I really miss shows like Double Dare, Guts and Legends of the Hidden Temple

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I also loved Wild & Crazy Kids and Maximum Drive. Those kids were so lucky.

In the 2000’s there was a cable channel called Nick GAS(games and sports) that played these shows around the clock. As a college student at the time, it was the only thing I watched outside of sports.

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I lived for the final run on every episode of Legend of the Hidden Temple. It gave me such a sense of awe and wonder and excitement. The layout and design, the costumes, the mechanics, the suspense. I loved every second of it. Wild and Crazy Kids was just pure delight and a bit of envy. Never cared for What would you do. Guts was cool, but it gave me a sense of inferiority because there was no freaking way I could do that I thought. Going back a bit earlier, there was that game show centered around video games that had the side scroller real life dungeon at the end. That just confused me. I was lucky once when I went to Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando back in 1993/94. After touring the Clarissa Explains it All set, a bunch of groups got together in a dark studio and got to participate in a gaming event. Two audience members were selected to compete. I was selected. I was 6 at the time and had very little time on an NES or Sega at that point. My opponent and I were stood in front of our own arcade game cabinets and told to beat a level of a not yet released Sonic the Hedgehog game. I had neeeeever played Sonic before and had zero clue wtf I was doing, and my opponent was a tween who absolutely obliterated me at the contest. I was slimed for my failure. I have no clue if this was filmed or broadcast. I don't think it was broadcast as I don't recall any shows from back then marching this format. I definitely enjoyed myself. Edit: it must have been 1992 and I was 5. I remember the zone really, really well because it was such a unique experience. It was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant zone. We went in August of 1992 and the game was released in November of 1992.

Nick Arcade had its moments!

Absolutely fantastic shows but I’d also add Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? That gameshow for kids was so great with an amazing theme song!

12 year old me was appalled at the trivia being answered incorrectly on Double Dare, especially when adults were involved.

The Floor is Lava on Netflix catches that whimsy for me. My kiddo likes to watch it.

Not a game show but totally made me think about Camp Anawana 😁

Maybe I'm just not aware of where it all is, but there seems to be a critical lack of media for a tween audience. Both live action and animated both. But I bet especially the former.  My guess is it has something to do with how everything is a larger service now, instead of many specialized channels.  Or there's just as much and I just don't know about any of it. 

They are on paramount. Watched a few old episodes of double dare past weekend

They brought double dare back on 2019 and it was pretty faithful. It’s silly but was a fun time. I don’t know of anything good like that now. They also rebooted legends but did it terribly. They made it mostly backstory drama and bad reality show energy, like that’s what people who had interest in a reboot would have wanted to see 🙄 I would sort of say Holey Moley is the closest I’ve seen in a while, though it hasn’t come back on in a couple years. It’s like a mini golf/wipeout hybrid with bad innuendo jokes. I keep getting my hopes up it’ll return one summer.

We borrowed quite a few large scale physical fun game shows here in the UK from America. And in some cases, I may be biased, think we improved on the originals. We did [Finders Keepers](https://youtu.be/lhDpFML9BWo), [Fun House](https://youtu.be/DirUBCXYEBw), [Double Dare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVr3wRviYg) which turned into [Run the Risk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vye8NqA9RlQ). And I'd say there's two main things that set them apart - 1) our hosts seem more excited to be involved. Pat Sharp loved Fun House, JD Roth looked like he was just there to pick up his pay. 2) we had more slime/gunge. 90s British TV had a real thing for gunge. And I suppose one that always gets compared with Legends... online would be [The Crystal Maze](https://youtu.be/yPSznXgETyU), which was for grown ups but they did have a [kids special every Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4DI_S6VsWI)

American Ninja Warrior, or the Kids version. They spend a lot of time getting to know the contestants (boring) but my kids FFs through that. Create The Escape on Peacock isn't the same as what you're looking for - but there's some good family "competition" and clever ideas to it. Old, outdated episodes of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?

Loves guts but as a Canadian, we got to have uh oh on ytv

As someone who also loved these shows as a kid and teen, Taskmaster really hits the mark pretty closely. Free to stream in the US on Youtube, and the New Zealand and Australian versions are very good as well. Hundreds of hours of content out there.

They should just remake it but only have the kids from our gen that watched it going through the obstacles. Just out of shape 40 year olds. Would be pretty epic.

90s Nickelodeon was peak entertainment

Found myself re-watching tons of all three taking care of the baby on my three months leave. Died laughing when the host from guts was the dad in Glee

Children have less and less to do with each passing year. Websites like club penguin and neopets, less shows where kids are doing cool stuff, fast food places have gotten rid of or greatly reduced their play places, there's not really anything like encarta. There's less and less whimsy for kids, and things for kids for them to interact with.

Floor is Lava was fun I don't know if it is ever coming back, though.

I always wanted to do the sundae slide and drop/slide down into the giant gumball machine

These are not exactly the same genre, but might still scratch the itch of "people completing weird challenges": - Taskmaster - Game Changer

You’ve unlocked a core memory I haven’t thought about in 30 years. Wild n Crazy kids

The number available in the 2020s is very small according to Wikipedia American Ninja Warrior Junior The Big Fib Karma (American TV series) Kids Baking Championship Nickelodeon's Unfiltered Tooned In

Floor is Lava on Netflix definitely feels like it was made by people who grew up on those shows. Sadly hasn't been a new season in ages, but what's there is gold.

My ex loved watching Hidden Temple and he was in his mid 20’s at the time. He wanted to be on the show so badly.

So I may be downvoted for this but I find Mr beasts content to have a simialar aura to a lot of those old Nickelodeon shows. There are some that are just straight up obstacle courses. Also if you have Netflix The Floor is Lava maybe something you'd be interested in.