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Nick O '... arcade where your video savvy and

video game skills are put to the ultimate test

that's right folks we are talking about Nick

arcade that is our listeners choice for season

one And before we get too far into our discussion,

here's a little background information on the

show. Nick Arcade debuted in 1992. It only ran

for the one calendar year, two seasons technically,

84 episodes. It was a 30 minute show on Nickelodeon.

And for those of you that don't know, in Nick

Arcade, two teams of contestants played two initial

trivia rounds where the winner advanced to the

video zone to play against the virtual video

game wizard of the day. Mike, what do you remember

about Nick Arcade? I love this show. I think

there's only one problem with this show, the

host. Did you remember everything before you

watched anything in preparation for this episode?

What did you remember? I remembered the format.

I remembered, you know, how each was supposed

to go. I did not remember the video, the video

wizards. I didn't remember the... The final level

uh, that was the only thing I didn't remember

but I remember the video challenges I remember

the the trivia questions. I remember all that

stuff. Uh Most of what I don't remember is any

of the contestants outside of the charity episodes

that they had done right with like salucha shorts

and clerks explains it all and all that stuff

like Didn't know any of those people other than

you know any of those kids that they had on other

than the celebrities. Overall, I still dig the

show. I think it's cool. I think it'd be nice

if it came back, especially if you could do a

show like this today, no problem. Yeah, you can

do a much better job of it, too, probably with

the talent that we have. I mean, as far as making

sure there was no glitches or making sure things

even looked better, obviously, since it's 20

years later or whatever. Yeah, I remember I didn't

remember the host I didn't remember that that

was no I didn't I didn't I remembered Andrea

the voiceover gal, but I didn't remember Phil.

Yeah, I thought I thought it was a more a More

likeable host. I was like a double dare type

Round where they're answering questions, etc

You know one team on one side one team on the

other side answering questions for points and

all that I do remember Mikey the little person.

Thank you for remembering me. I remember Mikey

the person that they had to move through the

maze and that you know they had to go up down

or up left right you know over whatever and that

you know sometimes they'd run into like an enemy

or a bomb or something or sometimes they'd get

points or sometimes they'd have to do certain

challenges kind of very much like Double Dare

in that respect. Then I somewhat remember the

video challenges, but I don't remember all the

different games They used I'd you know I did

remember that they use some games that I was

familiar with which was cool But then I also

remember them using a whole lot of games. I'd

never heard of And then I remember there being

some type of final round, but I wasn't sure exactly

what it consisted of now watching it back I do

remember remember it in retrospect But yeah,

I remember the basic format. I remember thinking

it would be cool to you know play on that game

and I remember um thinking some people were really

bad and I couldn't decide if it was that they

were really bad or if it was just hard to control

in certain parts of it um at least in the final

round um you know I know during the the video

challenges it's basically you're just playing

the game so I'm assuming they had regular controllers

that you were using that you would have been

used to somewhat um or potentially but it could

also be arcade style uh... no i don't i don't

think it was our case out as he would say grab

your controller yet so many students over there

but i can understand it may be a little harder

control them when you're at home uh... and you

know obviously they put you in just random spots

the games etc and gave you a goal so um but yeah

i remember this show more than i should since

it was really only on for a brief time um but

it must have been on the right time you know

when when we were watching stuff like salute

your shorts clerics explains all you know um

are you afraid of the dark possibly you know

all that stuff that was going on and nickel loading

at the time i mean that was the that was a place

that was a channel that you went to if you were

uh You know, if you were a kid through a teen,

you know, early teenager, Nickelodeon was a place

where all your shows were at. Yeah. So back in

the day, Nickelodeon basically had a monopoly

on that. All right. So that means it's time for

the who's who of Nick Arcade. And not a lot to

go with here. You know, created by James Bethea

and Karim Matef or Matif. They were definitely

very big tech guys. They did a lot of stuff with

technology. There's a huge article online where

they go into the ins and outs of what it took

to do what they were doing and the technological

aspects and the video game aspects and what they

had to do. So if you're interested in that, I'll

put a link of it in the show post on GeekCast

Radio Network. But it's a very long article where

they talk to both the host and the creators about

the ins and outs of Nick Arcade. the host like

we mentioned was Phil Moore the announcer was

Andrea lively and outside of the Charity shows

which we had the cast of clear six planes at

all sleeker shorts and welcome freshmen appear

The only contestant that anybody would know would

be a young Joseph fatone Joey fatone was a contestant

on Nick arcade somehow and then obviously later

it would be a boy band member I never can get

him straight. I don't know if it was in sync

or back to use He's with NSUK. NSYNC. It's not

a big who's who as it obviously is every time

we do a video game or a game show on the telecast.

