Nickelodeon Arcade

What can I say? The early 90's rocked for video gamers. Nick Arcade and Video Power were the greatest Video Game game shows on Earth. Where Video Power's second and final season (in 1991) started the trend of allowing players to demonstrate their skills against other players, Nick Arcade took the idea to another level by setting scores for players to beat and presented the winning team with the honor of being part of a Video Game. The host, Phil Moore was the man, and should be back on TV hosting another show. The prizes on Video Power were understandably video games. Nick Arcade gave it's winners things like cameras and bikes and trips to sunny destinations or Space Camp but who really wants to go on a crummy vacation anyhow versus getting new games? Personally, I think Nickelodeon should bring the show back (no not in Re-Runs) with the same format except for having more up to date games for kids to play. They should also bring back other shows like Guts and Legends of the Hidden Temple. Although the games on the old show weren't actual arcade games (and were gaming consoles hooked to monitors built into cabinets), they could trace their roots to those found commonly at Arcades of the day. Kids today do not have an appreciation for the classic Arcade as those of my day. The arcade to them is family fun centers like Chuck 'E' Cheese and other family fun centers. This might help those who want to reconnect to the past and introduce a new generation of gamers to ideas of old.

Nickelodeon Arcade (or Nick Arcade) is another awesome game show from my childhood. Hosted by Phil Moore, this video game-themed game show pits two teams of two kids against each other to see who will go into the Video Zone to take on one of three Video Game Wizards (Merlock,Scorchia, or Mongo). To do that, they go through two rounds of controlling Mikey The Video Adventurer, which makes up most of the game, as each episode has Mikey in a different scenario, with a different enemy to match the theme (like smooch aliens for space scenarios, a hammerhead shark for the underwater scenarios, and so forth).

This was advanced for its time. The show not only had original games for the Face-Off starting each round (although most of them are Pong clones), the Mikey rounds are interesting, especially the Video Challenges, which has the contestants play actual video games from consoles at the time to beat a challenge, with points wagered won or lost depending on the outcome (some of the games used would be in the beta stages, like Sonic The Hedgehog). The Video Zone is amazing, as it has the contestants in a video game (while they are in a greenscreen room, we can see the result, as humans are put inside a video game).

I haven't seen this show in quite a while but I do remember the premise of this great Nickelodeon game show. 2 groups of kids have to play video games, and answer trivia questions to score points. The winning team would then go inside a video game (which was actually kind of a lame video game since the only way to advance to the next stage was weak.) I always laughed at how pathetic these contestants were at playing video games. It was just amusing since they would always lose a life in a split second while playing.

Despite that point of the show, this was a good game show.

I used to watch this show when I was a little girl. First off, I must say that it was a pretty good show. Also, I'm not sure if I've seen every episode. However, if you ask me, it was still a good show. I remember this show very well. In addition, it was fun to play along and watch. When I was growing up, I always wanted to be a contestant on this show. I hope the Nickelodeon Games and Sports Newtork keeps it on so I can keep watching and playing along. If that happens, I will be really happy. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that I'll always remember this show in my memory forever, even though I haven't seen every episode. Now, in conclusion, I hope that you catch this show one day before it goes off the air for good.

Another Nickelodeon show I used to watch as a kid was Nick Arcade, an "arcade" game show that features a video game challenge, but first, you have to answer the questions, it was hosted by Phil Moore from You're On! (although I haven't seen it in awhile). The show begins with a qualifier round features one game to face each other, at the end of 30 sec. the player has the most points will control "Mikey" a video adventurer explorers the board around 4 "P"s (Points, prizes, pop-quizzes, puzzles.) If a team answers the question right, Mikey will move one space, however, it isn't easy to get around with an enemy, once you land on the space, you lose control of Mikey and other team controls it, if it lands on "Video Challenge" one player has to play a game, and the other player has to write down their wagers depending how they did. (If they win, the score will be increased, or if they lose, the score will be decreased) They can play some games like "Robo Army", "Actraiser", Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Ghouls and Ghosts" etc. "Fast Forward" means the players has to think carefully on the sped-up videos and answers the questions. "Pop Quiz" means a basic question on multiple choice. "Credit Crawl" means the players looking at the credits depending on nationality. At the end of two rounds the team with the most points will move on the final round of the game "The Video Zone" which has three levels on collecting stuff and avoid enemies, on the last stage, they face a monster for all the marbles, if they win they will take a vacation to Kennedy Space Center or on a cruise. All in all, its a really fun game show.

Nickelodeon Arcade gets 9 stars.