What game shows did you enjoy watching as a kid?

[Dude111]

Ya Double Dare was good

[cd637299]

Being born in 1959, I was practically raised on the original “Concentration.” Something really got to me with that mechanical board, and matching prizes.

Sadly only a handful of episodes have survived. A few are on YouTube. The finale of the 1969 Challenge of Champions was quite the surprise.

Although almost all are kinescopes, four minutes or so of a 1971 show survives on color videotape.

Aside from the show, as a kid, I asked for—and almost always got—the home game from Milton Bradley each and every Christmas or my birthday. I have the first two editions purchased on eBay.

There is quite a story on the development of the show. The late Norm Blumenthal, who not only drew up each and every rebus puzzle for the show’s almost 15 years, but also every home game rebus, narrated a video called “Thanks for Playing Concentration”—>

https://vimeo.com/121515834

The story of its demise is chronicled here as well.

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[danderson400]

Originally Posted by JamesG

As a kid it was pretty much all Nickelodeon for me:

Double Dare, Finders Keepers, Wild and Crazy Kids, What Would You Do?, Nick Arcade, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and GUTS.


I also watched on Saturday mornings Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House which didn't last too long.

I used to watch the shows you mentioned, Double Dare, Finders Keepers, Wild and Crazy Kids, What Would You Do?, Nick Arcade, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and GUTS, they were different and were for kids, unlike the network daytime and syndicated game shows then, although i liked American Gladiators too.