Favorite type of game show?

[edholland83]

I know it's been a long time since I last posted, but I wanted to get the opinion of some of the board members about what their favorite type of game show, It doesn't have to be a show in particular, I'm just interested in seeing what everyone else thinks.

Q & A (Jeopardy!.. College Bowl)
Bargain/Shopping Games (TPIR, $OTC , LMAD.....)
Puzzle Solving Games (Wheel, (Classic) Concentration .....)
Word Games (Password, Pyramid....)
Celebrity Based (MG, Hollywood Squares)
Physical Based Games (Double Dare, Finders Keepers)


My Personal Favorite is Q&A and word games, and being a student right now, it always helps me stay sharp, and I am always wanting to test what I know.

[Jimmy Owen]

My favorites are the three contestants with buzzers Q&A shows (J!, $otC [which I consider more of a Q&A than just a shopping show], Split Second, Big Showdown, Blockbusters, Fandango, etc), but I enjoy all game shows if the premise is sound.

[ITSBRY]

I know it's been a long time since I last posted, but I wanted to get the opinion of some of the board members about what their favorite type of game show,

Great topic!

While I like gs's from all genres (except reality stuff, if that's even a gs genre), I'd have to list my top pick as word game.  The english language is so wonderful and complex and there are so many varations on the word game concept that are simple, yet very compelling.  Password, Pyramid and Lingo are great examples of this.

Second to this would be casino style games like Card Sharks, High Rollers, TJW, Top Card, etc.  Those kinds of games are just exciting to watch.  They are fun in a different way...in a non-thinking kinda way. :-)

ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'edholland83\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 12:20 PM\'] I know it's been a long time since I last posted, but I wanted to get the opinion of some of the board members about what their favorite type of game show, It doesn't have to be a show in particular, I'm just interested in seeing what everyone else thinks.

Q & A (Jeopardy!.. College Bowl)
Bargain/Shopping Games (TPIR, $OTC , LMAD.....)
Puzzle Solving Games (Wheel, (Classic) Concentration .....)
Word Games (Password, Pyramid....)
Celebrity Based (MG, Hollywood Squares)
Physical Based Games (Double Dare, Finders Keepers)


My Personal Favorite is Q&A and word games, and being a student right now, it always helps me stay sharp, and I am always wanting to test what I know. [/quote]
 Word Games have always been my favorite - especially when it's the contestant vs. the clock (i.e. Alphabetics from P+, the Winner's Circle).....

[David Lawrence]

My favorite is the word game-Password in particular, but also Scrabble, Lingo, etc.

I'm not big on Q&A, though I like certain variations like Q&A/poll questions (FF & Hot Potato), Q&A/word games (Blockbusters) & Q&A/shopping (Supermarket Sweep).

I also really like the games that include celebrities like MG and the panel shows. (Though I agree with many here that shows with only celebs and no regular contestants should be rare special occasions, not the norm.)

[clemon79]

I like word games, and puzzle games, and here's why:

What I like about games in general is that they place the contestants in a closed system, give them a simple set of rules explaining how to excel in that system (this is usually \"earn the most money or points, and here's how you earn them\"), and then set about seeing who the best is. Watching a game show, then, is like an escape from everyday life. Welcome to our world, here's how our world works, and for the next half hour the real world doesn't matter. And, oh, do you think YOU could thrive in our world? Well, if yer gonna be in the LA area...

Anyhow. The reason I like word and puzzle games is because, under this concept, they provide the greatest removal from regular life. Price Is Right, you have to remember what things cost in the real world. Jeopardy requires you to know all KINDS of things about the real world. You can have not read a newspaper in a solid year and more or less get by on Password.
 
This is not to say that the other genres are worthless...hell, I'm as much a Loyal Friend And True of TPiR as anyone. But word and puzzle games seem to be the great equalizer. They test skills that can't be learned. You can memorize the encyclopedia, and kick ass on Jeopardy, but if you can't communicate it effectively, you're going to spend a lot of time at that desk watching the other guy in the Winner's Circle.

