09-05-2016, 07:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2016, 07:33 PM by Hexadecimal.)
(09-05-2016, 05:38 PM)retrolinkx Wrote: Yeah, I like Game shows. They're fun and entertaining and I do always like trying to guess the answers to them.
I remember my mother told me that my grandfather used to instantly answer the questions on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. He would never get a single one wrong as well. The sad part was, when my uncle would try and get him to be on the show, he couldn't go on because he was blind and thus couldn't answer the questions (since there's a system the determines who plays and doesn't) and even with help from my uncle there could only be on contestant who could play. Shame really.
I've always wished there were vidya game shows, I'd love to test my knowledge for some money in a similar manner to Who wants to be a Millionaire.
DUDE. They could have absolutely worked something out so you're grandfather could play. Jeopardy once had a blind contestant and he was amazing. Gosh that's not fair Millionaire just flat out said "No".
Ahhh.... I wonder if G4 would've hung in there if they would have eventually made a game show centered around video games somehow. Really surprising no one's given that a shot yet.
I wish there were still some game shows centered around music still around, but I'd totally fail if it had too much modern music. Even though I was in my teens (I think?) when it was on I should have tried to get on Don't Forget the Lyrics. Would be nice for my memory for songs to be useful for once.
I got so frustrated with a contestant once. They let you pick one of two songs and she picked Helen Reddy's I am Woman, saying it was because "I am a woman". I was just sitting there like "OK... That's nice, but do you know the song?".
She didn't.
The lyrics went: I am strong, ___ ___ ____
...She had no idea what came next so she used a lifeline to fill in the first two words which, of course, are "I am". She then needed a second to get "Invincible". I was nearly shouting at the TV.
Since it's centered around luck, Deal or no Deal would have been nice as well. I still remember getting super pissed at this mother who was on there. She had two young kids and a husband at home they put up on a screen to talk to her. She was in the six figure amount, her husband was begging her to stop, and she ended up going home with peanuts.
You don't take risks when you have a family. The amount she pissed away was life changing.