Another "when did it start"

[Neumms]

What was the first game with extensive use of chaser lights? Hollywood Squares had flashing ones, I suppose, but the other NBC games of its era didn't and looked pretty sedate. Was it the three CBS games, Joker, TPIR and Gambit?

[Joe Mello]

10K Pyramid debuted after those three, correct?

[NickintheATL]

[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'236268\' date=\'Feb 21 2010, 01:16 PM\']10K Pyramid debuted after those three, correct?[/quote]

Yes, March 26, 1973.

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'236268\' date=\'Feb 21 2010, 01:16 PM\']10K Pyramid debuted after those three, correct?[/quote]

Yup. TPIR (still TNPIR?) moved to afternoons to make room for it.

[Blanquepage]

Oldest one I can think of at the moment is Personality.

--Jamie

[clemon79]

The use of the non-quantifiable qualifier "extensive" pretty much renders this entire thread moot.

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'236270\' date=\'Feb 21 2010, 01:24 PM\'][quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'236268\' date=\'Feb 21 2010, 01:16 PM\']10K Pyramid debuted after those three, correct?[/quote]Yup. TPIR (still TNPIR?) moved to afternoons to make room for it.[/quote]
Yes...it was still The New Price Is Right for another two and a half months after that.

[That Don Guy]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'236267\' date=\'Feb 21 2010, 10:08 AM\']What was the first game with extensive use of chaser lights? Hollywood Squares had flashing ones, I suppose, but the other NBC games of its era didn't and looked pretty sedate. Was it the three CBS games, Joker, TPIR and Gambit?[/quote]
You might want to consider the syndicated The Movie Game as well - there may have been chaser lights in the opening credits, since it's the sort of thing you might associate with movie theater marquees.

-- Don

[Bob Zager]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'236279\' date=\'Feb 21 2010, 07:13 PM\']Oldest one I can think of at the moment is Personality.

--Jamie[/quote]

That's the oldest one I can think of, too!