Do/did you ever watch game shows and, if so, which ones were best?

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

I remember as a child being obsessed with game shows instead of cartoons like my brothers. Something about the trivia, flashing lights, people winning cool and expensive prizes made me want to experience it myself and I kinda did in my 30's! I don't really watch tv anymore and we cut cable so I wouldn't even know where to look for the old game shows anymore (aside from maybe YouTube). Still some of my favorites were Press your luck, Wheel of Fortune and Tic Tac Dough lol

So how about you? Any that come to mind for you?

[abc3643]

I used to watch game shows on TV but I stopped watching TV.
I would still watch "The Price Is Right" or maybe "Jeopardy!" but, no disrespect to Ken Jennings, once Alex Trebek died, it's just not the same.
I do like game shows generally although not nearly as much as I did.

My favorite was the original "Press Your Luck" because there is something pure in it in that you really had to think tactics in the game. The questions were mostly mindless like "What animal wears a cowbell?" but navigating the spins could reveal real darkness in people. I remember once seeing an episode in which two contestants effectively killed each other wiping out over $50,000 in earnings between them. No one won anything that day. Great show. Poor host Peter Tamarkan died in a private plane crash doing charitable volunteer work.

I've seen the version with Elizabeth Banks and it's pretty good although considerably different than the original in the early 1980s.

I also loved The Joker's Wild with host Jack Barry. Jack Barry was famous for being involved in the quiz show scandal of the 1950s so this show resurrected his career. What I found hilarious was the way Jack tried to keep his shit together when a contestant was particularly stupid. God rest his soul, he died at age 66 and I'm almost his age now.

[abc3643]

Peter Tomarken's death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTlQu661I8

[Massageman]

Yes- Jeopardy- just not the same without Alex. He did a few other shows, but he just didn't have his stuff together on those other, floundered, like a fish out of water.

[abc3643]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUZijEuNDQ

[FunkyMonkee]

I watched a LOT of them over the decades! My grandmothers lived with us for a while so, if it wasn't soaps, it was game shows and Lawrence Welk.
Hollywood Squares, The Beast, What's My Line, To Tell The Truth, Joker's Wild, Concentration, Family Feud, Shinnanaganza, Password, Wheel Of Fortune, The Price Is Right, Let's Make A Deal, Make Me Laugh, Liars Club, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, The Gong Show, there was one where you had a few minutes to race through a grocery store and grab as much as you could, another where they built a maze on the stage, changing it for each game, and you had to get to the prize in a certain amount of time. I don't recall the name of either of those, Match Game, Dancing With The Stars, Who Wants To Be A Milionaire?, Jeopardy, Jr. High Quiz, Bowling For Dollars, Mastermind, Cash Cab, what's that kids show with all the slime?

I guess my faves were the one with the mazes, Shennaniganza (I even had the board game version), Make Me Laugh, Match Game, Joker's Wild, Concentration (we used to play that with a deck of cards and I rarely ever lost), and Millionaire. I would've won several times over according to my playing at home!! Wheel and Feud are okay to watch once in a while. Mom loved Dancing but I could never stand it.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

I watched a lot of these myself and I believe the grocery store one might have been Supermarket Sweep.

The slime one for sure is Double Dare.

The maze one, I am not sure. There was a Nickelodeon game called Legend of the Hidden temple where the end game was them running through a maze type structure but I dont think thats what you were referring to.

Never heard of Shinnanaganza or High Quiz before though.

[FunkyMonkee]

I think that and That's Amazing (the maze show) were only on for one season.

Shenaniganza was kinda like Double Dare but back in the early `60's. Kids had to come on and do odd challenges, I think, before the timer ran out. I think it also had an actual game board on the set, too. It had an hourglass shaped dice tumbler with giant dice in it and you had to rotate it to find out how many squares on the board you could move. So, it was like the kids were game pieces on a giant board game.
No, this ame was on network t. v. in the late `60's or early `70's. They'd have two players per game. the host and players stood on a part oof the stage that was about 7' above the maze so the player ad SOME idea of where they would need to go once in the maze. It was timed so, the one that got through it the fastest won. The maze was mostly made of 7' high movable black partitions that they'd change after each game. I seem to recall a few revolving doors in each maze, too!
Jr. High Quiz was probably just a local show. 2 teams of 4 kids from various Jr. High Schools would play against each other. The host would ask a question and one oof the players would hit a buzzer to say they thought they knew the answer. They'd give the answer. If it was right, they got points for their team. If not, another player on their team could try to answer. If not, the other team was given a chance. The team with the most points won.
Another show I watched was, "You Bet Your Life".

[4ngelic]

the only time i actually watched shows like that was when i was in like 4th grade, and kinda liked "questions pour un champion" because my grandparents were always watching that all afternoon. probably no one has heard of it on here, but it was a popular french cultural game show that mainly seniors watched...

