OHHHH THAT ONE!!
I was thinking "does he mean an anime?" and didn't even figure it was that show cos I thought it was too obscure. (I live in the UK so I'm not used to other people knowing about our stuff unless it's really popular)
I remember watching that on the midnight block on Challenge back when it was still around. I loooooved having an all gameshows all the time channel and I was bummed out when it vanished. Even more bummed out when it merged with Bravo and Crystal Maze moved onto that channel but Takeshi's Castle didn't. :<
CM is alright but it wasn't my fave, I found it really boring compared to other things in the genre. It was played really straight with a not particularly fancy set and a not particularly complex or interesting game, and a really bland host who just stated the objective. So whether it was good or great depended entirely on the contestants and you got sick of it after a while anyway cos there were only so many ways to win and they never changed things up.
Also I'd already spent my childhood watching a very similar show for kids which did basically the same thing with a bigger variety of challenges, plus a goofy sort of theme. Thanks for bringing up the subject cos I only just managed to remember the name of it, and that'd been bugging me for ages!! It was called Jungle Run- have you ever heard of it? It was quite fun with having to find the crystal monkeys to decide the time limit for the final stage, which was like a gauntlet of challenges. (the maze was basically the penultimate bit) I found it kinda more fun even though obviously everything was kiddy level diffuclty so you were staring at the screen going "I COULD HAVE FINISHED THIS HOURS AGO" (even when you were a kid yourself- it was REALLY kiddy level XD)
Still, Takeshi's Castle was the absolute best!! It's a gauntlet of totally ridiculous ludicrously hard challenges of stupid funnyness and everyone always fails in the most awesome ways XD I could spend hours just watching people fall off the bridge XD

Oh, IDEA!! Maybe we could propose something like this as a mission in the EA-LEC? Do a big silly gameshow!!
Haha I actually had some gameshow host NPCs I was planning to submit soon for an unrelated reason.. they were just supposed to act as commentators/hosts for anything you wanted (like cookery battles and stuff) but putting them on an actual gameshow could be fun too XD