It's not going to be a lot of who's who because

most of the contestants are going to be relatively

unknown. They did that, won a chance to be on

the show, and then that was it, just like any

game show. Yeah, we will talk a little bit more

about Phil Moore and some of the creators a little

bit later But you mentioned that you did not

like the host, correct? Yeah, I just I don't

know what it is about him. I It seemed like he

should have been one of the can it what this

show really watching it back What the show really

seemed like to me was Andrea was the adult Phil

was the teenager and then the contestants were

younger kids it felt like a whole like weird

school classroom kind of thing it felt like you

were i was in elementary school again it really

do you know you know here move my key this way

it only a video challenge so let's run over here

and blah blah blah blah it just i don't know

it's in his personality there's a i put on my

face book i'll have to throw it to you to put

in the post i Copy the link at a time on one

of the YouTube videos where I think it's the

Clarissa episode where he basically gives a power

slam to the four team members. And basically

what it is is the 90s version of a fist bump.

And I'm like, seriously, this is like... Yeah,

apparently the power slam on Nick Arcade was

the fist bump of the 90s, LOL. It just, I don't

know. When I think of game show hosts for kids,

I think of someone like now, Todd Newton was

doing Family Game Night on what used to be the

hub, now Discovery Family. Or I think of somebody

like Pat Sajak or Tom Bergeron or hell, even

Alex Trebek. Even... Even on kid game shows,

at least Mark Summers was more, you know, personable.

Yeah, Mark Summers was an expert at what he was

doing. This guy, I mean, he had the energy, I

guess, but it just seemed like he didn't know

what to do with it and I don't know if there

was so much going on that he was having trouble

with keeping a flow going, but he definitely

lacked charisma and lacked just the ability to

do things that... were actually funny or made

sense or helped progress the show from one point

to another uh... you know he would stumble over

pronunciations of games or characters uh... you

know i think some of it goes into the actual

format of the show which we'll get into in the

next section but uh... i think he had the energy

i just don't think he really would naturally

knew what to do as a host the other thing is

just looking at his uh... this is wikipedia that's

something that We don't want to get in too much

of what he's done since But I know before he

got this which is not really taking anything

from a future section, but before he got into

this he was Someone who was basically a comic

relief for crowds before things would happen

He would be there to try to pump up the crowds

or try to keep them interested and excited before

a show would happen or before an event would

happen Which we'll get into a little bit more.

So I mean I can guess I can see that he would

be someone that would be behind the scenes doing

that and someone they didn't necessarily let

do anything on the actual shows. Yeah. Maybe

he was better at that. But yeah, he just seemed

a little bit out of place and awkward for the

most part. Pretty much. Yeah. All right. Well,

that's it for the who's who. Like I said, not

a lot with game shows, just the host, basically.

And that's about it. So that means it's time

for the good. The bad. That's right, it's time

for the good, the bad, and the ugly of Nick Arcade,

and I think we can safely say that there's a

little of all with this one. At least for me,

there is some good, there is some bad, and I

guess there is some ugly, maybe not as much ugly.

