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Do I remember Video Power? Sure do !
I videotaped almost all of both seasons back in the early '90s. I used to get up early in the morning before school to videotape Video Power. But I didn't care for the cartoon-half of the show as Japan animation spoiled me rotten at the time. I just wanted the tips and gameplay footage. I was happy when Video Power underwent a change into a game show in the 2nd season. Competing under NES games was a dream for me ( which I eventually attended the Nintendo PowerFest '90 ). My favorite part of Video Power - 2nd Season was when the winner of the show would go on to a game shopping spree. I would be jealous when a person would win the grand prize like a NEO GEO Thoese were the days...

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don't diss. if it wasn't for Video Power and Johnny Arcade, i would have never been able to get the radio out of the radioactive swimming pool in "Maniac Mansion".

this show *may* have jumped with the start of the second season. cant say for sure. i dont want to dis this show. an awesome show. used to wake up in the mornings and watch this before i left for school in 4th grade. what a way to start the day. i got tons of video game tips from this show. even tho they prob got them from the latest issue of gamepro it didnt matter. the first season was the best. johnny arcade in his videogame room giving out tips and talking about video games. then plopping down on the couch to watch the cartoon with the rest of us. the second season as mentioned before by someone else was totally differet from the 1st season. it turned into an audience/gameshow thing which was neat but not as good as the 1st season. but i have to hand it to them. when i kid lost in the plywood maze and didnt make it out in time and started crying, they gave him/her the video games anyway. yet another great show that some tv exec idiot took off the air. this show pretty much summed up the feeling of what it was like to be a kid growing up in the late 80's/early 90's. again an awesome show. whoever says differently just doesnt know or wasnt there to experience it.

I didn't really care for how Johnny Arcade thought he was being funny when he reviewed new video games on the show. What an asshole. The cartoon was okay, though. I liked Terry Klassen as Kwirk, and Michael Donovan as Kuros (who, might I add, looked a lot more like He-Man than a knight in shining armor), and Max Force with his Batman-esque utility belt, even though he was totally different from his character in NARC. Why did they make Bigfoot the monster truck talking and thinking, though? I guess because none of the video game characters knew how to drive.

Video Power ws one of the most underrated shows of all-time. I'd rank it right up there with "All In The Family", "The Simpsons", etc. IT NEVER JUMPED!!!

When I was 6 this used to be my favorite show, and it never really jumped the shark

Video Power jumped when it went from being half cartoon show, half video game hints and strategy show to a game show where kids competed against each other on video games. I don't know why they changed this show. Not that the game show it became was bad; I just liked the original show better. At least the game show left us with one of the funniest T.V. moments ever, "But, I don't even a Game Boy."