Game shows you'd have dominated...

[wdm1219inpenna]

I always had a knack for Concentration.  Classic Concentration I think I would have done even better with as there were only 25 numbers instead of 30 and three wild cards instead of just two.  I was (and still am I believe) pretty good at figuring out rebus puzzles.

For this reason, I believe I also would have done fairly well with Catch Phrase back in the day.  Now that I'm almost 58 my reflexes are not as fast as they once were so I might be a bit slow on the ringing in part of the toss-up catch phrase portion of the game.

I also would have done well on Bob Stewart's word game Shoot For The Stars which was on NBC in 1977 for an all too brief period of time.  It would be retooled later as Double Talk on ABC where it also had a fairly short life span.

[BillCullen1]

Being a teenager in the 70s, here's my list:

The $20,000 Pyramid
70s Password
Match Game
Jackpot
You Don't Say
Rhyme and Reason
Shoot For The Stars
Blankety Blanks

I actually tried out for Pyramid in 1978 when I was 19. Made it past Pandolfo but didn't make it past Chan.
As Walter Cronkite would say, "And that's the way it is."

[beatlefreak84]

The first game show I remember actually being good with the source material was Rock and Roll J!  But that's because most of the questions were classic rock-based.  I doubt I'd do well on a modern version!

Scrabble was another show I would have been good at as I've always been good at word games.  It helped that my very competitive grandmother also liked it, so I had to be on top of my game. 

Anthony

[carlisle96]

Being a teenager in the 70s, here's my list:

The $20,000 Pyramid
70s Password
Match Game
Jackpot
You Don't Say
Rhyme and Reason
Shoot For The Stars
Blankety Blanks

I actually tried out for Pyramid in 1978 when I was 19. Made it past Pandolfo but didn't make it past Chan.
As Walter Cronkite would say, "And that's the way it is."

I tried out for $100,000 Pyramid and had the same experience, but it was a different woman. I always thought being an out-of-towner helped. I also applied to $128,000 Question as an expert on old time radio but got back a form letter telling me the series was wrapping up production for that season...and that was that.

[steveleb]

Have to assert Pyramid for me.  I had the misfortune to audition when ratings were starting to decline and Bob was tinkering with the win rate.  He personally told me years later I was passed over because they thought I was “too good”.  Having seen how he budgets as a business partner of his years later, I have no reason to believe he was kidding.

[Jeremy Nelson]

In all honesty, Press Your Luck.  Even after they changed to 32 patterns, I still knew enough of them that I could have done well.  Not like Larson, but probably enough to win big for at least a couple of games.

You might have done even better on the newest version- I haven't tracked for it this season, but in Seasons 1 and 2, there were frequent board shuffles that didn't include a single whammy, in both the front and bonus games.

[Neumms]

Pyramid and Scrabble. Tic Tac Dough, too, but then that was everybody’s game of strategy, knowledge and fun.

[Kevin Prather]

Even as a ten-year-old, I probably would have had an easier time on ABC Millionaire than twenty-five-year-old me had on the syndicated show.

[knagl]

Pyramid, Super Password, and undoubtedly Supermarket Sweep.

[mmb5]

Studs.