So, i remember getting Mega Man 3 and my father loved the game...but he was sooooo bad at it. I was just little so i was equally as bad. One day this show came on to give Mega Man 3 passwords and I remember my dad blitzing around the house trying to find a pen and paper. He missed them all because the host talked so fast and he was PISSED. To this day i pick on him about not being prepared and how our Mega Man 3 experience could have been forever altered if he could just had been prepared. Neither of us could remember the name of the show...and after all these years of searching...i found it. I CAN NOT WAIT TO SHOW HIM. Thank you so much for sharing this.
This show hit at just the right tie in my childhood. I had just turned 13 when I discovered this on early morning TV before school. I used to dream of how killer it would be to run through and collect a shiteload of games.
Man- I used to watch this in the morning while getting ready for elementary school. They'd play this, then later on in elementary school the Conan cartoon, or James Bond Jr. Then eventually the power rangers. But I remember that I used to watch this and dream of doing one of those little sprees where you can keep whatever you can take.
Thank you so much for uploading this and helping preserve this piece of our childhoods. Without people like you shows like this would be lost forever. It's truly a portal to the times and our thoughts as kids during these times.
7:19 - the kid asks a Castlevania 3 question, and the answer is Sypha Belnades. Imagine walking through the screen back in time and telling all those kids... "When you grow up, you will be able to pay $13 a month to watch whatever movie or tv shows you want whenever you feel like it.. There will be a cartoon show with 3 seasons about Castlevania 3."
I mean...it's the character. It's possible to sound enthusiastic without drugs. Not saying he was sober, I have no idea, but I don't think this proves anything.
Man, this brings back so many memories. I'd literally almost miss my school bus just to catch all the tips and codes given so that when I got home, I could apply and finally beat that game which gave me so many headaches 🤣
Bruce as mega man's evil brother. Definitely supposed to be Blues. But because japanese dont do L's and R's like we do, there were several of these errors I've noticed in translation. Another being Dr light being called Dr Right.
What's worse? Vanilla Ice's Ninja Rap, or the intro rap to this show?! Either way, both are far superior to any teeny bopper bullshit released over the last 12 years!!!!
I know alot of ppl joke about the coke thing(myself included) but i think the show was just ahead of its time an just had alot of natural high energy lol.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Awww man thats what i was hoping that was kinda genuine,the johnny on the spot thing. I would have slayed that dude lol. I was like you dude at the time a hardcore gamer an i would have crushed that dude on a question hahaha sucks you couldnt come up with your own tho lol
Yeah and games for $200 a pop in early 90s dollars; about double that in today's dollars. One of my fellow contestants (we got to hang out a lot in between recordings) mentioned he had a Neo Geo. And a classmate at the time (8th grade) told me his cousin owned one. Those are the only other "back in the day" Neo Geo owners I've heard of.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Those kids must have been in rich families then lol. The other thing is kids didn't like anything not named Nintendo, Sega, or even the cult fave TurboGrafx -16, and Neo Geo was an unknown entity in the gaming world.
Season 1 (1990-91) was more akin to such cartoon shows as Mister T (1983-85) and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show (1989). That's why I like this second and final season better, as it's more reminiscent of Starcade (1982-84).
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent That'd be great if you could. Those episodes are next to impossible to find. Some exist here on youtube, but your old VHS tapes could be holding the lost episodes missing from the archives. Was always a dream of mine as a 4 year old to run that maze. I can only resort to nostalgia and the rare chances I find old episodes here online that still exist. There's no level of jealously I can express that you got to run it yourself. It must've been a blast!
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent That explains it, even as a kid there was no way I was up that early! I may be wrong, but I imagine your parents not getting you many games for that Neo Geo at over $100 a pop!
@@AllboroLCD yeah my dad was good to me end got me three games plus I had the included game, Nam 1975. One he got for about half price used. There was a fairly local store that had Neo Geo games for rent, so I got to try several that way. 😊
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent The 90's really was the last great decade to be a kid! I hope you get your Neo-Geo fixed, in 10-20 years from now its gonna demand quite the premium price! Especially that you have VIDEO documentation of your receiving the item!
@@AllboroLCD I still play my Sega Genesis I still feel that enjoyment when it was first released and waiting for resident evil to be released on genesis
I wasn’t the smartest - I just got lucky that it was the secret prize, and kids in the audience yelled instructions to me on where to find Pat Riley’s Basketball. 😅 I do still have the Neo Geo, but the video output is garbled. Some nice folks on the AtariAge forums have been offering suggestions on how to fix. So stay tuned...
