List of Challenges in Takeshi's Castle - G

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• The Gauntlet: Originally titled Adventure Zone on the original Japanese version, this is a video game-inspired obstacle course. Various obstacles include dodging people dressed as ghouls, a reverse conveyor belt, avoiding a big wrecking ball being dropped from a great height, swirling kebabs, a trampoline, a spacehopper, a spinning platform (referred to as the "see-saw roundabout thingy" in the British version), spherical objects attached to ropes thrown by guards dressed as ghouls and a gap you need to swing on a rope to get across. The course is pretty narrow, and getting hit by anything will probably cause contestants to lose their balance and fall off into water. To add insult to injury, players race against a small pink mushroom (known simply as the "pink thing" on the British version) moving along the top of the track, added to represent a platform game's time limit. It is usually referred in the UK as "the assault course that even the SAS won't do." MXC's version is named Dash To Death, completely ignoring the mushroom altogether. In Brazil, it was known as Caçadores do Tombo Perdido (Raiders of the Lost Fall, a pun on the original Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark). In Spain, this game is known as El circuito de Hirohito (Hirohito's circuit), making a wordgame with Japan's former emperor's name. The music heard in the background of this game is from the SEGA video game Fantasy Zone.

• Giant Maze: This one is actually a real maze, as opposed to the other two, Honeycomb Maze, and Square Maze. Just enter in one side and find your way out the other side. MXC renamed this game A Mazing Grace. The music heard playing in the background of this game is the theme from the original Star Wars by John Williams.

• Go Nuts (V1): Contestants dress up as a giant nut and stay on a platform with twisty curves while hopping, as their legs are tied together. Called Bust A Nut on MXC.

• Go Nuts (V2): Players dress in padding and climb a hill while guards roll large foam nuts in this variation of "Avalanche". MXC calls this game Nut Baggers (or as many fans like to call it, (Salty) Nut Sackers). In Brazil, a variation of this game was used, with some differences, as the use of a larger black ball to hit any contestant almost reaching the top; it was named Avalanche in the country. The music heard playing in the background in this game is the song Skitter from the movie Critters.

• The Great Wall: Originally known as Scaling the Wall and one of the easier opening games that finds players trying to climb over a reasonably large wall. Called, Prison Break, Get Over It, Hosin' The Ho's (where a water cannon tried to keep the players at bay), and was also called the Wall of Hidden, Blistering Death before it was renamed to The Slippery Slope of Slanted Death on MXC. In the Spanish version "Humor Amarillo" it was known as La Pequeña Muralla China (The little Chinese wall). The song often heard playing in the background of this game is the theme from 633 Squadron.

• Grid Iron: In this game, known as The Longest Yard on the original Japanese version, similar to American football, players must run to the end zone, avoiding Takeshi's henchmen — dressed in oversized football uniforms — who wait to tackle them. Male players had seven men to avoid, women had five. Once, contestants picked a card between an ace (one) and eight to see how many guards they had to face. Called Dead End Zone on MXC, which used this game in a College Girls' special as Blind-Sided Date. Called A cascarla con el casco in the Spanish version.