![]() The excitement of the room-to-room finale was enough to make any viewer jealous. On air from 1987 to 1989 and hosted by Wesley Eure (later Larry Toffler), the show alternated between finding hidden pictures in a intricate Highlights-style drawing based on limerick clues and frantically searching for items in a massive two-story house built on-stage. What kid doesn’t love ransacking a cluttered house to find hidden treasures? That was the thought process Nickelodeon tapped into when they created Finders Keepers, the short-lived scavenger hunt show that found contestants ripping apart the set in order to uncover objects that coincided with the riddles presented to them. The mess factor evolved over time where they got more interactive with audience members for new games, but its ultimate legacy was being one of the last programs to be part of the old Nickelodeon model that valued strong interaction with its fans, fun challenges, and lots of messes that kids for once didn’t have to clean up. ![]() If a match wasn’t made, the show’s host, Dave Aizer, would take a pie to the face. They also both won a prize, which was normally a new bike or sports package. If they got two squares to match a single character, a contestant they previously chose to get placed in the Slime Chair would get drenched in slime. ![]() The set for the show was constructed on the outdoor lot of Nickelodeon Studios, where a live audience would get to watch kids get slimed, pied in the face, and cream blasted, most of which came from kids that would call in to the show and play a Tic-tac-Toe board with Nickelodeon characters. Slime Time Live continued the Nickelodeon love affair with sliming people, which was spawned from several other shows that will be featured on this list. Technically, I’m cheating a little bit as this show aired in-between blocks of Nick shows at its time, but it featured enough competitions to warrant legitimacy as a game show. Thus without further to do, I and a few other TYF writers share our list of the 10 best Nickelodeon game shows. The high levels of creativity, literal messiness, and necessary mental knowledge are all unrivaled to their competitors during the 1990s.Īt this point some of you might ask “why today to do this feature?” Well, today’s date of February 6, 2018, marks the 25-year anniversary end of the original Double Dare franchise, which was no doubt one of the biggest staples in not just Nickelodeon game show history, but also certain aspects of the network’s pop culture heading into the future. However, thanks to the great sister network that was Nickelodeon Games and Sports and Sports for Kids (more popularly known as Nick GaS), I was able to live the memories that so many others got to experience at the time. I was born in 1993 so I missed out on the original airing of many of these shows. In my opinion, the channel’s game shows deserve just as much, if not more, praise. ![]() Normally, you’ll browse the internet and see many lists of the best cartoons produced during the era, but this will not be one of those posts. ’80s and ’90s Nickelodeon included so many great memories. The sentence, “…was recorded in front of a live studio audience in Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios Orlando, Florida” is one that is etched forever in the minds of millions, myself included. ![]()
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