Game show memories from your childhood

[JasonA1]

Out of curiosity, besides you, Benfield and me, is anyone else on this forum under 25?

Right here. And the post above yours comes from somebody who is 18 or 19.

-Jason

[DoorNumberFour]

Out of curiosity, besides you, Benfield and me, is anyone else on this forum under 25?

Yes sir. 22.

[pacdude]

Out of curiosity, besides you, Benfield and me, is anyone else on this forum under 25?

Yes sir. 22.

24 here.

[rjaguar3]

Out of curiosity, besides you, Benfield and me, is anyone else on this forum under 25?

Yes sir. 22.

24 here.

22 for me.

[fishbulb]

From Concentration:
1. The klunk-klunk noise of the trilons spinning
2. Hugh Downs scaring the beejeezus out of me when a puzzle was solved: "IS RIGHT!"
...

My first memory is early '60s Concentration.  I think everyone was hypnotized by the sound of the trilons.
I was never scared by Hugh Downs, though.

[J.R.]

I'm 27 and you are all starting to make me feel old.

[PYLdude]

I'm 27 and you are all starting to make me feel old.

Wait 'til you hit 29, like I just did.

[clemon79]

I'm 27 and you are all starting to make me feel old.

Wait 'til you hit 29, like I just did.

Every one of you can get the hell off my lawn.

[GMar]

My love for game shows started at age 3...1954...when I became became an addict of the old "Strike It Rich" CBS show with Warren Hull. I had no idea of the show's controversial concept at the time, but I loved that the game board "Heart" would light up when Ralph Paul called on the telephone "Heartline" to announce prizes being donated to those needy folks playing the quiz. A year later, my grandfather, a master carpenter, built me a replica of the giant Fab-box "Strike It Rich" game board for Christmas. It's long since been gone, but I came across this picture of it from around 1956. The heart could light up and slots allowed you to change the dollar amounts. The heartline telephone was an old 50s dial desk model that didn't work anymore, but it served my purpose just fine.

[Unrealtor]

Most of mine are brief moments, almost still images. The "CA$HWORD" graphic and the display for the endgame jackpot on Super Password and the car game on Eubanks/Rafferty Card Sharks are the two that I can date the most specifically as being among the first. I remember shopping on Wheel (mostly the shopping music,) the update to "Changing Keys" that happened in 1989, and how my mother complained about how cheap the CBS daytime version felt.

[Steve Gavazzi]

and how my mother complained about how cheap the CBS daytime version felt.

My grandmother even noticed this -- she said that Bob Goen "had a stingy wheel."

[chris319]

I remember Dotto hosted by Jack Narz.

I remember Tic Tac Dough hosted by Jack Barry.

I remember Play Your Hunch hosted by Merv Griffin.

I remember Beat the Clock hosted by Bud Collyer.

I remember Video Village hosted by Jack Narz, then Monty Hall.

I remember Concentration hosted by Hugh Downs.

I remember The Price Is Right hosted by Bill Cullen.

I remember Say When!! hosted by Art James.

I remember G.E. College Bowl hosted by Robert Earle.

I remember Password hosted by Allen Ludden. How well I remember Allen Ludden.

That's enough for now.

[Bryce L.]

Out of curiosity, besides you, Benfield and me, is anyone else on this forum under 25?

Yes sir. 22.

24 here.

22 for me.

Currently 24, will be 25 in October.

[golden-road]

26 in June.

Remember Wheel as the first I ever saw, then Price. First Pyramid I saw was Davidson, worshiped TNPiR'94, and got GSN at 13.

[ChrisLambert!]

For some reason, one memory that has always stuck with me was, as a 6-year-old, seeing a listing for "Face the Music" in TV Guide and excitedly switching over to WRTV-6, despite my parents' insistence that we couldn't pick that channel up off the antenna where we lived.

6 came through clear as a bell that night, for whatever reason.

I often wonder how much better my life would be had it not