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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by parliboy on November 06, 2025, 08:18:49 AM »
Any Split Second besides the last one.  I know GSN shows are formulaic in certain ways, but the end-game of their Split Second was a great improvement.
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by MikeK on November 06, 2025, 07:34:30 AM »
Likely unpopular opinion:  The Big ShowDown.  The game is an amazing game of strategy.  The end is dumb luck by rolling dice.

Musical Chairs too, especially that first incarnation of the bonus round.
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The Big Board / Re: Go! episode order
« Last post by tvwxman on November 06, 2025, 07:26:35 AM »
Quote from: aaron sica on November 04, 2025, 07:11:48 AM
In the east coast at least, Go's competition was possibly two other game shows - I say "possibly" because it definitely wasn't the same in all markets. ABC's noon offering was Feud, which at this point was a year and a half away from ending its right (and no doubt not being carried in most markets because noon news). CBS's "noon" offering was Tattletales, which was either carried at other times (9:30 a.m. in Philly and maybe Baltimore) or not at all. "Noon" in quotes because the official time slot of the show was 4 p.m.

If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.
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The Big Board / Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by aaron sica on November 06, 2025, 06:43:07 AM »
Flipping over the other thread for the opposite.

Any shows where you preferred the main game OVER the bonus round?

I can only think of one - Classic Concentration. I much preferred trying to solve the puzzles (even if I was never very good at it) more than watching someone play for a car.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by Ian Wallis on November 05, 2025, 10:49:11 PM »
I agree with Magnificent Marble Machine.  The front game was boring.  I remember watching it originally and it seemed forever until they actually played the machine.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by BrandonFG on November 05, 2025, 09:39:51 PM »
Quote from: Kevin Prather on November 05, 2025, 06:34:11 AM
Winning Lines is often considered one of the worst formats with one of the best bonus rounds.
Even at 17, I thought the Wonderwall should've been the main attraction with a simple qualifier like a Fastest Finger. More than a decade later* nothing has changed.

*/Shut up that was only 12 years ago
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by Winkfan on November 05, 2025, 09:21:10 PM »
Quote from: aaron sica on November 05, 2025, 07:36:27 AM
Card Sharks.

Hear! Hear! Might I put in a good word for:
The Big Showdown; their bonus round was boss!
The Magnificent Marble Machine; I really enjoyed that one.
Now You See It; one of the better "play-along" ones.
Blockbusters; see under NYSI.

Cordially,
Tammy
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by Nick on November 05, 2025, 08:26:08 PM »
Quote from: Matt Ottinger on November 05, 2025, 08:41:26 AM
I don't understand the premise of the question.  Isn't the bonus round supposed to be the most exciting part of the show, the one part everybody looks forward to seeing at the end?

If you're Frank Wayne producing The Nighttime Price Is Right, you're treating the Showcase that way.  I rather liked that approach, though I think it goes without saying the pricing games make for the far more exciting part of the show.

My hot sideways take: Jackpot was such a great game it didn't need a bonus round.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by BrandonFG on November 05, 2025, 08:25:07 PM »
Another one: I love the reverberating sound made when someone freezes a window in Bullseye. Would love to know how composers and sound editors came up with some of the SFX.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by Nick on November 05, 2025, 08:15:57 PM »
The "vowels only remaining" chirps from Wheel, as the rarity of their sounding these days typifies how the game has shifted from trying to spin and call every consonant possible in order to earn the cash to win prizes, to being able to win the game without much spinning at all thanks to there being no such concept as "score money" in the game with numerous Toss-Ups and bonuses tacked onto just solving puzzles.
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