Some random thoughts, in some cases ones that are different from the more in "not usually thought of" than "against opinion".
I've liked what I've seen of the 1960s Match Game better than the 1970s version, which struck me as Goodson-Todman engaging in a Hollywood Squares knockoff (in other words, behaving more like Chuck Barris or Barry-Enright). On the other hand, I suspect that I liked the original run of the Hollywood Squares better than many people here have found it in retrospect.
I have a tolerance for the slow game shows of early television. For instance, I find "What In The World", from the handful of episodes I've seen, addictive, and would hold a similar opinion for Down You Go if I could find more than one.
The daytime episodes I've seen of Let's Make A Deal, on the other hand, have always struck me as grossly tedious. The fact that the later runs have tended to be short-lived is less of a surprise than that the original run lasted as long as it did.
I'm somewhat more familiar with OTR games than others here (I am one of two fans on this board I know of for Information Please), and, as a result, am somewhat more tolerant of radio-style hosting on television.
I don't dislike Family Feud per se (the game is largely sound), but the hosts as a collective are a mass of annoyances.
This probably doesn't count, but the more and more I've seen each man's work, the more I wish Robert Q Lewis had Dennis James' career, and the more and more I suspect that there's something that kept James working that people are reluctant to admit to.
