Live action TV show where High school Kids go into the virtual world and have to clear levels [duplicate]

Question

I've been trying to remember this live action TV show for years now.

In it teenagers were able to enter this virtual world of sorts and they become these avatars. Their goal was to clear levels and move on to the next and I don't remember why. There were artifacts or items that help them on their way and they can return to the real world easily enough. I think they can re-enter the virtual world through someone's school.

To pinpoint a possible date I'm thinking maybe 2000s to 2004s, it is hard to remember because I was so young.

Answer 1

It was the 2004 show on YTV called Zixx Level One.

Two brothers discover an alien girl called Zixx Punkee Zee and help her get past level one of a game. When Zixx finishes all three levels she will have achieved her mission and be able to go back to her home world.

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Answer 2

If years ago means four of five years, it could be Code Lyoko Evolution.

Code Lyoko is originatly a french cartoon where a group of teenagers find a computer in which lives XANA, a powerfull virus able to make changements in the real world. Fortunately, they are able to go inside the digital world to beat XANA at its source. The part inside the digital world is in CGI, where the parts in the real world is drawn. Inside lives Aelita, a friendly AI that helps them to understand the world. This cartoon went out in the year 2000.

In 2012, they made a sequel in live action, called Code Lyoko Evolution. The parts in the real world are now live action, and the part in the digital world are still in CGI. The main characters are now highschoolers.

Here's a Wikipedia link.

Answer 3

If the TV show you are thinking of was from the 90s and had a similar look and feel to Power Rangers, then you might be thinking of VR Troopers.

The show focused on three teenagers in their late teens, Ryan Steele, Kaitlin Star, and J.B. Reese, living in the fictional West Coast town of Cross World City, California. They regularly attended and were teachers at "Tao's Dojo," a karate studio. Ryan was the most focused martial artist; J.B. was the computer wizard; while Kaitlin was a photographer & budding reporter for the local newspaper, the Underground Voice Daily. One day, Ryan's search for his long-missing father led him and his two friends to a strange laboratory. Inside, a digitized head of Professor Horatio Hart (who is a friend of Ryan's father Tyler) explained the truth about his life's work of having developed extremely advanced virtual reality technology in secret. "VR" is a dimension existing alongside our own; within it lie mutants bent on conquering both worlds. The main ruler of these is a creature known as Grimlord, who, unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, has a human identity as billionaire industrialist Karl Ziktor. As Karl Ziktor tries to overcome the barriers of the true reality to allow his armies easy passage from virtual world, the responsibility falls to Ryan, Kaitlin, and J.B. of defending the planet on both sides of the dimensional barrier. They have assistance in the form of armored bodies having incredible firepower. This included eventual additions to their arsenal, such as a Turbo Cycle, Techno Bazooka, VR Troopertron, VR Shoulder Cannon, VR Battlecruiser/Interceptop and a flying, laser-blasting Skybase.

Answer 4

There is a show similar to what you describe. The Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad had 3 teens enter a virtual world where they fought various creatures. 3 Robots, with 2 of them joining to the Humanoid like character to form 2 different super fighters. The toys were like transformers and expensive/large.

Answer 5

This could also match with ReBoot: The Guardian Code, the ReBoot reboot, except for that being a bit too recent (although it was announced in 2013, it wasn't released until 2018, a little less than a year ago).

Four teenaged gamers, who are members of an online game's highest-scoring team, meet in person on their first day at Alan Turing High School. Their enrollment was arranged by Vera, an artificial intelligence who has recruited the team as "Guardians" to physically enter and protect cyberspace. Early in the series, Vera is given a human body and locked out of cyberspace, so she enrolls as an exchange student. The Guardians battle the Sourcerer, a human hacker . Dark code is the Sourcerer's primary weapon against the world's computer systems. After his initial run-in with the Guardians, the Sourcerer reactivates the computer virus named Megabyte, the main antagonist of the original ReBoot, to help him from inside cyberspace.

Trailer

Answer 6

Your description made me think of Video Game High School which is around 5-7 years old (released in 2012). It is a live action series that does involve virtual worlds and a school but not avatars as far as I can recall.

Answer 7

This is a movie not a TV show, but in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (released 2003) the kids enter a virtual game world and have to work their way through 5 levels of the game.

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Answer 8

Could it by any chance be the 1992 game show Nick Arcade? You might be thinking of the video zone portion of the show.

The Video Zone was actually a live-action video game with three levels. Using a video monitor to see themselves, the contestants would be backstage, climbing ladders, throwing "snowballs", and using a boat in front of a bluescreen attempting to achieve previously explained goals (which was always to obtain three objects) for each level of the game.

Answer 9

The original ReBoot matches the description and the timespan you describe.

In the inner computer world of Mainframe, a guardian program sprite and his friends defend the system from threats from viruses and the User.