While surfing the internet the other night, I came across a web site devoted to Starcade.
For those who don’t remember/don’t know, Starcade was a Saturday-morning game show for pre-teens, revolving around arcade video games. Two contestants would answer a few trivia questions, then play various games simultaneously. Their scores and answers would be used to determine a winner, who’d have a chance at the end of the show to win an arcade game of their own.
While Starcade was a moderate success at the time, I think an updated version of the show for today’s audience would be a smash hit. Video games (especially consoles) have become cross-gender and ubiquious, and gaming demographics show that the most money is spent by players in the coveted 18-28 age group. A new Starcade show can easily draw in all the folks playing PS2s, Gamecubes, and XBoxes today, and give away “adult” prizes like vacations, home computers, or automobiles.
Anyone else think this is a workable idea? Or has it already been done and I haven’t heard about it?
I was a Video Power fan, myself. Watched a lot of Nick Arcade, too.
Having never seen G4, I have to ask: how well does the competative gaming stuff work (i.e. is it fun to watch at all) and what types of games do they use? It seems like games today are less geared toward that type of stuff than older games.
Remember Nickelodeon Arcade? Where in the end they put you in a terrible blue screen video game and you had to jump over stuff? I wonder how much better they could do that today. That might get more people to watch. Or fewer. Depending on the suckitude.