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Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: toetyper on April 14, 2009, 10:03:17 AM
when the players looked into those little clue monitors in the front game, what eXactly did they see

i always thought they  saw the same picture  as the tv  audience.  but thatd be  impossible
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on April 14, 2009, 10:07:19 AM
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'213105\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 09:03 AM\']
when the players looked into those little clue monitors in the front game, what eXactly did they see[/quote]The passwords.
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: toetyper on April 14, 2009, 10:18:36 AM
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'213106\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 10:07 AM\']
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'213105\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 09:03 AM\']
when the players looked into those little clue monitors in the front game, what eXactly did they see[/quote]The passwords.
[/quote]

knew that was cominng

what font? what background./
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: Chief-O on April 14, 2009, 10:37:51 AM
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'213107\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 09:18 AM\']
knew that was cominng

what font? what background./
[/quote]

My guess is that it was a direct feed out of the character generator.
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: JasonA1 on April 14, 2009, 10:38:08 AM
Using a picture from the $100,000 Pyramid in the "Come on Down" book as precedent, they probably saw just the chyron of the word by itself in the same font, size and position as we saw it at home.

-Jason
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: Kniwt on April 14, 2009, 10:52:08 AM
[quote name=\'JasonA1\' post=\'213109\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 07:38 AM\']
Using a picture from the $100,000 Pyramid in the "Come on Down" book as precedent
[/quote]

Page 145, so the rest of y'alls don't have to thumb through every page. :)
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: TheLastResort on April 14, 2009, 12:34:22 PM
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'213105\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 09:03 AM\'] when the players looked into those little clue monitors in the front game, what eXactly did they see[/quote]

A Sony Watchman?  :)
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: clemon79 on April 14, 2009, 02:17:43 PM
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'213105\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 07:03 AM\']
i always thought they  saw the same picture  as the tv  audience.  but thatd be  impossible[/quote]
While not the case, there is not one reason in the world why that would be impossible. It is in fact no less likely than the direct feed from the CG that they did see, it just would have involved routing a different source into those monitors.
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: BrandonFG on April 14, 2009, 03:08:27 PM
For some reason, I thought, when this discussion came up years ago, someone mentioned that it basically was like Pyramid's setup, and was simply like a small portable TV.

Everytime I saw the device, I always envisioned a small LED display, similar to 1970s calculators.
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: clemon79 on April 14, 2009, 03:15:26 PM
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'213128\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 12:08 PM\']
For some reason, I thought, when this discussion came up years ago, someone mentioned that it basically was like Pyramid's setup, and was simply like a small portable TV.[/quote]
Because that's exactly what it is.
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: toetyper on April 14, 2009, 03:16:00 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'213120\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 02:17 PM\']
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'213105\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 07:03 AM\']
i always thought they  saw the same picture  as the tv  audience.  but thatd be  impossible[/quote]
While not the case, there is not one reason in the world why that would be impossible. It is in fact no less likely than the direct feed from the CG that they did see, it just would have involved routing a different source into those monitors.
[/quote]

a tv that small?  in 1987?
Title: super password clue monitors
Post by: clemon79 on April 14, 2009, 03:35:39 PM
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'213130\' date=\'Apr 14 2009, 12:16 PM\']
a tv that small?  in 1987?[/quote]
Yes. (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Watchman\")