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toetyper

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« 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

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« Reply #1 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.
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toetyper

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« Reply #2 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./

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« Reply #3 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.
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« Reply #4 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.

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« Reply #5 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
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Page 145, so the rest of y'alls don't have to thumb through every page. :)

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« Reply #6 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?  :)

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« Reply #7 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.
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« Reply #8 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.
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« Reply #9 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.
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« Reply #10 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?

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« Reply #11 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.
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