YMMV / Nick Arcade

• Bile Fascination: The high failure rate of the Video Challenges, evident since they make up the majority of the main game.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: Contestants usually chose the same games for Video Challenges, such as the first two Sonic the Hedgehog titles, King of the Monsters, Ghost Pilots, Super R-Type, Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts and ActRaiser. This also applies to the teammates' wagers where bets were usually 10 or 15 points.
• Good Bad Bugs: At least one winning team benefited from a brief delay between losing their last unit of power and the level resetting by grabbing the final orb during that interval.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The exact premise of the Video Challenges would be reproduced over two decades later in NES Remix. The hilarious part is that the latter involves the one company whose games were never on the show.
  • Melissa Joan Hart playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2, as she would later play Sabrina Spellman in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, a series based on the Archie Comics series of the same name. Furthermore, Archie Comics would create a comic book series based on Sonic, and eventually crossed over both comics in a special issue.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many Sonic the Hedgehog fans have only watched the last four episodes of the show because they used a very early prototype of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, which wouldn't be released to the public until 2006.
• Nintendo Hard: The Video Zone. So many Game Overs, so many crushed dreams of children wanting to go to space camp.
• Scrub: Some of the players look like they had never touched a video game controller before.
• Spiritual Licensee: While the main game evokes Starcade, the bonus round has shades of Knightmare.
• Spiritual Successor: To Starcade (1982-84), albeit with far less emphasis on playing video games and winning game-related prizes.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The Mikey's World locations used these, such as Mikey's Neighborhood using a spoof of the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood theme and Creepyville using a knockoff of Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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