There really isn't much of a theme song. It's

mainly just the opening where they're introducing

What the show is introducing the host that type

of thing at least with what I watch I didn't

see a whole lot of theme song I mean, there's

music in the background, but it's mainly a voiceover

So, I mean they maybe could have came up with

a catchier theme song for the show I guess we

can put that in the bad section of the show as

far as the opening goes I didn't really think

it was that great of an opening. I Mean it introduced

us to the show, but it wasn't anything that was

like oh, it's Catchy and Nick Arcades on I don't

know We'll get into the main format first and

then we'll get into a little bit of some other

stuff, but They would usually start with a face

-off. Alright, so they would they would start

with both teams up there doing some type of thing

whether it be moving jet skis or dirt bikes or

four -wheelers or cars or boats or planes through

some type of environment Basically just controlling

it by going up or down And it was a side -scrolling

type of event where where you would basically

try to avoid obstacles and if you got hit it

would take like three seconds and you come back

and basically a race you know 30 second race

to see who could get the farthest and that would

be the determination of who had control of Mikey

at the beginning of the show what did you think

of the face -off rounds I Don't think I've ever

seen those games any of them other than watching

them on this show like I know there are those

kinds of games in arcades and stuff and I've

seen them uh you know those old classic games

but like all the gate like when we get to the

video challenges I recognize at least four or

five different video games right they've had

in in in the video challenges but the face -off

challenges is like okay this They just grabbed

this from some Atari company or Nintendo or I

don't know where the hell they got these games

from. They were all custom. They were all custom

made for the show developed by the two guys that

created the show. And there was one, two, three,

four, five, six, seven, eight of them. Meteroids,

meteoroids, I mean, laser surgeon, post haste,

jet jocks, crater rangers, brainstorm, battle

of the bands and star defenders. They're all

just 30 second games and they were all created

by the people for this show only, which is why

we didn't see them as much. But what did you

think of the just the format of the sites growing

up down the void obstacles? 30 seconds. I mean,

I like it, but I would have liked to see. instead

of them showing us the game I would have liked

I mean they can show us the game but I would

have liked to have seen at least one or two shots

of the players actually playing it because you

throughout this whole face -off you've got Phil

who is narrating you know who's up who's down

blah blah blah blah that's the one problem I

have with him he talks over it like I couldn't

get a clean music track for the like the timer

music that he's always talking over friggin moron

but the I would like to see the actual contestants

using the controllers because I want to see if

their controllers are matching the gameplay because

it just watching some of these face -offs it

just makes it look like it's rigged half the

time to me. Well, it seemed like all the ones

that I all the ones that I rewatched, it seems

like it was almost impossible to control. I mean,

there's every other second they're hitting something.

And I find it hard to believe that nobody was

actually good enough with just up and down movements

like Frogger, you know, to to maneuver through

this without getting hit. I mean, there wasn't

like, oh, they're going for a while. They get

hit. Then they're going for a while. They get

hit. It's like they're going for two seconds.

They're going for two seconds. They're going

for two seconds. They're hit. Um, which makes

it not as fun to watch. So I think, yeah, it

could have been a little bit more helpful to

see them playing it. That way we could have been

watching multiple things and, you know, if they

were falling down or whatever, we could averted

our attention from the screen for a second and

watched what they were doing or something like

that. Um, I don't know. I think the face -offs

being these custom games is, you know, it's whatever.

I guess it's for the show, but they look, uh,

they look like. lesser versions of video games

they do yeah so I mean it was it was kind of

not fake looking but it was kind of cheap looking

like it's the you know the Walmart version of

something that Target should have or something

like that like it just I don't know I don't know

if it was too hard for them to incorporate some

type of real game in it but I don't see why they

couldn't have done similar things with what they

were doing with the video challenge and just

had two people doing that and whoever got you

know like Sonic for example having both go and

whoever gets more rings in 30 seconds just takes

control. Like I think that would have been more

interesting from a fan standpoint. Absolutely.

So once the face -off was over that group, that

team would have control of Mikey and there was

basically a grid on the screen and different

size grids but you know like a four square by

five square or like a six square by three square

grid and Mikey would be on one side and there

would be a goal on the other side and you would

have to tell the host that you wanted Mikey to

move left or move up or move down as you tried

to get to that goal. Getting the goal I think

got you a hundred points and there would be different

blocks on on the on the grid that would have

different things like points. There's basically

eight different things that you could land on.

You could land on points, which would just automatically

give you that to your team. You could land on

a video puzzle, which they had different puzzles

that would go and you'd have to try to answer

questions or identify what you saw, et cetera.

There'd be a pop quiz where there was just a

question that you'd have to answer and get points.

