, though I could be wrong.

[CanadianChris]

God I remember Starcade... thanks for making me feel old....

 

::goes off to long for the simpler days where all that mattered was getting his allowance and going down to the arcade...::

Agreed. Starcade was cool -- most of the games I have for MAME were games I saw on that show but never found in the arcade.

[AndrewTS]

It's probably expected that I have the DVD collection of the Zelda cartoons...but I know that they were cool when I was a kid but now I could only imagine how awful they would be.

 

Earthworm Jim was a fun cartoon, though. Since it was made by plenty of the same folks who did Freakazoid, it's strange but funny.

 

Has anyone seen the Johnny Turbo or Viewtiful Joe cartoons?

 

All I know is that it's on KidsWB. That's probably all I really need to know, right?

 

Why the hell would anyone make a Johnny Turbo cartoon in 2005?

[daileyxplanet]

I LOVED Earthworm Jim, and Princess What's Name?

[The Tino Standard]

They still play Nick Arcade on occasion on the Nick GAS (games and sports) channel on digital cable. This same channel also plays Legends of the Hidden Temple. Both of these shows were two of my favorites growing up, so you can imagine how much I love this channel. Plus, they play like EVERY incarnation of Double Dare. And if you don't like Double Dare, you're a racist. There, I said it.

 

On another note... there's a show I'm thinking of, don't remember the title... it was a game show, I believe JD Roth was the host of this show as well (dude got around in the early 90s). There were like mazes and challenges to go through, like a maze of mirrors and an area where you got blinded and your partner had to walk you though the area via headset... and guys jumped out and got you... and there was some big thing at the end where you had to answer questions from statues to win the game... I cannot remember what this show was called, and I know it exists! Help?

 

EDIT: Found it on IMDB... it was called "Masters of the Maze". And it was hosted by Slater from Saved by the Bell. I forgot about that.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166448/

 

Didn't JD Roth also host a kids game show called "Fun House"? I vaguely remember that show around the same time Double Dare was in its prime. I think there was a show called "Finders Keepers" too.

 

I got hooked on "Starcarde" when they showed reruns on G4 when I was in college. I'm a little pissed they don't show it anymore. That show ruled.

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

What about Fun House...

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247869/

 

 

A kid's game show that pitted two teams of two players each. The contestants had to answer trivia questions and participate in challenges, such as trying to nail targets in the audience seats with water balloons. This was followed by a race between the two teams around a track that involved a variety of bizarre push carts. The team with the most points at the end of the game got to enter the Fun House. The two teammates took turns running through the collection of wacky rooms and obstacles to find tags that represented the prizes printed on them. The contestants won all prizes printed on the tags that they collected and took out of the Fun House before the two minute time limit was up.