TALKING POINT: How sweet is watching Nick Arcade reruns on GAS?

[upload:1360884:small:left:Nick Arcade would be more exciting if losing contestants were locked in the video zone for a year.]Jeff: Pretty sweet. Nick Arcade's a great game, but not without its flaws. It's from a magical time before producers knew what video games actually looked like, so it's got this artificial "FUTURE!" feel. That said, I would pay any price for three minutes in the video zone. I've studied that mine cart level, I can't lose.

Patrick: I always pictured the contestants surrounded by blue screen, dodging whiffle balls thrown by Nick studio production assistants. Nick always made the final rounds impossible. Minivans and paid vacations to Universal Studios don't grow on trees.

Jeff: I've seen contestants conquer the video zone, but nobody escapes the Hidden Temple alive. The temple guards need to consume the bones of children to survive.

Jeff: I was watching Nick Arcade recently, and it never occurred to me that the host is gay.

Patrick: It never occurred to me he was black.

Jeff: It was a terrible idea to pad out the non-video-game segments with boring trivia about things like history. Wouldn't it have been great if the questions were like, "Who is the boss in the first level of Turtles in Time?"

Patrick: Remember, this was during the great video-game-apathy scare of '95. I guess they wanted to promote reading as well.

Jeff: Who cares about presidents and stuff? By the way, the answer is Baxter Stockman in fly form.