[quote name=\'wasabe\' date=\'Jan 15 2004, 10:05 AM\'] I think the reason for that is that while $10,000 is certainly a nice prize, it just doesn't go as far these days as it used to
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While true game show fans would probably play for any amount,
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EXACTLY. I'm sorry, maybe it's because I worry too much about these things in this economy, but I'd be flippin' STOKED to win ten grand, and I'd make sure the world knew it. I flat refuse to believe it's Not Enough Money...I'm more inclined to go with Nicholas's assessment that the contestant coordinator was an idjit who couldn't pick an interesting Squares contestant. (as an example of a show that requires much less work on the player's part, with apologies to Brandon Brooks
Of course, when the contestant coordinators are ordered to only select beautiful people under the age of 40, they're limiting their options from the get-go, aren't they?
It seemed that the new version was much more about plugging the celebrities than the older versions. To me, a game show should be about the gameplay and the people trying to win money that would affect their lives.
Well, a celeb is on the show in the first place usually because they have a project of some kind to pimp. So I expect them to have pimping time. I think the new Pyramid's problem was that they tried to intersperse the pimping time into the game, instead of doing it the tried-and-true old way: one celeb gets to pimp before Game One, the other before Game Two.
I'm just deeply satisfied, because the producers were fighting the fans on this one from Day One, and now we know who was ultimately right. Which is not to say we won, or ANYBODY won: one less game show on the air. But we were RIGHT.