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Submitted by Megan K
Yes! Another epic Nickelodeon show! Olmec (the giant talking head) commands you to retrieve whatever the special-of-the-day legendary artifact and bring it to him! Then you had to cross the moat, answer some questions and then do all the physical challenges and run through the temple, looking out for sentinels that would steal your pendants.
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HELL YES. This was and will continue to be an epic win.
TEAM TEES! I kid you NOT!
http://www.hiddentempletees.com/
Not spam I promise, I found this link while bumming around on IMDB to see what the host is doing now…
This is so awesome…i want a blue barracuda shirt.
no the sentinals would steal your VIRGINITY
HEEEEEEELLS YEAAAAAAAH!
wait? levitating dog leash?
total awesomeness right there. i survived history class b/c of that show lol. definite epic win.
IT TALKS!!!! IT TALKS!!!!
I freaking loved this show! I wanted to be on it really badly. It annoyed me though that no one seemed to be able to put the monkey together correctly.
You’re right! IT is three freakin pieces. Geeze
it’s so true … half these a-holes are trying to put the head on upside-down, the other half just cant seem to understand that the base is the piece with the giant flat rectangle on the bottom. sigh.
You’d think they’d know from watching the show, right?
Someone been reading Dr. McNinja today?
ZOMG A PERSONAL CD PLAYER!!!!111
Brand new N64, rollerBLADES, and a trip to Nik Studios!
2-3 years ago I would sit around the chapter room of my fratenity house with some of the other brothers and when this show would come on the big screen tv, we would take bets off the start as to which “team” would win.
Never had so much fun with a dollar bet.
On a simmilar note, I miss double dare.
Whenever my brother and I were crawling around in the woods, we’d always go, “We’re practicing for Legends of the Hidden Temple and we’re totally gonna be the Silver Snakes!”
And when I grew up, this was one of the ways to determine who got to use the jackhammer for the day–who could name all of the teams on Legends of the Hidden Temple correctly? Whoever lost got the jackhammer and couldn’t leave their post until lunch. XD
I think I may be too old for this one (I was a DD kid). What’s up with 3 minutes of explanation from the creepy talking statue????
I totally agree!
I was slightly too old for this.
After the legend explanation, the 4 teams that survived the first challenge (cross the moat, it was always in different ways) had to answer questions to move down the steps. After 2 teams reached the bottom, they moved on to the next part.
I watched this show just about every day when I was a kid. Loved it.
As much as I agree with that I have to say the thing that caught my eye was the beginning.
Nick GAS still exists? I thought they got rid of that channel when they started doing The N All day
When I was last at my friend’s house-GAS was still around.
We went into a zone with that, guts & nick arcade.
at least that guy could do the shrine.
He pulled an indy there too I see
MEMORIES!!!! They are attacking me!!!! ( Silver Snakes FTW)!!!
OLMEC FOR THE WIN!!!!
Agreed. His voice was epic. I can’t help but mimic him every time I say “very well!”
I always loved it when the host would say, “Are you ready, Olmec?”, and he would
reply, “Let’s rock!” FTW!!
wth, never heard of this…….
You should have watched more old Nick game shows. They were epic.
Red Jaguars and Orange Iguanas.
Of course!! I remember watching this in Spanish!
My favorites were (are) the silver snakes and the purple parrots.
This show kicks ass!!! I still watch it a lot.
God, those temple guards still kinda freak me out…xD
Silver Snakes FTW!
This show kicked so much ass. Recently they reran a few episodes, and it help up surprisingly well. I was also shocked to find out Dee Baker has done other voice work. He has quite the range. But really if he just did his Olmec voice it would still own.
I had completely forgotten this show existed until I saw this. I enjoyed it when it ran, though. Had no idea Olmec was Dee Bradley Baker. I mostly know him from Avatar, and that’s… pretty different.
That’s right!
He plays Appa and Momo, right?
Yeah, and a few other animals. He has quite the skill when it comes to animal
sounds. Check out his other roles here.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048389/
Careful with that stupid Shrine of the Silver Monkey…kids could NEVER put that thing together.
God this show was sooooo awesome!!! i used to have nightmares as a little kid bout the temple guards and they still freak me out….. ><
My grandmother actually forbid me from watching this show because I would shriek at the morons with the monkey statue at the top of my lungs.
“IT’S ONLY THREE PIECES! THE HEAD GOES ON TOP! ON TOP YOU MORON! NOOOO! YOU HAVE IT UPSIDE DOWN!”
I’d also rage at the guys who went into the ball-pit room. There was ALWAYS a guard in the ball pit.
I am reminded of Futurama: “Aha! The hat goes on the head! It’s so obvious now!” …or something like that.
Wasn’t that on Chowder? “Aha! The spoon goes IN the spoon drawer! It’s so
obvi… what were we talking about?”
The “Futurama” line is absolutely a dig at this show, seeing as it was a monkey who was having problems with the hat.
