The Forever Game

Air date: 2/6/99

After a boy who mistreats his friends and family steps into an ancient, creaking tree, he learns that he must play a game that will put his sister and friend in serious jeopardy if he loses.

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The Zombie Dice

Air date: 2/27/99

Loosely inspired by the apocryphal accounts of the game Polybius, a strange video arcade owner challenges kids to a game where the losers are shrunk down and sent to countries all over the world as pets (with many of them dying before they can reach their destination).

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Jake the Snake

Air date: 3/20/99

A boy called Wiley that is not very good on the hockey field discovers a hockey-stick with the title "Snake" on it, which belonged to the greatest ice hockey player in the world: Jake "the Snake" Desmond. Unfortunately, Jake Desmond is now a snake in human form and unless Wiley stops playing, he will join all the other players as snakes who used the stick before him.

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The Virtual Pets

Air date: 2/20/99

Kids become obsessed with the Diggers, Tamagotchi-like pets that require to be fed information. But Kate, the only girl in her class who doesn't know anything about computer technology, finds that the Diggers are using the kids to escape out into the human world, while the kids themselves are about to be confined into cyberspace.