Old video game show

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

Trying to remember this old video game related show where you won prizes

[mkuo7]

was it on nickelodeon? did it have games like paperboy, r-type, and chuck rock that the contestants played for points?

Edit: it was called Nick Arcade

[Flack]

Despite that horrible description, I'm guessing "Starcade".

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

no it wasnt on nickeloden and it's been a long time since i saw it

[Big Papa Husker]

Speaking of Nick Arcade, it is still shown weekends on Nick Gas which I get on Digital Cable. I should start recording them.

[Gamereviewgod]

Wasn't there another gaming show on Nick? I'm about to record Nick Arcade tonight (I don't remember it), but I reember a show earlier than that. They played Geo (and other) games and I remember drooling over Last Resort among others. They got asked a question and then had to play for a high score.

[Maddrox]

Yes there was another video game show on nick, because I remember them playing super ghouls and ghost for the high score... Cant remember the name..

[jslithy]

I remember one show from the early 90s where you played games and answered questions, and the winner got to run through a giant maze and stick video games all over their body using velcro. If you made it through the maze, you got to keep all the games you had. Is this the one you were thinking of?

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I remember this one show too, where some people showed up, and played some games and stuff, and won some stuff after they did that cool thing with the secret...stuff...y'know...in the game...thing. Whatchamacallit.






Uh...you sure it wasn't Starcade?

[Gamereviewgod]

Yeah, that's right! My memory is coming back, just not the title. They were "in" the video game. It was awful. They got hit when they shouldn't of. Come on, someone out there HAS to know the title.

Oh, sorry to kinda threadjack, but it is kinda on topic.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Maybe i'm just nuts, but I remember there was this old videogame show on Fox (?) that had a cartoon between rounds starring numorus acclaim characters in it. It was on when I was in kindergarten so I don't remember much, but i'm know it existed.

[Big Papa Husker]

The show where they were 'in' the video game was Nick Arcade. I remember things didnt even touch them but they lost life.

I found a link with screencaps for people that arent sure what it is.

http://www.geocities.com/jay_anton/rulesreviews/arcade.html

[Mr. Smashy]

Sounds like "Video Power".

http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/videopower.html

[MegaDrive20XX]

There was this one show, I think it was Nick Arcade....but during the final 5 minutes of the show, they put this suit on the kid (Velcro) and you had to race through the maze and grab all the games you could...I remember the games being Turbo Grafx 16, GameBoy, NES, SNES, and Genesis

Edit: Mr Smashy hit it on the nail, it was VIDEO POWER, When i was living in Monroe Louisana I used to watch that show everyday after school at 4pm

[allsport11]

Anyone from the tri-state area remember the old WPIX channel 11 from the early 80's? You would call in on the phone and say PIX as a game like Space Zap was on the tv screen. Everytime a target entered the middle of the screen you would say Pix and it would shoot. The more points you got the better prizes you received.

[soniko_karuto]

it sounds like video power, if i remember correctly, there were two phases for it, in the first one, you had to answer some video game related trivia, then run with the velcro thingies.

After a season or so, they changed it into the video power wich had the akklaim characters as the main team.

The team consisted of:
bigfoot
kwirk
megaman?
game boy?


Also a long time i saw it as a big captain N rip off, even if both shows sucked.

[Maddrox]

Man now that this topic has been surface I cant figure out what other video game show was on nick. I am 99% sure it wasnt nick arcade, because those photos look nothing like the show i remember. It featured games like monsters in my pockets, and super ghouls and ghost. Dont mean to thread jack.:)

[Gamereviewgod]

Yeah, Nick Arcade is it. Odd, my DVR info has the show dating from 1999. That's what threw me off. Man, between this and classic Double Dare, this is becoming the best station on TV. LOL

[SoulBlazer]

I think I'm describing a show that someone else has allready mentioned, but when I was a kid I remember watching a syndicated show. Not sure about the exact years, but I KNOW it was on in 91 and 92. It was a half hour long and they would pull random kids out of the auidence. The game show consisted of three people squaring off aganist each other in a game -- Castlevania or Conta or Ninja Gaiden or something else popular. It was timed -- whowever had the most points after a few minutes won. Then the second part was that winner had a minute to run through a 'store' like area and grab as much stuff as he/she could carry in their arms. I'm almost SURE there was no velcro involved -- you just grabbed what you could. Nintendo, Sega, Turbo-Graphix stuff....I recall all of that, sure, along with Game Boy stuff. They normaly had time for about 3-4 of these games repeated in the half hour of the show.

