Games played
Anyone remember what games were played on the show?
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i remember a lot of actraiser and altered beast...
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I remember seeing one episode with Sonic the Hedgehog and...something about Ghost WWII pilots, but I can't remember what the game was called.
shareThanks to Nickelodeon GaS over on channel 108, I have a pretty good list. Altered Beast was not one of them, though:
(NES games featured)
Kabuki Quantum Fighter
Kickmaster
Monster in My Pocket
Rockin' Cats
(TG16 games featured)
Bonk's Revenge
Rainbow Islands
(Genesis games featured)
Air Buster
Arcus Odyssey
Chuck Rock
El Viento (a)
Greendog
Marvel Land
Sonic the Hedgehog
Steel Empire
(SNES games featured)
Act Raiser
Hyperzone
Super Ghouls & Ghosts
Super R-Type
(NeoGeo games featured)
Alpha Mission II
Cyber-Lip
Ghost Pilots
King of the Monsters (b)
Last Resort
Magician Lord (c)
Robo Army
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(a) This has never been chosen on any Nick Arcade episode!
(b) Readily the most overplayed game, since of all the times it was a possible Video Challenge choice, only once was it not chosen first (and it wasn't an all-female contestant episode either!)
(c) Far as I know, no contestant ever beat the Wizard's / Expert's score... would it have killed them to try firing upwards?
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I just thought I'd chime in on the thread with the location of Nickelodeon Arcade material I have kept over the years. I am going to eventually beef it up with some animations once I get a larger server. You can visit the stuff and most of the links at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~kmiteff/nickelod.htm
Most of the links still work. I just finished putting together a dual layer DVD for archival purposes. That show took so much stuff to produce -- a lot of it from scratch -- that it was crazy. I still have the production bible and even the format guide which my partner and I created to assist MTV Networks in selling the format rights to other countries (A national broadcaster in Spain picked it up in 1994).
I have a list of every game that appeared on the show, but I don't think I have the master show books, which detail exactly what was played, what the score was, who played, etc. etc. There was a lot to keep track of.
Nickelodeon owns all the copyrights for all this stuff so I am contractually limited to what I can put up on the web. I still have a ways to go, so if there is anything specific, I 'll see If I can dredge it up.
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Add "Snow Brothers" to the NES list.
and Battletoads is for the NES.
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The Addmas Family was on there, too! And Paperboy [don't remember which version(s) though]!
shareFor the game they played on screen I remember #s 2,3,5,6,9. And how about that scorchia! ROWR!
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For your diehard classic gamers there was an ultra rare beta version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Genesis that only appeared on this show and was never seen in any magazine or other known versions.
shareI remember Bonk's Revenge and Chuck Rock being played alot. Alot of times they also had cheesy games that were only on Nick Arcade (like the game they played in the beginning). The kids sucked at games almost every time.
shareI don't think I ever saw anyone win at Bonk's Revenge... apparently, no one knew that it's possible to beat the Wizard's Challenge without even swimming up that first waterfall.
That ledge that's just overhead when you start the first level -- getting on the top ledge, going all the way to the left, and headbutting the ground, will reveal a 1000-point pickup. That's all it would have taken to beat the challenge.
But as far as those games we've never heard of... I think the producers counted on the fact that contestants had never heard of them, either. And often times, they hadn't. I always thought it was funny to see one of the contestants know EXACTLY what they wanted to play -- usually some obscure gamem like Arcus Odyssey or Blue's Journey -- but they can't beat the challenge.
Pretty complete (I remember Monster in My Pocket being a repeat favorite on the show) but you forgot Sonic 2, which "premiered" so to speak on Nick Arcade. I remember watching it just to catch a glimpse of the game.
shareSomething tells me they screened the kids and chose the non-gamers that weren't sure to win. Back then I may have been only 9, but I could have destroyed any of the scores within a few minutes. The kids on there had obviously not played too many games, since I've never seen a game where the sole object was to run into the enemies instead of shooting them. I was appalled when they'd play a shooter game and hardly, if ever, press the fire button, and instead use their ship/plane/character as a weapon itself. In some cases I'd played the same game only hours or minutes before I saw them, and the level of incompetence on their part was astounding.
shareI think a full list of the games is in the show's Wikipedia article.
I don't know what games were chosen often (if at all), but I can tell you that "Gradius III" and "Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts" would have been fatal to a contestant.
Why? When you get killed, certain technicalities in each game will make you wait several seconds before you start the next life. That time is just WASTED -- that's not good, when you only have 30 seconds to beat the challenge.
They were all *beep* games . . . even for the early 90's. It always seemed to me that they were the only games the producers could afford to show on television.
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"For your diehard classic gamers there was an ultra rare beta version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Genesis that only appeared on this show and was never seen in any magazine or other known versions."
So that explains why the Emrald Hill zone's music was actually that of the Star Light zone from the first Sonic.
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Do you remember the name of the one where they had to throw newspapers, or dodge things?
I cannot remember.
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I definitely remember Paper Boy and The Addams Family. Also, I believe they played the arcade version of Joe and Mac a couple times. Can't really remember much more than that, as it's been over 15 years since I've seen an episode!
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