Seven Episodes have surfaced on Youtube so check them out.I was always too busy playing video games to watch T.V. but a video game show would have had my full attention,unfortunately video power was one of the few video game shows that reached Vegas.I always caught the end of the show usually at the mall part.I could have destroyed any of those contestants from the east side but New York was far,far away.The titles the kids would come back with were hilarious.Three copies of Batman,numerous copies of Bases loaded 2,backpacks,handgrips,Lots of Gameboy games but no Gameboy,one handed control sticks...for NES?,skateboards,the Immortal for anyone who wanted it,Battletoads(one of the hardest games ever made),and a NEO-GEO! A NEO-GEO was worth more than the whole mall.I'd bet it didn't come with a game.You could buy ten Nintendo games for the price of one NEO-GEO game,like on pimp my ride when the guests get their cars pimped they will regret it when a tire goes run-flat and find out how much the tires cost.Brutal.The Co host was this billy crystal wannabe,dressed from the 80's equipped with the overdone manly announcer voice would commentate the games and read off the prizes.There was also a guy with the guitar that never seemed to do anything but the host Johnny Arcade took the cake.Stivi Paskoski was the top of the overly enthusiastic teens on T.V. This dude was on coke or speed or coke and speed,talking about going back stage and having a bagel(code for snorting a line or a line in the shape of a bagel I'm guessing)He had predetermined guests who were the 90's finest. Johnny arcade was crazy when the kids were brought up on stage they were high fived,karate chopped ,made fun of,asked to lay down,poked at,hugged,it was ridiculous.What i did like was the atmosphere,Johnny Arcades' throne the "EdgeHog" surrounded by the dark,lit only by screens of random games,awesomeness which I want to replicate some day.Johnny Arcade would read the letters kids sent to him and if he liked it,you would,as punishment get "The Immortal".Good times.
(I wonder if Mickey Tveter still has any of those games?)
(I wonder if Mickey Tveter still has any of those games?)