The folks over at Great Big Story have provided a treat for all those nostalgic fans of Nickelodeon. Legends Of The Hidden Temple was one of many competitive games on the network that managed to create an interesting environment that just didn’t happen on other networks. You don’t see a lot of adults running through evil temples and traversing fake creeks on rafts when you’re watching Family Feud. It’d be fun to see one family pummel the other, but it won’t happen.
It joins mainstays like Nick Arcade and Double Dare as some of the network’s golden offerings — possibly led by the classic Nickelodeon Guts — but now Great Big Story have dug up former host Kirk Fogg to pump him for information on how the show worked.
The revelations range from the obvious — Olmec just being a guy with a script and a handle to move the mouth — to the downright shady — the show only having approval to give out eight championships a year really kept the chances of winning down. There’s also the joy in finding out that the temple guards took a lot pleasure in scaring the bejeezus out of the kids on the show, including the writers that sometimes subbed in as the spooky guards.
No surprise that the monkey was one of the most memorable and infuriating aspects of the show. There was likely no shortage of kids who would yell at their televisions in order to will the kids to put the damn silver idol together more quickly than their brains were allowing. And worse yet, it always usually ended in disaster. Not “vomit in the pit of despair” disaster, but pretty bad.
(Via Great Big Story)
