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Posted: Jun 03, 2008 in Nightlife, TV and Celebrities
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I tend to be a little late to popular trends. I just now got my first Slinky. So it should come as no surprise that I hadn't seen Deal or No Deal until last week. I must say, I expected to hate it. I expected not to last longer than five minutes. I thought I was too cool for all that. It turns out I'm not cool at all. The show requires nothing but dumb luck and a willingness to turn down large sums of money, but it's magnetic nonetheless. I can't allow myself to watch it again.
As for game shows of the past, I always loved Press Your Luck. No whammies! That's a show that deserves to be brought back. And Let's Make a Deal was genius. Seeing a contestant full of hope and greed ending up the proud owner of a goat and some straw. That's entertainment.
I'm down with Family Feud....if I had a team of 5 of me...I would never lose that show! But the fact your grandma can blow it for you has always been funny to me.
I also dig any trivia show...Cash Cab is my recent favorite, because they don't even know they are gonna get quizzed until they are in the cab. I think I can take the college kids on Jeopardy.
Press Your Luck has been brought back on the Game Show channel...under a new name, I think. But it's not quite as fun as it once was. I used to love this old game show where there was a picture puzzle behind all these screens. You would reveal a screen at a time to try and solve the puzzle...but I can never remember the name.
Press your luck is CLASSIC. I remember back in the day during the summer, re-runs were on USA in the afternoon. Loved it!
Family Feud is by far the best in my opinion. Some of the crap that people come up with baffles me, even on the newer ones. I used to tear that game up on Super Nintendo too.
Other notables for me would be the Price is Right(of course), Rock and Roll Jeopardy was always a decent watch on VH1, Remote Control on MTV and there used to be this really cheesy sports trivia show on ESPN in the late 80's/early 90's that I liked
Not to mention DOUBLE DARE and GUTS ON NICKELODEON, man I would have killed in those games…
There's something about The Feud that I don't like. Perhaps it's the absence of Richard Dawson.
I saw this wacky show on the Game Show Network called Russian Roulette. That's really what it's called. Every contestant is placed over a trap door, and if they answer a question incorrectly, there's a chance the door will open, sending them into game show hell.