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GSN and Match Game?
CaseyAbell:
Millionaire, Match Game and Lingo are receiving relentless promotion on the network. As folks have noticed, they're even getting plugged as part of the campaign for the video games special.
I can't blame GSN for flacking the shows that rescued their prime time schedule from the disaster of late last summer. But just once it would be nice to get through thirty minutes on the network without seeing any blurbs for the threesome.
Fedya:
Isn't it likely that GSN had this documentary in the can long before the Video Games block tanked, and that they're showing it because, well, it makes no sense to produce the thing and let it languish?
Granted, by that logic, we would have seen the last two episodes of the 2003 LMaD.
whampyl03:
--- Quote ---Isn't it likely that GSN had this documentary in the can long before the Video Games block tanked, and that they're showing it because, well, it makes no sense to produce the thing and let it languish?
--- End quote ---
You're exactly right. (Or close to it, at least.) In a Cronin interview a few months back on the topic of the now defunct GSNVG's, Cronin mentioned a documentary about the history of the video game running in conjunction with the debut of GSNVG's. This documentary fell off the face of the earth when GSNVG's was given the axe. I'll bet ¢15 and a genuine kick in the pants saying that this would be that same documentary.
clemon79:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Feb 21 2004, 02:49 PM\'] [since most likely it'll mostly be about PlayStation and X-Box and I'm more of a fan of 80's Nintendo and arcade games] but still, I don't see your logic. [/quote]
As with all GSN programming, I say give this a chance before making assumptions like this. Any video game history worth a damn that doesn't cover Pong, Nolan Bushnell, the Atari 2600, and Pac Man simply isn't a true history. (And Sony and Microsoft have their places in history, too.)
(Extra credit for interviewing Ralph Baer.)
aaron sica:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 22 2004, 04:39 AM\']
As with all GSN programming, I say give this a chance before making assumptions like this. Any video game history worth a damn that doesn't cover Pong, Nolan Bushnell, the Atari 2600, and Pac Man simply isn't a true history. (And Sony and Microsoft have their places in history, too.)
(Extra credit for interviewing Ralph Baer.)
[/quote]
I fully agree....As someone who picks up "High Score!" and "The Complete History of Video Games" every time he goes into Borders, and also as someone who has liked video games since the age of 6, I am looking forward to seeing GSN's take on it...
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