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Disappointments
TLEberle:
I thought it was a lovely anecdote—I received a skee ball game one year, though the noise from the balls clacking meant I was restricted to particular hours. It was a Sportcraft model and not a full size arcade machine obviously,
chris319:
Mindreaders was a disappointment from the get-go. Dick Martin as emcee only made it worse.
aaron sica:
Bill's pinball machine story reminded me of another minor disappointment. In 1980, my favorite games were by far the NBC ones. Big cards! Big dice! A big wheel!!! When my mom told me that we had dice, I got very excited! Just like the show. I was disappointed when the dice she gave me were a mere fraction of the ones I saw on TV.
Blanquepage:
It's Your Chance of a Lifetime and Twenty-One, for me. Gordon was great on the former, but the game was an uninspired WWTBAM clone. I just couldn't get into Twenty-One, legit or not.
Bob Zager:
I was disappointed when shortly into the 1984-85 season, changes started to happen on $100,000 Name That Tune. When it first started with their SuperChamp playoff, everything seemed so good. I even was watching that, more than Jeopardy!, airing at the same time, different station. I got overly excited when I came home late from work one day, missing most of NTT, but catching the closing moments, and seeing more money depicted on the Melody Roulette wheel!
I then watched an entire episode with the new wheel, and found them spinning the wheels only once, and paying just that amount to the winner of the round.
Over the course of its run, I'd seen other things happening that turned me off, such as airing the pilot about mid-season (and not being as great looking set-wise, music cues not as exciting), shows airing out of sequence, featuring different sized Melody Roulette wheels, and the older and newer values on them, too much interaction with Tommy Oliver, even putting some comedy into the show.
Another turn-off, the popping of balloons during the playoff week's shows, happening a bit too often day after day.
It reminded of how during a local talk show "guest," appearance by Jim Lange, he mentioned he'd lost interest in the Dating Game, when questions/answers by contestants veered away from romance, and got into comedy!
FTR, NTT moved to a late morning time slot, and I began watch J! all the time (much better!)
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