Nickelodeon Game Shows of the Past

The Game Shows We Loved Watching as a Kid Are No More

I was watching television with my youngest brother the other night and stumbled upon some old re-runs of Nickelodeon game shows. I was reminded of the times growing up, how much my family friends and myself enjoyed these shows, then I was disappointed when coming to the realization that there is nothing like these great game shows on the air anymore. From the mid 1980's to the mid 1990's Nickelodeon was host to the following great game shows involving children as the main contestants.

Finders Keepers - This was a fun show involving teams of two kids, a boy and girl. In the first two rounds the teams would look at a huge picture on a wall and be asked to find a specific object in this picture. The team that did so was rewarded by being given points. The team with the most points at the end of the second round was allowed to search a variety of rooms designed for the show in search of specific objects. Places like Buck Rogers Bathroom, and a Cave Man's living room were common places for these events to take place.

Get the Picture - Teams of two would work together to solve video based puzzles in order to complete a huge connect the dot game. If at anytime during a game the connect the dot picture was guessed then that team would win the round. Also during game play, puzzles such as a scrambled picture, or a frame by frame recap of an object would be shown to contestants. If players guessed the image then they were awarded points to advance to the games final round. Only one team would make it here and they were shown a grid divided into 9 numbered squares. In each of these squares was an object the team would have to memorized, once they saw the pictures the squares were covered up and clues about the objects would be read aloued. Players would then try to match the clues to the specific objects they pertained to, a more complex version of memory.