Yeah, it was the one where the guys are at Mars University.
YES! That and the damn room where you had to do the poses on the wall.
Or I’m confusing that with the tree room.
said Friend’s mom came into the room to watch us yell at the kids. Apparently it’s amusing to watch two 20somethings shout at kids about how they are not taking the proper route.
I loved this show! Whoever the 70 people who clicked thumbs-down on this should be ashamed of themselves…this was an awesome show. You want to know why kids nowadays are obese? They dont have awesome game shows that require physical work to win. We had Guts, Double Dare, Legends, and more!
Don’t forget about that Camp Scare one, I loved that one
Damn right! How many kids did you know who kept in shape because they were “training to win a Nick game show?” I know I was one of them. Legends was my absolute favorite, followed closely by Guts.
I lovee(d) this show!! I always wanted to go on it so I could win the “cool” prizes. It’s on Nick GAS and I showed it to my younger cousins and they thought this was the best show ever, and I thought the prizes were so lame..haha ahhh i miss the 90’s
So, this is basically America’s version of “A*mazing” ?
Wow, totally missed this one–what was the year this originally aired in?
It was back in the ’90’s. It’s kind of like Kid’s Jeopardy meets a fear of “spooky” Indians with a bunch of fake folklore and some running and jumping. It was pretty good at first, but got a little boring as they exploited the same 4 plot lines day after day. (The show was on either everyday or a few times a week)
Mine was always the Green Monkeys. My brother’s was the Silver Snakes and we’d have many a long argument over who was cooler. XD
I just found out Olmec wasn’t real…..
Silver Snakes for the win!
Green Monkeys and Silver Snakes, Blue Barracudas a close third (since blue is my faorite color), and the other three were negligible.
1. Silver Snakes
2. Green Monkeys
3. Whatever that red team was.
i only watched this while babysitting, i was a bit to old. yet i still realy wanted to be on it! haha! i want a dope N64 or a awesome CD player!
I loved this show! I would invariably get in trouble for attempting to reenact some of the obstacles in the living room, but it was a good time. My sister and I would stay up late just to watch this show.
Go kid. Dog leash rop grappling FTW. Woot
THIS! This is the show I always tried to remember, but never could put my finger on it. Love it, miss it.
I remember when one of the prizes was a CD-I. Man how lame of a prize?
Oh man.. I’m glad someone finally posted this. When the site first started I hoped someone would post it, I had forgotten the name of the show. This show was so awesome… I always got so excited watching it, and wanted to go through a maze like that at the end.
Too bad Nickelodeon doesn’t make shows like this anymore… Legends of the Hidden Temple, Global Guts (with the AGRO CRAG!!) and Double Dare were just great.
This show was awesome. Too bad every show was pretty much the same. The obstacle course never changed. Also the daily “object of interest” was always crap that was probably in someone’s garage that was spray painted gold.
“Olmec wants you to retrieve the magic axe handle so the ghosts of the Inca’s don’t come back”
Good, but the show gets old and tired quickly
And I do agree about how funny Nickolodeon’s GAS is…
It did change but not as often as it should have.
Considering that Nick is a children’s network (mostly) I’m not surprised about it being called GAS.
It’s funny how many game shows I wanted to be on back then. This, Double Dare, Finder’s Keepers, GUTS, What Would You Do?…..the list goes on.
It always seemed like the prizes were used…
Omg! I LOVED this show growing up! I never could understand why no one ever got the monkey right, but I did love the way Olmec said “the shrine of the sliver monkey.” My least favorite room was the one with the creepy trees or whatever, a temple guard ALWAYS hung out there. Always loved planning out my own route through the course and yelling at the kids whenever they took the long way around.
Silver Snakes are of teh awesome! Along with the Purple Parrots!
I always wanted a room full of bungee cords strung in all directions because of this show. It would have been so much fun to play in, or should i say “will be once I can fund it”?
I used to be so afraid of that creepy tiki dude that caught the players in the maze. He was freaky looking! But the show was awesome and the questions were kind of hard. lol
This show was the bomb. I watched it religiously until the day my parents canceled our cable. Never had static been so depressing.
And man, in retrospect those prizes were pretty lame. Though I’m positive I would have killed to go to SpaceCamp at the time.
Hell Yass. That show was awesome, I remember yelling at the TV every time it was on.
The kids on it could never figure out how to put the little stone monkey together at the end tho. That always frustrated me.
I heard the kids who were on the show that lost were sent to work in shoe factories in China… Don’t mess with Olmac!!! … or that Jeff Probst looking guy.
I just saw a guy wearing a green monkey shirt today :3
HOLY CRAP YES. Olmec owns all, Kirk was a doofus, and the Silver Snakes were the most awesome team, although Green had more wins (I spent a summer so completely bored that I worked out the winning percentages.)