There would be a prize. So that would be just

something that you got to keep as your team,

different prizes. Also, you could land on the

enemy which would make it shift to the other

team as far as who had control. You had time

bombs. and you had the goal as well as obviously

the thing that everybody wanted to land on probably

is the video challenge and that would be where

you would land on the video challenge and one

member of your team would have to play some type

of video challenge while the other one wagered

an amount of points that you would get if you

succeeded or you would lose if you did not succeed.

Before we get to the video challenge just the

other things that they could land on the points

the video puzzles pop quiz prize Enemies that

are what did you think about that aspect of the

board that you were traveling through? I mean,

I thought it was interesting. I liked it the

episodes that I watched I didn't see anybody

get far enough to get to a prize So I don't know

I'm sure you have a list of them somewhere, but

I don't know what the actual prizes would have

been Yeah. Unless it's just those crappy consolation

prizes we'll talk about later. Probably basically

those types of things. And there was 11 different

areas. You had Pirates Cove, Cape Cosmos, Camel

Little, Pacific Ocean, Forgotten Desert, Slurpee

Gulch, Volcano Jungle, Creepyville, Mikey's Neighborhood.

We got them all. And Time Portal were the different

areas that you could explore. My biggest problem...

With these maps and I guess this would also be

in the bad of the good the bad and the ugly would

be There was never enough time For you to get

from one side to the goal hardly, right? I mean

on a rare occurrence you would do that But the

time was so limited because they were trying

to do so many different things on this show That

I even saw one round where they literally made

like two moves. It was like up over Oh times

out we have to fast forward to the goal answer

a question and sudden death and to me that That

is the main part of the game Like it's trying

to get to the goal here and when you don't have

time to do that There's something wrong with

how you've structured your show a little bit

And I'm not trying to say anything was bad about

the actual parts of the show But it seemed like

it could have been laid out different so you

could actually complete something Yeah, it's

the execution right and as far as the video challenges

the video challenges would consist of actual

games that Sometimes we've actually heard of

or that existed and they would be taken from

either Nintendo Super Nintendo Sega Genesis Turbo

graphics or Neo Geo There was maybe a couple

custom games here and there but that was mainly

used in the face -offs The game that I saw as

far as in the episodes I watched most often that

I had recognized that I saw them use both Sonic

the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 there's

a lot of other types of just like your basic

like space shooters or like you know that almost

like what's a game not defenders but whatever

where you just kind of scroll from side to side

shooting all the aliens as they come at you it's

kind of like that type of space invaders their

games that are very similar to that or like some

type of Where you're controlling a ship and trying

to shoot things but I saw him play both sonic

and sonic 2 So I mean that part was cool because

they would give you basically like a hey you're

sonic you're in area one You need to get you

know 30 rings in 30 seconds Or something like

that. What did you think of the video challenges?

I love the video challenges because I'm always

interested to see what games that they had and

to see if I know what games they had. The only

two I recognize out of the episodes that I watched

is Sonic 2 and Super Adventure Island. Those

are the only two. I mean, I recognize something

like Super R -Type. because it is one of those

things that that that is one of those you know

it's like a world war two you know plane and

you're you know you're bombing things and shooting

other planes is it it's basically that space

invaders thing like you were saying but it's

just you know a different setting and you know

different kind of graphics than space invaders

specifically but i love the video channel because

i always wanted to see you know what what contestant

was going to play what contestant was going to

pick which game Yeah, honestly, that's the best

part about this show for me is the video challenges

Yeah, I think that is the best prime and in essence

you are watching someone else play a video game

But because there's a goal and there's a time

limit. It is interesting to see You know, can

I do it or can they not do it? And it's it's

frustrating too. Uh -huh when they're so bad

Like Sonic to me should be an easy one to do

whatever the goal would be. Poor Melissa. Yeah,

she apparently had not played Sonic before. I

don't know. She was not ready for the loop -de

-loop. No, she was not ready for the loop -de

-loop. She wasted a good half the round with

that. Yeah, so it was frustrating at the time,

seeing people and knowing you could do better.

