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Neumms:
SuperBall was cool, but seemed too complicated. I think it would help if they moved away from the each ball = a prize idea. Play for a certain score, as in real Skee-Ball. Or play for one big prize, any ball in the middle hole wins it (the more balls you earn, the better your chances).

Does anybody recall if the center \"win\" hole was bigger in SuperBall than it would be on a typical Skee-Ball lane? Statistics might not bear this out, but the game always seemed too hard.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Oct 10 2003, 01:58 PM\'] Does anybody recall if the center "win" hole was bigger in SuperBall than it would be on a typical Skee-Ball lane? Statistics might not bear this out, but the game always seemed too hard. [/quote]
 It was prolly the size of a 30-point hole, which was the center of the bullseye. The 50-point hole at the top of a Skee-Ball target is usually only a teeny bit bigger than a single ball. You gotta hit it dead-on. At 30 there is a little more leeway.

Also I think the balls used in Super Ball were somewhat smaller than regular Skee-Balls...they struck me as being pool-ball sized, and a Skee-Ball is usually larger than a baseball.

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'NicholasM79\' date=\'Oct 10 2003, 01:22 PM\'] Given the ratings and the factor of the audience still beating down the doors to get on the show, I think we could be due for a return of the "Phone Home Game", which I still believe to this day was an ingenious concept. :-) [/quote]
 Certainly, but it'd have to be called the E-mail Home Game now. Have TPIR get into the computer age and do the game via e-mail exchanges, of course that would be too complicated for some of the contestants on the show, but it's a nice thought.


Why did PHG leave TPIR in the late 80s anyway(it ran concurrently with the Play ALong promotion at one point). For those who don't recall, one pricing game on some episodes was a Play Along game, meaning someone at home would win whatever prizes the contestant won in that pricing game(and a Play Along T-shirt if the contestant won nothing). Sometimes they did this for the Showcase Showdown, and they would have three postcards drawn. They'd read one name at the outset, and if someone won $1K on the WHeel, the home player would and they'd draw another postcard who would win money if someone else won $1K. Home players also won whatever money was won in Bonus Spins, if any.

tommycharles:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 10 2003, 06:25 PM\']
Certainly, but it'd have to be called the E-mail Home Game now. Have TPIR get into the computer age and do the game via e-mail exchanges, of course that would be too complicated for some of the contestants on the show, but it's a nice thought.

 [/quote]
 The only red flag I see in that plan is that if I get an email from someone I don't know telling me that I can win big in the next 5 minutes I'm inclined to delete it.

That Don Guy:
[quote name=\'NicholasM79\' date=\'Oct 10 2003, 01:22 PM\']Given the ratings and the factor of the audience still beating down the doors to get on the show, I think we could be due for a return of the \"Phone Home Game\", which I still believe to this day was an ingenious concept. :-)[/quote]
Too hard to control the home contestant, especially when one prize was missed (the home player had to remember that there were now two prices that couldn't be mentioned.)

But speaking of bringing things back, why not bring back the Home Viewer Showcases?  True, there's a couple of weeks' worth of episodes you can't show in reruns (obviously, an episode that opens with a mention of the HVS can't be repeated on CBS), but who wouldn't want to see (okay, hear) someone win over $100,000 worth of stuff for one postcard (or E-mail, although that would be a little easy to rig by having computer programs to send off multiple E-mails with prices that increase by a penny a pop)?

-- Don

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