$ale of the Century, at least the Perry version. In the shopping era, it was mostly anticlimactic unless someone played for the car, the jackpot, or the lot. Most of the lower-level prizes weren't that exciting.

The Winner's Board was solid but again, unless someone matched the car, one of the cash prizes, or maybe a trip it was still anticlimactic at times. But it at least fit NBC's mandate for an actual bonus round.

The Winner's Big Money Game would've been fine had $ale been an actual word-association game. Didn't help that you were pretty much on thin ice if you got one puzzle wrong.

One thing Temptation US got right was using Super Knockoff to build the jackpot quicker. For a reboot, maybe offer something similar here and offer more desirable lower-level prizes. Smaller trips, a stainless steel kitchen, maybe a personalized prize similar to what PYL does?

That reminds me, the current PYL. I still think 30 minutes is too long for a bonus round and you have to make a concerted effort not to look at the clock around 9:53.

Pyramid and all versions of Password, though I will say that I've always found the main game of P+ and SP to be far more exciting than 20 minutes of just guessing random words in the original PW main game.

I gotta say, as someone who's played it online, it can be really frustrating to play a game of Super Password and be done after what feels like six or seven words' worth of gameplay.

All the Pyramids...the best bonus round hands down

Quote from: aaron sica on November 04, 2025, 07:11:48 AM

In the east coast at least, Go's competition was possibly two other game shows - I say "possibly" because it definitely wasn't the same in all markets. ABC's noon offering was Feud, which at this point was a year and a half away from ending its right (and no doubt not being carried in most markets because noon news). CBS's "noon" offering was Tattletales, which was either carried at other times (9:30 a.m. in Philly and maybe Baltimore) or not at all. "Noon" in quotes because the official time slot of the show was 4 p.m.

If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.

WAVY in Norfolk/Portsmouth has entered the chat. IIRC the last noontime game show they aired was Chain Reaction. They aired Scrabble 93, but at 10 am.

Another one: I love the reverberating sound made when someone freezes a window in Bullseye. Would love to know how composers and sound editors came up with some of the SFX.

I'll double up on this, and add the sound of the windows swirling.

I may be weird, but I was really disappointed when Bullseye moved to Television City because CBS couldn't quite duplicate the bells NBC had on hand for right answers or player control.