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Having grown up during the late 70's, early 80s I have an affinity for game shows (God knows there were enough on back then). What's your favorite? I always enjoyed Press Your Luck with the Whammy dude that they used to animate on the screen. Also LOVE The Price is Right and Jeopardy.

What're your favs? Also, thoughts on Deal or No Deal?
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Having grown up during the late 70's, early 80s I have an affinity for game shows (God knows there were enough on back then). What's your favorite? I always enjoyed Press Your Luck with the Whammy dude that they used to animate on the screen. Also LOVE The Price is Right and Jeopardy.

What're your favs? Also, thoughts on Deal or No Deal?


Deal or No Deal pisses me off for a number of reasons:

1) They always congratulate the contestant on a "good guess" - there are no good guesses - the only skill is knowing when to take the money and run!
2) The contestants never know when to take the money and run
3) The host always makes lame jokes and quips strange phrases
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4) "The bank" is as stingy as hell at the worst times.

Out of curiousity, how long has Deal or No Deal been going on in other parts of the world? I think this is the third year of it here in Australia...
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Originally posted by: theredbaron
Originally posted by: JediSage
Having grown up during the late 70's, early 80s I have an affinity for game shows (God knows there were enough on back then). What's your favorite? I always enjoyed Press Your Luck with the Whammy dude that they used to animate on the screen. Also LOVE The Price is Right and Jeopardy.

What're your favs? Also, thoughts on Deal or No Deal?


Deal or No Deal pisses me off for a number of reasons:

1) They always congratulate the contestant on a "good guess" - there are no good guesses - the only skill is knowing when to take the money and run!
2) The contestants never know when to take the money and run
3) The host always makes lame jokes and quips strange phrases
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4) "The bank" is as stingy as hell at the worst times.

Out of curiousity, how long has Deal or No Deal been going on in other parts of the world? I think this is the third year of it here in Australia...


Are you talking about the American or Aussie version? I think Howie Mandel is ok, not terrible. And yes you are correct, the people on their are STUPID on when they take the $$ and don't. The other night there was a woman on there that kept saying "I don't know what to do, Howie Mandel. Tell me what to do Howie Mandel". Wanted to smack her.

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Deal or no deal has been going for about 6 months here in England, and it's pretty big. It has reveived the career of Noel Edmonds, who was a big TV star in the 80s but faded into obscurity/

I think the italian version has been goign for quite some time.

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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Deal or no deal has been going for about 6 months here in England, and it's pretty big. It has reveived the career of Noel Edmonds, who was a big TV star in the 80s but faded into obscurity/

I think the italian version has been goign for quite some time.


Yes, it has done the same for Howie Mandel, who was a big comedian here for a while in the 80's.

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I think Deal or No Deal is ok, but nothing compared to the older game shows.

Price is Right (my fave), Press your Luck, Tic Tac Dough, High Rollers, Classic Concentration...I could name them all day. I was a game show freak.
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Scrabble, The Newlywed Game, Password, $10,000 Pryamid....ahhh yeah. Good times.
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Jeopardy is my all time favorite, but has anyone seen or heard of Cash Cab yet?

i'm (sad to admit that i'm) totally addicted to it

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Originally posted by: Devilman-1369
Jeopardy is my all time favorite, but has anyone seen or heard of Cash Cab yet?

i'm (sad to admit that i'm) totally addicted to it


Cash Cab is alright. Makes me wanna run to "the city" and try and find him. Get some cash!

Although, I'd bet they're not in NYC anymore. Probably gonna move the show to Chicago or something.
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Yeah, that was a great show, sean. Before I knew of blue screen technologies, I really wanted to do that.

But I'm a really big fan of classic Family Feud, Password Plus (which I thought was better than the original, but Super Password was just a cheap ripoff), and Press Your Luck.

Does anybody remember the short-lived Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks a few years back? I loved that show.

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Win Ben Stein's Money & Remote Control (early days of MTV).
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Nah, I wasn't talking about Howdie Mandel - in truth I have no idea who he is. I watch the Australian version here and there, and as I said, it's going on its third year here. I'm just trying to gauge how long it's been on in the US (I didn't see it on TV at all while I was there).

