Favorite American Gladiators Event

[Mister Pigwell]

Assault: The stuff you do in shooting video games you wish you could do in real life.


Breakthrough & Conquer: Football + Wrestling.


Human Cannonball: Reminiscent of the downward scrolling BattleToads levels.


Joust: Kill or be killed in this game of stick fighting.


Powerball: The iconic game.


The Wall: Mountain climbing with a fire under your ass.


Atlasphere: Gerbil Ball. 'Nuff said.


Hang Tough: The classic game we all played on the monkey bars


Swingshot: For when you can't jump like Air Jordan.


The Maze: Rat race here with cats in the wrong turns.


Sky Track: Spiderman eat your heart out.


Gauntlet: When an event with 1 gladiator just isn't enough, you have to get past 5 here! Bonus superman in this vid.


Pyramid: King of the hill. Yep.


Tug-O-War: A test of strength and balance at it's finest.


Whiplash: Grown people fight over a dog bone. Hilarity ensues.


Snapback: I couldn't find a video of this one. Cornfed = fail. From Wiki: The contenders faced two Gladiators, with all attached to bungee cords. Red and blue scoring cylinders were hung from the ceiling of the arena, and the contender's object was to use the bungee cord to run to the cylinder, grab it, and bring it back and deposit it in a bin. The red cylinders were worth 2 (later 1) points, with the blue cylinders worth 3 (later 2), because they were hung higher and thus harder to grab.



Gladiators, Ready!

[jcdenton]

Joust, even tho the event had nothing to do with a Joust


I ALWAYS wanted a joust stick

[Chucklehead,baby!!!]

swingshot = a slice of fried gold

[Insomniac]

I was always a big fan of "Assault".

[rzombie1988]

Powerball or Assault for me. Powerball was really fun when the gladiators were in a bad mood or mad at one of the competitors. The first season has some sweet hits in powerball.

[VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!!]

Assault....

Giant Tennis Ball Cannon = AWESOME

And what, no Eliminator?

[adamclark52]

I liked Assault because, thanks to G.I. Joe and Nintendo, I was obsessed with shooting things as a kid.

[samachine]

Hang Tough = ultimate X

[G✇JI☈A]

Believe it or not Australia had it's own version of Gladiators. With Gladiators such as Vulcan, Tower and Commando.

The show only lasted a year as the ratings tanked and cost Channel 7 a lot of money.

I was partial to the Wall myself.

Edit: And a fun fact one of the co hosts was Kimberley Joseph who would go on to play the stewadess in the first season of Lost.

[Deleted]

Assault FTW

[Mister Pigwell]

Assault is cleaning up here... I'm shocked I expected most the votes to go for Atlasphere due to running around in a giant ball and ramming other people.

[Thread Pirate Roberts]

I chose Powerball cause you got some sick hits out of it and the only reason to watch is to see the Gladiators pummel the poor bastards.

[D2: Sweet & Sour Edition]

The Pyramid looks like 19 dfferent types of fun.

[Todd Pettengill]

Assault was the best.
One thing I noticed on the reruns recently: Lazer was a racist. I saw him attack three different black athletes with full blown punches to the lacrosse helmet. He was disqualified 2 of the times.

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

Atlasphere. You put anything in a giant hampster ball, and its worth watching.

[x]

Tennis ball shooting.

[A Platypus Rave]

Assault, Tennis Ball and Nerf Launchers for the win!

[Millie D]

seriously ASSAULT was the reason i loved the show