[uncamark]

Personally, almost any show in a pinch, but given a choice I'll generally take a Q&A or a word game over something else.  LIke almost everyone else around here, I generally won't watch a relationship game more than the minimum number of times it takes to get the format (although if \"Singled Out\" was either in the first or last round, for some reason the remote would always stop--I liked to watch the parade of contestants go by and the last round music cue--unless it was one of the shows where Piano Boy used something else for the last round besides the standard cue).

And I have a prejudice towards Q&A because it's the genre that I think I'll do the best at--if I'm not flustered of finally facing cameras pointed at me and Alex or Meredith in the flesh across from me.

[Matt Ottinger]

I'm torn too.  I admire a well-constructed puzzle or word-association game, and if you broadly include the panel shows in that general category, then virtually all of my favorites come from that.  However, I'm sure I would personally do better in a Q&A game, and of course there's a local one in particular that's helping me pay the bills...

[dickoon]

For once in my life on this board, someone else is reading this topic at the same time as I am and I have a feeling that they're going to post exactly the same way I do here at about the same time.

I salute the daring, innovative adventure game show, particularly one with puzzles as intricate and crafty as The Crystal Maze, with a plot as fascinating as The Mole or with tension as dramatic or stakes as high as that of Interceptor. Actually, I salute the innovative game show that arrives ahead of its time pretty much full stop, though of course not every innovation is one in the right direction.

Paging Mr. B. Bother,
Chris

[gameshowhost1]

I'm a huge fan of word games and always have been.  One of my all time favorites was Merv Griffin's \"Word For Word.\"  I have the home game and thoroughly love playing it with anybody who will sit down for a while with me.  I was always a \"Password\" fan and I have grown to really enjoy \"Lingo.\"  \"Scrabble\" was always a favorite, too.

[Clay Zambo]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 02:54 PM\'] I like word games, and puzzle games, and here's why:

Anyhow. The reason I like word and puzzle games is because, under this concept, they provide the greatest removal from regular life. [snip]
 
...if you can't communicate it effectively, you're going to spend a lot of time at that desk watching the other guy in the Winner's Circle. [/quote]
 Hear, hear!

What an interesting argument in favor of my favorite games!  Wish I'd thought of it.

[The Ol' Guy]

Hi!
Add me as one more leaning heavily toward the word/association game with the fast paced Q&A (like Joker's Wild) right behind it. Watching people test their memories in a quiz game is fun, but many of the word games that involve creativity also display clever wit, and that's always fun to watch. Working part-time at a toy store, it's nice to have Password back on the shelves to try and interest a new generation in it. It's a shame Chain Reaction wasn't successful enough to generate a home version. I made one of my own, and it's a favorite with friends whenever we get together.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 03:10 PM\'] I'm torn too.  I admire a well-constructed puzzle or word-association game, and if you broadly include the panel shows in that general category, then virtually all of my favorites come from that.  However, I'm sure I would personally do better in a Q&A game, and of course there's a local one in particular that's helping me pay the bills... [/quote]
 You sure it's not a gameshow that permits you to be a swinger instead?

[Robert Hutchinson]

Favorites would be wordplay (Password, Pyramid), \"spelling games\" (Wheel of Fortune), or combinations thereof (Scrabble, I'm looking at you). This is probably because that's the sort of knowledge (amongst the types of knowledge one is likely to see on a game show) that I soak up the most. Q&A/trivia comes in a strong third, though.

I really like The Price Is Right, but shopping games as a whole, not so much. TPIR's biggest pluses are the ambience and the contestants, IMO.

[chris319]

MG and HS are not pure celebrity games. They could be played just the same with civilian panelists.

I can't think of many games which wouldn't work without celebrities: Tattletales, All Star Secrets ... even so, the distinction is thin.