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent I dont think you give yourself enough credit! heh You might be the only one that won the Neo Geo! Not sure, but you killed it! Smart enough to keep it too thats for sure! Good luck with fixing it! They are just awesome. I rented one when I was a kid and have always enjoyed playing them.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent No worries! Just call em like I see em! I think you will get it going again. If not or you have questions I know the fellas over at @GameSack would know what to do or send you in the direction of someone trustworthy!
I know I'm a year late, but Protoman is known as Blues in Japan, and the theory is that the show was given the Japanese localized name, but with the L/R problem. Blues -> Brues -> Bruce
.....Wat?? Bruce....is Mega Man's evil brother... _Bruce_ ...? I have no idea what alternate dimention this show came from, but I am at the Maximum state of glad that it is apparenty located the Maximum distance from here(read:Reality).
On TV: She won the golden football safe and the super bowl 55 package and a home viewer Jasmin just won $25,000! And on the internet: another episode of Video Power is in the books And another this week championship for somebody else grabs it. Well that was a great show so Let's play it again next week so until then good night and happy shopping! AND DON'T GET ZAPPED!
Mega Man’s brother, Proto Man, is known as Blues in Japan. So all I can think of is maybe the Video Power writers read some translation that got “Engrished” and so they referred to him as Bruce.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent if I remember the correctly you’re supposed to paint objects that are already purple . So I think he worded it incorrectly making his answer wrong
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Consider him stumped then. Objects in the first level are purple and you have to turn them red or move them (shutters to the nursing home, bird on Jebediah Springfield's shoulder, etc). So in other words, he screwed up. I recall one episode where one kid lost, he got him some game on Game Boy, and the kid was like, "I don't even have a Game Boy..." and he was just in a hurry to get him off the set.
I remember watching this during school times made me miss my bus ride every time this was on🤣
So, i remember getting Mega Man 3 and my father loved the game...but he was sooooo bad at it. I was just little so i was equally as bad.
One day this show came on to give Mega Man 3 passwords and I remember my dad blitzing around the house trying to find a pen and paper. He missed them all because the host talked so fast and he was PISSED. To this day i pick on him about not being prepared and how our Mega Man 3 experience could have been forever altered if he could just had been prepared. Neither of us could remember the name of the show...and after all these years of searching...i found it. I CAN NOT WAIT TO SHOW HIM. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Hah that’s a great story! Maybe he should give Mega Man 3 another try soon!
I mean, it’s even hard to use a password generator you can do whatever u want
That Neo Geo was a helluva prize. That thing was like 800$ back when it was released. I didn't know one person who owned one.
Yeah and the games were quite pricy too, which is why I only have four of them to this day. (The console came with one.)
$800 in 1991 dollars no less.
I paid $600 for mine back then. Mine even had the blood mod from Japan.
@@SnarkyRC That's pretty damn awesome 😎👍
This show hit at just the right tie in my childhood. I had just turned 13 when I discovered this on early morning TV before school. I used to dream of how killer it would be to run through and collect a shiteload of games.
yep me too was 13 i remember see a 4pm
I def remember watching Bucky O'hare every morning before school! Who woulda thought it become one of the most coveted NES cartidges!
Man- I used to watch this in the morning while getting ready for elementary school. They'd play this, then later on in elementary school the Conan cartoon, or James Bond Jr. Then eventually the power rangers.
But I remember that I used to watch this and dream of doing one of those little sprees where you can keep whatever you can take.
I was the big 13 year old kid on multiple episodes. I am trying to bring it back! Bigger, Badder, and just plain awesome!
Thank you so much for uploading this and helping preserve this piece of our childhoods. Without people like you shows like this would be lost forever. It's truly a portal to the times and our thoughts as kids during these times.
Johnny got that last answer wrong regarding Bart v The Space Mutants.....you don't paint things purple, you paint/cover up the purple objects.
This used to come on PHL17 in Philly back in the day! I used to watch it in the morning before school!
7:19 - the kid asks a Castlevania 3 question, and the answer is Sypha Belnades.
Imagine walking through the screen back in time and telling all those kids... "When you grow up, you will be able to pay $13 a month to watch whatever movie or tv shows you want whenever you feel like it.. There will be a cartoon show with 3 seasons about Castlevania 3."
The original female Vampire Hunter.
4:29 HOW DID THIS AIR?? Our boy is out of his mind
ah the early 90s. Back when video games were awesome, Kurt Cobain was alive and I didn't have to pay rent. Lol
Dude I know that's right! Long live my life without rent
Sweet times
My gawd, dude was flying. Cocaine is a helluva drug.
