Shop 'til You Drop. The Newlywed Game. Let's Make a Deal. Win Ben Stein's Money. The Dating Game. Legends of the Hidden Temple. Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? The Joker's Wild. Remote Control. What Would You Do? Figure It Out. Singled Out. To Tell the Truth Match Game.
Win, Lose or Draw. Super Jeopardy! Blind Date. Nick Arcade. The Hollywood Game. Sure, Ninja Warrior and the numerous knockoffs of it exist now, but back in the early '90s, things were Xtreme! Guts pitted kids against each other in extreme versions of familiar sports. However, the highlight of the show was the finale where contestants had to climb up a giant mountain called The Aggro Crag.
If they were successful, they won a radical piece of the mountain's glowing rock. Although the show had over episodes and ran for two seasons, Nickelodeon's Get The Picture didn't even make it a full year, starting and ending its run in On this series, contestants would answer trivia questions and if they answered correctly, would uncover a piece of a mystery picture behind a giant video screen, and they'd have to guess what it is. The finale was the winners of the previous rounds playing a giant game of memory where they had to correctly guess where random pictures were on the giant board.
This was an afternoon Nickelodeon series hosted by Marc Summers, which ran from Summers took people from the audience and tried to get them to do crazy things for cash prizes. Also, there was the pie pod, a chair contestants sat in that would automatically launch pies into their face. Do it, Rockapella! The game show based on a computer game took itself incredibly seriously, and that's partly what made it so great.
The PBS series ran for five seasons, almost hitting the episode mark. Each week, three junior detectives would help the host and chief track down a thief who stole something important like a gigantic stadium.
Once that sinister baddie was captured, the winner of the trivia rounds would have to trot around the world on a map of the Earth to try and find Carmen Sandiego, by adding markers to the countries announced by the host.
Fun House was Fox's attempt at replicating the greatness of Double Dare , but with a twist that made the finale of each episode a ton of fun. During the show, which ran from '88 to '91, contestants would battle each other in physical challenges. The winner of the opening rounds ended up going into Fun House, which was a wacky obstacle course where contestants had to find hidden flags.
Although this show was aimed at adults, many kids during the early '90s watched the first few seasons of the series. Across its run on multiple networks, Shop 'til You Drop aired from ''05 and filmed close to 1, episodes. The premise was similar to the more recent show, Minute to Win It. Beat the Clock had a long history, with revivals airing on daytime and primetime until In , the show was revived to feature children and adults competing as teams. Dating all the way back to , this popular hit featured newly-married couples competing against each other to answer questions about their partner.
Originally hosted by Bob Eubanks, the primetime hit has had its share of funny moments over the years. The most recent revival aired from on GSN. Similar to The Newlywed Game, the counterpart show The Dating Game originally focused on a single woman asking questions of three unknown men.
She would wind up choosing one for a date. There were some variations in format over the years. It started airing in and was syndicated in as The New Dating Game.
There were plenty of revivals over the year, with the Chuck Woolery seasons being particularly memorable. The set was built to look like a shopping mall and had teams of two competing for prizes. The final round was a shopping spree where contestants ran throughout the mall and picked out prizes.
Contestants would try to answer questions on a wide range of topics as fast as possible. The show was eventually replaced in the lineup by a soap opera. Teens and tweens answered trivia questions about geography to eventually find Carmen Sandiego.
The final round had a contestant race around a giant map to locate countries and states. You got it, Gumshoe. Former presidential speechwriter and actor Ben Stein brought his hosting chops to Comedy Central. A relatively unknown Jimmy Kimmel served as co-host on the show. The show won numerous awards over its six-year run.
This physical competition show debuted in , where everyday contestants would compete in physical challenges against athletes. Both men and women competed in events like tug of war and joust. This was another competition style sporting show, this time without regular contestants. The show originally ran from Chain Reaction was a word game show where contestants tried to create chains of two-word phrases to advance throughout the game.
The most recent version aired in with Mike Catherwood hosting. Woolery would give contestants a hint to guess words in the crossword round. This promo pretty much explains it all: it's just like Jeopardy, but for kids! And if you get questions wrong, you might get doused from above!
Playground games and sports were taken to the next level in this Nickelodeon show that occasionally featured celebrity guests hosting games, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Hey, it was the '90s. Nickelodeon's athletic game show pitted three teens against each other in extreme sports competition, culminating in a final climb on the Aggro Crag.
A combination quiz show and running game, contestants competed for time to run through a maze of mirrors, go blind with teammate guidance through a Honeycomb Maze, and finally head to the Chamber of Knowledge where they'd be asked questions by various Gate Guardians.
Real talk, none of us really forgot this shopping-centric show where contestants would answer questions and guess prices in hopes of making it to a final, literal supermarket sweep where whomever racked up the biggest tab won the game. Marc Sommers hosted this pie-centric punishment game show, where contestants would watch pre-recorded segments that would be paused at specific points, whence the title question would come into play, before the tape was un-paused and the actual results were seen.
In Fox Broadcasting's answer to Double Dare , two gender-segregated teams would compete against each other in messy mini-games and quiz questions to get a chance to run through the Fun House in the final round. The last season featured a celebrity ringer on each team, including a young Leo DiCaprio.
Predating the similar interactive quiz elements of phone game HQ, viewers who downloaded webRIOT software could log on when the show began in their time zone, answer questions, win prizes, chat with other players, and even become contestants on future shows IRL.
A bit of a misnomer as the kids were clearly toddler-age or older on this Family Channel show. Parents and kids would compete in a series of games straight from Field Day including the scandalous for Family Channel 'Sit On It' where parents would build sandcastles and the children would, well, sit on them, for points.
This show aimed at pre-teens used a Magic 8-Ball to determine which category contestants would play on each turn, to advance on a life-size game board. It'd be easy to forget VH1's first game show, testing contestants' knowledge of celebrity scandal and music video savvy in three rounds. The show was cancelled after less than a season.
Wheel Of Fortune was given a '90s cyber-update with this version aimed at kids. In addition to the usual rules spin the wheel, guess the letters , it also included physical challenges and mini-games. This MTV gameshow had four contestants pick their "savant category" — something they were unusually well-versed in - and play through an entire week, with the winner of the day getting to play a bonus game and the winner of the week walking away with a grand prize.
Questions were often framed as comedy sketches played by the show's writers.
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