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Title: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: byrd62 on January 30, 2018, 04:24:47 PM: Veteran TV game-show producer (and one-time host) Scott Sternberg has hooked up with Atari for a big-money TV adaptation of the latter's pioneering 1970's video game.

The article gives a wrong title for one of Sternberg's past productions, which should have read Wheel 2000.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/pong-game-show-atari-1202681958/
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: weaklink75 on January 30, 2018, 05:03:36 PM: For a second I was reading that as "Million Dollar Bong", and I was thinking "Isn't Snoop Dogg still doing Joker's Wild?"....
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: TimK2003 on January 30, 2018, 11:44:21 PM: Million Dollar Pong -- Because Candy Crush was just a bit too.....complicated???
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: ChrisLambert! on January 31, 2018, 07:59:07 AM: YOU'LL LOVE IT

TRUST ME

:)
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: Kevin Prather on January 31, 2018, 02:42:17 PM: Quote from: ChrisLambert! on January 31, 2018, 07:59:07 AM
YOU'LL LOVE IT

TRUST ME

:)

Are you staff or a contestant?
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: BrandonFG on January 31, 2018, 03:48:50 PM: I'm hoping they will add some sort of element to make this game halfway watchable. I have some ideas going across my head where the Pong board is a grid, where contestants must cross to the opponent's side. Kinda like "Blockbusters".

Remember that live action Pac Man commercial from a few Super Bowls ago? Now, I'd pay to see that as a game show!

/Granted, we also had "The Money Maze"
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: Kniwt on January 31, 2018, 07:50:09 PM: Quote from: Kevin Prather on January 31, 2018, 02:42:17 PM
Quote from: ChrisLambert! on January 31, 2018, 07:59:07 AM
YOU'LL LOVE IT

TRUST ME

:)

Are you staff or a contestant?

I think he's lost his magnificent marbles.
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: TimK2003 on February 02, 2018, 12:31:45 AM: I caught that obscure reference too. The Music cues would be perfect for this show.

Now if it was Million Dollar BEER Pong, I'd be going for contestant tryouts yesterday.

/Not necessarily for the Free Beer at the audition.
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: Neumms on February 05, 2018, 08:51:36 PM: Quote from: BrandonFG on January 31, 2018, 03:48:50 PM
Remember that live action Pac Man commercial from a few Super Bowls ago? Now, I'd pay to see that as a game show!

/Granted, we also had "The Money Maze"

That Pac-Man would have been great if either they had better casting or the ghosts actually ate the player. And $1,000,000 Money Maze would be, as Robert Duvall said in Network, "a big, fat, big-t***ed hit."
Title: Re: Scott Sternberg's "Million Dollar Pong", in association with Atari
Post by: johnnya2k3 on February 07, 2018, 07:09:02 PM: I'll wait till "Million Dollar Paperboy", thank you very much.