No question about it. Lots of hosts in the 80s and 90s substituted drug-induced energy for talent.
I mean...it's the character. It's possible to sound enthusiastic without drugs. Not saying he was sober, I have no idea, but I don't think this proves anything.
Yeahhhhhyy wooorrrdddd! I remember this coming on before school 🥰
Man, this brings back so many memories. I'd literally almost miss my school bus just to catch all the tips and codes given so that when I got home, I could apply and finally beat that game which gave me so many headaches 🤣
I know right I miss all my school bus when this came on but didn't care because I could walk to school
I love that tv show
I saw it when i was 5 years old nostalgia😢
I miss games show's like this so nostalgic TV in General is so different today. I still play classic games today
About a year ago I started doing a weekly stream as an excuse to play classic games. 😊
I still play my Sega Genesis I can't get in to these new consoles they bore me
Bruce as mega man's evil brother. Definitely supposed to be Blues. But because japanese dont do L's and R's like we do, there were several of these errors I've noticed in translation. Another being Dr light being called Dr Right.
What's worse? Vanilla Ice's Ninja Rap, or the intro rap to this show?! Either way, both are far superior to any teeny bopper bullshit released over the last 12 years!!!!
My knee smells funny 😶😏😒... it all makes sense 🤣🤣🤣... this dude is baked 😂😂😂
“My knee smells funny!” Sounds like it could be a Ralph Wiggum quote...
It looked like he was snorting lines off his knee, lol
Hell ya Champ good shit!
Megamans brother is Bruce? It's Blues.. in Japan. Otherwise Protoman... I guess he was joking?
I remember being puzzled by that comment even back then, lol
I love how when talking about Tecmo Bowl they had to avoid talking about specific players because even then it was NFLPA-licensed.
Host is coked out of his mind. Lol
These children were so uncomfortable around Johnny Arcade.
That's cos he on that nose candy
I like the theme song in this season (1991-92) of Video Power.
I know alot of ppl joke about the coke thing(myself included) but i think the show was just ahead of its time an just had alot of natural high energy lol.
I get winded just watching that dude.
never see that coming
BRUCE!
For game gear hope ya got one🤣
Cocaine is one hell of a drug...
Mark you look so terrified in this episode lol. God i would have killed to try an stump ole johnny
They gave us pre-written questions to memorize and recite, and the "stump" thing was all an act.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Awww man thats what i was hoping that was kinda genuine,the johnny on the spot thing. I would have slayed that dude lol. I was like you dude at the time a hardcore gamer an i would have crushed that dude on a question hahaha sucks you couldnt come up with your own tho lol
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent what!??? You was there? I would kill to be in videopower and meet Johnny 😰
@@L4Z3RB0Y hah, yes I am the Mark in this video.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent you lucky to be on that show those times was all about video games in the 90s
I knew absolutely nobody who owned a Neo Geo system back in the early 90's. They were the price of a PC in those days.
Yeah and games for $200 a pop in early 90s dollars; about double that in today's dollars. One of my fellow contestants (we got to hang out a lot in between recordings) mentioned he had a Neo Geo. And a classmate at the time (8th grade) told me his cousin owned one. Those are the only other "back in the day" Neo Geo owners I've heard of.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Those kids must have been in rich families then lol. The other thing is kids didn't like anything not named Nintendo, Sega, or even the cult fave TurboGrafx -16, and Neo Geo was an unknown entity in the gaming world.
Dude, was this show filmed on the set of Double Dare?!?!?!!?
Holy cow, I bet you got a contact high from him breathing on you.
Season 1 (1990-91) was more akin to such cartoon shows as Mister T (1983-85) and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show (1989). That's why I like this second and final season better, as it's more reminiscent of Starcade (1982-84).
Wow... It's like this guy chased a cup of coffee with a couple lines of coke.
do you have more episodes from video power?
I dug up two old VHS tapes. I'll try to transfer and upload a few sometime.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent thank you so much! :)
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent That'd be great if you could. Those episodes are next to impossible to find. Some exist here on youtube, but your old VHS tapes could be holding the lost episodes missing from the archives. Was always a dream of mine as a 4 year old to run that maze. I can only resort to nostalgia and the rare chances I find old episodes here online that still exist. There's no level of jealously I can express that you got to run it yourself. It must've been a blast!
