Author Topic: Card Sharks (Read 15172 times)

Dbacksfan12 · « **on:** May 20, 2005, 02:55:05 PM »

List your favorite version of Card Sharks--and if applicable, reasons why.

TLEberle · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2005, 03:06:15 PM »

NBC: Best host, basic game play, no 'added extras' that got in the way of the pacing, clever questions, badass theme song...

[Three Hours Later]

...and the green set looked like it would fit in at a casino.

clemon79 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2005, 03:17:42 PM »

What Travis said.

SRIV94 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2005, 03:28:16 PM »

Ditto.

Doug

michaellinn · « **Reply #4 on:** May 20, 2005, 03:29:18 PM »

I'm going along with what Travis said, too. The NBC version is my favorite. Loved the theme music and set. I'd pick Perry as my favorite host of all the guys who hosted the show as well.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #5 on:** May 20, 2005, 03:37:25 PM »

I want to say Eubanks; I'm more partial to the CBS run, mainly b/c it's what I grew up on, but Eubanks semi-smug personality drops it down a bit (haven't really seen Rafferty in action). Perry's interaction with the personality just might give the NBC run an edge.

However, I think the CBS run had a better set.

FeudDude · « **Reply #6 on:** May 20, 2005, 03:44:25 PM »

I've grown to favor Rafferty's version after watching it sporadically over the past two months. I think the new elements they added to the show (audience polls, prize cards, etc.) enhanced the gameplay without taking away from what made the original format so appealing, and Bill's hosting style is a happy medium between Jim Perry's dramaticism and the over-the-top silliness of Bob Eubanks.

mystery7 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 20, 2005, 04:56:48 PM »

NBC. Great set, no-gimmick gameplay, and top-flight hosting by the Master Of Suspense, Jim Perry. Need I say more?

SteveRep · « **Reply #8 on:** May 20, 2005, 05:22:48 PM »

If it means taking each version exactly as it was played at the time, it's the original for me as well -- for all the reasons that have been mentioned.

But if you could mix-and-match, I'd take everything about the NBC version as it was when it ended (push rule, etc.) and add the CBS money card rules (1 change anywhere on a line and +$400 on the second level for $32K max).

aaron sica · « **Reply #9 on:** May 20, 2005, 05:42:11 PM »

I lean toward CS86 because I like the car game (it's neat hearing TPiR car music outside TPiR...especially when they play "The Big Banana"), and the fact that you can change the card anywhere on the line.

Hostwise, I lean a bit towards Rafferty for CS86.

Chief-O · « **Reply #10 on:** May 20, 2005, 06:00:18 PM »

HOSTS: Well, it's Perry hands down. However, after seeing Rafferty, I can say I like him better than Eubanks.
FORMAT: They were both alright. I don't have any problem with either. The audience polls and car games would grow on you after a little while.
SET: They were both awesome in their own ways.
MUSIC: Perry's version, hands down.

MY VERDICT: Perry, although the Rafferty version [under the rules we're seeing now on GSN] isn't far behind. Only Fremantle could really screw this game up, as we all have seen.

dmota104 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 21, 2005, 09:43:41 AM »

CS78 without a doubt. Can't beat the original. I 100% agree with the sentiment Jim was a master of suspense. It had precious few flaws which, over time, were fixed -- mainly the "push" rule in the money cards.

The late '80s versions did add a nice touch with upping the ante in the money cards -- as well as a new way of making exchanges with the three spare cards. But, as noted elsewhere in this forum, by the time the car games and the 10-person audience polls came into the show, the pacing really dragged.

The Pyramids · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2005, 11:06:58 AM »

I like the look and feel of the CBS run.

The Eighties set is one of my most favorite game show sets ever, right after 'Hollywood Squares' from that time.

saussage · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2005, 12:08:34 PM »

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'May 20 2005, 02:28 PM\']Ditto.

Doug

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Yuh huh

Perry's version was my favourite CS version as well. One question though. I prefer on the bonus round where the same card is NOT a push. The reason is that I prefer if the gameplay stays consistant for the mostpart from the main game to the bonus round. If a push is considered ok in the bonus round, the same rule should've been applied to the main game. Since this was not the case, I preferred CS before the push rule was used. It would've been interesting though to see the push rule used in a main game. I did like though the $500 bonus for anyone sweeping the cards in the main game in the 80-81 season.

I lied. I have one more question. Was it in the rules where you could say that the card was not higher OR lower but rather than the card was the same? Would've been intertesting to see if someone had a gut instinct and and use a rule like this and to have it actually happen. The odds are lousy but at 1:13, the same cards appearing back-to-back happened many times throughout CS's run.

I dare anyone who says CS '01

clemon79 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2005, 01:45:37 PM »

[quote name=\'saussage\' date=\'May 21 2005, 09:08 AM\']I lied. I have one more question. Was it in the rules where you could say that the card was not higher OR lower but rather than the card was the same?
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No. Unlike some shows, they had rules in place to keep people from being ABJECT MORONS.

Sometimes I wish we had similar rules here.

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I dare anyone who says CS '01

To do, um, what?

Author Topic: Card Sharks (Read 15172 times)

michaellinn