How many game shows are in your possession?

[Passepartout]

Note: This isn't a forum about trading since trading on this board is a no-no!! Just asking and wondering out of curiousity!!

I was wondering out of curiousity, how many game show episodes are in your possession at home? I have nearly sixty or seventy with most being the Newlywed Game with some Dating & Match Game. As well as Family Feud and Marshall's Hollywood Squares. Two Treasure Hunt shows that is all I have.

[HairMetalLives]

I have a modest 1,200 (ballpark figure).

[Passepartout]

I heard about a guy who has about over 10,000 game show episodes btw!!

[Desperado]

I've got about 300 videotapes and DVDs now (mostly tapes).  About a third of them are game show related.  Lots of Family Feud, Super Password, and Match Game.  GSN's Saturday marathons from a few years back.  Four tapes filled with Trivia Trap from a couple years ago.  TPIR prime-time specials.  Lots of related documentaries, talk show appearances and clips shows.  I'll probably start collecting Password Plus when that starts back up.

I've got a pretty detailed Access database that I started working on last year to keep track of everything.  That was quite a project.  Another project I don't even want to think about is dubbing all my old VHS tapes to DVDs.  Has anybody been doing this yet?

[DJDustman]

I have about 30 tapes.  All of them are filled with USA reruns. Still a lot of fun to watch.

[Chief-O]

11 tapes total, 5 with actual GS's on them. The GSN pilots marathon, 20K Pyramid marathon, Syndie WML? marathon, LMAD pilot, and TJW/Bullseye from Feast of Favorites '03--that's all. 2 have MOGSM's 2-5 on them, and 1 has the TV City special CBS ran a few years ago. The others are "junk tapes", as I've declared them. These days, it's very rare for me to tape GS's off air. In addition, I don't do trades, and I'm not planning on it either.

[Casey Buck]

I believe Jamie Locklin of the Page O' Clips site has over 10,000 game show eps in his collection.

If I recall, there used to be a site a few years ago that listed the top 10 game show collections, but I don't know where it is.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

I'd say, total through all tv, I have just short of 3000 shows on approximately 300 tapes / 20-ish DVDs.  [That's just the self-taped stuff].   Of those, I'd say around 2500 are game shows.

[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' date=\'Mar 25 2005, 09:09 PM\']I believe Jamie Locklin of the Page O' Clips site has over 10,000 game show eps in his collection.
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Of course, getting tapes FROM said collection can be problematic for all parties.....All those tapes for those ten thousand shows, plus tapes owed that got buried in the rubble - I have problems storing a couple hundred tapes.  A thousand-plus tapes?  Oy.

[ChuckNet]

As of last update (3/16), I now have 8,358 shows in my collection...before long, however, I'll be taking a hiatus from trading while I begin the monumental task of converting my collection to DVD.

Chuck Donegan (The Always-Up-For-A-Challenge "Chuckie Baby")

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Mar 25 2005, 11:07 PM\']As of last update (3/16), I now have 8,358 shows in my collection...before long, however, I'll be taking a hiatus from trading while I begin the monumental task of converting my collection to DVD.

Chuck Donegan (The Always-Up-For-A-Challenge "Chuckie Baby")

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Any chance that some of the tapes will revert to some of your famous "prizes"?

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'Desperado\' date=\'Mar 25 2005, 05:50 PM\']Another project I don't even want to think about is dubbing all my old VHS tapes to DVDs.  Has anybody been doing this yet?[/quote]
I've started dubbing my collection to DVD several months ago.  I try to convert one tape to DVD each weekend, plus anything from the previous week on my TiVo worth archiving.  With any luck, I should have everything converted by 2012, just in time for the DVD format to become obsolete.

[Jay Temple]

I got my DVD burner for Christmas.  I believe I burned my first one that day.  I too am converting all my tapes.  Just to keep from losing my mind, I burn a DVD and watch a DVD.  At this rate, I'll finish the other DVD's that I got for Christmas around June.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Mar 25 2005, 11:22 PM\']With any luck, I should have everything converted by 2012, just in time for the DVD format to become obsolete.

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Luckily, the two formats about to compete for High Definition-Capable DVD [Blu-Ray, HD-DVD] are both backwards compatible...IT won't be until we move away from the optical-writing plastic/metal discs of today, onto the "Next Big Thing" of data storage, that we'll have to worry about obsolete media, and ANOTHER round of conversions.

[ChuckNet]

Any chance that some of the tapes will revert to some of your famous "prizes"?

It's a possibility... ;-)

Chuck Donegan (The Generous "Chuckie Baby")

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Mar 26 2005, 03:16 AM\']

Any chance that some of the tapes will revert to some of your famous "prizes"?

It's a possibility... ;-)

Chuck Donegan (The Generous "Chuckie Baby")

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There was a thread on a.t.g-s in 1999 and again in 2002 that addressed this. Naturally, the totals have to have increased over time, but here's what we could determine from the 2002 thread.

 9,000 Jake Tanner
 8,000 Jamie Locklin
 7,800 Robair Mackey
 7,000 Imad Khuri
 5,623 Chuck Donegan
 4,900 Matt Kaiser
 4,500 Eric Paddon
 4,118 Brad Francini
 4,000 Greg Diener
 2,500 Chris Lambert

Matt ranked them with Robair in second place and Jamie in third, at the time.