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Do you think a gameshow like Nick Arcade could do well?

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Synbios459

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I don't remember how well NA did, but I remember it being pretty fun. IIRC one of the 2 team mates guessed a certain score and if the other person made it they got points or something. Anyway, I can just imagine how cool it would be if there was another gameshow like that especially with games like DMC3.
 
Synbios459 said:
I don't remember how well NA did, but I remember it being pretty fun. IIRC one of the 2 team mates guessed a certain score and if the other person made it they got points or something. Anyway, I can just imagine how cool it would be if there was another gameshow like that especially with games like DMC3.
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No. Every game show that I remember about about Video Games has never been good. For goodness sakes, look at Arena on G4 and how juvenile the writing is on that show.
 
I can't remember the name, but i remember this old show where people did video game triva, then went head-to-head at a video game. At the end, the winner got to go through this maze with video games and stuff all over the wall. They had like a minute to grab as many games/systems as they could and throw them down a slide. They got to keep what they got, and everyone always seemed to go for the Neo Geo.
 
BTW, on NA at the end they'd go into a back room and using blue screen on the gameshow floor you saw them like they were in an actual videogame and had to collect different things like bananas or stuff. My question is: How did the person in the back know what to go for seeing as how he couldn't see it like the other people did?
 
DrForester said:
I can't remember the name, but i remember this old show where people did video game triva, then went head-to-head at a video game. At the end, the winner got to go through this maze with video games and stuff all over the wall. They had like a minute to grab as many games/systems as they could and throw them down a slide. They got to keep what they got, and everyone always seemed to go for the Neo Geo.
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That was nick arcade I think...

wait, no, they didn't go head to head.
 
DrForester said:
I can't remember the name, but i remember this old show where people did video game triva, then went head-to-head at a video game. At the end, the winner got to go through this maze with video games and stuff all over the wall. They had like a minute to grab as many games/systems as they could and throw them down a slide. They got to keep what they got, and everyone always seemed to go for the Neo Geo.
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I think it was called Video Power and originally it was a hint and tips show that showed a cartoon and had a host called Johnny Arcade. Later it morphed into a game show and Johnny was reduced to a small segment at the end.
 
Synbios459 said:
BTW, on NA at the end they'd go into a back room and using blue screen on the gameshow floor you saw them like they were in an actual videogame and had to collect different things like bananas or stuff. My question is: How did the person in the back know what to go for seeing as how he couldn't see it like the other people did?
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I think there was a monitor that showed them what the blue screen was showing. It's like how the weatherman points to the map I suppose...
 
My question is: How did the person in the back know what to go for seeing as how he couldn't see it like the other people did?
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Didn't you ever notice they kept looking at the camera before they'd do things? There's likely a big screen next to the cameras that shows the same thing that we are seeing, and they'd use that as a guide.
 
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If anyone wants to get nostalgic, the show still comes on Nick GAS, which also shows all the other old Nickelodeon gameshows like Double Dare and Lost Temple.
 
I miss Nick's older show, Total Panic. 1989-1990. 3 hours on Sunday mornings. variety show, including lots of videogame stuff. Total Panic is where those live-action virtual games originated from. Eat a Bug, remember that ?


too bad Total Panic isnt being shown these days.


Hosted by Molly Scott and Greg Lee, it was a 3 hour weekly variety show. The program included skits, video game and movie review segments.
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btw, if you have the September 1992 Video Games & Computer Entertainment, on pages 88-91 there's a piece on Nickelodeon Studios virtual game shows, featuring Nick Arcade and a very small bit on Total Panic's Eat A Bug, which is were the tech for the later Nick Arcade came from.
 
DrForester said:
I can't remember the name, but i remember this old show where people did video game triva, then went head-to-head at a video game. At the end, the winner got to go through this maze with video games and stuff all over the wall. They had like a minute to grab as many games/systems as they could and throw them down a slide. They got to keep what they got, and everyone always seemed to go for the Neo Geo.
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Kids had good taste back in those days.
 
Oh man, you guys have GOT to see these!

http://www.sonic-cult.net/download.php?site=1&filename=nickarcade.zip

http://www.sonic-cult.net/download.php?site=1&filename=NickArcade-Sonic2CEIADcast.rar

Here's the site with more: http://www.sonic-cult.net/dispart.php?catid=1&gameid=2&subid=2&artid=8&searchquery=nick+arcade+video

Man, she SUCKS! I mean even if she had never played Sonic I, don't you think it's common sense that in order to go up a ramp you have to get momentum and move left alittle ways before trying to run up it!?
 
Common sense now, but if I'm remembering correctly, a lot of platformers around the Sonic 1 era weren't momentum-based; ramps and such (which were usually rare anyway) were just mostly decoration, and you could just hold right to get up most anything in the way, unless it was too steep and required a jump. Sonic 1 was one of the few games where the route was technically walkable (and in some cases a jump wouldn't make it), but your speed mattered.

Of course, I liked the Sonic Jam version, which let you spindash. It meant you didn't have to walk back left, then run right again and try for the momentum.
 
Kulock said:
Of course, I liked the Sonic Jam version, which let you spindash. It meant you didn't have to walk back left, then run right again and try for the momentum.
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Yes, I was playing SJ today and I think it is funny that the Saturn version had it, but the GC one didn't. Not a big deal, but it is kind of funny.
 
doot-doot-dah-dah-deet-deet-dah-dah-boop-boop-let's-go-oo-over-here!

god that host was a douchebag.

and it used to drive me nuts when the kids would decide to play some piss-awful snes platformer instead of the cool neo geo games.
 
I wish they'd take Evo this year and make it into a series of shorts on some station.

"So and so vs Scrub #1", all the way through the finals.
 
Synbios459 said:
Yes, I was playing SJ today and I think it is funny that the Saturn version had it, but the GC one didn't. Not a big deal, but it is kind of funny.
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The GCN (and Xbox and PS2) collections emulated Mega Drive ROMs, but from what I was told, Sonic Jam physically ran a tweaked version of the original code (compiled for the Saturn instead of for the Mega Drive). So it was much easier for them to add things in like the spindashing, multiple difficulty levels, and such. If I recall correctly, they were able to do it because the main processor was similar enough in architecture to the one in the MD/Genesis.

But man did I miss that addition when I booted up the game in Sonic Mega Collection. :P
 
It seems like you know quite abit about SJ. Can you tell me what exactly is different from the various difficultys (Norma, Easy, Original)?
 
I'd really like to see an updated version of Starcade, I always figured something kinda fun and cheesy like this would be right up G4's alley.
 
:lol I remember getting up early to watch Starcade when it was first running. I'd watch Smurfs (god, I don't know why now), then the video game-themed cartoons, Pole Position/Pitfall!/Donkey Kong/etc., and then Starcade. I remember loving it...but then I caught an episode of it on cable a few years back...JESUS, that show fucking SUCKED.

Still, though...a new Starcade minus the cheesey shit would be nice.
 
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