But like I said, I don't know how easy it was

to control what they were controlling or what

the setup was exactly. Clarissa's dad. I don't

remember what that and the actress that played

that was also terrible at his video Joe. Yeah,

that was awful He'd literally got no points.

I think He would he was flying a ship and trying

to shoot something He literally like pushed forward

so that his ship just ran into another ship.

No, that's not how you play sir. Um But I don't

know. I like the the video challenges It's it's

almost like in double there where you get the

physical challenge, you know, it's it's where

you get to see something that you kind of wish

you could Partake in or you could participate

in and see how other people did in it a lot of

generic games that I Think most people maybe

hadn't heard of except for like real big video

game nerds I don't use that in a negative way

But people that know very much about their video

games might have recognized more games than I

did Because I think like you said Super Adventure

Island Sonic and there was one other one that

I'm forgetting now that I recognize But that

was about it So yeah, if they if they achieve

the goal they'd get those points added to their

team if they did not they would get them subtracted

And then meanwhile you would go through a couple

different rounds of this Trying to get Mikey

to the goal which would eventually lead to the

ending I guess you'd call it a bonus round maybe

which would be the video zone Right. It was a

live -action video game with three levels The

contestants would use a video monitor to see

themselves. They'd be backstage, you know, climbing

ladders, throwing things, you know, doing all

these kinds of things in front of a blue screen.

And they would be attempting to achieve the goals

that were outlined, the three objectives for

getting to the end there. It was interesting

because then on the screen you would see their

body going through an actual video game set.

as they try to do things, even though they're

backstage on a blue screen and I guess looking

at a monitor to figure out what they need to

do. They would go through two different stages

and then they'd be at some type of end person,

end wizard, I guess what they called it, and

they would try to finish that. If they did that,

they would win some money. They could also win

money throughout the thing for different items

they got. And then they could also get a game

over if the time ran out before they were able

to do what they were doing. What did you think

of the video zone where it becomes basically

a virtual reality live action video game? It

felt like to me, like I don't know when this

game first started, but like. i didn't find out

about laser tag until like ninety two ninety

three ninety four that's a really what what the

videos on felt like to me which was like all

right go ahead on it and blah blah blah blah

whatever the hell he says uh... you know when

they were going in there it felt like you know

i was back at uh... at laser blazer level kentucky

you know sitting up getting into the you know

the little Targets you put on yourself and and

you go into this other room and then you go into

the other room You know, it's like an airlock

kind of thing and then you go into the actual

room where you play the game that's really what

it felt like to me was a CGI version of laser

tag I liked it. I thought it was interesting.

I kind of wish we would have seen the contestants

get injured a little because I never could tell

if I think it's again like the Clarissa one I

think it's where like the bottom of it is her

or Whoever's in there. I forget I forget which

one was in there, but whoever's in there. It

was them Moving across like electronic bars at

the bottom of the screen and I was really hoping

that one of them would get hit to see What would

happen because it is blue screen and or green

screen and whatever else and I? Don't know I

just kind of wanted to see something happen to

the player like if the video game was truly interactive

or of course We know it's not it's just you know

visual effects, but yeah, I mean it to me It

was almost like the the video game version of

legends of the hidden temple um where they're

going through that maze and they're trying to

do different artifacts but they're trying to

recreate this using the blue screen and video

effects which is cool because you get to see

the person in the video game but it doesn't really

look like a video game to me um you know the

person's not i don't know they the interactions

between them and the things that we're seeing

on the video screen you know stuff's going through

them or stuff's going over them or they're going

over things where it's not really having any

type of an effect Take you away from it a little

bit. You know, they're trying to reach in and

touch this and make it disappear and do that

I mean it's a good attempt. I think for the time

that's what I'm saying. Like today they could

probably make it a lot more Coming because we're

almost basically at the point. We were our at

virtual reality video games with all the different

Xbox Kinect and the you know the move and the

Yeah, we you know stuff like that Where I think

they can do it better and make it look more realistic.

