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golden-road

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« on: January 04, 2005, 04:08:01 AM »
Not including the hosts, do you believe there are any good qualities about Joker90 & TTD90? Also, OT, do you think FLASHGames should do the Joker90 & TTD90 bonus rounds?
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BrandonFG

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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2005, 04:14:59 AM »
TJW was an interesting idea, but it shouldn't have been labeled as The Joker's Wild, considering people would remember the prior version from just four years before. I think, with a different title it would've worked, but to avoid being called a TJW rip-off, use a different way of selecting the questions and dollar amounts (something other than a slot machine). With a good nite's sleep, I'll post the idea I came up with later on. :-)

As for the bonus round, I think it could kinda work like the Dream House thing. Have the contestant randomly select how many spins they could get, and then play. As for TTD, they have the CBS bonus game up now, which the 1990 version was very similar to (sans the corny "Dragon Slayer," and the bad rapping).
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2005, 06:02:06 AM »
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Not including the hosts, do you believe there are any good qualities about Joker90 & TTD90? Also, OT, do you think FLASHGames should do the Joker90 & TTD90 bonus rounds?

Well, both shows (TJW90, especially) offered much more money than their predecessors.  The definitions concept was unique -- but the "categories" should've been on the Joker machine from day one of the revival.

As for FLASH Games doing any bonus games from those '90 revivals, while I can't speak for Dan and company, I'd suggest not holding your breath.  Those same '90 revivals left a bad taste in a lot of mouths.
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2005, 06:24:33 AM »
The only good quality about TTD90 is Henry Mancini.  That was his last television work.
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Don Howard

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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2005, 07:07:27 AM »
[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 06:24 AM\']The only good quality about TTD90 is Henry Mancini.  That was his last television work.
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While I admire Henry Mancini's work very much, that was not a game show theme. That music would've played better on Romper Room.
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2005, 08:22:26 AM »
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 07:07 AM\'][quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 06:24 AM\']The only good quality about TTD90 is Henry Mancini.  That was his last television work.
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While I admire Henry Mancini's work very much, that was not a game show theme. That music would've played better on Romper Room.
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Yep. I remember watching that in college with roommates (at 1:30AM!!!). We'd see Mancini's name on the credits and wonder out loud.... he wrote that piece of garbage?

On a side note. Challengers at 1AM, TTD at 1:30, Trump Card at 2AM....is there any wonder why i nearly flunked out of school that semester?
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2005, 08:50:53 AM »
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Yep. I remember watching that in college with roommates (at 1:30AM!!!). We'd see Mancini's name on the credits and wonder out loud.... he wrote that piece of garbage?


IMHO, the theme from the '90 version of "Joker's Wild" wasn't much better.
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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2005, 08:59:27 AM »
[quote name=\'dmota104\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 06:02 AM\']
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Not including the hosts, do you believe there are any good qualities about Joker90 & TTD90? Also, OT, do you think FLASHGames should do the Joker90 & TTD90 bonus rounds?

Well, both shows (TJW90, especially) offered much more money than their predecessors.  The definitions concept was unique -- but the "categories" should've been on the Joker machine from day one of the revival.


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Remember that many bonus round wins on TJW90 saw the contestant win less than the $2000-$2200 in cash won in the maingame. I give TJW90 credit for the questions being a tad more challenging than was seen in the last years of the 1977-86 TJW. I'd have had the bonus round this way: give the contestant a choice of two categories like in round two of the maingame, and give them say, 20-30 seconds to get as many as they could right, with each question earning a spin. Another positive about TJW90 was allowing champs to stay on for an unlimited number of days(TTD90 retired players after 15 matches supposedly, though no one lasted that long in its 13 week run). Thomas Van Dyke's long run of 13 days as TJW90 champ was the longest run of a game show champ for 14 years.
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tyshaun1

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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2005, 10:09:07 AM »
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 08:50 AM\']IMHO, the theme from the '90 version of "Joker's Wild" wasn't much better.
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Although it's grown on me slightly, Joker's Wild '90 gets my award of-

Most. Repetitive. Theme. Ever.

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mystery7

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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2005, 11:36:24 AM »
Highly debatable, but I kinda liked the sets for both shows.
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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2005, 11:55:17 AM »
[quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 02:08 AM\']Not including the hosts, do you believe there are any good qualities about Joker90 & TTD90? Also, OT, do you think FLASHGames should do the Joker90 & TTD90 bonus rounds?
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TJW: The opening of the show was nifty. Lotsa flashy chase lights, and I liked how the Joker Machine rotated around. Any open (save for MG98, where it was "forced") that involves the "assembling" of the set through mechanical means gets extra points in my book.

TTD: No. Not a damn thing.

Flashgames: No. There have to be other bonus games I would rather see.
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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2005, 01:34:54 PM »
Flashgames basically has the '90 TTD Bonus game anyhow.
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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2005, 02:09:23 PM »
True...just put it up recently.

Here's my opinion.

TJW90 wasn't really a bad game, considering its early flaws. I liked it quite a bit when I was a kid. I thought that the format switch probably hurt more than it helped. Even though they were trying to get back to the feeling of the original show, essentially all they changed was the way the questions were asked. Instead of it being various dollar amounts for definitions, it was defintions organized by category. Either they should have kept the original format the way it was, or go to the original Joker's Wild format of questions.

I also thought the bonus round was better this time around, with my only problem being the jokers having to be converted into prizes. (No wonder the Joker Jackpots were so high! Few, if any, could win them!) Also, I think now it might have been fun to throw a devil on the wheels just for the sake of making things interesting.

TTD90 had no redeeming qualities as far as I was concerned. Bad format, bad host, bad bonus round...bad everything.
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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2005, 02:26:42 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 11:55 AM\']TJW: The opening of the show was nifty. Lotsa flashy chase lights, and I liked how the Joker Machine rotated around. Any open (save for MG98, where it was "forced") that involves the "assembling" of the set through mechanical means gets extra points in my book.

TTD: No. Not a damn thing.

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Well TTD also had its set "assemble", as you put it, by having the game board swivel up into place, and the X's and O's rise up from the floor.

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Steve Gavazzi

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« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2005, 03:12:57 PM »
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Yep. I remember watching that in college with roommates (at 1:30AM!!!). We'd see Mancini's name on the credits and wonder out loud.... he wrote that piece of garbage?


IMHO, the theme from the '90 version of "Joker's Wild" wasn't much better.
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I actually liked it quite a bit.  I've wished for years that I could find a longer cut of it than the one on the Supersite.
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