In December of 1987, the MTV cable channel took its first stab into the game show world. It was so good, that it went into syndication a few years later.

This game was quite simple to play. (Obviously so, since it WAS a game show directed at teenagers in the rock generation). All of the questions on Remote Control had to deal with anything and everything that was television. Everything from I Love Lucy to Alf. To start the play, 1 out of 3 contestants would pick one of the nine "cable networks" on the TV. They didn't know what the channel was until they picked it for the first time. Ken asked a question about the channels topic, and a buzz in answer got control of the TV. The first question in a channel was worth 5 points, 10 for the second and 15 for the third in the first round, and 10, 20 and 30 in the second round respectively. After the first round, to introduce the commerical break, it would be "Snack Break" time, where food usually got dumped on the players heads.

Aside from the typical channels on the board, there were also some specialty channels that did other things to effect the current players score. Channels like "Home Shopping" (which never came out of the eighties fad), would deduct 10 point from your score to buy something really crappy. "Beat The Bishop" required you to work on your math skills in a timely manner, and "Wheel Of Torture" could add points to your score if you took the chance to have anything from a weggie to a wet willie done to you.

At the end of the second round, the contestant that was in last place would go "Off The Air", and a wide array of methods, ranging from going through a wall, to getting "eaten alive" would happen to you. This left 2 players in the game. The two remaining contestants would be given a name of a popular show, with one of the words replaced with another word. The players buzzed in and replaced the word with the correct one. Each answer was worth 10 points. After 30 seconds of this, the player in last place also "went off the air", and it left the winner to go on to the bonus round. (When a player went "bye bye", the audience would sing a song about leaving. :-)

If you watched the MTV version of the show, the bonus round played from a Posterpedic Adjustable Bed in front of 9 TVs. The contestant had 30 seconds to identify the musical artist in the music video on all 9 TVs to win the prize. The syndicated version strapped the player on the Wheel of Jeopardy (which was a bondage wheel horizontally placed). Each question right (as you spun on the wheel), gave you another chance of winning. At the end of the questions, the wheel slowed to a stop, and you won that prize you land on.