History YMMV / VideoPower

* SpiritualSuccessor: As stated, to ''Starcade'' (and unlike ''Series/NickArcade'', video game playing was still crucial to the show).

* HilariousInHindsight: In the Thursday ''Wrestlemania'' episode, Johnny quips about Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Two years later in ''Film/LastActionHero'', this parody would actually be done.

* WhatAnIdiot: In "Rigged Deal" Kwirk asks Max Force if he can steer the ship they're on, claiming he has plenty of experience.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Max to point out that the area ahead is full of driftwood piles, and to explain that even if Kwirk isn't ''lying'' about his experience he's still too short to see over the wheel.\\
'''Instead:''' Max gives Kwirk the wheel and ''then'' warns him about the danger ahead. ''Guess what happens''.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** Since all the Wizards and Warriors elements are based on the second game, Kuros and Malkil are consistently referred to as being "from" Sindarin, the setting of ''Iron Sword''. Except Kuros and Malkil were actually both from the Kingdom of Elrond - Sindarin was just a place they went to. Oops.
** Kwirk is from a Game Boy game, yet Johnny is shown playing his game on a TV and Kwirk's game pak is clearly an NES cartridge. Granted there would eventually be a peripheral that let people play Game Boy cartridges on the Super Nintendo, and as a result on their TV, but that wouldn't come out until several years after ''Video Power'' had left the air.
** During his review of ''Nemesis'' for the Game Boy, Johnny wears an Egyptian pharaoh's death mask and at the end has a mummy drag off a nitpicky nerd who shows up. ''Nemesis'' had no ancient Egyptian influences, though; whoever put that in that was probably thinking of ''Life Force'', another game [[VideoGame/{{Gradius}} from that series]].

** In "Video Virus", Mr. Big infects Johnny's console with a virus, and the Power Team start tripping all over each other in battle without Johnny directing them. This seems weird for a bunch of veteran heroes, but then you realize something: they're the player's avatar in video games. ''Of course'' they're useless without the player telling them what to do!

** In "Video Virus", Mr. Big infects Johnny's console with a virus, and the Power Team start tripping all over each other in battle without Johnny directing them. This seems weird for a bunch of veteran heroes, but then you realize something: they're the player's avatar in different video games. ''Of course'' they're useless without the player telling them what to do!

** Kuros' magic sword is explicitly Iron Sword, the ultimate weapon from the second ''Wizards and Warriors'' game. Since ''The Power Team'' takes place after that game, it means he's carrying an InfinityPlusOneSword on into bonus content years before that was a thing. Especially with how the third game in the series ''does'' invoke BagOfSpilling to make Kuros start from square one in a new game.

** In "Pull The Plug", Mister Big threatens to destroy the game cartridges that were the Heroes' only means of returning to their homeworlds, but Bigfoot attacks him anyway. ''Of course'' Bigfoot called his bluff: [[TonkaTough You can't destroy an NES cartridge]]!

** Kuros' magic sword is explicitly Iron Sword, the ultimate weapon from the second ''Wizards and Warriors'' game. Since ''The Power Team'' takes place after that game, it means he's carrying an InfinityPlusOneSword on into bonus content years before that was a thing. Especially with how the third game in the series does indeed invoke BagOfSpilling to make Kuros start from square one in a new game.