New Pricing Game coming to "Price" in Season 39

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'244515\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 07:43 PM\']You know, that would be a perfectly fine reason, the aesthetics of it all might look weird. But the impression I get from some of the G-R posters is "ZOMFG! Change!1! It's not the eggcrates so I'll never watch again!!1!"

The same Chicken Little reaction that the modified IUFB screens got, and honestly, if someone hadn't told me, I would never have known. And of course, it's not everyone, but the one or two overreactions are enough. Although I'm not fond of some of the changes the show has taken, I've never understood the idea of boycotting because the show doesn't look exactly the same way it did in 1984.[/quote]
I just wish I knew what the front of the damn thing looked like.  They proved last year with Contestants' Row and Temptation that they can make these new displays work really well.  They also proved with the Showcase podiums and, to a lesser extent, Any Number that they can come off looking pretty half-baked.

[chris319]

[quote name=\'Loogaroo\' post=\'244522\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 05:45 PM\']Am I the only one who thinks the set piece for Rent Money looks like a birdhouse?[/quote]
A bird house with a chimney and a little TV set? It does. It looks to me like they repurposed a set piece from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'244527\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 08:56 PM\']I just wish I knew what the front of the damn thing looked like.  They proved last year with Contestants' Row and Temptation that they can make these new displays work really well.  They also proved with the Showcase podiums and, to a lesser extent, Any Number that they can come off looking pretty half-baked.[/quote]
If I had to make a complaint about the new displays, it would probably be the inconsistency. The Contestants Row screens were awesome replicas, but then they do the white on blue for the Showcase screens. It's not jarring enough to annoy me, I simply think an eggcrate replica would look just as cool, esp. if they switched up the background colors, i.e. black for the Showcase, red for Plinko, etc.

[Fedya]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'244511\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 06:31 PM\']And there's complaints about the new LCD Plinko screen. iAy dios mio![/quote]
Yet if I were TPIR dictator and didn't have to worry about ratings, I'd retire Plinko.  I hate it.

[J.R.]

[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'244532\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 08:33 PM\']Yet if I were TPIR dictator and didn't have to worry about ratings, I'd retire Plinko.  I hate it.[/quote]
Do you have a reason why?

Not trying to sound like an arse, just wondering.

[Fedya]

[quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'244535\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 09:57 PM\'][quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'244532\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 08:33 PM\']Yet if I were TPIR dictator and didn't have to worry about ratings, I'd retire Plinko.  I hate it.[/quote]
Do you have a reason why?

Not trying to sound like an arse, just wondering.
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The impression I get when watching Plinko is that it comes closer than most games to bringing out in the contestants and audience the same sort of irritating things that show up on a show like Deal or No Deal.  I also find the game tedious and too long with a bad ratio of pricing to interesting gameplay.  I'm sure there will be somebody with statistics to prove otherwise, but it also seems as though it gets played more than almost anything else, with the exception of one-decision games that are substitutes for something else.

Punchboard has relatively litle pricing, but at least forces the contestants to make interesting decisions.

Then again, I'm probably highly atypical in that I think I'd nominate Switcheroo as my favorite pricing game.

[J.R.]

[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'244538\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 09:43 PM\']The impression I get when watching Plinko is that it comes closer than most games to bringing out in the contestants and audience the same sort of irritating things that show up on a show like Deal or No Deal.  I also find the game tedious and too long with a bad ratio of pricing to interesting gameplay.  I'm sure there will be somebody with statistics to prove otherwise, but it also seems as though it gets played more than almost anything else, with the exception of one-decision games that are substitutes for something else.

Punchboard has relatively litle pricing, but at least forces the contestants to make interesting decisions.[/quote]
That's a very reasonable explanation and I happen to agree with most of it.

I think, while it lacks in gameplay, it does bring a nice dose of harmless fluff to the show.

/Hey, I still regard "Give or Keep" as my favorite and that's been dead for 20 years.

[Jeremy Nelson]

[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'244538\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 09:43 PM\']The impression I get when watching Plinko is that it comes closer than most games to bringing out in the contestants and audience the same sort of irritating things that show up on a show like Deal or No Deal.  I also find the game tedious and too long with a bad ratio of pricing to interesting gameplay.  I'm sure there will be somebody with statistics to prove otherwise, but it also seems as though it gets played more than almost anything else, with the exception of one-decision games that are substitutes for something else.[/quote]
My biggest gripe with Plinko is that it comes with so much fanfare and excitement, but more often than not ends in disappointment. I still find it surprising that people go so bananas over the only game on the show that has never truly been won. How many people have we seen win $30,000 on Plinko? Just one, and it took nearly a decade to do it. I'd be all for them going back to $25,000 and using the Davidson configuration to see people win a decent amount; for a game that offers a $50,000 prize, I'm tired of seeing $2100 wins for someone who got all 5 chips (and these days, it's a miracle to see someone take 4 to the board, let alone 5)

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' post=\'244501\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 01:49 PM\']According to Marc Green of Golden-Road.net, "The Price is Right" will be introducing a very exciting new Pricing Game called Pay the Rent with a grand prize of...$100,000!!![/quote]A hundred grand! Cadbury, fetch me....TWO TOWELS!

