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TLEberle:

--- Quote from: Kevin Prather on December 14, 2024, 10:51:29 PM ---Watching the Barker Era channel, my first thought is "Holy cow, did Danger Price get overplayed or what?"
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It would have been ten years old in the mid-1980s, and that, Poker Game, Take Two and Race Game all had the same rubric of four one-biddish prizes, so I wonder if they had a backlog of those.

wdm1219inpenna:
Hard to fathom that Danger Price ranks 25th as far as oldest pricing games on the show, considering as of this posting the show has featured some 112 different pricing games (not counting any LMAD games played on Price during Mash-up weeks).

During the mid 1980s there were far fewer games in the rotation too which might explain why Danger Price appears to show up so often.  It's still a solid game and I don't mind seeing it.

According to http://tpirstats.com/Other/AllSeasons.html, Danger Price was played 35 times during season 13, the 1984 - 85 season which would be the last full season with Johnny Olson as announcer.  Not sure how many episodes there were back in season 13 but even if you figure 220 episodes, 35 is a pretty large number of times for Danger Price to appear.  Again the pricing game rotation was far smaller even back then than it is in 2024 with over six dozen pricing games in the rotation.

jjman920:

--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on December 15, 2024, 07:05:43 PM ---Hard to fathom that Danger Price ranks 25th as far as oldest pricing games on the show, considering as of this posting the show has featured some 112 different pricing games (not counting any LMAD games played on Price during Mash-up weeks).

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It makes sense. Danger Price was the first game to debut after the show permanently switched to an hour and once that happened, there was a steady stream of games introduced each season to beef up the rotation.


--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on December 14, 2024, 10:10:37 AM ---Time Is Money - Of all the current pricing games, this is the one I detest most of all.  There is virtually ZERO play along factor with this game.  Furthermore, while it is rare for anyone to win the $20,000 top prize, it is far too common that players end up winning ZERO dollars in this game.  As a TV viewer I get absolutely ZERO enjoyment or pleasure watching this pricing game and usually if I have it recorded, I just fast forward through it since almost nobody ever wins a darn thing in this miserable game.

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I find the first part of this critique interesting because I thought there was play along factor in guessing which products belong in which ranges. I assign each range a number (1 for the low ranger, 2 for the middle, 3 for the high-end) and then guess where I think which one goes. And during the countdown gameplay, I then think to myself, "maybe that product could go there" or when watching the contestant "you fool, cashews are like $9, keep it high!" I won't say that it's enjoyable for everyone, especially when a contestant is completely clueless and it becomes "Waiting 30 Seconds for the Money to Hit Zero," but hey, I like yelling at my TV.

I don't have very many least favorites that aren't just overplayed one or two prize games (which is understandable) or games that suffer from poor setups despite the actual game not being bad (Switcheroo or Pathfinder), but I will put down one game that is absolutely on any list of my least favorites...

Hot Seat: This is a Let's Make A Deal game, but because there's no pricing games allowed on Brady LMAD because it's become Price's sister show, it's got ported over to Price. It has the gloss and sheen of Let's Make a Deal and uses SFX that sound like they were crafted by Cat Gray. It's very boring to me. Congrats, you're playing Higher/Lower in chair. Glad you're comfy. I appreciate the suspense of going for it, but it's not enough for me to justify its gigantic Shower Game-rivaling set and time to play. I also hate that it has no introduction anymore. Prior to the pandemic, they used a graphic on the backwall to introduce the game, but they dropped it because there was no audience during the first pandemic season and they didn't want to use a shot of the backwall. Instead of using another piece of the set such as George's podium (which they've done in the past), they decided to just walk up to the game, zoom out from the game's sign and have Drew just go into explaining the game. Even following the return of the audience, they have decided not to bring back that intro and currently, Hot Seat stands as the only cash game in the show's rotation that doesn't have its top prize introduced or announced by George. It's just...there and it's a nitpick of mine that makes me sad the director doesn't seem to mind for someone who's as details oriented as Adam Sandler.

aaron sica:
My least fave:

What may be the most unpopular opinion in the room - Plinko. I've just never liked it.

My other least favorites:

One Right Price
One Wrong Price
Double Prices
Side by Side

There's an obvious pattern there....I'm not a fan of the "quickie" games, but I know that they need to be in the rotation.

TLEberle:

--- Quote from: aaron sica on December 16, 2024, 12:45:10 PM ---My least fave:

What may be the most unpopular opinion in the room - Plinko. I've just never liked it.

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It's unfair to the contestant who just wants to be on TV and win some cash but I've started to hate-watch in a fashion, laughing when someone wins just two extra chips and they total up $600. Same as Time is Money when the contestant spends 17 seconds looking into the crowd and furtively moves stuff back and forth.

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