As far as other game shows go, Wheel of Fortune's always good for a bit of fun, and so is the Price is Right. The good thing with the Price is Right in Australia, is that it all builds up to the Master Showcase at the end of the show, where contestants can and have one on a few occasions won $500, 000 worth of stuff - usually an Alfa Spider, Motorcycle, and a luxury apartment block on the Gold Coast. And the host, Larry Enda, is almost a human incarnation of Guy Smiley. Young fella, pearly white small, tall, and a real hit with the female contestants.

I like Millionaire in Australia (it's too easy in America, especially with four lifelines), but when I was in America, I came to love Jeopardy once again. It is a very challenging show, and I find that the champs of the show are usually above average in intelligence. Problem is, it got axed in Australia when I was about 10 years old, and it shows no signs of going back - I guess people thought that asking questions backwards was kinda retarded. I always had trouble answering those U.S. Civil War questions all the time, so an Australian incarnation would be awesome.

There's one other gameshow that we have that I really enjoy, and I am not sure whether or not it is peculiar to Australia. It was called Sale of the Century for a long time - and basically, it's just an old-fashioned hit-the-buzzer-and-answer-the-question affair. It went off the air for a few years and then came back as Temptation - not a very suitable name for what it is, but the 'temptation' element comes from the prizes offered mid-game, whereby the leading contestant can spend some of their points on it (e.g. 15 points for a diamond ring, 10 points for a top-of-the-range computer, etc.). The best part of the show is the fast-money round at the end - if the champ decides they're coming back, they try to build up their prize money - and if they answer 10 questions in a row correctly in the allotted time without a mistake (one mistake and they have to start from $0 again), they add $10, 000 to their total prize money (i.e. $1000 per correct answer, which is what they get to take home if they lose the next week).
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When did America's Millionaire have four lifelines? And what was the fourth one? And how many does Australia have?

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I've always had an affinity for "Plinko" from the Price is Right. In fact, I've always dreamed of building a giant Plinko game on a wall in my house.
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
When did America's Millionaire have four lifelines? And what was the fourth one? And how many does Australia have?


Australia has three - ask the audience, phone a friend and 50:50. Now, when I was in America, I saw two versions, one with a female host and another with a male host - I was thinking perhaps that one was in New York and the other in LA or some kind of East Coast/West Coast thing. The fourth lifeline that I saw on the American ones (not sure which one) was a switch-the-question lifeline. Ring any bells?
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I remember seeing some pretty dumb questions on Millionare....once I saw something like 'what is the color of a...' can't remember what but what I do remember is me wishing to be there so I could make an easy 200 bucks lol

EDIT: Which would become about 50 after taxes...
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I still remember seeing an episode of Millionaire where the $500,000 question was "Which of the following is NOT a Pokemon?"

Jeopardy is my fave, but I like Distraction, too.
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Are you serious about the pokemon question? Thats insane!
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Naw, I just made that sh....Yes, I'm serious! Jeez. I don't lie. He used a 50/50, and it came down to "Jigglypuff" or "Frodo". Deadly serious. He got it wrong.
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Originally posted by: theredbaron
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
When did America's Millionaire have four lifelines? And what was the fourth one? And how many does Australia have?


Australia has three - ask the audience, phone a friend and 50:50. Now, when I was in America, I saw two versions, one with a female host and another with a male host - I was thinking perhaps that one was in New York and the other in LA or some kind of East Coast/West Coast thing. The fourth lifeline that I saw on the American ones (not sure which one) was a switch-the-question lifeline. Ring any bells?


The "male host" version of Who Wants to be a Millionare? was by Regis Phillbin starting in '99, I think, and I know the original version only had the three lifelines you mentioned. In flipping through channels recently, I've seen a few minutes of this female hosted version. I have no idea who it is, and I was surprised to see that the show was still going on (its appeal having been sapped exponentially after its initial appeal wore off). But being able to switch a question does seem a bit too easy, which is probably why Mrs. Millionaire will never be the next Regis.

And, yeah, sybeman, I remember that Pokemon thing. Sad.

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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"Win Ben Stein's Money"

That was always fun to watch. I always enjoyed "The Match Game". Lots of fun possibilities there.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
And, yeah, sybeman, I remember that Pokemon thing. Sad.


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Sad that we weren't in the position to do so, or sad because we knew the answer quite easily?

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.