I used to enjoy Card Sharks.

Sale of the Century was good, too.

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anyone remember the one from the 80s where kids got to play video games vs each other? There was a studio with about 20 arcade games and each episode kids would square off a few of them such as DigDug.


Loved that as a kid.

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never mind, found it. Starcade!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUeg3JdBGzA

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Very, very good show.

I wonder if they have the episode with the brothers named 'Dusty' and 'Boot'.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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Yeah, that was a good show. Remember the Journey video game, Escape? That was...inneresting.

Didn't they have to play Dragon's Lair in whatever the final round was called?

Studs

The games changed each show ... once in a while they'd have, say, an all Pac-Man type games episode or all Dragon's Lair or Cliff Hanger or Space Ace episode (with some 'expert' playing it throughout the show so regular people like you and me could see parts of the game we'd otherwise not be able to see, including the endings).

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

yea, Geoff Edwards

the same guy who hosted Treasure Hunt

that was a creepy ass show

Card Sharks is a great game, probably more fun to play than to watch. Those survey questions probably don't hold up today, though, they were all like "we asked 100 men, do you think women are asking for it? How many said yes, women are asking for it? "I'll say 59, Jim." "I'm gonna go higher." "It was 78!"

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I'll tell you were The Price Is Right is popular - prison. When I was in law school we went on a tour of Stateville Correctional Center and it seemed like the TV in ever cell was tuned in.

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woah woah woah, what law school did you go to where you got to go on cool field trips like that????

The closest we ever came to anything cool like that at DePaul was when a buddy of mine, who was being mentored by top Chicago criminal attorney Tom Breen, brought Rolando Cruz to hang out with us a few weeks after they got him released from prison.

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NIU. You need to attend a third rate public law school to enjoy such perks as a prison tour.

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

The Winners' Circle from Pyramid is the best bonus round. Those $100,000 tournaments got really hard, how they'd lure you into a false sense of security with easy subjects like "Hair Colors" or "What a Dog Says" and then get you with "Things You Resolve" or "Things You Initiate." Nonetheless, one time one contestant got the top subject, "Things That Are Bound," off one clue: "old-fashioned Japanese women's feet." Damn.


They're beatin' it to the models.

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1) Jeopardy
2) press your luck
3) Remote Control
4) Price is Right
5) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Well, I mean, that's what a quiz show is. Nobody exits the womb conversant in Shakespeare and opera (maybe Hatchetman did). I don't think it's any more or less honorable to have boned up on literature but not the NFL.

More than rote memorization, I think the game is being able to distill a meandering clue like "Mozart and Freud would have no 'beef' with this German-speaking capital city outside Germany known for its coffee and schnitzel" down to "hey, dumbass, what's the capital of Austria?"

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Two glaring omissions here:

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My son loves it, as do I.

Cutthroat Kitchen revived a Double Dare course on last week's episode, complete with Marc Summers as the judge.

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Carmen & Silvy's "NHL player or member of Russian Parliament"

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Back in the 70's I was a fan of "Split Second". The winner would get a car key and if the car they picked (out of 4 on stage) they won it. A lot of Ford LTD's as I recall.

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That is simply in response to the idea that Wheel Of Fortune is a game for simpletons when both are pretty much just memorizing stuff and then being good at recalling it with the given context clues.

Jeopardy actively chooses certain categories that are very similar to each other because they want the participants to know stuff and also to have winners who make it a while and get people all excited that we have our new genius. They then throw in some random categories.

I just don't see much of a difference spending your time knowing every King James in history and knowing every word and phrase that is "around the house".

Heck, they say the biggest secret of Jeopardy is that it isn't really your knowledge that ultimately wins games but how well you can time the clicker in order to answer more questions.

And I like Jeopardy too, even though I'd be bad at it for obvious reasons. The hatred for Wheel Of Fortune is too much for me to stand by idly though.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

1) Jeopardy!
2) Liar's Club
3) Price is Right
4) Card Sharks

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You know me like that.

The Family Channel ran an '80s remake of Split Second circa 1994-1995. I really liked the mechanics of the game, with the three-part questions and the countdown round. The bonus round with the car was kind of a tossoff when you compare it to the rigor of the game itself, which was essentially a faster and harder Jeopardy!


Funny you'd pick that, because English monarch categories wreck me every time.

This sort of reminds me of an argument I had on the internet years ago about spelling bees. He said there was nothing about winning a spelling bee to be proud of because rote memorization is the lowest form of learning. I argued no, shitdick, I just knew how lots of words were spelled because I read more books than my peers did, and the ones I didn't know I could usually intuit. Yes, the spelling bees all drew from the same master list that anyone could get the handbook for and drill to death, but I never had the attention span for that. Hence, as well as I may have done, I still would've lost to some Vikram anyway.

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It could be argued that WOF skirts the laws surrounding fairness in a game show (seriously). Originally the final bonus round allowed the contestant to pick all of the letters toward solving the puzzle. Now most of the letters are chosen automatically. Since they also select the corresponding puzzle, clearly they can make it easier by picking solutions which include more of the pre-selected letters. Of course the opposite is also true. I could see a contestant that gets a seemingly unfair puzzle testing the legality of the process.

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Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.- JD Vance
If you committed violence on that day, obviously, you shouldn’t be pardoned.- JD Vance on the J-6 insurrectionists