Behind this link is the Video Zone

Abracadaniel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgge_1hj-Y

God the kids in this were so bad on the last level.

Way fucking worse than Legend of the Hidden Temple kids.

But nothing beats the kids who had to fuck around in who knows what kind of goo in Family Doubledare, all for a lame-ass karaoke machine.


p.s.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=125313

Spoiler:

8-)

Ruby Rhod

I remember this. I also remember being angry at the kids that did terribly.

The Far Side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3AH9y_wkk0

FlatEric

The Far Side wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3AH9y_wkk0

Was on my way to post this.

ThatDudeOverThere

oh no it's the bully

BLOW BLOW BLEEOW

Abracadaniel

SKORCHA

MONGO


Who came up with these names

ChicoBlue

I am watching The King of Kong.

It's bizarre and sad and funny.

Abracadaniel

I wanna check out Get Lamp

FlatEric

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I am watching The King of Kong.

It's bizarre and sad and funny.

That's the documentary that shows Billy acting like a huge prick, right? I saw that on tv a while back, and that's the only thing about the movie I remember.

That, and the twin galaxies game ref.

Franko

Phil More butss

Artreus

FlatEric wrote: »

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I am watching The King of Kong.

It's bizarre and sad and funny.

That's the documentary that shows Billy acting like a huge prick, right? I saw that on tv a while back, and that's the only thing about the movie I remember.

That, and the twin galaxies game ref.

I remember reading something about it that said the movie made him out to be an awesome guy but in reality he was a giant prick and all that

Abracadaniel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHps2SecuDk

tsplitter

seriously though fuck Snake River

GSM

Nick Arcade was cool because of the Amiga computers, but I kinda like the video game theme game shows with props too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g86YPimKd9g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkzF56tGYSg

Fiz

I always wanted to go on Legends of the Hidden Temple, but I knew that if I made it to the final round and the guys jumped out to grab me in the temple I would have peed my pants right there.

ThatDudeOverThere

oh shit I remember masters of the maze but I couldn't remember its name until now

Mizuumi

So it's a show

where you watch kids

play video games badly.


God, you gotta love the '90s.

Romanian My Escutcheon

Oh, fuck yes, now you're talking.

Loved this show so much.

EDIT: Of course those kids sucked fucking horribly.

YOU ALWAYS GO TO THE TOP OF THE TEMPLE, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?

Rankenphile

WOAH HOLD THE FUCK UP

are the two competitors on that OP video really Jason and Jathan?

Like Jason if a dude with a lisp and three cocks in his mouth was trying to say Jason?

Romanian My Escutcheon

Did anybody else get the host of Video Zone confused with Levar Burton?

That happened to me a lot.

Rankenphile

because they all look alike, huh?

ChicoBlue

I sometimes get confused when Geordi takes off his visor and I think that I am watching Deep Space Nine.

Romanian My Escutcheon

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I sometimes get confused when Geordi takes off his visor and I think that I am watching Deep Space Nine.

Didn't Obama play Sisqo for the last half of DS9?

Rankenphile

Who names their kid Jathan?

Romanian My Escutcheon

Rankenphile wrote: »

Who names their kid Jathan?

The same person who lets their kid get humiliated on national television.

Kuribo's Shoe

Rankenphile wrote: »

Who names their kid Jathan?

Ethan Marth?

Macera

Romanian My Escutcheon, Doxy wrote: »

Did anybody else get the host of Video Zone confused with Levar Burton?

That happened to me a lot.

No

I used to think Steve Martin and Leslie Nielsen were the same guy though

ChicoBlue

The N key and the J key are very close together.

BYToady

Rankenphile wrote: »

Who names their kid Jathan?

Someone that really liked the name Nathan, but already had a kid.

Kuribo's Shoe

JATHAAAAAAAAAN

Rankenphile

Aww honey, he'th an adorable little thweetheart. He hath your eyeth!

Iskander

okay this is weird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0b0bC2WdrM

fucking unicorns though...

Staxeon

Rankenphile wrote: »

Aww honey, he'th an adorable little thweetheart. He hath your eyeth!

I keep picturing Sylvester the cat in a maternity ward.

Rent

Man these kids sucked so bad at video games

Just so bad

Also I remember watching this when I was like 7 and still thinking "god these kids suck so bad"

Anyways

Man fuck the 90s sucked

TankHammer

I went to "Nickelodeon Live" as a child and the host from Nick Arcade nearly knocked me down and trampled me while he was running up and down the stairs at the auditorium it was hosted in, picking contestants for the game shows.

Actually seeing the kids set up in front of a green tarp so they could matte in the video-game elements was both fascinating and extremely disappointing to my childhood mind. I'd always assumed there was something more to the show than them standing in front of/on top of a green tarp and watching themselves on a monitor off-screen to avoid getting hit.

Turns out, nope.

facetious

No. Fuck no.

The kids were WAY worse on the final level of Legends. It's not even a contest.

I mean of course the kids on Nick Arcade were fucking dumbasses. I don't think I ever saw a kid get the orbs on top of the second screen without taking stupid hits.

But like, I was always inclinded to cut them a little slack because of the green screening aspect. In Legends, that shit is real. And the mistakes they made were MUCH more stupid than just not crawling low enough or jumping at the wrong time. Nick Arcade was primarily mistakes of execution, but the kids on Legends showed zero fucking cognitive ability or preplanning.

FUCK YOU THAT MONKEY ISN'T HARD TO PUT TOGETHER! WHY DIDN'T YOU WATCH THE HALF DOZEN EPISODES FILMED EARLIER THAT DAY FOR TIPS?





I also used to get seriously pissed off at the kids on Guts. I mean they were probably more athletic than I was, but I'm 100% sure I could have won the vast majority of the episodes (there was the occasional genuinely strong competitor) just by not being a fucking idiot.

And don't even get me started about the strategy of choosing when to dare on Double Dare.

Artreus

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

Who names their kid Jathan?

Ethan Marth?

yesss

LearnedHand

Nadine from that worst of Nick Arcade thing (and is also on some "Worst Nick Arcade Contest Ever" YouTube videos) responded to a message I wrote a few months ago. I made a comment about the host's sexual preference and she then suggested that I'm also a homosexual. But I went to her YouTube channel and she's not a bad looking gal. She didn't have any videos but she had a profile picture.

And yeah, the green screen made those games extremely difficult. They should have let the kids practice first on them.

As for Guts, the scoring system really annoyed me. You can get your ass handed to you on the first few events and then win that Aggrocrag thing and end up the champion.

So really, a smart contestant should have just dogged it for the first three games (or however many there were) to conserve energy, and they go flat out on that mountain for the win and that glowing piece of whatever.

As for Double Dare, I don't know about anyone else, but I regularly pleasured myself to that female stage hand whose name I can't remember. Jesus Christ, she was built. Even in that loose Double Dare t-shirt, you could see that she had some real jugs.

Hobnail

So does that post make anyone else physically ill

ThatDudeOverThere

little bit

Romanian My Escutcheon

Why did I even read that? D: