Author Topic: Two TPiR games retired (Read 14315 times)

Casey Buck · « **on:** April 05, 2008, 01:37:12 AM »

Not sure how many of you care about this, but according to golden-road.net, both Joker and Poker Game have been retired from the show.

More info here: http://www.golden-road.net/index.php?topic...g88949#msg88949

Allstar87 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 05, 2008, 01:45:49 AM »

I can see why both were ditched.

Joker's concept was already done with Bonus Game & Shell Game, and the Joker board looked kinda tacky. And Poker Game could only offer three-digit prizes; fine for 1975, bad for 2008.

Craig Karlberg · « **Reply #2 on:** April 05, 2008, 03:59:32 AM »

I can see why Joker got retired. The game's pretty boring. All you're really doing is discarding cards in the hopes that none of them is the Joker.

As for Poker Game, I understand it was fun when it was good, but I think it should've evolved & offered 4-digit prizes just like Clock Game tried to do back in the '80s. Definitely one of my favorittes I'll miss. A 50/50 compromise, so I'll learn to accept it.

sshuffield70 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 05, 2008, 05:59:10 AM »

Seems like Joker's been brought back a time or two. I know G-R lists it as being '94, but I think more research would point to late 70s, early 80s. At least that's what ISTR.

mrchips · « **Reply #4 on:** April 05, 2008, 06:28:56 AM »

[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' post=\'183302\' date=\'Apr 5 2008, 04:59 AM\']Seems like Joker's been brought back a time or two. I know G-R lists it as being '94, but I think more research would point to late 70s, early 80s. At least that's what ISTR.[/quote]
Hmm. Sure you're not thinking of Hit Me, which seems rather MIA its own self?

CJBojangles · « **Reply #5 on:** April 05, 2008, 09:34:17 AM »

[quote name=\'mrchips\' post=\'183303\' date=\'Apr 5 2008, 06:28 AM\']
Hmm. Sure you're not thinking of Hit Me, which seems rather MIA its own self?[/quote]

Hit Me was retired last season.

tvwxman · « **Reply #6 on:** April 05, 2008, 09:55:25 AM »

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'183301\' date=\'Apr 5 2008, 03:59 AM\']
Definitely one of my favorittes I'll miss. A 50/50 compromise, so I'll learn to accept it.
[/quote]
Throw your television out the window. That makes everything better.

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2008, 11:42:27 AM »

[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' post=\'183302\' date=\'Apr 5 2008, 05:59 AM\']Seems like Joker's been brought back a time or two. I know G-R lists it as being '94, but I think more research would point to late 70s, early 80s. At least that's what ISTR.[/quote]
You think wrongly.

And before you respond to that, please consider that all of our premiere dates come directly out of the show's own records. You can't get a lot better-researched than that.

Also, I'm not going to go revealing why Poker Game and Joker were retired without John's permission, but I will say that no one in this thread has hit on it yet.

JasonA1 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2008, 11:55:13 AM »

I always thought Mark Jeffries had the best "fix" to Poker Game - play it with three-digit grocery items instead, and offer up the usual ~$5,000 item for an ultimate win. Besides, the whole "pick a prize (you think) that has a lot of 9s in it" wouldn't sound as silly, because people can better quantify a higher priced grocery item versus a higher priced chochke. Just slap a table with the items on it in front of the current price cards, and you're good to go.

-Jason

MikeK · « **Reply #9 on:** April 05, 2008, 12:38:33 PM »

Here's my pointless speculation on the retirements...

1. Both games were rarely played in recent years. I'm sure the number of times each game was played in the last two seasons could each be counted on one hand.
2. The less likely of the two--Poker Game would look like crapola in HD. Joker, probably not as much.

I like the Joker "Is the price $xy or $yx?" concept. The rest of Joker, game-wise and aesthetically, looks like it was thrown together by someone in half an hour.

chris319 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 05, 2008, 06:38:49 PM »

Quote

Without John's permission I'm not going to go reveal~~ing~~ why Poker Game and Joker were retired. ~~without John's permission~~

Fixed for you.

Allstar87 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 06, 2008, 12:13:33 AM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'183318\' date=\'Apr 5 2008, 11:42 AM\']
Also, I'm not going to go revealing why Poker Game and Joker were retired without John's permission, but I will say that no one in this thread has hit on it yet.
[/quote]

Don't tell me THEY got left out in the rain too!

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #12 on:** April 06, 2008, 01:22:20 AM »

While many of us would like to think that Joker would be retired for sucking, the continued existence of Pick-A-Number contradicts that theory. Perhaps confusion over/dislike of the "discard" mechanic? ("You win if you got rid of something! And the thing you want to get rid of is almost always a good thing to have when you're playing cards!")

Poker Game stumps me, considering that I thought it was being played much less often due to the aforementioned small-prize issue. I could certainly see the possibility for confusion in explaining its rules, though. (Barker basically had it down to "pick things with lots of 9s" by the end, didn't he?)

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2008, 04:21:23 AM »

[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'183369\' date=\'Apr 6 2008, 01:22 AM\']Poker Game stumps me, considering that I thought it was being played much less often due to the aforementioned small-prize issue.[/quote]
Poker Game isn't a small prize game...

clemon79 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2008, 04:23:30 AM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'183374\' date=\'Apr 6 2008, 01:21 AM\']
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'183369\' date=\'Apr 6 2008, 01:22 AM\']Poker Game stumps me, considering that I thought it was being played much less often due to the aforementioned small-prize issue.[/quote]
Poker Game isn't a small prize game...
[/quote]
Come on. You know what he meant.