Video & Arcade Top 10
| Video & Arcade Top 10 | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show |
| Created by | Robert Essery |
| Presented by | Nicholas Picholas, various others |
| Composer(s) | Nicholas Schnier |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production company(s) | The Robert Essery Organization |
| Release | |
| Original network | YTV |
| Original release | 1991 – 2006 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Clips |
Video & Arcade Top 10 (often abbreviated as V&A Top 10 or simply V&A) was a Canadian game show broadcast on YTV from 1991 to 2006. Filmed in Toronto, Ontario, it was a competitive game show in which contestants played against each other in video games for prizes, with assorted review and profile segments on current games, music, and movies featured as well. V&A Top 10 is one of a select few English language Canadian game shows to run nationally for 15 years, joining Front Page Challenge, Reach For The Top, and Definition in that category. Reruns of the series from the late 1990s and 2000s have recently aired on GameTV.
The series was hosted throughout its run by Nicholas Schimmelpenninck, a.k.a. Nicholas Picholas, who's also known as a longtime DJ at Kiss 98.5 in nearby Buffalo, New York. He was joined by assorted co-hosts during the show's run for main hosting duties, (including Gordon Michael Woolvett at the series' beginning and Leah Windisch at the series' end), and an additional two hosts were generally used to present other segments. Past co-hosts have included Lexa Doig, David J. Phillips, and Liza Fromer, among many others.
The main portions of each episode would have four contestants playing one player modes of video games against each other, typically from Nintendo consoles supported at the time of filming. Two separate games on the same console were played on each episode by two different groups of contestants, with the hosts explaining what needs to be done in order to win each round before gameplay begun. Scoring was calculated by having the contestants try and either get the highest score, collect the most of something, maintain the most health, or get the best time in their game, depending on the genre, with a tie-breaking method emphasized on air in case it was needed. For example, in WWE WrestleMania X8 on the Nintendo Gamecube. they had to pin the most people, while in Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64, they had to collect the most stars. During gameplay, Nicholas & the main co-host would tell the audience about the games' rules, plots, special moves, and sometimes secrets or codes while assorted gameplay footage was shown on screen, though specific coverage of the contestant's progress and scores weren't revealed to the home audience.
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