Tales from the Crypt Gameshow

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Not only do I remember it, I OWN IT! A good chunk of it anyway. I taped alot of episodes from the show and i remember it very well. The show was basically a very dark, Halloween orientated version of Double dare, doing all sorts of monster, zombie, and vampire related challenges and stuff like that.

The show was a big deal not only because of it's involvement with the Crypt keeper, but of the level of technology used for the games. One of them games involved the kid player to actually battle a 3-d skeleton gladiator for points. All games ended with a "skull hunting" game called "Skull duggery".

You'd go to 3 or 4 different levels in search of skulls and whomever comes back with the most wins. The show was definitely cool for a while, and it was a neat idea but it did suffer from a few problems. 1- The use of the Crypt keeper was limited to him saying random "corpse related" jokes in clips that often got repeated over and over.

He never is seen near the competitors or the host and just makes comments depending on whatever game, joke, or situation that comes up on the show. The other problem is that this show had extremely difficult games and like "Legends of the hidden temple", alot of kids lost more times then they won.

I still have those VHS tapes with this show and I still love these kinds of old shows. I got a bunch of em.