Video Zone

The Video Zone was actually a live-action video game with three levels. Using a video monitor to see themselves, the contestants would be backstage, climbing ladders, throwing "snowballs", and using a boat in front of a bluescreen attempting to achieve previously explained goals (which was always to obtain three objects) for each level of the game.

As in a traditional video game, players could be "damaged" by hazards and enemy characters. If they lost all of their power (five units, as shown by an on-screen gauge), they would have to start the stage over and repeat its objectives until successful (a couple of season 1 episodes had a message that said "Try again! Press "Start" to continue"). In addition, each level contained a 'power-up' that appeared periodically that, when touched, gave the player an added advantage in that level—destroying all onscreen enemies, freezing enemies for 5 seconds (rendering them harmless), restoring the team's power meter to maximum, etc.

The team had 60 seconds to clear all 3 levels (Phil refer to it as 1 minute although the on-screen in the top-right of the screen displays 60 seconds). Each item touched won the team $50 to split, and each level cleared won a prize of increasing value. Successfully beating the Game Wizard in the final level won the grand prize, which was usually a vacation. If time ran out before the team completed the game, a "laugh"-like sound played, the screen faded to red, and "GAME OVER" appeared on the screen.

Level 1

• Jungle Fever: A jungle setting where the player climbed palm trees to obtain three bunches of bananas at the top while avoiding coconut-throwing monkeys, as well as toucans, piranhas (seen once the player was above the waterfall) and snakes. The player could go behind the waterfall, or touch a golden idol to cause a rope to appear to help cross the waterfall safely.

• Alien Moonbase: An intergalactic mechanical building where the player had to turn off three anti-matter reactors, while trying to avoid steam vents, insectoids and laser bots. Turning off the main computer would immobilize all enemies and hazards, rendering them harmless for five seconds, and would also activate a "light bridge", which made the second set of reactors easier to reach.

Season 1 Only

• Ancient Tomb: A Mayan temple where the player had to grab three coins on both levels while trying to avoid bats, a statue's hammer, arrows shot from the ground, fireballs, and a mummy. Touching a beam of sunlight eradicated all enemies and unlocked all doors, revealing the hidden coins.

Season 2 Only

• Monsters on the Loose: A city besieged by alien UFOs, where now the giant player had to rescue three humans from being abducted by the UFOs, while avoiding monsters such as a giant laser-firing eyeball, a slimy earth-burrowing creature, and a monstrous cockroach. Touching a power rod released cosmic radiation, destroying all enemies and thus leaving the player unhindered for a few seconds.

• Haunted Museum: A haunted mansion scene, where the player was required to pick up three statue busts hidden inside moving bookcases, while avoiding monsters such as a gargoyle, grasping tentacles, a vampire, and a crawling disembodied hand. Pulling back a curtain bathed the room in sunlight, destroying all enemies and thus leaving the player unhindered for a few seconds.

Level 2

• Mind Maze: A Mayan room gauntlet where the player had to collect three coins while dodging fireballs, spears, and electrified floor tiles. If the player touched a "Power" tile, s/he was granted immunity to all damage for a few seconds.

• Food Frenzy: A school lunch room setting where a food fight was taking place. The player had to grab three textbooks scattered on the floor, while avoiding flying food (such as pies, tomatoes and (YUCK!) pudding) and the gym coach. Opening a locker with stinky gym shoes stopped the chaos for five seconds.

• Cliffhanger: Taking place on a cliff with a network of caves, the player had to clear the cave openings to find three coins while avoiding rock slides, snakes, vultures and giant lizards. Touching a TNT device blasted open the cave openings, thus revealing all the coins.

• Nile River Raft: The player, floating on a fast-moving Egyptian river with a wooden raft, had to grab three gems while avoiding flies, alligators, rats, vultures and a mummy. Touching the legendary "Eye of the Pharaoh" diamond restored full power.

