The WEIRD Side of Nickelodeon That Disappeared
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2024
- Nickelodeon Games and Sports or known as Nickelodeon GAS or even as Nick GAS, was a spin-off channel to Nickelodeon that focused on sport related programs and playing old episodes of classic Nickelodeon game shows. The channel is super nostalgic to me, but maybe not for the reasons that Nickelodeon originally intended. Today, let's take a look at the Nickelodeon Games and Sports channel, see how it started, look back at the programs they played and what happened to the channel in the end.
Figure It Out video: • The Nickelodeon Show T...
Written By: Jordan Fringe
Edited By: Jordan Fringe & David Strickland
Channel Art By: Jerry Meehan - บันเทิง
Thanks so much for watching! Did you ever get to watch the Nickelodeon Games and Sports channel? If so, what program (old or new) was your favorite to watch?
Idk
Nickelodeon Guts.
I loved Guts...watched it at my cousins house as a kid
Olmec and the Legends of the Hidden Temple was a big fav of mine. Love the team shirts and colors and what not.
Figure It Out
LOTHT
Double Dare
GUTS
Nick Arcade
The funniest thing is that I never realized I was watching mostly reruns of old shows, so I always wondered why I never had heard of any of the prizes even though they seemed like big deals.
For some of us, a working Super NES would still be a big deal ;) a VCR, not so much 😂
And of course there was always the Space Camp trip prize on Double Dare…
I always wanted to go to Space Camp as a kid. I even called them once, only to hang up when they answered upon immediately realizing I wasn't supposed to be doing that.@@rblossey
@@rblossey Seeing a functional VCR in 2023 would be rather impressive really.
For me, it was going back to my early childhood.
GaS was one of the free rotating premium channels that my cable company would let us basic customers watch. So every 3 months I'd get to watch the channel for a month.
Wow this unlocked a hidden memory, totally forgot about rotating premium channels!
Never forget
Did you have direct tv?
This but with Boomerang, The Hub and Nicktoons Network.
I loved whenever that would happen. It was amazing.
Nick GaS is how I discovered a lot of Nickelodeon's game shows
Well I mean the channel name is Nickelodeon Game and Sports 😂
Same
GAS was such an escape for me. I could only watch it on my aunt's TV since she had the deluxe TV package. And we only went over to her house a handful of times before she passed. I still rewatch hidden temples and the double dare to this day if I'm ever having a low day.
I hope you are doing alright 👍 Thanks for sharing your memories of your auntie.
The late 90s to early 00s was just such a cool time as a kid. You just had to be there to experience those wonderful times
If it wasn't mentioned, the host of Double Dare had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Which must have made that on-set experience from mildly frustrating to *absolute HELL*
@@anotheryoutubeaccount5259 He's actually stated in interviews that it was both fun and highly upsetting to him
Marc summers would be the mans name. loved watching other shows he would host like unwrapped
@@ARC1300omg, I didn't connect nickelodeon Marc Summers with Unwrapped Marc Summers 😱 I watched that show every day while eating dinner with my mom, great show
@ARC1300 u wrapped
Oh my God, there is a core memory I almost completely forgot about ♡ thank you for that wonderful reminder
"Mike O'malley would kick Marc Summers' ass, dude."
Nick's game shows were suprisingly a lot of fun. Especially Legends of the Hidden Temple. That one holds a spot in my heart.
I got to go to a taping of GUTS once when I was a kid, and that was awesome (got to meet Mike & Moira too 😄), but my sister got to go to a taping of Legends Of The Hidden Temple and I’m still lowkey jelly over it 😂
The thing I remember most about GAS was how bad the Purple Parrots were on Legends of the Hidden Temple. They hardly ever made it passed the stone steps (or the moat in a lot of episodes). I looked it up and they only made it into the Temple 11 times and won just 3 times.
My favorite color is purple so growing up, I always rooted for the Purple Parrots and they were always terrible haha those stats confirming my memory of them sucking is hilarious
The Nick GaS segments known as Heros of the game lived rent free in my head for years and no one ever knew what i was talking about til i finally found them on youtube, they are honestly really funny to watch as an adult
Seeing the robot building show at the end I never heard of reminded me of Destroy Build Destroy from Cartoon Network in the late 2000’s. Would love to see Jordan cover it
CN Real! I remember that bloc and it generally wasn’t well-liked because people didn’t watch Cartoon Network for live-action content.
