[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 15 2005, 09:14 AM\'][quote name=\'dmota104\' date=\'Apr 15 2005, 08:53 AM\']
Plus the prize money on BB87 -- PUH-lease. If you win a game and had to capture at least five hexagons, you only get a hundred bucks (down from 500 in the early '80s) Further, IIRC, after you won five matches, you had to retire undefeated.
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It was a ten match limit on BB87. And they did, however, go to the progressive jackpot for the Gold Run later in the run. New champs always started at the $5K level a la Hot Potato, regardless of whether the last Gold Run played was a win or loss. I do think they could have kept the maingame wins at $500 per game, however.
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MO' MONEY SYNDROME! Oops, sorry, reflex...
As for my status, was Cullen BB better? Yes. Was Rafferty BB a bad show? No. They made do with the new players format, and did it the best way they could (switching advantages, even tiebreaker board). The show otherwise was pretty much the same, aside from the majority of domestic questions (was this the assumption that only housewives were watching daytime TV coming into play?)
One nitpicky thing I missed: different pitch bells for each player when they score a hexagon, and it sounding WHEN the red or white block goes up.