It was just like to me. It was cool seeing them

there, but things didn't react accordingly like

when they touch something that didn't it wasn't

fluid or When they were trying to avoid something

it might go over their head or through them or

something like that So, I mean there was issues

with that that kind of take you out of it But

it would be cool, you know I'm not saying it

wasn't something that I wanted to try out or

I wanted to have my chance to see how easy or

hard it would be You know virtual reality video

games or something that I think is always intrigued

kids I think when we get into kind of critiquing

the show my biggest complaint is It's a 30 -minute

show Yeah, and they try to do a thousand things

Yeah, like you have the face -off you have them

introducing the teams and saying something about

each person which is always lame You have them

trying to move this guy through the board then

you have to break for video challenges Then you

have to go through this video zone at the end

and there's really not enough time to do this

all in Any way shape or form? That's why they're

you know the idea that they even have more than

one round is silly Like just have one round and

try to actually get through the round Yeah, like

I don't need you to fast forward and then do

a second round and fast forward through that

Obviously it takes a lot of time for the video

challenges But one thing I think they could have

done that they didn't was they could have made

a smaller set Yeah, I mean that set was huge

I mean the place where the contestants are standing

is way over on one side Then you have a big open

space and then Phil in his little host stand

in the middle And then you have a big old space

on the right side And then the video games that

they would use for the video challenges are way

off to the right Yeah, and for a for a show that's

already crunching time like if you would have

just shrunken that set a little bit or at least

You know move that stuff closer together. You

wouldn't have to waste so much time walking back

and forth between things Doing this that and

the other I just I think the biggest fault of

this show is the time management and and the

structure as far as setting up too much stuff

to get through in 30 minutes yeah that and I'm

sorry to say it but the host it needed a better

host yeah yeah the host is is also very bad at

he thinks he's clever he thinks it's cool to

try to rhyme things even when they don't rhyme

and he's always trying to like do these little

songs but there's only literally like two seconds

in between things so you don't have time to do

a little jingle yeah it just makes it it's like

oh we have two seconds of dead time i can't let

there be dead space so i have to say something

i have to sing something but the whole point

okay and i know i know i know i know where you're

getting at with that because the whole point

of like go back to the video challenge when They're

writing down what they're going to wager, and

he says you have this amount of time to write

this down in. And then there's theme music. You

let the theme music friggin play. You don't talk

over it. You do not see Alex Trebek talking over

the Jeopardy theme music as they're writing down

their answers in final friggin Jeopardy. Yeah,

it was like he was literally afraid of having

any silence. Where the music was just going on

and that's another thing they didn't need any

time to write down the wager like Right down

the way you have two seconds go like you don't

need any seconds to figure out what you're wagering

Yeah, so I mean he was bad he Again was afraid

of silence, so he would try to interject stuff

all the time, but he wasn't a smart enough Entertainer

to come up with clever things to do in those

dead spaces First of all because they were so

short so he shouldn't have been trying it anyways

and second was Coming up with it was just bad

So, I don't know. I think there was I think if

I was a contestant on the show And I went through

it when it was all over. I would have felt like

I got ripped off Did they have a season one season

two break? Like did they did they end the first

season and then come back like three months later

for season two think so But I don't know the

air dates Okay, if they did do that, you know

what they should have done Since a certain wonderful

80s comedy ended in 1992 They should have had

Bill Cosby as the host on the second season Well

true, but I mean yeah, I mean I think I would

have felt ripped off though because I think I

would have got through it and been like We didn't

get to do anything like we were so busy getting

ready for the next thing that we never got to

do the thing that we were on like yeah, I absolutely

answered a few questions then we got to maybe

play one video game off to the side and Then

that was it and then we did the video challenge

But that was only 30s, you know, like everything's

30 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds And I would

have just been done and been like I didn't get

to play any of the games like I don't even feel

like I was on the show like yeah, I don't know

so I mean, I think it's a fun idea. It was a

good idea. It was something that you wished you

could take part in. But I think the structure

and the execution could have been better. Absolutely.

All right. Well, in that case, it is time for

our next section, which we always start with.

Things that make you go, hmm. That's right. It's

time for things you didn't know about Nick Arcade.

We only have a couple of them. Couldn't find

too much trivia on the show. It was somewhat

of a short -lived show. But the first thing you

might not know about Nick Arcade is it was edited

for syndication. The consolation plugs were regularly

replaced in reruns. So in many cases, they were

promoting things that did not exist in 1992.