Back when Nick GAS was still on the air, my sister and I would watch this religiously (my way of making sure that she knew what shows were epic and which were crap). I even had so much fun that I created a drinking game for it. Now if I could just find the file…
I found out in my biohistory class that the Olmec was a tribe that pre-dated the Maya in Mexico, and they made statues like that…
I lol’d out loud when my professor started talking about it. Who knew Nick based things on real history? What a novel concept..
The funny thing is that “Legends” took place in an Aztec temple, with Mayan temple guards, and the whole thing starred an Olmec stone head.
Since those tribes had little to nothing to do with each other, it’s nice to know Nick did their homework. Not that it detracts from the sheer awesomeness that is “Legends.”
What was that show on Nick that was also kind of… legend themed.. but you had to do all these games and puzzles in front of a green screen to win?
Nick Arcade!
I think… That one did involve a greenscreen.
eg, riding a flying carpet and ducking stuff?
Nick Arcade.
I grew up watching this show in the 90’s. I’m a history buff. It’s the definition of an Epic Win!
I loved this show so much! I always wanted to be on it.
My brother and I used to watch this show all the time. We loved it, especially the questions section. I too always wanted to be on it, alas my wish went ungranted.
Man, I loved this show when I was younger. I would always wish that I could be on it and run through that obstacle course at the end; it just looked so fun! Of course, I knew that wouldn’t happen, but this was still my favorite out of all of Nickelodeon’s game shows.
HOLY CRAP! This show was frakking awesome. I would try to watch it no matter WHAT.
For the longest time, I thought “Olmec” was “Old Mac.” I was so confused.
WHOA!
I loved that show…
As well as the following:
-Are You Afraid of The Dark?
-Dinosaurs
-Guts
-Double Dare
-Salute Your Shorts
…and several cartoons as well.
You can still catch some of the toons on Nicktoons Network, by the way
I remember one episode a kid completely nailed the Temple, came back with his pendant and at least 1 minute to spare.
sevin, you want AYAOTD? There are several episodes posted on youTube, you just have to kinda fish through them to get the right order since they’re all in three parts.
Dude, that giant talking head always scared the crrap out of me lol. But other than that it was a good show
I loved this show growing up, the temple guards always made me jump and still do.. I love the Purple Parrots and Blue Barracudas and always will :3 FTW!
Best show ever! The only other show that came close was Nickalodeon Guts
this show is still on its a channel called nick gas they have shows like this and double dare too! but direct tv doesnt have that channel : [
God, those prizes were always horrible. COME IN SECOND AND YOU GET A YEARS WORTH OF TUNA!
Unrelated: In the vid, at 6:22, his flick of the wrist move is awesome.
I just remember one recent Thanksgiving where my cousins and I got into a heated argument over what the team names were. I tried to calmly explain that they were all animals that figured prominently in South American art and folklore and then I listed them (correctly) – and they still didn’t believe me. <:(
I loved this show! ^_^ Whoever gave it thumbs down are probably just lazy fat obese kids who never did anything. I used to want to be on the game show so badly and win!
this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by viacom international inc…..no wonder viacom is struggling
I was so suprised when I saw re-runs of this on Nick…which they no longer play but that show was so epic. Nick has really gone down hill in the last few years. Where are all the good shows like this one “are you afraid of the dark” “Angry Beavers” “rocko’s modern life” “invader zim” and all the others that they canceled before their time!
Amazing show. I always wanted to be on this and Nick Arcade when I was little
D
I LOVED this show when I was a kid! I was always a Purple Parrot, all the way! My little sister loved the Blue Barracudas, and my older sister (8 years older, but she still totally watched the show with us everyday) was a Silver Snake girl. We would argue over who was the best — we still do.
I so wanted to be on the show, but all the prizes seemed really lame to me, even then. I never wanted any of the stuff they offered, except maybe the trips. I read somewhere that almost every single team failed the temple run, though, and so hardly anybody got the trip.
This was apart of our daily line-up as children… Legends of the Hidden Temple, Wild and Crazy Kids (does anybody remember Wild and Crazy Kids?) and Are You Afraid of the Dark? which we would then rate based on scariest to least scary.
Oh man, I loved being a kid.
I loved this show..I remember the prize pack was always a Neo Geo and I wanted one badly, that’s the only time I ever saw one advertised in the US!
Like, 2 or 3 years ago they showed that show from 7-8 o clock in the mornin’, for like 1 months.
it always bugged the crap out of me when kids couldn’t put together the shrine of the silver monkey. seriously. how hard is it to put together a 3-piece figurine?!
It’s still own, the kids are still as dumb and my son watched this obessesively when it was own, and it drives me nuts. Mainly becuaw Nick, like most Kid’s channels run any slightly successful show at least five times a day. And the DVR constantly records them. We keep having to set his shows manually or the damn thing will record 5 episode and we only let him keep one. Plus every time you want to watch something its recording some kiddy show.