Match Game 1990-91 thoughts

[Sodboy13]

Did you get this idea from the DVD game? Because Audience Match is played exactly this way in the DVD game. I've played it with a lot of groups of friends and while it tends to go over well (I don't think anyone really cares who wins the Match Game DVD game), thing that I noticed from all those playings is that a player who matches the top answer in between-rounds Audience Match will for sure win the whole game.

I've actually never played the DVD game. The idea came to me back when MGHSH was new in the nightly rotation on Buzzr, and I was thinking about ways to not make the MG portion the three-round slog it so often was, while keeping the breaks the same and not having to depend on a band being present in the audience.

[Jeremy Nelson]

...having the game come down to blind guessing doesn't sit right with me for whatever reason.

I never liked this distillation of Match-Up as a coin flip. While this doesn't apply to every pair of options, knowing your celebrity could mean that some options were softballs. It might only result in a couple extra matches, but at $100 a pop, that makes a huge difference in winning and losing.

That said, I kinda love the idea of it as a cash builder.

[TLEberle]

The two sides for me—as a game player I dislike that a Contestant can speak all of twice and be spun off. At the same time Match up does test that catch a wavelength thing but it is still unsatisfactory. It’s one of those where the surroundings hsve to make up for the onion skin thin premise.

Regarding not winning your audience match prize, I thought up it was odd a perfect game was $5,600 in 1973, but in 1990 you’re winning in the neighborhood of $1,000 for the main game. Maybe they should have brought out bonus shuffle out and the best slider plays for ten times that.

It’s a case where if you want you can pick it apart and you can also enjoy it for what we got as a final product.

[knagl]

Maybe they should have brought out bonus shuffle out and the best slider plays for ten times that.

I think we're on to something here. Bonus Shuffle, but then there are match-up words hidden under the pucks for extra money. 

[JohnXXVII]

MG 90 isn't that bad. But it isn't that good either. It's a solid, middle of the road type show, nothing edgy or remarkable or anything, 6/10.

They needed to do a better job with the panel. There are so many D-level celebrities. But maybe by this time, that was all who was willing to do game shows. Those who appeared semi-regularly and were not MG7x vets were more annoying than anything else. Charles is by far the funniest panelist; he's the highlight in most episodes.

Ross is too introverted, and his humor is too ironic. I think they needed to get someone more extroverted. Bert Convy would have been perfect.

Match Up was out of place. It took away from the humor. There were also so many ways to game it. It's terrible that it determined who won the game. It would have been better as part of the end game.   

[chrisholland03]

Ross' humor was of its time and worked well, in my opinion.  The show didn't need more extroversion. 

[Neumms]

I never thought Ross was all that bad, but watching BUZZR lately, I like him even more. He was good with an ad-lib and good with the stars.

The fun of Match Game is making up an answer. Match-Ups don’t have that.

Good heavens, why they’d have the idiot with the dragon puppet on even once is beyond me.

[JohnXXVII]

Just like I've Got A Secret went from outgoing Garry Moore to reserved Steve Allen, Match Game went from outgoing Gene to reserved Ross.

Match Up went against the spirit and flow of the whole proceedings. The time to get serious was during the end game, not during the main game.

What was Mark Goodson's beef with having a show that emphasized the comedy? The game aspects of Match Game are so lame, for them to emphasize more game, it will fall flat.