I LOVED watching GaS on late Summer break nights. Since I was born in '97 I was a lil young for most of the gameshows when they originally aired (and specifically remember being scared of LotHT) so it was super fun to be able to experience them as a middle school kid! And I can still confidently say that would've dominated at Guts 😤
Yeah totally, I loved watching reruns of Guts and Legends of the Hidden Temple
I grew up with the early to mid 2000s version of Nick GaS. I absolutely loved it. By then it basically was just Double Dare 2000 (I didn't even know there was an original version as a kid), Guts, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and Figure it Out (and the sub versions of Guts and Figure it Out). I do remember vividly seeing Finders Keepers once and never again. To remember the name all I had to search was Nick game show with a house haha. I also remember in between segments called Heroes of the Game (ohhhhhh i just looked it up and got the name and the nostalgia is sinking in). When Nick GaS went off the air I was so mad because I loved all those game shows.
Nick Arcade's got a funny little footprint in an unexpected place. Two episodes had Sonic 2 as their showcase game, which wasn't actually out at the time; they had a prototype build that only had a few levels complete. In late 2006, that prototype turned up online; it was one of the first prototype versions found, so it did a lot to tell us how that game was made. And while we don't know where exactly the prototype cartridge came from, you'll find that version called the 'Nick Arcade prototype', because that was the most known place it turned up.
That's really cool. There's also that DDR game from Friday Night Slime Time that no one seems to remember or care to find.
Bruh I was absolutely inconsolable when GAS was terminated, and it took me like 3 years to be completely over it.
I remember my cable company would would offer like 3 premium channels for free on rotation every couple of months. Nickelodeon Gas just ended up being one of the channels picked at the start of summer vacation one year and it was MAGICAL.
Thank you bringing back this memory to me
The segment on Nick Arcade unlocked a memory for me; goodness this is SO nostalgic
I will always remember the Dad from Glee as the host from Get the Picture and Guts. Also watching Finders Keepers growing up definitely influences my love for "Hidden Object Games".
As a kid, I had Asthma, allergies, and a sensitivity to sunlight. Shows like GUTS and Wild & Crazy Kids were how I learned to act like all the kids I couldn't play outside with.
Man I talk about Nick GAS all the time because when my dad got the premium cable I watched this channel all day every day!!!
Loved watch all the shows when they aired during the 90s and early 2000s. One of my friends was actually on 'Make the Grade'
GaS was perfect for me when I was hitting that angsty pre teen phase, I was an indoors kid so I never liked sports but the stuff on this channel made me feel like I was more of a dude bro, while stuff like hidden temple let me stay nerdy at the same time.
Why could no kid ever figure out the 3-piece monkey puzzle in Legends of the Hidden Temple? This has haunted for decades, me well into my 30s.
Growing up my ultimate goal in life was to be on Double Dare. I had my sister on board so it was just a matter of talking my parents into going to Universal Studios instead of Las Vegas for the family vacation. Then they made it Family Double Dare. There was no way I was get my parents to agree to do that stuff. Later down the line I tried as hard as I could to get on Figure It Out (Mostly to meet Summer) but that never happened either.
This is why this is one of my favorite channels on TH-cam. Who else would create an hour video essay on one of the best channels to exist. Absolutely great video. Thank you and be blessed
I did indeed forgot about GaS and then you brought it up so the memories all unlocked.
“Forgotten about” not me. This channel is in a corner of my mind accesible at any time
As a kid I always wanted to go through the temple.
Holy crap! You seriously unlocked fond memories that I had as a child.... long forgotten. Crazy feeling. I was born April 1986. I remember a part of myself that I had lost ...at a time much needed, thank you so much.
Other interstitial, between-shows programming like Heroes of the Game, Time-Out trivia, and GaS Grill were almost more memorable. It really contributed to the whole vibe growing up.
Says you, I hated those in between commercials, because I always saw the same ones every tine
Yes, I specifically remember the Heroes of the Game segments about 4-Square and Mr. 300 Jr.
@@matthewgillis2617 yeah you’re totally right especially in the later years when it would just loop everything. Not saying I loved them lol just most memorable/synonymous with the channel
@@matthewgillis2617 Exactly. I hated them, too, for that exact reason.
