I LOVED American Gladiators as a kid. Any competition where the rules are "try to hit a target with a nerf rocket launcher while a guy called Thunder shoots tennis balls at you" is quality television, I don't care what anyone says.
Me, An Old: "oh neat, American Gladiators! I watched that as a kid" Dan: *begins to give a history lesson, because plenty of Lovelies were born way after* Me: Oh yeah... *turns to dust*
This was my jam when I was a kid! BTW, the stick that comes out of nowhere in Joust is a power up. If you get it, you take out the next guy with one hit.
In Sweden "The gladiators" where big during the early 2000's, based on this show but recorded in Sweden. Got a rebirth in 2012 and lasted again until 2017. In that show ya had gladiators named stuff like Elektra, Atlas and Plexus, with randoms going up to battle them in courses.
It was massive in the UK during the 90s. The fan favourite was always "Wolf" who became a minor celebrity for a while - he was brilliant. I think it had attempts at reboots but it will always be a big nostalgia thing.
I wonder why this show was so good growing up and the reboot failed so hard (at least in the US). I remember as a kid watching this and thinking the gladiators= super heroes
Whoa, the music in this game is dynamic! Notice how the song changes when someone shows up in Wall. And the sound effect for them falling works really well with the song. Very impressive for an NES game
Man, my two friends were obsessed with this and marble madness a few years ago. I never thought I'd have such a nostalgia of watching people play this.
Marble Madness was always a great game. The Crazy Maze was like my school's metric for "badass." If you could beat gravity and backwards controls, you were king of recess.
Can I just say that Danny's description of American Gladiators is on point? My husband and are were both early 80's children and grew up across the country from each other and we both laughed cuz as much of nerds we were who hated popular kids and jocks, and sporty kind of stuff, we both totally watched American Gladiators. Everybody did. We were definitely captivated.
Watching it now, the interviews are the strangest part of a very strange show. They are like weirdly very sweet, like "My kids are watching in the audience, if I win we are gonna take them to disney land." Today they would hype it all up like "My life's dream is to win at everything and beat a dude to death with a giant q-tip"
I loved American -Gladiators as a kid. I even remember watching an episode of Family Matters where Carl and Steve went on AG to settle a dispute. Good times.
I still own this game. It's so brutal, especially the wall climb. If your hand touches a black spot you fall as soon as you press another button so you have to be super deliberate. Now if they would just play Conquest of the Crystal Palace I'd be thrilled
I'm immediately having Nickelodeon Guts flashbacks with Jon.... "Oh, you have to push a button to drop it" "Oh, THANKS." "Hey I had to figure it out too" The Arin/Dan dynamic.
That's silly, everyone knows it was based on the actual gladiatorial events of Ancient America in which participants would try to best one another in deadly battles within the confines of the Costco-sseum
"Program and Design by Incredible Technologies" The same Incredible Technologies that created the modern masterpiece known as *_Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game!?_* Neat. I learned something today!
I adored this game as a kid! The 6 year old me was able to get to the third level wall. It gets freaking hard with skinny portions to navigate with precision. If they could catch the upgrade in joust that would help a lot.
Dan realizing his costume and catchphrases were inspired by this show. Me who thought that was part of the joke of the comedy band. There is alot of surprises for everybody in this episode.
I never think about gladiators(uk version) these days, but this just brought to mind how much that show affected me as a 6-7 year old kid. My very first time experiencing an interest in music was from the gladiators mix tape. It had artists like Meatloaf, Bonnie Tyler, Green Jelly, Rainbow, Boston, Toto, Bachman Turner Overdrive and a few others I forget. I loved it and listened to it so much the cassette broke. I was so upset I remember crying myself to sleep that night, then coming home from school the next day to see that my dad had repaired it 😄... Also my first crush was Jet 😍 Edit- I actually found a track list. The artists I forgot: Ugly Kid Joe, Europe, Survivor, Free, Snap, Edwin Starr, The Troggs, Warren's World(Queen Medley). I am 100% recreating this compilation as a playlist on Spotify right now. It actually rocks 🤘
6:42 "If it gets in your eyes, it'll bUrN!!!!" Now some who've noticed Arin's kinda phlegmy voice, I don't think that you should be grossed out. I for one think they could use this to their advantage sometimes for like, sticky goblin voices or something. I love it, I'm just imagining the humorous opportunities here
I am genuinely surprised that "I'm the Ayatollah of Smackola" never caught on the way "All your base are belong to us" or "Here is a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you" did.
If emulators are the way to go, i hope the boys start stepping out side their comfort zones and explore other consoles like Sega, PSP, NeoGeo. Its a safe bet Arin has access to all those things.
I loved the show back when I was a kid, it was so much fun to watch. The reboot just wasn't as good because of how many changes they made to the competition I think. I really loved Powerball the most of the games on the show, it looked like so much fun to do. Running from the basket to try and drop the balls in each goal while the Gladiators stand in the middle bashing you with foam shields to make you drop it or stop you from scoring, all while your opponent does the same on the opposite end. Those guys were no joke to go against.
25:30 I want a compilation of Dan saying "WOO" while doing extremely fatal things in Video Games. Somehow I just am sure that this is not an isolated incident
My mum did the storyboards for this game, and actually spoke to Samuel Goldwyn about the graphics! She worked for Imagitech and designed the screenshots sold to game tech. My godfather and some others who did graphics were officially credited, but she wasn't, as storyboarding wasn't as popular in game design at time.
Dan was lucky American Gladiators was on in the morning. In St. Louis, it was on after midnight. Luckily, my dad would wake me up so we could watch it.
I can never forget, season 1 of American Gladiators. If you were a contestant on that show, you hoped and prayed that you were going up against Malibu or Sunny.
I really miss staying up all night watching American Gladiator and Iron Chef clips with my bestie. Stu if you ever come across this of course I miss living 20 min apart but I am so damn proud of everything you're doing!!!
Lol, one of them was my brothers neighbor. We watched that lady carry that fridge up a flight of stairs on her back. No, i wasnt about to interrupt her to help.
Old person here. The gladiators themselves usually had pro-wrestling style gimmicks/personalities too so, to the young Lovelies, look up "American Gladiators Malibu injury" and listen to that guy talk, it'll be the first video. We used to think that was cool.
In "Assault," there were two ways to win. Hit the target on their turret, or make it past the finish. The badass finishers took the win with the nerf bazooka at the beginning, or with the last weapon: straight up throwing a nerf ball at the target. Larry Czonka thanks you.
Might be good to invest in some usb versions of controllers that Dan is more familiar with, seems like he always mixes up the buttons due to old muscle memory xD