I'm the "lady" contestant in the video. He kept calling me lady, which was sweet because I was obviously outnumbered by boys. Maybe they didn't get girls much. My best (girl) friend was on another episode and got second place.
@@damin9913 I was born and raised in Astoria Queens (New York City) where Kaufman Astoria Studios is located. It was literally five walking blocks away from me. They filmed many shows there including The Cosby Show, All in the Family, and Sesame Street. We had heard about auditions for Video Power and begged our parents to sign us up. It's a looong time ago, but I remember they us play a video game to see if we had basics skills and asked us a few questions like "do you watch the show/why do you want to be on this show/what's your favorite video game."
wtf johnny arcade is off the wall even the contestants are looking at him like he is crazy....I bet the producers were telling him "cmon on johnny we need MORE energy or we are going to get stevie nintendo in to replace you"
I didn't know what coke was back then, but I sure thought he was unusually high-energy! I was already nervous being on TV and Johny Arcade made me all the more jittery. Then again, we were crushing on him, which was maybe 10% reason for auditioning, the other 90% was our love of video games.
Oh my god, it's her!!! ...er... that is to say, it's you... I mean, you're her!!! That's awesome!!! I feel like I just met a celebrity! I mean, I never really aspired to be on any of the kid's game show's of our collective youth (hey, I was an introverted kid who thought the premise of going away to space camp, [which I always envisioned as being akin to military boot camp for some reason... like they would be preparing you to be a future astronaut or something of that ilk] for a week seemed utterly terrifying, but I digress...) but Video Power was one show that I genuinely would have loved to be on. I mean, the NEO GEO console was that system the one really rich kid that went to your school had, but this show gave kids a very real opportunity in which to procure one! I also always preferred this show to it's other video game gameshow brethren as it seemed like the contestants genuinely knew something about video games, as opposed to Nick Arcade, which seemed like the kids just showed up at Universal Studios Florida and their parents were like "hey, you wanna be on a game show?" Seriously though, mad props to you in particular, as it seemed like young lady gamers were especially few and far between back then! Anyway, very cool that you actually found the episode you were in and commented on it.
@@c.bretmiller6148 OMG haha! You are making my DAY! I check these comments every once in a while for nostalgia and I get a kick out people knowing it's me. Yes, I am so glad I found it because this memory was mostly lost to me. They gave me a VHS or maybe we taped it when it aired but where is it? I wonder who is behind this RU-vid account anyway. Why did they gather these videos and post them?
@@tarapurswani8359 Tara we watch these shows cause we miss those days where everything was magical back in the 80s and 90s do you see the messed up generation we are in now we hate it so much cause all that fun stuff we had back then are tookin away from us or replaced with modern crap we never ask for and they still giving us crap we don't want everything in this time is so dead not fun anymore
More like 1989/90. But I'm not sure. If it was 1992, I'd be 12 years old. I definitely don't look 12 there. My best friend was on the show in a different episode. I gotta ask her lol
I think the coolest thing about that show was they showed it was still cool to play older games. Like 1-2 years behind. Today, if the games is 6 month people just shit on it. I don't understand why they played 2 player battletoas. To assure victory you do a duel to the death. How cool is winning a neogeo. Heavy shredding socks so much it impossible.
I think Johnny Arcade is just Rami Malek on Meth. I used to watch this show at my friend Eric's house before scuttling off to catch the bus to school every morning. We used to fantasize about what it would be like to be on this show with the ability to grab all those games for free. I think it's cool that Tara is here in these comments to tell us what it was really like. I really did not remember Johnny Arcade being so coked out and it's shocking to see a gameshow host be such a spazz. It gets so bad that you can see Nick at one point look like he's ready to walk off. Johnny Arcade is Stivi Paskoski.
I just asked my best friend Lora, and she was in two episodes: Ninja Gaiden 2 (won) and Ninja Gaiden 3 (lost). I was cheering her on in the audience. Wish i could find those recordings. Please let me know if you see them.
lmao you were so cute! 😂 It's so cool to see that a person of that time is around and ok. I watch videos from that era and often wonder "I wonder how that person turned out in life". And I finally can see that question answered once. I probably saw you on TV when I'd watch this in the mornings before school. I missed the bus so many times.
Hi. I have been looking everywhere for episodes of the second season of Video Power. I'm trying to work on a petition to bring back the Season 2 series on TV, as well as on DVD, so, i'm just wondering if you have any full episodes, or if you can send me, via email, some full second season Video Power episodes?? Any info would be much appreciated. If you know anyone who has the season 2 shows in their archives, then that'll be helpful! Have a great day! Thanks!! :)
@@tarapurswani8359 Oh wow, that's you in the clip? That would have been so much fun to be on the show! Also I realise that Battletoads came out in 1991 so I'm gonna guess '91. Yeah, I turned 36 this year, haha, time really does fly!
@@tarapurswani8359 Yeah, I did a quick little Google search and the other game mentioned as well was also from 1991 (Double Dragon II on the Gameboy). I was 5 in '91, but I didn't get a NES til '94, otherwise I would have remembered the release dates of the games, haha. In Australia in the mid-90s we got a similar show called A*mazing, and I always wanted to go on that show and win all the awesome prizes, lol.