Season 1 Only

• Runaway Rail Car: The player traveled on a railway car through a Wild West town and abandoned mines; he or she had to obtain three coins while avoiding vultures, hanging timbers, cactuses, tumbleweeds and rats. If the player touched a green "luck stone," he or she regained full power.

Season 2 Only

• Sub Search: An ocean scene with the player in a waverunner; the player had to collect three treasure chests while avoiding dangers such as sharks, eels, giant lobsters, explosive mines and squids. Touching a solar fuel cell, however, restored all power.

• Enchanted Flight: A magic carpet scene, where the player had to grab three rings while avoiding swordsmen, gate traps, cobras, a royal guard, a baby dragon, guard dogs, and a genie that shot lightning bolts (the same Djinni from the Forgotten Desert in Mikey's World). Touching a magic lamp restored the player's health.

• Snow Slingers: An arctic scene where the player had to hit three elves with snowballs while dodging those of the elves. The player also had to avoid skiing foxes, and hitting an ice-skating polar bear by mistake. Hitting a snowman made it play a song that forced the elves to stop attacking and dance in place for five seconds, making them much easier to hit.

Level 3

Both players, sharing one energy gauge, teamed up for the last level, which was a face-off against one of three wizard-typed villains that rotated throughout the show's run.

The three Game Wizards were: Merlock, Scorchia and Mongo.

To defeat them, the players had to touch three orbs before time expired, while trying to avoid one of the Game Wizards and the projectiles he or she was throwing, the ghostly creatures flying around the room, and the beams of lightning, fire, or energy (depending on who the Wizard was) that erupted from the ground. If either player touched a spinning hourglass that randomly appeared, all enemies and hazards would be immobilized and rendered harmless for five seconds.

Upon the Wizard's defeat (if the players succeeded), depending on who the players faced, the wizard would disappear in some way. After that, the message "You did it! You beat the game." would then flash across the screen.

In Season 1, the Wizards had nearly identical rooms (with only different color schemes depending on the Wizard). In Season 2, each Wizard was given a more unique room to better fit his/her theme, but the mechanics were the same as before.

