Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2015 18:41:02 GMT -5
Here are some of my favorite game shows I grew up with:
Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks version): I liked that version of Card Sharks far more than the previous version hosted by Jim Perry. Reason being is because the set is more colorful, and pretty good video quality, and some of the questions were definitely fitting for the 80s, which was when this version originally aired.
Press Your Luck: This definitely was an 80s cult classic for sure. The first game show that comes to mind when you hear people talk about the 80s is Press Your Luck. I especially liked the Whammy animations, I think there were almost 80 of them during the entire series, and almost all of the episodes have aired on Game Show Network since 2001, though there are three months of the series left to be aired, but GSN doesn't have the rights to air them at this point. Peter Tomarken, Rod Roddy, and the man who accumulated $100,000+ by his gift of memorizing the board patterns, and focusing on two squares that guaranteed money plus a spin, allowed him to keep going until his obsession of getting rich quick would be fulfilled. $100,000 was a lot of money in 1984, but now it's chump change. Peter Tomarken knew how to handle the show really well. The final episode of the series went out a normal episode because CBS didn't know the end was coming.
The Price is Right used to be a favorite of mine, until around the spring of 2010 when I learned that a model I liked greatly, was fired because of pregnancy - a claim of hers which I don't buy one bit. That, plus the show being modernized, replacing the displays I grew up with, with computerized displays, and contestants being overly hyperactive like they're high on Red Bull, along with episodes being pre-empted or cut off because of CBS News-related stuff and CBS's reputation of not replaying the pre-empted or cut off episodes, resulting in my loss of interest in such show after being a fan for decades.
What are your favorite game shows?
Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks version): I liked that version of Card Sharks far more than the previous version hosted by Jim Perry. Reason being is because the set is more colorful, and pretty good video quality, and some of the questions were definitely fitting for the 80s, which was when this version originally aired.
Press Your Luck: This definitely was an 80s cult classic for sure. The first game show that comes to mind when you hear people talk about the 80s is Press Your Luck. I especially liked the Whammy animations, I think there were almost 80 of them during the entire series, and almost all of the episodes have aired on Game Show Network since 2001, though there are three months of the series left to be aired, but GSN doesn't have the rights to air them at this point. Peter Tomarken, Rod Roddy, and the man who accumulated $100,000+ by his gift of memorizing the board patterns, and focusing on two squares that guaranteed money plus a spin, allowed him to keep going until his obsession of getting rich quick would be fulfilled. $100,000 was a lot of money in 1984, but now it's chump change. Peter Tomarken knew how to handle the show really well. The final episode of the series went out a normal episode because CBS didn't know the end was coming.
The Price is Right used to be a favorite of mine, until around the spring of 2010 when I learned that a model I liked greatly, was fired because of pregnancy - a claim of hers which I don't buy one bit. That, plus the show being modernized, replacing the displays I grew up with, with computerized displays, and contestants being overly hyperactive like they're high on Red Bull, along with episodes being pre-empted or cut off because of CBS News-related stuff and CBS's reputation of not replaying the pre-empted or cut off episodes, resulting in my loss of interest in such show after being a fan for decades.
What are your favorite game shows?
