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How would you revive...Tic Tac Dough?
whampyl03:
--- Quote ---Same Front Game rules, just inflated amounts...
Why?
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You don't want to screw around with the gameplay, and if you want the old $300/$200 on the outers and $200/$100 for the inner, that's your call.
--- Quote ---Same Bonus Game rules (circa 1980 syndie) just Inflated amounts...
Why?
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Same thing, Even though there is not very much gameplay to BTD, you still don't want to screw around with it much. Weather you want $1000 to beat the dragon is your call.
--- Quote ---Every 5th time you play Beat The Dragon, you play for a prize package with a $40,000 to $60,000 car added
13 weeks and out. IF you can find a packager who will touch your budget with a fifty-foot pole.
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Ehhh... I guess you have me there....
--- Quote ---As for music... Use the classic theme. It's one of the best GS themes ever.
...and would be so dated in 2003 that it would be utterly laughable.
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I'll just give in and say your right on that one. But I think it could still work (but that's just me).
Brandon Brooks:
--- Quote ---Here is how I'd revive it...
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Here we go!
--- Quote ---Same Front Game rules, just inflated amounts...
$750 for the outside boxes, $1,500 for the center box
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Not really too much need. Using TTD90's values would be fine enough (except for the resetting of the board values... that's dumb).
--- Quote ---Same Bonus Game rules (circa 1980 syndie) just Inflated amounts... ($2,000 beats the dragon, and wins you a $12,000 to $17,000 prize package)
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Eh, whatever.
--- Quote ---Every 5th time you play Beat The Dragon, you play for a prize package with a $40,000 to $60,000 car added
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Nah.
--- Quote ---As for set... USE MY DESIGN! (link below)
http://www.geocities.com/antpollreisz/ttda...l?1056253626990
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Now, I'm going to be honest... the only thing that bugged me about all TTD's were the hideous sets. This is updated, but still cheesy. Unless it's a comedy show, I don't know how well cheesy looks today.
--- Quote ---As for music... Use the classic theme. It's one of the best GS themes ever.
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If Pyramid refused to use a wonderful, less slightly dated theme that was twenty years old, what makes you think the new TTD would use one that's even older?
Brandon Brooks
whampyl03:
--- Quote ---As for music... Use the classic theme. It's one of the best GS themes ever.
If Pyramid refused to use a wonderful, less slightly dated theme that was twenty years old, what makes you think the new TTD would use one that's even older?
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Well, Feud reverted back to the 88 theme (yes, I know there is a 10 year diffrence between them both) so maybe there would be a slight glimmer of hope.
Gee, was my revival THAT bad? (well, at least you people are being honest)
Dan Sadro:
A few suggestions:
(1) I'm not surprised that many of you are supporting a dollar-value-per-box system. Save for a drunken syndicator, the only place you'd be likely to see the show is on cable. I don't think GSN's originals budget even $10,000 per episode in prize money (on some series, I think it's much less), and many of your ideas would spend more than that on just the average maingame. This might just be the time to end that antiquated practice. Maybe there'll be something for winning the game, cash or prize.
(2) Sir Foster-Gray has some very intriguing ideas. Many are pretty good.
(3) Regarding Neumms, it might be possible that Thom McKee's episodes were exciting for two reasons -- the tie games and the large amounts of money involved -- two of the reasons that the original Twenty-One intrigued the national audience. I think, just like Twenty-One, that TTD can be the most boring game show on television if it's not played dramatically.
(4) The thought of using any B-E endgame in 2003 is hilarious. Ha ha ha [cough] [hack] [cough]. Keeping the spirit of the original is important, yes, but sometimes it's just a good idea to take a flamethrower to certain aspects of the original. Even stealing the endgame from the Jack Clark Caught in the Act unsold pilot in the trading rounds would be more true to tic-tac-dough than picking numbers hoping not to find a frighteningly bad computer dragon behind it :^)
(5) Just a nitpick, but whatever happened to nice, round numbers? I've seen $7000, $12,000, and $17,000 mentioned in this thread, and my mind is spinning.
Oh well, I'm done; fire away.
Dan Sadro:
[quote name=\'whampyl03\' date=\'Jun 26 2003, 12:09 AM\']
--- Quote ---As for music... Use the classic theme. It's one of the best GS themes ever.
If Pyramid refused to use a wonderful, less slightly dated theme that was twenty years old, what makes you think the new TTD would use one that's even older?
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Well, Feud reverted back to the 88 theme (yes, I know there is a 10 year diffrence between them both) so maybe there would be a slight glimmer of hope. [/quote]
The original Family Feud themes, IMHO, contaned an intrinsic quality that suited the 2002-2003 season's set. They added the light wood colors to the set and as an overall effect, the set was warmed up. Fremantle felt they should use a theme that contained the qualities of the revised set, a theme with an \"at home\" feeling.
And really, what can be more \"at home\" than quasi-bluegrass music? :^)
The same cannot be said about TTD78 theme. I'm surprised they didn't dump the theme to a more-electronic and less-Hidey offering when Martindale left.
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