I remember a Heroes of the Game about origami football.
I remember watching this back in the early 00s, Double Dare 2000 is the only show I vaguely remember about.
GaS was THE channel for me growing up. It was always on or was what I would flip to when I didn’t know what else I wanted to watch. Like I would stay up super late just to watch Nick Arcade and I would never miss Legends. I just have these super strong fond memories of it.
I never knew it was going away until the day I turn on the TV and it just wasn’t there. I honestly was super upset about it for a couple of days, I remember even making my mom call our cable company asking what happened to it. I was heartbroken.
I remember when Nick GaS was on channel 215 in the mid 2000s before it was axed. Legends of the Hidden Temple, Figure it Out, and Double Dare 2000 were all my go-to's. Though, I always wondered when the trivia was going to update. The entertainment factor and the adrenaline of the obstacle course completions were what excited me the most
Mark Summers has OCD. So it's insane seeing him getting in on all the messes on Double Dare. It's like what The Nostalgia Critic said. "Give that man the biggest balls reward."
Watching this, I feel like I've been hit by a nostalgia sledgehammer. In a good way. I'm 43 years old, and Double Dare was one of my very favorite shows when I was little. The kids in my neighborhood put on our own version of it in my friend's backyard when I was about six. And Finders Keepers! I'd forgotten that one. It's interesting to see how generations of viewers enjoyed Nickelodeon game shows. Thanks for posting this!
Thanks so much for this banger! I watched GAS more than anything else for a while when I was a kid and it barely gets mentioned online.
I never forgot. I remember back when I had Charter, before it was Spectrum, before streaming services, and before.. a lot of things. I watched it all the way up until they canned it. I was talking about Nicks' sports shows as Gas just a few days ago. Loved it and wish there was a way to watch it
I loved watching GaS, but I didn't always get to watch it because my Grammy would get free trials of certain extra cable packages then cancel them, eventually change providers, and then do it all over again
That's a sense of nostalgia that is strange because we didn't even have this channel in Brazil
These videos are awesome. I can’t believe some of them are 8-12 hours long with actual content and not just filler. You’re a beast
This is supreme content right here!!! Only real ones remember this channel 🧡💚
Yup 😌
I remember that I loved the game shows, hated the constantly repeated commercials.
I'm so have you talked about scared camp! I loved that show and it never gets talked about. You always manage to talk about the things that I think no one else remembers. I love how thorough you are!
I didnt have GAS but my aunt did. And I woupd make sure that every time I went over to her place I would spend whatever time I had watching it. I so clearly remember watching the final broadcast that New Years and seeing the switch to The N in real time and it was so weird and bittersweet going to hang with my family afterwards because they were all doing New Years thing and I couldnt wrap my brain around how the channel just disappeared in front of my eyes. Its such an odd memory I have because I cant remember much of me at 11 but knowing this was New Years 2007 means I was 11 at the time and its just so vivid.
I used to watch GaS as my early morning viewing. Like 3am-6am. By the time I was watching there really wasn't much sports content. It was just reruns of the gameshows.
I was born in 1999 so in the early 2000s this channel was such a treat for me to be able to watch legends, guts, figure it out, and double dare. I was so upset when the changed it to the N later on.
Thank you for this!! Was my absolute favorite growing up
I love this video, it brings back so many nostalgic moments tbh.
So hard to find any good videos of Wild n' Crazy Kids too - I miss a bunch of this stuff - thanks for the video - Think a few survive still today on Paramount+ and Pluto TV (Even less than you mentioned not sadly, likely due to Paramount +) but not some of the older gems
Thank you!! Was hoping for a Nick GaS vid!!!
This channel was so much fun when I was a kid and I'm so sad it disappeared. Legends of the Hidden Temple, Guts, Nick Arcade, and Double Dare 2000 were so addicting as a kid to me.
Finding this channel after a night out partying in college in 2005-6 was amazing. We'd easily stay up til about 4AM watching Get the Picture and Nick Arcade. Great video. I only have two words for ya: POWER SURRRRGE!
My grandma loved this channel because she loved the old game shows that Nick did, and always let me watch it.