Stats/Prizes

Ep.	Zone 1	Prize	Time	Zone 2	Prize	Time	Wizard	Prize	Time/Orbs
101	Alien Moon Base	Singalodeon	39	Runaway Rail Car	Encyclopedias	1 Coin	Merlock	Universal Studios	N/A
102		Gibson Guitar	39		Eureka Camping Gear	12			3
103		Dahon Bike	38		Eureka Camping Gear	2 Coins			N/A
104		Vivitar Camera	37	Nile River Raft	Encyclopedias	1 Gem	Scorchia
105		Casio Keyboard	35		Gold Bikes	6			1 Orb
106		Konica Camera	37		Encyclopedias	1 Coin			N/A
107	Jungle Fever	Singalodeon	44	Food Frenzy	19 Inch Color TV	1 Book
108		Basketball System	47		Zenith VCR	36			2 Orbs
109			44		19 Inch Color TV	35		Apple Macintosh Classic	2 Orbs
110		Diamond Tent	44		Encyclopedias	34		Universal Studios	2 Orbs
111			27	Runaway Rail Car	19 Inch Color TV	2	Mongo	Apple Macintosh Classic	N/A
112		Vivitar Camera	49		Table Tennis Table	24		Zenith Camcorder	3
113		Basketball System	51		Encyclopedias	30		Universal Studios	1 Orb
114		Singalodeon	50		Table Tennis Table	31		Zenith Camcorder	2 Orbs
115	Alien Moon Base	Ricoh Camera	48	Mind Maze	Dahon Bike	36	Scorchia	Jamaica	16
116		Singing Machine	17		Table Tennis Table	2 Coins		Apple Macintosh Classic	N/A
117		Ricoh Camera	Shutout $100		Encyclopedias	N/A		Jamaica
118		Diamond Tent	42		Zenith VCR	Buzzer		Universal Studios
119		Coleman	46	Food Frenzy	Table Tennis Table	Buzzer	Mongo	Zenith Camcorder
120		Basketball System	45		Zoomtec Camera	33		Universal Studios	22
121		Gibson Guitar	37		Table Tennis Table	26		Apple Macintosh Classic	2 Orbs
122		Schwinn Bikes	44		Zoomtec Camera	35		Universal Studios	12
123	Jungle Fever	Basketball System	49	Cliffhanger	Amiga 500	2 Coins	Scorchia		N/A
124		Schwinn Bikes	50			30			10
125		Coleman	52			38			17
126		Magna Bikes	47			2 Coins			N/A
127	Ancient Tomb	Chinon Camera	Shutout $100	Nile River Raft	Coleman	N/A	Merlock
128		Coleman	42		Table Tennis Table	15		Apple Macintosh Classic	1 Orb
129			5		Encyclopedias	N/A		Universal Studios	N/A
130		Schwinn Bikes	41		Table Tennis Table	17		Apple Macintosh Classic	Buzzer
131	Jungle Fever	Schwinn Bikes	32		Encyclopedias	2 Gems	Mongo	Universal Studios	N/A
132		Ricoh Camera	45		Amiga 500	19		Jamaica	2 Orbs
133		Basketball System	51		Encyclopedias	26		Universal Studios	2 Orbs
134		Singing Machine	48		Amiga 500	24			2
135	Ancient Tomb	Epiphone Guitar	33	Runaway Rail Car	Amiga 500	2 Coins			N/A
136		Schwinn Bikes	44		Encyclopedias	23			6
137		Ricoh Camera	44		Amiga 500	24			7
138		Schwinn Bikes	44			20		Zenith Camcorder	2 Orbs
139			44	Mind Maze	Yorx Stereo	24	Merlock	Universal Studios	12
140		Magna Bikes	39					Apple Macintosh Classic	1
141		Coleman	33			2 Coins		Jamaica	N/A
142		Schwinn Bikes	44		Amiga 500	18		Universal Studios	2 Orbs
201	Alien Moon Base	Coleman	43	Enchanted Flight	Home Theater	27	Scorchia	Papoose Pond Resort	17
202	Haunted Museum	Word Processor	37	Cliffhanger	Basketball System	25	Mongo	Holiday Inn	2 Orbs
203	Monsters on the Loose	Coleman	Shutout $100	Snowslingers	Konica Camera	N/A		Space Camp	N/A
204		Singalodeon	Shutout $50	Mind Maze	Schwinn Bikes		Merlock	Amiga 500
205		Chinon Camera	Shutout $100		Table Tennis Table			Holiday Inn
206		Encyclopedias	49		Home Theater	32		Holiday Inn	20
207	Jungle Fever	Hang Ten Clothes	45	Enchanted Flight	Vivitar Camera	27	Scorchia	Zenith Camcorder	1 Orb
208		Table Tennis Table	52		Yorx Stereo	26		Space Camp	14
209		Schwinn Bikes	50		Word Processor	33		Universal Studios	Buzzer
210		Yorx Stereo	49		Table Tennis Table	2 Rings		Zenith Camcorder	N/A
211	Haunted Museum	Yorx Stereo	15	Cliffhanger	Amiga 500	2 Coins	Mongo	Space Camp
212			45		Table Tennis Table	33			15
213			45		Encyclopedias	35			4
214		Basketball System	42		BCA Glacier Bike	30			7
215	Monsters on the Loose	Hang Ten Clothes	44	Snowslingers	Word Processor	26		Commodore CDTV Player	2 Orbs
216		Word Processor	45		BCA Glacier Bike	2 Elves		Amiga 500	N/A
217		Kent Bikes	50		Home Theater	1 Elf		Space Camp
218		Regent Sports	Shutout		Ricoh Camera	N/A		CDTV Player
219		Konica Camera	7	Food Frenzy	Home Theater	1 Book	Scorchia	Zenith Camcorder
220		Magna Bikes	30		Amiga 500	14		Holiday Inn	1 Orb
221		Hang Ten Clothes	48		Vivitar Camera	38		Universal Studios	23
222		Coleman	45		Kent Bikes	33		Washington DC	2 Orbs
223	Jungle Fever	Ricoh Camera	33	Nile River Raft	BCA Glacier Bike	Buzzer	Mongo	Space Camp	N/A
224		Table Tennis Table	12			N/A		Apple Macintosh Classic
225	Haunted Museum	N/A	45	Enchanted Flight	N/A	25		N/A	1 Orb
226		Chinon Camera	42		Basketball System	12		Apple Macintosh Classic	N/A
227	Haunted Museum	Singalodeon	46	Snowslingers	Basketball System	33	Merlock		2 Orbs
228		Kent Bikes	18		Team Glasgow Sportswear	1 Elf		Amiga 500	N/A
229		Regent Sports	44			2 Elves		Universal Studios
230		Singing Machine	9		BCA Glacier Bike	2 Elves		Apple Macintosh Classic
231	Jungle Fever	Team Glasgow Sportswear	48	Sub Search	Regent Sports	21	Mongo	Busch Gardens	1 Orb
232		Regent Sports	49		Kent Bikes	21			2 Orbs
233			13	Snowslingers		1 Elf		Universal Studios	N/A
234		N/A	52		N/A	39		N/A	4
235	Haunted Museum	Ricoh Camera	37	Enchanted Flight	BCA Glacier Bikes	21	Merlock	Busch Gardens	1 Orb
236		Hang Ten Clothes	36		Table Tennis Table	20		Space Camp	1 Orb
237		Regent Sports	46		Word Processor	19		Universal Studios	2 Orbs
238		Kent Bikes	42		Word Processor	16		Busch Gardens	1 Orb
239	Alien Moon Base	Regent Sports	45	Sub Search	Amiga 500	19	Mongo	Busch Gardens	1 Orb
240		Ricoh Camera	29		Basketball System	2 Chests		Space Camp	N/A
241	Monsters on the Loose	Coleman	33		Word Processor	6		Busch Gardens	N/A
242		N/A	50		N/A	30		N/A	2 Orbs

