The Joker's Wild

[dazztardly]

Reading up on this information of the gameboard setup: http://sbentley.esmartdesign.com/jokerswild/board.html

Was something similiar to a Phenakistoscope used for each of the wheels?

Wikipedia entry presented here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistoscope

Interesting food for thought,
-Dan Berger

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'dazztardly\' post=\'200642\' date=\'Oct 29 2008, 05:00 AM\']
Reading up on this information of the gameboard setup: http://sbentley.esmartdesign.com/jokerswild/board.html

Was something similiar to a Phenakistoscope used for each of the wheels?

Wikipedia entry presented here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistoscope

Interesting food for thought,
-Dan Berger
[/quote]
No, it was some sort of wheel that held about 20 35mm slides. TV stations used it to select static graphics (hooked into their film chain), but Jack Barry figured out how to use it like a slot machine wheel.

[dazztardly]

[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'200644\' date=\'Oct 29 2008, 05:52 AM\']
[quote name=\'dazztardly\' post=\'200642\' date=\'Oct 29 2008, 05:00 AM\']
Reading up on this information of the gameboard setup: http://sbentley.esmartdesign.com/jokerswild/board.html

Was something similiar to a Phenakistoscope used for each of the wheels?

Wikipedia entry presented here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistoscope

Interesting food for thought,
-Dan Berger
[/quote]
No, it was some sort of wheel that held about 20 35mm slides. TV stations used it to select static graphics (hooked into their film chain), but Jack Barry figured out how to use it like a slot machine wheel.
[/quote]

Do you know the term for this device?

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'dazztardly\' post=\'200645\' date=\'Oct 29 2008, 08:03 AM\']
Do you know the term for this device?
[/quote]
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/rca-tp7.jpg

It was probably this exact unit, the RCA TP-7 telecine projector. The slides were mounted in the drum (only one drum of the two was used), vertical format, and the mechanism was somehow modified to be spun at rapid speeds, then a clutch engaged to stop the wheel on a slide (most of the time... sometimes the wheels stopped in between pictures).

Chris Clementson was working at Channel 13 when Joker taped there and has shared his knowledge of this equipment in the past.

[TroubadourNando]

[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'200647\' date=\'Oct 29 2008, 08:10 AM\']
 (most of the time... sometimes the wheels stopped in between pictures).
[/quote]


Like on the '72 premiere when one wheel jammed followed by the wheel prior to it restarting and spinning backwards, removing a joker that had appeared already.

/which surely gave Jack a spine chill

[Chief-O]

Before the TP-7A, RCA had the TP-3. Similar concept, looks like it's just as easy to modify. Considering how the reels looked as they spun, I'd think that this, or something similar, was used. I'd bet that the TP-7 would look closer to a slot machine than what they did use.

[disclaimer: I have never used a TP-7A. I have seen one in real life before, and I bet it's still in use where they have it, but I doubt they'd let me touch it. ]

[TheLastResort]

[quote name=\'Chief-O\' post=\'200698\' date=\'Oct 29 2008, 07:46 PM\'] Considering how the reels looked as they spun, I'd think that this, or something similar, was used. [/quote]

Agreed.  There was a slight vertical arc to the rotation when the slides were moving, so I think something like the TP-3 was what they used.

[Clay Zambo]

[quote name=\'dazztardly\' post=\'200642\' date=\'Oct 29 2008, 05:00 AM\']
Reading up on this information of the gameboard setup: http://sbentley.esmartdesign.com/jokerswild/board.html
[/quote]

Interesting, yes, but damn, my eyes still hurt from looking at that page layout.

Doggone shame about that blooper the poster mentioned.  Seeing Jack flustered was always one of the highlights of Joker.