So you would have the show being filmed in 92,

but in syndication, they would replace some of

the commercials and... Constellation things and

you'd have bar for Rama books, which were from

1996 This didn't happen when it got to the Nickelodeon

gas reruns, but that would have been somewhat

weird to see a show from 92 advertising things

from 96 But and the second thing you might not

know about Nick arcade Keep circulating the tapes.

The series has not been rerun since the demise

of the Nick gas channel Even then, despite airing

on gas from its inception to its ending, only

64 of the 84 episodes ever were shown in reruns.

One of the 20 missing episodes was posted to

Nickelodeon's website in the late 2000s. At least

five others circulate among traders. The rest

have not seen the light of day since the 90s.

One theory as to why those 20 episodes never

ran on, reran on Nick Arcade, because it used

a lot of music videos and their puzzles. Gas

couldn't clear or didn't feel like clearing the

music rights for every episode while that theory

has never been confirmed It's interesting to

so far and all of them did feature music videos

So it's just another one of those things where

this is the reason why Certain episodes weren't

seen in reruns. This is why this show has not

been on DVD probably Whenever you have a show

that includes a bunch of clips from movies or

Music videos or songs that are copyrighted the

same thing we talked about with Mickey Mouse

Club and kids incorporated prevent Provides a

lot of hurdles to get over in in order to redo

that or put that out in any type of physical

media Right. All right as far as where are they

now? Not a lot of people to talk about but we

have a couple I know you had some things that

you wanted to say about about Phil Moore The

host what did you find about Phil Moore? um well

his wikipedia page which is what you link to

in the script doesn't have much so i clicked

on his imdb uh and he's not known for a lot of

things um his start was nick rk 92 to 93 uh he

was played himself on all that in 94 uh he was

on figure it out as a guest panelist in 97 He

was the host of You're On in 98. He was a cinematographer

on the Dr. Luciana show, Aging and Falling, which,

oh no, that's currently what he's doing, I'm

sorry. That's currently what he's doing. As far

as... uh... ninety eight uh... he's on your on

again your thirty seconds to fame in two thousand

to expose twenty five most notorious moments

of fashion week in two thousand five uh... after

uh... actually before uh... Yeah, before Nick

Arcade he was on After School as basketball player

number two. In 97 he was on Rosewood as Aaron

Carrier, and in 98 he was on Malcolm and Eddie

as Nelson Carter. So the dude hasn't had, other

than this... Dr. Luciano show or whatever the

heck it is this year. He it was a TV series short

that apparently isn't proposed production I've

never heard of this thing really let's face it

folks. He hasn't done much I think Rosewood is

probably his most famous credit other than Nick

arcade. Yeah Stacey was a well -known Orlando

comedian before he ever got the game show host

gig And it did audience warm -up for a variety

of shows the first show that he ever did audience

warm -up for was actually the Mickey Mouse Club.

But yeah, did a lot of stuff in Nickelodeon,

the Carcade, Figure It Out, You're On, etc. It

says that he's doing more, that he moved to Hollywood

to further his career as an actor, but he became

more of a writer. He's a writer for the Style

Network's longest running series, How Do I Look?

And a bunch of different versions of that. Looks

like a bunch of different fashion stuff that

he's doing writing for. Yeah. Animal Planet,

he's hosted some stuff. Annual hosting of the

San Pedro Lobster Dog Festival. So that's something

to hang your hat on. Two things that should not

go together, lobster and hot dogs. Yeah, basically.

I mean, he's about 54 years old or so now, 53.

So he's up there. As far as the creator, James

Bethea, He also did work on Star Trek Voyager,

Iron Man 2. He's done a lot of different things.

He's produced, he has three acting credits, one

for a TV movie called Smog, one for Iron Man,

and one for Iron Man 2. Those being because of

his relationship with Jon Favreau, I'm guessing.

He actually knows Jon Favreau from, I can't remember

exactly what... he did or how he met them or

met him but That would probably be why he got

those spots on on the two Iron Man movies I mean,

it wasn't like he was somebody important in them.