I think it would be terrifically funny if the game is won on the first playing and we get another stretch of Pick-a-Number, and That's Too Much and weeks where nobody wins everything, because the wad was shot on a single game. (Then again, they offered a Tesla convertible on what amounts to a one-in-twelve shot that you can't control. A game that isn't won stops being fun to watch.


[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'244515\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 04:43 PM\']The same Chicken Little reaction that the modified IUFB screens got, and honestly, if someone hadn't told me, I would never have known.[/quote]I noticed before being told, and thought it was pretty neat. It still looked like a readout for a game show. Eggcrate and vanes look like they belong on a game show, and the current showcase screen doesn't have that look. It doesn't ruin my day if the crew decide that everything should be in that assy Dom Casual font, but I do like it less than Swiss.

[tvmitch]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'244550\' date=\'Jul 20 2010, 01:19 AM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'244515\' date=\'Jul 19 2010, 04:43 PM\']The same Chicken Little reaction that the modified IUFB screens got, and honestly, if someone hadn't told me, I would never have known.[/quote]I noticed before being told, and thought it was pretty neat. It still looked like a readout for a game show. Eggcrate and vanes look like they belong on a game show, and the current showcase screen doesn't have that look. It doesn't ruin my day if the crew decide that everything should be in that assy Dom Casual font, but I do like it less than Swiss.
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Along these lines, I'm okay with any switch to modern displays, as long as the font used in said display is not included in a standard Windows install*. Bonus points for using the old-school display font in the modern display. For what the repairs and maintenance must cost on a 20 or 25-year old eggcrate display, I'm sure that can be made up in one plasma/LCD purchase, all for the better.

*looking at you, Arial and Times New Roman

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'tvmitch\' post=\'244554\' date=\'Jul 20 2010, 08:12 AM\']Along these lines, I'm okay with any switch to modern displays, as long as the font used in said display is not included in a standard Windows install*.

*looking at you, Arial and Times New Roman[/quote]

Amen, brother. One of the UK versions of TPIR had LCDs for everything and everything (even the wheel) was in Frutiger. I don't think they should go that far, but a little bit of tasteful and simple would serve these guys well.

[bscripps]

[quote name=\'tvmitch\' post=\'244554\' date=\'Jul 20 2010, 09:12 AM\']Along these lines, I'm okay with any switch to modern displays, as long as the font used in said display is not included in a standard Windows install*.

*looking at you, Arial and Times New Roman[/quote]
We've got a weather guy at my station who, when adding on-screen notations to the radar image, never fails to use...(shudder)...Comic Sans.

/I prefer a nice Akzidenz Grotesk myself...

[Sodboy13]

[quote name=\'bscripps\' post=\'244578\' date=\'Jul 21 2010, 12:20 AM\']We've got a weather guy at my station who, when adding on-screen notations to the radar image, never fails to use...(shudder)...Comic Sans.[/quote]

I dare say he's got a future in Cleveland.

[tpirfan28]

I donno...looks like a good visual game, but $100,000?  Matthew Lesko must be controlling the prize budget for the game.  I do hope there is somewhat of a unique pricing element to the game...they've done a good job with new pricing elements (Rat Race, Gas Money to an extent) as of late.

[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'244579\' date=\'Jul 21 2010, 01:52 AM\'][quote name=\'bscripps\' post=\'244578\' date=\'Jul 21 2010, 12:20 AM\']We've got a weather guy at my station who, when adding on-screen notations to the radar image, never fails to use...(shudder)...Comic Sans.[/quote]

I dare say he's got a future in Cleveland.
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[font=\"Comic Sans MS\"]"I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT CLEVELAND WILL NOT GET A BLIZZARD BEFORE THOSE SO-CALLED 'STEELERS' GET ONE"[/font]

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'244583\' date=\'Jul 21 2010, 09:23 AM\'][font=\"Comic Sans MS\"]"I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT CLEVELAND WILL NOT GET A BLIZZARD BEFORE THOSE SO-CALLED 'STEELERS' 'APPALACHIAN RAT BASTARDS WHO HAVE THAT QUARTERBACK NAMED RAPELISBERGER' GET ONE"[/font][/quote]
Corrected, as you're clearly giving Pittsburgh way too much credit.

At least our baseball team is better than theirs...

/That's not saying a heckuva lot.
//The worst thing our starting QB has done in the last year was suck in Carolina.