I just can't recall the name of it for the life of me -- I KNOW it was'nt on Nick as it was syndicated, and it had a male host.

[Garry Silljo]

Soul Blazer, you are describing Video Power.

[Push Upstairs]

Did it have that host...J.D. something or other...the guy who did GamePro TV?


To have been able to watch "Video Power" at 4pm instead of 6:30am would have made me enjoy the show that much more.

The reason i didnt care about it more is because

a. its 6:30 in the morning
b. I had to get up so i could be at the bus stop at 7:15 to take my daily 45 minute morning bus ride to school.


But Nick Arcade is fun to watch simply because its nice to see those games being played back when they were in thier prime.

[Jive3D]

Nick Arcade was indeed the ONLY videogame show on Nickelodeon. My papa used to be heavily involved with the 'architectiure' of Nickelodeon. I grew up with Nickelodeon all around me. He used to bring home all of these pilot episodes of Nick shows to see if my friends and I would like them (convenient audience research). I remember when I accidentlally taped over the Clarissa pilot >_<.

My point - if there was another Nick videogame show, I would have known about it. So it's just Nick Arcade.

@Push Upstairs - nice icon. daft punk rules.

[squirrelnut]

Yay I SO remember Nick Arcade. I would kill to have all the episodes on a dvd... or even just to watch them again.

[Insaneclown]

was it on nickelodeon? did it have games like paperboy, r-type, and chuck rock that the contestants played for points?

Edit: it was called Nick Arcade

I love Nick Arcade. Awesome show at the time.

[Famidrive-16]

I remember when I accidentlally taped over the Clarissa pilot >_<.


You could've done me a favor from that awful show.

I remember when at the end of Nick Arcade, they had the players choose a choice between three arcade games, and they had to reach the end of a level. I remember sometimes Sonic the Hedgehog would be one of the games. I always wished I could get on the show so I could beat Sonic in a snap and win.

Oh, and a bit offtopic but in the vein of Nick game shows and video games, but one of the prizes on Legends of the Hidden Temple was a CD-i with games.

[Untamed]

Video & Arcade Top Ten.

:)

[Kilik Kurosawa]

I liked that Clarissa could program her own video games during the show to really rap up what ever crazy scheme she was attempting.

[digitalpress]

Anyone from the tri-state area remember the old WPIX channel 11 from the early 80's? You would call in on the phone and say PIX as a game like Space Zap was on the tv screen. Everytime a target entered the middle of the screen you would say Pix and it would shoot. The more points you got the better prizes you received.

VIVIDLY.

We still sometimes refer to this show here when playing Intellivision Sharp Shot, which was their most commonly-used game.

The problem of course, is that someone on the other side of the phone was pressing the button for you, and sometimes that person wasn't the quickest draw :)

[studvicious]

Thank you!!! For YEARS I've been trying to remember the name of that show (Video Power) I used to love watching those kids running around the maze, grabbing games and sticking them all over themselves. And yes, I would yell at the screen and tell them what they should get LOL Ahh.. such good memories! I also watched Nick Arcade all the time, it was ok but nowhere near as cool as Video Power.

[SirDrexl]

Does anybody remember a show that was on for a little while around 1995 called "Twitch"? It was a game review show, basically the equivalent of today's "X-Play" or "Judgment Day". I don't remember the names of the people who hosted the show, except one-the female was named Ronni Stark, and the reason I remember is because she may have been the cutest girl I have ever seen IN MY LIFE. I've searched for information about her, but I can't find anything.

[rbudrick]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36354

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35690

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35387

Looks like we had a few threads on some of these shows before....good reading!

-Rob

[Push Upstairs]

. I remember when I accidentlally taped over the Clarissa pilot >_<.

I used to like this show alot when i was younger but when i saw an episode recently...oh man does it suck. Nostalgia is a terrible thing.



@Push Upstairs - nice icon. daft punk rules.

Thanks.



All this talk of Nick Aracde reminds me of an episode i saw recently.

There was this jock-ish guy and his female partner, and then there was this guy with glasses and his female partner. I knew from the begining that i didnt want the jock-ish guy to win because he looked like he had been smoking pot and he had this overly smug look on his face...like him winning was going to happen no matter what.