So to speak. He was a security force and an analyst

He also did Some other things some variety series

that Nickelodeon did the guest starred a whole

bunch of people But Like I said, he was very

much a tech guy going through college. And him

and his partner obviously did advanced a lot

of things as far as with the blue screen idea.

You know, even some stuff that you would see

years later with stuff like Avatar and stuff

like that was kind of similar to what they were

doing back here in 1992. So in a way, they were

somewhat ahead of their time. In creating this

this whole thing But but not a lot for for where

they are now because you know the host I mean

the the voiceover person really hasn't done anything

since then She basically just was the the announcer

on Nick arcade and and that was basically it

Obviously, we know Joey Fatone as a contestant

went on to being in sync So, you know and he's

doing stuff still somewhat in the whole pop culture

realm So not much else for for where are they

now? Up next the place where no game goes unplayed

Nick arcade Hey guys, this is Rob Paulson, and

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place where no game goes unplayed. Nick Arcade.

So I guess we can get into a little bit of how

you can watch the show. Obviously because of

the same reasons why it wasn't reran in its entirety.

You're not gonna be able to find it on DVD or

blu -ray It's not on Netflix I did not have a

chance to check iTunes, but I would highly doubt

that it's on iTunes. No, it's not Okay, so you

really your only option is YouTube, but there

is a lot of episodes available on YouTube Yeah,

so in their full It's not clips that you have

to watch like part one part two part three It's

like 22 minute videos 24 minute videos or whatever

where you can see one whole episode I know the

salute your shorts episode is on there the clerics

explains it all episode is on there I've not

looked for the welcome freshman because I didn't

really ever watch that show Okay So, I mean those

are all out there if you want to see them There's

also just regular episodes that you can watch

so you can definitely get a decent viewing and

it's good quality It's not like it's hard to

watch or anything like that. So you can definitely

see it on YouTube and get a feel for a little

walk down memory lane to see what Nick Arcade

was like. If you're kind of thinking that you

remember it, you can check out YouTube and it'll

solidify what you remember on it. As far as our

rankings go, where do you sit with Nick Arcade,

one through four? Two. So you liked it back in

the day, but you don't really need to watch it

again? Liked watching it again for recording

this podcast. I thought it would you know, I

liked traveling back to the 90s and rewatching

it because I I always thought you know, we've

already talked about this long enough, but I

always thought it was longer I really felt like

when I was watching it as a kid It was longer

than what it is when I was watching it as an

adult and you're right the time constraints horrible

on this show. But yeah, I would have to say it

too because I have zero desire to go back and

watch it again now. Makes sense. I'm with you

actually. It's a two for me. I did like it. Back

in the day, I don't remember watching a ton of

it, but I remember enough that I must have watched

it. You know, and I'm not saying it's something

that I watched all 84 episodes and make sure

I was home every time Nick Arcade was on. But

I remember watching it from time to time, thinking

it was a cool idea, thinking it was cool to be

it would be cool to be on. But I don't really

have a desire to watch it again. It was fun to

watch it and kind of brush up some of my memories

of it and stuff like that. But if it was on like

a TV channel and I was slipping through, I probably

wouldn't stop. And even if you put it up against

other game shows that we've talked about I would

much rather watch legends of the hidden temple.

I would much rather watch double dare I probably

would even rather watch guts Or Definitely rather

watch Carmen San Diego. So I mean as far as game

shows go I think there's better ones out there

from that time period Not to say this wasn't

fun. It wasn't a good idea and wasn't Good for

what they were able to do in 1992 All right,

just to give you guys a heads up we did get multiple

votes for the listeners choice This being the

first listeners choice episode that we ended

up on Nick arcade based on the number of votes

Coming in second would have been welcome freshmen.

We also had votes for finders keepers which was

another we got a bunch of votes for different

types of game shows actually finders keepers

what would you do video power square one tv which

i don't know what that is i would have to brush

up on that so we got lots of votes in for listeners

choice nick arcade ended up being our first ever

listeners choice and we thank you for those votes

and then helping us decide which show it would

be who is the closest after nick arcade welcome

freshman Yeah, it was a one vote difference so

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