A short blog, devised after mindlessly going through Youtube, sifting through childhood memories.
Oh boy, this was a deep memory inside of me. Little did I know it, school kids who played SNES games for points would unknowingly become pioneers of ESPORTS.
A*mazing was a show I'd always tune into at 4pm, right after school. This show was the godsend of children's game shows, compared to what kids of today have to put up with (academics and shit)
A*mazing was an Australian children's television game show that aired between 1993 and 1998 on the Seven Network. It was famous for a relatively large and elaborate maze/obstacle course that was part of the show's studio set.
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Here is a clip from the non-ESPORTS section of the show.
I suppose running around on a massive keyboard spelling words is pretty cool.
Now to the best part, ESPORTS. No comment needed.
In the third round the contestants competed in a video game face off. During the course of the show, two different gaming platforms were used. Originally the Super Nintendo and later the Nintendo 64.
Games played include Tetris, Bubsy, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Super Mario World, Nigel Mansell's World Championship, Plok, 1080° Snowboarding, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Wave Race 64, Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, San Francisco Rush, Multi-Racing Championship, Cruis'n USA, Diddy Kong Racing and the fly-swatting minigame from Mario Paint.
The team with the most points/fastest time win fifty points for their team, while runners-up in this challenge win twenty five points for their team. Should there be a tie (e.g. score the same number of coins in Super Mario Kart or hit the same number of flies in the fly-swatting minigame from Mario Paint), both teams score twenty five points each. Originally 100 points were awarded to the winners and fifty points to the runners-up.
I see your A*Mazing and raise you a Video and Arcade Top 10, a competitive video game show from my childhood. Essentially they put a bunch of kids in a room and had them hardcore game on a recent title, showing the gameplay from each player. Each game had its own metric of progress that the show's host would evaluate at the end: For example if the players were doing Pokemon, the player with the most pokemon at the end would win. Winner got a console and the game, and a bonus prize. There was also mail bag, tips and tricks, etc. Great promotion for the games and great competition for the players.
So you could say E-sports has been on canadian mainstream TV since 1991. For example, here's an episode featuring tips and tricks for starcraft N64:
On January 28 2012 22:06 FractalsOnFire wrote: LOL SHIT NOSTALGIA TRIP!!!
hahaha ah i loved A*mazing back in the day. Great show. I always thought id pwn those noobs at the games, even at the maze at the end.
that reminds me of legends of the hidden temple where the kids were so stupid(well not stupid but confused by the adrenaline rush) that they didn't know what the base of the silver monkey looked like in the shrine of the silver monkey.
Was A*mazing the one with the large domino stacks, and the winner had 60 seconds to grab any game or system they wanted through a maze? That show was amazing (pun totally intended)!
Omg, I remember this show. I also use to want to go on the show just so I can run through the maze. You had the find the keys iirc. There was always one in the car. So much better than Academic
On January 28 2012 22:14 darkscream wrote: I see your A*Mazing and raise you a Video and Arcade Top 10, a competitive video game show from my childhood. Essentially they put a bunch of kids in a room and had them hardcore game on a recent title, showing the gameplay from each player. Each game had its own metric of progress that the show's host would evaluate at the end: For example if the players were doing Pokemon, the player with the most pokemon at the end would win. Winner got a console and the game, and a bonus prize. There was also mail bag, tips and tricks, etc. Great promotion for the games and great competition for the players.
So you could say E-sports has been on canadian mainstream TV since 1991. For example, here's an episode featuring tips and tricks for starcraft N64: http://youtu.be/Y78TtRyRCGE?t=9m20s
hahaha, I watched that show but looking back it was pretty dumb. 10 year olds just kind of doing their own thing with the game with no practice, a winner randomly being declared (you didn't really know what was going on in the games), and then some lame prizes. It was basically one big advertisement for Nintendo.
On January 28 2012 22:14 darkscream wrote: I see your A*Mazing and raise you a Video and Arcade Top 10, a competitive video game show from my childhood. Essentially they put a bunch of kids in a room and had them hardcore game on a recent title, showing the gameplay from each player. Each game had its own metric of progress that the show's host would evaluate at the end: For example if the players were doing Pokemon, the player with the most pokemon at the end would win. Winner got a console and the game, and a bonus prize. There was also mail bag, tips and tricks, etc. Great promotion for the games and great competition for the players.
So you could say E-sports has been on canadian mainstream TV since 1991. For example, here's an episode featuring tips and tricks for starcraft N64: http://youtu.be/Y78TtRyRCGE?t=9m20s
Yes, I remember this show. The host always tried his best to be enthusiastic, but the show looked really cheap and bland. Honest programming though, I loved it!
Seems pretty underwhelming in retrospect heh. But when I was a kid I'll be damned if I wasn't gonna Indiana Jones my way through there.
Very good show as well, I liked this one a lot more. There was one where they "put" you in a video-game (it was a green screen essentially), but it felt similar to this. It was equally video-game awesome! I forget the name, ran at a similar time as this on Nick.
On January 28 2012 22:14 darkscream wrote: I see your A*Mazing and raise you a Video and Arcade Top 10, a competitive video game show from my childhood. Essentially they put a bunch of kids in a room and had them hardcore game on a recent title, showing the gameplay from each player. Each game had its own metric of progress that the show's host would evaluate at the end: For example if the players were doing Pokemon, the player with the most pokemon at the end would win. Winner got a console and the game, and a bonus prize. There was also mail bag, tips and tricks, etc. Great promotion for the games and great competition for the players.
So you could say E-sports has been on canadian mainstream TV since 1991. For example, here's an episode featuring tips and tricks for starcraft N64: http://youtu.be/Y78TtRyRCGE?t=9m20s
Hell yeah i loved that show
Also, in the link provided they played smash brothers on tv in a competitive setting :O
On January 28 2012 22:14 darkscream wrote: I see your A*Mazing and raise you a Video and Arcade Top 10, a competitive video game show from my childhood. Essentially they put a bunch of kids in a room and had them hardcore game on a recent title, showing the gameplay from each player. Each game had its own metric of progress that the show's host would evaluate at the end: For example if the players were doing Pokemon, the player with the most pokemon at the end would win. Winner got a console and the game, and a bonus prize. There was also mail bag, tips and tricks, etc. Great promotion for the games and great competition for the players.
So you could say E-sports has been on canadian mainstream TV since 1991. For example, here's an episode featuring tips and tricks for starcraft N64: http://youtu.be/Y78TtRyRCGE?t=9m20s
holy nostalgia batman, i totally forgot about that show.
EPT
