Fun House
College Mad House
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
Classic Concentration
Nick Arcade
Finders Keepers
Double Dare (every single version, even 2000)
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Legends of the Hidden Temple
GUTS
Get The Picture
Think Fast
Video Power
Make the Grade
I'm Telling
Pictionary (kids version)
I'll share some fun facts about the kids game shows:
-Despite the premise of Double Dare, the host, Marc Summers, has OCD. He'd clean up his room a lot when he was younger. He also wrote a book about it, which is entitled Everything In It's Place: My Trials and Trimuphs with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
-Larry Toffler, the second host of Finders Keepers, was a contestant on a game show called Debt, and then Greed.
-I once met a guy who was wearing a Finders Keepers t-shirt. He got it since he's one of the people who helped build the Finders Keepers house. I wanted to ask him more questions about it, but I didn't want to be bugging him.
-Maria Milito, the announcer for Make The Grade, is now a DJ at WAXQ (104.3-FM) here in New York. It's a classic rock station. Here's a link so you can see her profile from the station's web site. It doesn't say much about her, but her face is reasonable to look at though:
http://www.q1043.com/pages/onair/mariamilito.html
-Lew Schnider was MTG's first host, and was also a comedian. However, I thought he could have been more lively when he tried to crack jokes in his days hosting the show. He also writes for "Everybody Loves Raymond".
-Greg Lee, the host of Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego?, used to work for Double Dare and was responsible for audience warm-up. Marc Summers also appeared with Greg Lee in the fifth season premiere of WITWICS. He was also in a few episodes from the second season of Ghostwriter, provided the voices for the Mayor and Principal Bob White in the cartoon Doug, and appeared in a Nestle Flipz commercial.
-A friend of my family's attended college with Rockapella's Sean Altman, from WITWICS. I also knew three contestants from the show's first season. Two from grade school, and one from an afterschool center I used to go to from third to fifth grade. I also knew another kid from the afterschool center who was a contestant on Super Sloppy Double Dare.
-Mike O'Malley, who hosted both Get The Picture and Guts, is on CBS's "Yes, Dear". He also voiced Darryl on the cartoon "Baby Blues".
-In case some of you remember the short-lived kids game show, Treasure Mall, Hal Sparks used to host it. He was also on Queer As Folk.
-Brian Robbins, the host of Pictionary, also played Eric Mardian on Head of the Class. He was also the producer of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, Black Sash, and Nickelodeon shows like Kenan & Kel, All That, The Amanda Show, and The Nick Cannon Show.
