Round Robin...yum!

I’ve plotted with Jeremy Nelson about having a mega thin where people bring various home games and host round robin games. I know that the Game Show Throwdown has been on the back burner after TCONA imploded but also my body clock is so funky that I’m as apt to be awake at 7 pm as three in the morning these days.

hi, for those that do not know they we started trivia nationals last year in New Orleans. this year they doing in Las Vegas. last year I was very busy but this year I might be available. I just want to know is the current trivia nationals the same as the previous iteration in terms of celebrating game shows. it would be a very expensive investment to find out later that it no longer has the game show activities that the previous one had.

this is the website (https://trivianationals.org/)

I'm actually finding myself not particularly enjoying the 1988-89 episodes all that much.  Once Breslow got kicked and Frank Wayne died, the show rapidly calcified into what it became in the 1990s and 2000s, and for good and especially for ill that's an era I've come to largely associate with Bob morphing into a crank who fired anyone who dared stand against him, a de-emphasis on all the non-Barker talent on the show, a show that aesthetically didn't basically didn't change one iota for twenty years except for the turntable carpet and paint on the doors, prizes and games that become less and less interesting, a greater focus on Barker's own celebrity and longevity than the game show itself, and a show that feels like a zombie compared to it's far more creative late 70s and early-mid 1980s counterpart. Runtimes came down, showcases got more bland, the show kept introducing more and more pricing games that were often less and less inspired.   I've found I don't particularly care for it at all.  Certainly I have way more love still for a show from 1988 or 1994 than from 2004, but Breslow's ouster and Frank Wayne's death puts the show on a trajectory I have never cared for.

I've come to feel about Price from the late 80s through late 2000s the same way I've come to feel about Wheel after the mid-late 90s (most of the Harry Friedman, et al-run years) until they brought in Bellamie Blackstone as producer and Ryan and host.   Or a non-game show like The Simpsons at any point in the last 25 years. They became a zombie shambling around in the suit of the show that it once resembled at its peak. 

Price S17 is from the period of time right after the zombie first infected the show (from my own harsh view) and you can see the first signs.  Conversely, while the novelty does wear off fast with the 70s episodes, they do represent a nice 'break', especially the shows from '73 onwards as they introduce more games and everyone slowly figures out what this is. Plus, the older the episodes get the more of a novelty the prizes themselves truly become.

I notice in the ebay images that one die is showing an all-red blank side.  I always thought each die had sides representing $500, $1,000 and $1,500; plus images of cars on each remaining side.  Has the game ever used any die/dice with a blank side?

Nope -- the $500 sticker must have fallen off the die and gotten lost.

Also note that despite the word "dice" in the header of the listing, the item description clarifies that only one die is being sold.