Amazing video as always, GAS has so much nostalgiafor me was always somthing good on late at night
i remember my grandmother having those premium cable packages so i would be able to watch GaS/Teen Nick/Nicktoons whenever i visited. To this day im still sad about what went down with Speed Racer X. it had so much potential to be best western adaptation of the franchise property, i loved it so much as a kid and i still do
I got to be on an episode of wild and crazy kids back in the early 90s. Guts and Hidden temple was my favorite of the sport/gameshows 🤣🤣
Another great video to remember my childhood while working and cry on the inside well done sir 👏
I remember seeing the advertising for the channel, but Gas wasn't part of the basic Charter cable package my parents subscribed to at the time, so I never got to see it. I remember Figure It Out and the Double Dares from regular Nickelodeon, though.
That animated Nickelodeon bit you put at the start threw me for a nostalgia trip that took me all the way back to literally my earliest memory that I can pinpoint, that being me watching Rocko's Modern Life(my favourite show at the time), specifically the Suck-O-Matic episode. I had to have been no older than 4
THAT WAS LITERALLY TWO DECADES AGO, SIR JORDAN
I remember Nick Gas because it was some kind of family watch night tradition for us, we made bets on Legends of the Hidden Temple
I had a friend back in middle school who was obsessed with watching this channel everyday during the summer of 2003.
What a trip! Double dare 2000 goes hard! Watched that a lot in its short stint! also wonderful video, man!
I didn't watch Nickelodeon growing up (I was a Disney Channel kid), but I loved Nick GaS. I remember one episode of Guts that aired almost daily with a girl named "Peach." Towards the end of the channel's lifespan, it got so repetitive that I quit watching it, which makes me sad.
Man Nick GAS was such a fever dream for me. I used to live at my grandma's house for most of my childhood so I only had cable and I would only be able to experience the satitlle channels of Dish whenever I went to my parents house (which was actually rare at the time). However, once I moved with my parents for good around 2004 or 2005 and moved somewhere else, we got the biggest package of Dish for a limited time. Nick GAS was on there and I would only watch Double Dare 2000 and Legends of the Hidden Temple since I used to watch them all the time in the late 90s/early 2000s lol
The guts game is actually 🔥. I still play it
would love to see the statistics for how many teams actually got the artifact out of the temple on LotHT
Im glad someone made a video about the thing i'd watch at 4am high out of my mind before school. I felt like I was the only one that ever watched this channel and when it was gone I was sad af.
I watched GAS all the time, Finders Keepers and Legends of the Hidden Temple were some of my favorites, though I remember tons of reruns of Figure It Out
Will we ever have a GSN version of this retrospective? More specifically, the 1997-98 period where Sony accidentally failed to renew the Pearson Goodson-Todman contract in time and had to resort to airing some obscure shows from their library…
Great content as usual!
I always liked how Mike O'Malley would call Moira Quirk "Mo" !
I REMEMBER THIS I LOVED NICK GAS
It wasn’t until years later that I realized the shows were reruns, because as a kid I remember always wishing to be on the shows.
Didn't have GaS growing up but I watched most of these shows as they aired new episodes. Nick Arcade, Guts, and Wild and Crazy Kids were my favorite ones. I had such a big smile throughout this whole video, I remember watching Nick Arcade and wanting to try the games featured on the show or watch an episode and then play a SNES game afterwords.
Playing outside I would think about Guts or Wild and Crazy Kids and pretend to be on the show doing challenges. In-between these shows I would watch Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, Nicktoons...and wow, these kinds of videos really hit in the feels thinking about how long ago it all was.
Gone but not forgotten ❤ long live Omec and the Agro-Crag. Rocket power too 😊
Nick GAS was awesome and I really wanted more of that sports content from Nickelodeon, because I was in high school and was into extreme sports like skateboarding and played soccer! I remember there was kids riding a unicycle, kids getting messy with slime, and having water fights! Also Sports Illustrated for Kids was also fun and it still beats lot of the same old SpongeBob reruns on Nickelodeon! The extreme sports and game shows are what made me appreciate Nickelodeon more as a teenager!
I absolutely LOVED Nick GaS! I wasn't able to get cable until 2002, since I had to pay for it myself, and this quickly became my most watched channel! I also loved Figure It Out (and Summer Sanders lol). Seriously, this video sounds like it could have been written by yours truly.
