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TLEberle:
--- Quote from: Neumms on April 14, 2025, 06:30:46 PM ---I still think Break the Bank could have been good without the stars, how they scrapped them after the Joker pilot. There were more different ways a game could play out.
Make them true-false questions, which keeps play-along value for the slow-witted yet can produce wrong answers. Add a bonus game along the lines of the Gambit Board with cool stuff plus some danger boxes.
For funsies, I’d change the blanks into robbers, then in the end game make the villain boxes cops. The opening spiel could be, “Welcome to our game of hide and seek, skill and strategy, and cops and robbers…it’s the new Break the Bank!” (Yeah, I’ve done way too much thinking about this.)
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Years and years ago I was hanging out at the Palace chat/game show server and in a game of BTB. Lots of stuff revealed and I had a choice of a few places to go in order to find what I needed. I said aloud "Huh. Blanks don't touch and one is exposed so I know that's safe," and there was a gasp or murmur from the crowd. I thought that the game of hide and seek -come- Minesweeper is a better game than tic tac toe, and I'd even go further than true or false for material. Hollywood Game Night's either/or questions in Popped Quiz or the Dis or Dat material from You Don't Know Jack could be delivered just as well as the set up and punchline.
steveleb:
Pure and simple, ratings and money are the biggest reasons why all of these things happened, good and bad.
Jokers did respectably enough with cbs reruns to warrant first-run production. They effectively had an in-house distributor in Dick Colbert, who Jack met at Four Star. And as noted your effective price for a hit goes down if youre willing to make a package deal. It’s technically illegal but has been common practice for decades. Read the testimony of a man named Dale Woods that recently came to light in the Sony-CBS dispute. It’s still happening.
Every one of these shows was at one point offered in some package where Joker and/or Tic was the cornerstone. And the easiest concept for a station to grasp was a show that followed the sane formula. No, not every deal actually worked out that way. But that was always the goal.
And yes, if a manufacturer wasn’t paying for the daily exposure of a fee plug, they didn’t get Jay or Charlie’s dulcid description. IIRC when cars were win they were described; I believe it was a local LA dealer named Schoemlaw (?) Chevrolet that supplied the cars and paid only when cars were won.
I know I visited that dealership once or twice when car shopping. I ran into at least two salesmen that sounded and looked like Jack.
TLEberle:
Schonlaw Chevy but good memory—it’s fun to hear how Jack and Dan were able to make the most of their redemption.
Even if they were treading on the ideas of others there were a few cases where the copycat version is an improvement, at least to me.
Neumms:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on April 14, 2025, 11:34:29 PM ---Hollywood Game Night's either/or questions in Popped Quiz or the Dis or Dat material from You Don't Know Jack could be delivered just as well as the set up and punchline.
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You Don’t Know Jack writing sure was terrific. That’s what a Tic-Tac-Dough reboot could use. Snoop Dogg’s Joker had the right idea, just with too narrow a focus.
I’d heard of Minesweeper but never seen it, I suspect because I’ve always used Macs. I Googled it so now I’ve seen it. Looks like fun.
clemon79:
--- Quote from: Neumms on April 15, 2025, 05:39:17 PM ---I’d heard of Minesweeper but never seen it, I suspect because I’ve always used Macs. I Googled it so now I’ve seen it. Looks like fun.
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The Windows version came out 35 years ago, and the game's concept existed seven years before that. I feel confident in saying a Mac version has been out there for a while.
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