Trips

• Universal Studios, Florida: Pilot
• Universal Studios, Florida: Peabody Orlando Resort: 102 and 124
• Franklyn D. Resort: Jamaica: 115
• Universal Studios, Florida: Buena Vista Place: 120, 125, 139 and 209
• Universal Studios, Florida: Orange Lake: 122
• Universal Studios, Florida: Orlando Marriott: 134, 137 and 221
• Universal Studios, Florida: Star Quality Resort: 136
• Papoose Pond Resort, Maine: 201
• Holiday Inn, La Concha: 206
• U.S. Space Camp: 208, 212, 213 and 214

Home

• Zenith Camcorder: 112
• Apple Macintosh Classic: 130 and 140
• $500 each: 234

Mentions Trips

• Universal Studios, Florida: Orange Lake Country Club: 105
• Universal Studios, Florida: Buena Vista Palace: 108 and 133
• Universal Studios, Florida: Star Quality Resort: 110 and 142
• Universal Studios, Florida: Orlando Marriott: 113 and 237
• Franklyn D. Resort: Jamaica: 132
• Holiday Inn, La Concha: 202 and 220
• Connecticut Avenue Days Inn: Washington DC: 222
• Busch Gardens, Williamsburg: 231, 232, 235, 238 and 239
• U.S. Space Camp: 236

Mentions Home

• Apple Macintosh Classic: 109, 121, 128 and 227
• Zenith Camcorder: 114, 138 and 207
• Commodore CDTV Player: 215
• $600 each: 225
• $500 each: 242

YouTube Links

Bonus Round Compilation
Video Zone Level Compilation