Something that I remember about GAS was that there were no commercials. I think that I started watching in around 2005. There were no commercials, just the bumpers where the commercials would have been. Did the channel ever have commercials?
GaS was my favorite channel to watch growing up. Double Dare, Global GUTS, Legends of the Hidden Temple… so many good shows.
I grew up with basic cable with Nickelodeon and several other mainstream channels. My mom never wanted to pay for digital cable as if it was too expensive at the time. I was never able to watch those exclusive channels like the movie (HBO, Starz, Showtime...etc) and sport channels. It was Nick GaS that I wanted to watch because I lived through the game show era of Nickelodeon as a kid and wanted them back. So anyways, I had cousins who had digital cable. Whenever I came for a visit; family gathering, I would go the TV and turn on Nick GaS. Thoes were the only times I got to watch that channel and relive the classic Nick Game Shows
Watching this channel was legitimately one of the earliest memories I had as a kid. I was born in 2000 so I never got to watch most of these gameshows in their prime but toddler me didn't realize I watching reruns anyway. The memory that sticks out most to me was getting unreasonably angry at the contestants on hidden temple who could never put the monkey statue together which seemed like the simplest assembly in the world.
I remember watching this channel a lot back in the day, namely as a means of getting my Legends of the Hidden Temple fix after it had left the main channel, plus allowing me to see Nick Arcade (Which I quickly figured out was that weird Nick game show I remembered watching with one of my cousins ages prior).
I watched this in a couple sittings, but did i miss where you talked about the GaS Garage? I loved that segment. It helped tie shows together.
Legends Of The Hidden Temple and Nick Arcade were absolute bangers.
For the longest time as a kid/teen I vividly remembered Legends of the Hidden Temple but I could never find it talked about anywhere and no one I knew heard of it. I was convinced it was a fever dream XD
Nick GAS was one of my favorite channels as a kid. I have many memories of waking up at 3am and seeing Finders Keepers or What Would You Do being on. Double Dare 2000 was one of my favorites as well as Legends of The Hidden Temple (go orange iguanas!)
Omg please do a video on The N! It had such a great website with games like Slasher, which was basically a very early and camp site themed Among Us. It was so much fun, I remember playing those games all night during summer breaks.
I'd completely forgotten about Think Fast and Make the Grade! The flipping tiles and people in lockers are all I remembered but with how generic a lot of the trivia shows were, it's understandable!
I ended up watching this channel quite a bit as a kid, although I was already 12-13 when we first got it on our provider. I always preferred the game shows to the sitcoms on Nick at the time (I was a Double Dare/Figure it Out/GUTS/Legends kid) and since I personally didn't remember old school DD (understandably, being born in 92) or GUTS at all, those were really fun to watch! 🧡💚 (I first discovered this in like the mid/late 2000's btw)
I remembered this channel by shows byt not by channel name. I loved watching Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare 2000 and Finders Keepers.
I loved this channel; I would watch it all day as a kid.
Dude! GaS was one of the reasons I would be late for the school bus or too sleepy to even go. I'd be stuck watching Finders Keepers or stay up until 3-4 am to watch Nick Arcade. Cartoons always had my heart, but this channel was something special.
46:19 That sweater is so year 2000. Love it!!!!
I miss my TV show legends of the hidden temple. It made me wish I could do it
Thank you for making this video.
Little Josh Peck's start up role on Nick was on GaS
Let's not forget the YTPs these series spawned; I still love the Nick GaS segments of DaThings' "Price is Rice (and Other Game-Type Shows)" series.
"Jesse Ventura, Yess-e Ventura!"
I loved this network to pieces! Figure It Out, Guts, Get The Picture, Legends, Double Dare 2000, Heroes Of The Game, Global Gas, Trade Tricks, etc.
I loved GAS. It played all the classic game shows, including the older ones I was too young to remember when new like Make the Grade and Think Fast.
I remember liking Nick News with Linda Ellerbee as a kid.
Jordan! Where’s Heroes of the Game? that four square episode is lodged in my head
My twin sister and I can recite the Slaps episode by memory to this very day! Some memories never die and live rent-free in our heads…
You should do a video on the summer camp show called bug juice. And the reboot they did.
I loved all those summer camp shows. So wholesome
I havent even watched the video yet , but I loved this friggin channel! SO MUCH!