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Disappointments
TimK2003:
--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on May 29, 2025, 09:13:05 AM ---I thought of 2 other disappointments for me involving another game show, Las Vegas Gambit.
As a huge fan of the 70s version, I was jazzed to see it return in 1980.
My first disappointment was when the Gambit Board only had 18 numbers instead of 21 like the original.
But worse was when they replaced the Gambit Board with the High Rollers end game. I mean I get it as it was LAS VEGAS Gambit, so they wanted to add another game based on a casino game...would have been better if they had done that from the onset though.
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And the LVG theme was just as much a disappointment. When I think of Sin City, I think of Elvis' Viva Las Vegas or jazzy cabaret music -- not music better suited for a Good Morning America chatfest.
aaron sica:
Adding another - one of my favorite elements of the first Pyramid editions was the tiebreakers, which could sometimes result in much higher scores than 21. I was disappointed when $25K came back in '82 and the tiebreaker was who could get 7 the fastest.
BillCullen1:
Here are my disappointments, game show wise:
The $128,000 Question - Oh my God, what a train wreck this was. The '76-'77 season was done at the Sullivan theater in NYC with host Mike Darow. He got stuck in the curtain once. Another time, they stopped tape because someone sneezed. They were big on cue cards for Darow and the contestants. One day, they were supposed to do three shows. I showed up one late afternoon and was told they were still doing the first show. How they managed to get a full season in was a miracle, IMO, and this was a weekly show. I'd shudder to think if this was a daily production.
The Joker's Wild '90 - I just could not deal with that drastic of a change to a show that I liked. For the record, I thought Snoop Dogg's version was decent, better than the '90 version.
Shop Till You Drop - JD Roberto's version that looked like a Costco store in a mall was a big letdown for me from the Pat Finn version.
Scrabble '93 - a cheapened version of a popular 80s show that I loved
The $50,000 Pyramid - when I heard the first time in the Winner's Circle was for $5,000, I thought "What the bleep?" They really got cheap there.
As Walter Cronkite used to say, "And that's the way it is."
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on May 29, 2025, 10:21:13 AM ---The $50,000 Pyramid - when I heard the first time in the Winner's Circle was for $5,000, I thought "What the bleep?" They really got cheap there.
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I mentioned I was 10 when $100K premiered........I was 6 when $50K premiered and I was so happy Pyramid was back..........I was so mesmerized by the solari boards (as I was with $20K) that I really wasn't paying attention to the money amounts.
wdm1219inpenna:
Just remembered another one, from 50 years ago no less...
As a youth I was enamored with The Magnificent Marble Machine, so much so that I begged my parents for a pinball machine for Christmas, and God love them, they had one for me Christmas morning 1975. It was called Egghead. They surprised the heck out of me too as they had it on our enclosed front porch. I opened all of my other presents and I tried to hide my disappointment when I saw no pinball machine, so my Dad casually asked me to go out to the front porch and bring in that day's newspaper. When I walked out and saw the machine sitting there, my jaw dropped to the floor. By far my alltime favorite Christmas memory from my youth...
Sorry I went off on a tangent there. Anyway, MMM used to have it where if the ball hit something in the machine it scored 200 points each time. Evidently there were flaws with the machine after they audited videotapes, so they changed it to just 500 points and only if 1 of the 7 numbered bumpers were hit and nothing else. Further making the show meh was now it was all celebs and they played for audience members. The show sadly flopped.
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