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Overtime Comedy found this video of Nickelodeon’s nineties video game show, Nick Arcade. Players were split into two teams where they moved Mikey around a game board. If they landed on a “video challenge” square one of the team members would play a game and the other would bet points if they beat the challenge or not. Nick Arcade featured games like ActRaiser, Kabuki Quantum Fighter and a bunch of SNK Neo Geo titles. At the end of the show the winning team would enter into the video game world and run around on a green screen. Interesting trivia fact: Psygnosis, the brains behind the Lemmings series and Wipeout, made the crappy two player pong clones and racing games used at the beginning of the game.
Can’t believe I use to watch this. Man I’m happy that video games lost the geeky kid stereo-type.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Oh man, I vaguely remember this show (mostly from the weird characters like “Mongo”). How this takes me back like 12 years.