[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Jan 25 2005, 09:03 AM\']
Blank Check
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I kind of liked "Blank Check", and certainly enjoy the one episode we have in the trading curcuit. Although this is not really a "holy grail" of games, it's one I wouldn't mind seeing more of. Maybe it's just those memories of watching it as a kid and thinking it was kind of cool. If the whole series was rerun, maybe I'd think differently.
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In which you'd find out that the tossup was changed in the series--twice--and there were several other little tweaks. None of them helped.
It also seemed that it was less Jack Barry's show and more Lin Bolen's--or at least he was trying to put in elements that she would like, particularly the whole thundering herd of contestants concept (I'm surprised there wasn't a third show on her watch that tried that concept). But considering that the base concept of the show (guess what random selection your opponent has made) had already bombed in the late 50s as a prime time show ("ESP"), it may've not had any hope to begin with.
LIke Merv, Barry can be happy that when he came to pitch the show, Bolen didn't hit him with "...and we'll have a giant pinball machine on stage!"
