Masters of the Maze

Masters of the Maze is a children's television game show that aired on the Family Channel from August 29, 1994, to September 15, 1995.

They pitched the idea to the three main TV networks for placement on Saturday mornings, but all of them passed.

"[2] Hal Berger, designer of the Power Glove, through his company IMAGE design and entertainment turned Fenton's Maze into an electronic game, licensed the product to Tiger Electronics, and then sold the game show concept to the Family Channel.

[3] According to co-executive producer Richard Kline, the concept of the show is "to allow viewers at home to get inside the video game.

[3] The auditions included a 25-question test, a narrative, as well as inhibition-testing events like a tug-of-war, a story-completion exercise, and a blindfolded trip through an obstacle course of folding chairs.

Each team chose one member to play the question and answer format of the game, while the other went offstage.

At this point, the host showed distorted pictures to the players, each of which became more clear as time progressed.

In the Roth season this was simply the face of an older woman (played by Renae Jacobs); in the Lopez season, the likeness of a younger redhead woman appeared with a high-pitched voice (played by Clea Montville).

In this section, the runner had to lower their visor and rely on the partner to guide them through the network of doors and walls.

Once through the Honeycomb Maze, the runner raised the visor and entered a small briefing room.

Inside the Chamber of Knowledge, the runner was asked three different true or false questions by three of the six different guardians.

Once all three gates were open, the runner exited the chamber (and the maze itself) by inserting his/her remaining power stick into a holder at the finish line to stop the clock.

The quickest team in this version of the show won the right to play a special bonus round, which featured a mountain with five television monitors that constantly altered between a "Prize" screen (depicting a diamond over a green backdrop) and a "No Prize" screen (depicting the Mirror Man's face over a white backdrop).

Upon finding the Power Stick and getting through the Ice Cave, the player lifted their visor and enter the Chamber of Knowledge.

The runner had to blast two of these images with his laser before being allowed to run up the mountain and stop the clock.

With both the JD Roth and Mario Lopez seasons, the winning team received a trophy made from one of the power sticks.

In the Roth era, he was the Guardian of the Gate of the Unexpected and posed questions about pop culture.

Producer and game show veteran Mark Maxwell-Smith provided the voices of all the Chamber of Knowledge guardians in both seasons, as well as the Mirror Man in the Lopez era.