Archive for Tag: game shows

  • Enthlevel: A Modern Nick Arcade Now on Kickstarter?!

    News Posts News Posts by Alex Jedraszczak on

    Have we ever talked about Nick Arcade on GameCola? I'm pretty sure I mentioned it on the podcast once or twice, if only to complain that I had to wake up early and sit through Wild Crazy Kids just to

  • [NSFW] Double Dare (NES)

    Reviews Reviews by Zack Huffman on

    In the mid 1980s, Nickelodeon consisted of little more than You Can't Do That on Television re-runs from Canada and old Looney Tunes cartoons. It was a dark time for children's television. Although Yo

  • Versus Mode: Game Show Showdown

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Anyone who watches the Game Show Network (now known only by the initials GSN... whose bright idea was that?) as much as I do will have seen countless episodes of most of the shows these games are based on. I'm sure there must be some among you who, like me, spend days at a time on the couch watching nothing but Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Riley yucking it up on the Match Game. I'm also sure that there are some out there who say that all games based on game shows a crappy. To those people, I say: "Oh YEAH?? Well your FACE is crappy!!!". There are many titles based on game shows in my massive collection, and rather than do a Jeopardy! vs. Family Feud feature (as was my original intention), I thought I'd take a page out of Kevin Leacock's playbook and just pit them all against one another to see which is the best. So here we go!

  • MTV Remote Control (NES)

    Reviews Reviews by Paul Franzen on

    If I were selected to be a contestant on a game show, and the consequences for losing were death, then I'd find a safer game show.