Nick Arcade was one of my favorite game shows of all time. I still remember face-palming at how bad the kids were at pretty much all of the arcade games on offer, but most of all, I remember that totally amazing finale segment, and how jealous I was of every kid who got to play it.
Well, now you can relive the glory days, in this incredibly in-depth article that highlights the two geniuses behind the whole operation: James Bethea and Karim Miteff.
There's some pretty great tidbits in the piece, like the fact that they visited Jon Favreau on the set of Iron Man 2, and chuckled at how they had already created the largest blue screen ever used in film years before, on the humble Nick Arcade set.
Although it makes me feel a little better knowing how it all works, I still want to play it.
Those kids who beat the wizards are smart. Using the power system to their advantage. I always get mad when people use in the final game because it's so easy.
I watched this all the time, and yes, it always upset me how bad most of the kids were (I think they just pulled random kids at Universal). Also, I would love to see legends of the hidden temple or GUTS come back. It would be interesting to see an updated 2012 version with our obese population today.
This and Legends of the Hidden Temple were my jam. Though before that I would watch Finders Keepers all the time. Always felt bad for whoever had to clean up after an episode of Finders Keepers, or Double Dare for that matter.
does anyone remember that other videogame quiz type show where at the end they ran an obstacle course and got to grab all the games and hardware they could and that was their prize?
Even as a kid, I felt confident that I would dominate on this show. I would be screaming at the TV at the idiots wandering around aimlessly, getting hit by flying eagles and lightning bolts. And on Legends, the god damn idiots who couldn't figure out the Shrine of the Silver Monkey.
Don't even get me started on GUTS, I would be dunking on Mike O'Malley's rapidly-balding head.
Char: Seriously, Shrine of the Silver monkey was so frustrating. It was always the same silly mistakes! Come on, have a game plan before you go out there and flail around!
Thank you! I had forgotten the name of this show years ago, and probably never would have have remembered it's name unless I started searching random key-words on google.
Oh man, I loved that show. They should do a release of the final stage for the kinect via xbla. But damn it the little diddy when moving the guy on the gameboard is now stuck in my head
"Nick Arcade was one of my favorite game shows of all time."
Hi 5 buddy, I'm with you! ALLLLWAYS wanted to be on that show. Almost got the chance once too, when I was on vacation. I'd always spend the half hour yelling at the kids playing because they didn't know a question or would be playing the games completely differently from how I would (Commenting: Before the Internet!)
Thanks for this article Chris. Totally want to watch this now.
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Hidden temple was my second. The temple was so much cooler then the aggro crag on guts.. Specially since an Inca dude could jump out and creep stalker nab you at any time.
This show used to make me so flipping mad during the video challenge segments; though I always wished that Psygnosis would release a compilation of all the "Face/Off" games they created.
The article may be from april but i loved nick arcade, LoTHT and the like growing up. Plus, fox's fun house &masters of the maze : http://youtu.be/cbJ2aTjRiwo
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