WHAT A WAY TO WRAP UP THE MEGA MAN WEEK SO WILL SEE YOU BACK HERE AT 11:30 AM SO HAVE A GREAT SATURDAY.
What channel was this on? Obviously filmed in NYC, was it on a UHF station?
In the NY Metro area it was on Channel 9, WOR. It aired at either 6:00 or 6:30 (I forget which) in the morning on weekdays.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent That explains it, even as a kid there was no way I was up that early! I may be wrong, but I imagine your parents not getting you many games for that Neo Geo at over $100 a pop!
@@AllboroLCD yeah my dad was good to me end got me three games plus I had the included game, Nam 1975. One he got for about half price used. There was a fairly local store that had Neo Geo games for rent, so I got to try several that way. 😊
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent The 90's really was the last great decade to be a kid! I hope you get your Neo-Geo fixed, in 10-20 years from now its gonna demand quite the premium price! Especially that you have VIDEO documentation of your receiving the item!
@@AllboroLCD I still play my Sega Genesis I still feel that enjoyment when it was first released and waiting for resident evil to be released on genesis
So he's got cocaine jeans?
Tell me you still have the Neo Geo! hehe You were definitely the smartest kid on the show going for the console!
I wasn’t the smartest - I just got lucky that it was the secret prize, and kids in the audience yelled instructions to me on where to find Pat Riley’s Basketball. 😅
I do still have the Neo Geo, but the video output is garbled. Some nice folks on the AtariAge forums have been offering suggestions on how to fix. So stay tuned...
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent I dont think you give yourself enough credit! heh You might be the only one that won the Neo Geo! Not sure, but you killed it! Smart enough to keep it too thats for sure! Good luck with fixing it! They are just awesome. I rented one when I was a kid and have always enjoyed playing them.
@@WthaHatchet hah well thanks for the kind words! Hopefully I’ll be smart enough to fix the Neo Geo...
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent No worries! Just call em like I see em! I think you will get it going again. If not or you have questions I know the fellas over at @GameSack would know what to do or send you in the direction of someone trustworthy!
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Just curious but did they give you any games with it or did your parents have to take out a second mortgage to get some?
I told my childhood friend Arcade is Jim Carrey's younger cousin. He actually believed it lmao
Megaman's bro's name is Bruce???
I know I'm a year late, but Protoman is known as Blues in Japan, and the theory is that the show was given the Japanese localized name, but with the L/R problem. Blues -> Brues -> Bruce
That booger sugar was different back then 😅
.....Wat??
Bruce....is Mega Man's evil brother... _Bruce_ ...?
I have no idea what alternate dimention this show came from, but I am at the Maximum state of glad that it is apparenty located the Maximum distance from here(read:Reality).
He's known as Blues in Japan, and the theory is that the show was given the Japanese localized name, but with the L/R problem. Blues -> Brues -> Bruce
Johnny Arcade: the 1st gaming youtuber 🎮
Hell no. I'm glad TH-cam didn't exist back then.
who tf is Bruce??
Protoman in Japan is named Blues. The translation to English got effed up and protoman became Bruce.
GREAT CHAMPIONSHIP EPISODE COME BACK AT 3:30 AM HAVE A GREAT DAY.
On TV: She won the golden football safe and the super bowl 55 package and a home viewer Jasmin just won $25,000! And on the internet: another episode of Video Power is in the books And another this week championship for somebody else grabs it. Well that was a great show so Let's play it again next week so until then good night and happy shopping! AND DON'T GET ZAPPED!
Mega Man's brother is.....Bruce.....? What?
Mega Man’s brother, Proto Man, is known as Blues in Japan. So all I can think of is maybe the Video Power writers read some translation that got “Engrished” and so they referred to him as Bruce.
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent This is now canon. lol
Paint things purple ? Did he just get that wrong ?
Was it wrong that you have to paint things purple? I've never played Bart vs. the Space Mutants...
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent if I remember the correctly you’re supposed to paint objects that are already purple . So I think he worded it incorrectly making his answer wrong
@@MarkWandRobBobPresent Consider him stumped then. Objects in the first level are purple and you have to turn them red or move them (shutters to the nursing home, bird on Jebediah Springfield's shoulder, etc). So in other words, he screwed up. I recall one episode where one kid lost, he got him some game on Game Boy, and the kid was like, "I don't even have a Game Boy..." and he was just in a hurry to get him off the set.
@@Sybertek he was only stumped when the script said he was stumped! 😂
1:22 Trump!!!
Who would watch this today on Nickelodeon? Revamped and updated with today's games?
Nope. Today's games are trash.