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I am amused. I imagine others of our ilk won\'t be.
She\'s missing a very basic point in the name of her faux-outrage, though, which is that if you take away all of the chrome, *most* games on TPiR utterly suck balls. Chrome is what makes the show work.
(And then she cites Cliff Hangers as her gold-standard...and her reasoning wholly cites chrome.)
Cliff Hangers, at least, requires reasonably guessing the prices of items to win the prize.
Granted, my favorite game is probably Switcheroo, which doesn\'t have any chrome that I can think of.
Isn\'t this the case for every game show since Password? If you could play the game on the radio and not miss anything at home, something\'s wrong.She\'s missing a very basic point in the name of her faux-outrage, though, which is that if you take away all of the chrome, *most* games on TPiR utterly suck balls. Chrome is what makes the show work.
Isn\'t this the case for every game show since Password?
But it misses the point that people have to watch the show, and it is fun to have bright colors, moving bits and stuff happening as opposed to three-by-five cards or blackboard magnet numbers for everything.
...f you take away all of the chrome, *most* games on TPiR utterly suck balls. Chrome is what makes the show work.
(And then she cites Cliff Hangers as her gold-standard...and her reasoning wholly cites chrome.)
What counts as chrome? The big clock? The golf green? The cash register?
Actually, you\'ve hit three that are relatively chrome-free. (Though the cash register certainly doesn\'t have to be there.) Shell Game would *almost* be a fourth.
(That said, when Clock Game was played on TNPiR with a Chyroned clock, I felt like it lost something. Take out of that what you will.)
I\'d say One Right Price, One Wrong Price, and Most Expensive with its previous set are relatively chrome free.
Five Price Tags is about as chrome-less as it gets. The only electronics in sight are the backdrops behind the car.
What counts as chrome? The big clock? The golf green? The cash register?
Pick-a-Number?
Five Price Tags is about as chrome-less as it gets. The only electronics in sight are the backdrops behind the car.
There\'s more to chrome than just flashy presentation. Shell Game is about as visually simple a game as it gets, but the shell part of the game is a form of chrome to generate a random outcome. It is, as Chris L said earlier in the thread, pretty necessary chrome, because \"you get a 25% chance of winning the big prize for each small prize you win\" is pretty dry on its own. Or even considering how many different games have some form of giving the contestant options for the missing digit(s) in the price of a prize and the contestant has to say which one is correct in order to win.