[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Jun 14 2005, 03:25 PM\']I loved the wheel from the Shafer version, with the pointer that rotated instead of the wheel. BTW, something I've been meaning to ask about the contestant podiums in that version: there were six divided vertical rectangles with a single star or the letters M-A-T-C-H in each one, yet when someone made a match, the whole thing flashed on and off. When they were working out the details before the series began, had they originally intended for the divided blocks to light up individually for each match, with only a clean sweep of all six celebs resulting in the entire area being lit?
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I would assume so, in fact when I first saw MG '90 and saw the set I had thought that they were keeping the old rules.
Not only did you have the "M-A-T-C-H-*" podiums in green and red, but each celebrity nameplate was framed with a green star on one side and a red one on the other. It sure looked like they had originally decided on the old rules and changed the format at the last minute....
Maybe they wanted to make sure the champ went away with *some* money, in case they missed both the Super Match *and* the Celebrity Match (which is highly unlikely, but still possible). As far as I remember, under the 1973-81 rules, you don't win anything for simply getting more matches in the main game, yet under the 1990 rules, you get a set amount of cash for every match you make in the main game, but even then, they could have combined the 2 ideas to play it like the old rules, but you get the set amount of cash per match, with the maximum being that set amount times 6.