Now i wasnt suprised the guy in glasses (and the only true gamer i have ever seen on the show) won, i was however suprised at how much he crushed the opposite team. And yes i said "guy" because his partner was dead weight and never was able to answer a single question. Anyway, this dude had racked up like 500 points by the end of the quiz parts while the other team had like 75, he dominated. LOL The guy would have won the whole thing if he didnt have his inept partner screwing up "inside" the game.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

*Has flashback*
I used to love watching Nick arcade along with legends of the hidden temple or whatever. But my favorite Nick show of ALL time is Pete and Pete one of the best things to ever happen to me.

[Cryomancer]

This all sound slike a project for us, let's try and obtain, encode, and distribute!


Or not. gonna have to check our sat for nick arcade though, I nver watch TV any more. I wonder if they're dumb "in the game" thing will ever be emulated...heheh

[SoulBlazer]

If Video Power was indeed the name of the show I watched, it was on in the afternoon -- around 5 PM. Good show. I enjoyed watching it, and thinking how cool that it would be for a minute to run around and grab stuff. :)

I never saw any other gaming shows.

[allsport11]

Anyone from the tri-state area remember the old WPIX channel 11 from the early 80's? You would call in on the phone and say PIX as a game like Space Zap was on the tv screen. Everytime a target entered the middle of the screen you would say Pix and it would shoot. The more points you got the better prizes you received.

VIVIDLY.

We still sometimes refer to this show here when playing Intellivision Sharp Shot, which was their most commonly-used game.

The problem of course, is that someone on the other side of the phone was pressing the button for you, and sometimes that person wasn't the quickest draw :)

Glad I wasn't the only one. :) That's right, I remember there was always a delay between when someone said PIX and when the reaction was on screen.

[AB Positive]

this thread gets my vote as the best opening message ever. Especially since people actually had answers.

That being said, so much nostalgia coming from this, i forgot all about Video Power until it was mentioned. Man, I wanted to be one of those kids running through the maze and velcro-ing prizes to themselves. I'd have done a MJ-like leap for those TG-16s they had. Mmmm.

-AG

[LocalH]

Anyone from the tri-state area remember the old WPIX channel 11 from the early 80's? You would call in on the phone and say PIX as a game like Space Zap was on the tv screen. Everytime a target entered the middle of the screen you would say Pix and it would shoot. The more points you got the better prizes you received.

VIVIDLY.

We still sometimes refer to this show here when playing Intellivision Sharp Shot, which was their most commonly-used game.

The problem of course, is that someone on the other side of the phone was pressing the button for you, and sometimes that person wasn't the quickest draw :)

Glad I wasn't the only one. :) That's right, I remember there was always a delay between when someone said PIX and when the reaction was on screen.
There was a show like that way back in the early 80's on the station I work for, it was called "TV POWWW!", except instead of saying "PIX", you said "POW". There's actually an old commercial reel here with both a :60 and :30 spot that was put together for it, if anyone's curious I guess I could capture it off sometime in the next couple of weeks. According to a guy that used to work here, they used to call in and scream cuss words instead of "POW" =P

[Lord Contaminous]

I want torrents for BOTH of these shows. My stupid brother taped wrestling over my tapes of these shows without asking me first :angry:

I'll never forget how ignorant that Johnny Arcade was, always throwing in impersonations of celebrities in his commentaries, and that corny organ music.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

this thread gets my vote as the best opening message ever. Especially since people actually had answers.

That being said, so much nostalgia coming from this, i forgot all about Video Power until it was mentioned. Man, I wanted to be one of those kids running through the maze and velcro-ing prizes to themselves. I'd have done a MJ-like leap for those TG-16s they had. Mmmm.

-AG

I would have offered more info but it's been 10 or more years

[Matt-El]

When that question was asked, I was like.........

O_O

O_O


I KNOW THAT! ITS VIDEO POWER!

Occasionally, I'd sing to myself (or rap i guess...) that theme. Goes something like: "Video! Video Power! Power!"

Totally Lame, huh? LOL

[Captain Wrong]

I remember this one show too, where some people showed up, and played some games and stuff, and won some stuff after they did that cool thing with the secret...stuff...y'know...in the game...thing. Whatchamacallit.

I think it was called McNeil News Hour.

[aaron7]

Yah, I remember Nick Arcade. I watched it a month or 2 ago on Comcast. Nick Gas is the channel that has all the old Games and Sports shows.

You had to answer a question right and then move Mikey thru a dumb maze. Then you went into the game, and somewhat try to get 3 orbs. It was dumb, but sure rocked when I was younger!