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Nick Arcade
by J.D. Turbeville
Did you
ever wish you could be inside of a video game? Remember
Captain N and how he was sucked through the television?
In 1992, this sort of became a reality with the Nickelodeon
show Nick Arcade. The series lasted five years and was
later sold into international syndication. In the US,
it currently airs on Nick Games and Sports (Nick GAS),
which is a television channel devoted to the old Nick
game shows of the time like Making the Grade, Double
Dare, and others.
Continuing into my video game television thesis, I stumble
upon this television show that featured the use of computer
effects to make it look like you were actually playing
in a real game. In reality it just seemed that the video
game footage was overlayed onto the tv screen so that
the television viewer sees it as a real people playing
a video game.
Let's get back to how the show was structured. The show
would begin with the announcer telling us the two teams
of the day. Then one from each side (usually boy vs
boy and girl vs girl) would face each other in some
video game. There were several types of these games,
but the general idea was to navigate your character
through terrain by jumping or maneuvering around them.
For each unit of distance, you would get 5 points and
the most points (ie whoever was further) would win the
matchup and control.
Nick
Gas website: Nick Gas
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