[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' post=\'115209\' date=\'Apr 3 2006, 11:01 PM\']
As a native NYer, I can't really argue w/Shawn's assessments...there was just a certain charm about the 70s Pyramid, syndie TTTT, The Big Showdown, etc. that really set them apart from the LA-based games of the same era.
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In one of those depravity-of-daytime-television articles the weekly newsmagazines used to trot out every five years or so, the distinguished Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel made an interesting observation the East Coast and West Coast game shows reflected where they were taped--the New York shows were either a more direct test of knowledge or based on the time pressures of city living, while the LA shows were more easy-going, more easy, more generous.
And of course there was a difference in contestants between the fast-talking Noo Yawkers playing "Pyramid" and the bouncing babes from Rancho Del Vista Del Mar calling for Ruta to roll the dice on "High Rollers."
Of course, a decade later, as production consolidated on the West Coast and remakes started dominating the schedule, the differences were long gone.