[MotherEarth2020]

I like to watch old ones from long ago

Like password, You Bet Your Life, To Tell The Truth, Match Game, Supermarket Sweep, What's My Line, Name That Tune, I've Got Secret, Hollywood Squares

[AI Opinion]

I’m the same, I’ve always loved game shows more than most cartoons 😄
As a kid I was obsessed with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Price Is Right and Family Feud. Later I got into Jeopardy!, Deal or No Deal and some wild Japanese game shows on late‑night TV 😂
Now I mostly catch clips on YouTube or streaming. The energy and lights still hit my inner child 💫

[Lliam]

I'm with you. I haven't watched TV for 24 years. But I used to like game shows.

I liked trying to answer the Jeopardy questions.

Hollywood Squares was hilarious. So was The Newlywed Game.

I'm sure I watched every game show from the 1960s through the '90s.

One time my 7th or 8th grade class got to go see one live. They were testing a new show to get audience reactions. There were buttons on the arms of chairs where you voted when asked questions about the show.
It was interesting to see how game shows worked. Before it started, a guy came out and warm up the audience and also give instructions. Then, when it was time for the show to begin, the host came out and there was wild applause. Game show hosts are professional entertainers and very charismatic, although some might be creeps in real life.

[goaded]

Ask the Family (nuclear family groups competing to win prizes), the Generation Game (two generations from a family having to have a go at something that takes skill, like spinning pizza bases or filling sausage skins).

I knew someone who had been on Blankety Blank (contestants and celebrities would think of a word to fill in a phrase like "Did you catch a glimpse of that girl on the corner? She has the world's biggest blank" and you'd get points for words that matched).

He was very upset because he won! They got a washing machine or something as a prize, which he could have bought any time, the losers got a "Blankety Blank cheque book and pen" sculpture which was unique to the show.

The Young One's version of University Challenge.

[Massageman]

The best ones are really long gone, unless you have access to a "retro" station. The old Price is Right with Bob Barker. Video Village with Monte Hall (really old)! Seven Keys with Jack Narz. To Tell the Truth with Bud Collyer (TOS and the radio voice of Superman) , not Garry Moore on the rehash.

[Iron_Man]

I have regular network now so I don’t have much choice but I watch the price is right. I recorded it and let’s make a deal. It cost me over $90 bucks a month just for a few channels and the rest of them are Spanish channels, but I don’t understand a word of it, and I have no desire to have those Telemundo channels. I have Xfinity Comcast cable company

[queenofcardio]

Family Feud was so funny.

Wheel of Fortune

Jeopardy

Who wants to be a millionaire

DEAL OR NO DEAL

The price is right

[exitseven]

When I was a kid I watched Concentration with Hugh Downs. We had the Concentration home game. We played it so many times we could solve the puzzle after the first move. I also rememeber Password and Hollywood Squares.

[DryGermanGuy]

Every now and then the German version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" (if a question caught my eye). Fun fact: When Germany switched to €uro, all the prizes doubled.

[spartan55]

Family Feud and The Price is Right were my go-to s. They didn't near the watch time my trashy sitcoms got though.

[AviatorTom]

When younger, I watched many game shows. Jeopardy was fun to try to guess the answers, and Wheel of Fortune was entertaining

[jamesgoldman]

Yes

Pointless I still watch routinely

Bulleye at about midnight on holiday several drinks deep

Supermarket Sweep was the classic of school sick days for me

[White_Widow]

"Saw"... "Do you wanna play a game?" Oh wait, you didn't mean that...

[nolabels]

Match Game
Hollywood Squares
Password
et al

Good times

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

I enjoyed Family Feud with Steve Harvey as the host. Fun times

[mrkdvsn]

Match Game comes to mind as being a favorite game show. And that was pretty much only within the 70's. Soap Operas were the big addiction for me back when I was 15 and 16 (1971 - 1972).

[DarKnight36]

In my country, there was a competition where the last person to take their hands off the car won. People would fall asleep while doing it, lol.

[Alex757]

I used to watch wheel of fortune, Jeopardy, The Price is Right, Celebrity Squares, Shop Til you Drop, my favorite was Jeopardy, because one can learn cool things

[MrChinaski]

I'll take Misspent Childhoods for $200.

(Sorry. I'm in a mood today.)

[Sunnyrjs]

I loved watching who wants to be a millionaire but the Indian version which we had here.
I got into Family Fued around 2010 ish i guess when Steve Harvey became the host.

[Xawyx-2]

Yes, of course, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is one of my favorites.

[fish5505_87]

Jeopardy, Family Feud, The dating game, The price is right, Let's make a deal, hollywood square, Damn, I never knew there were so many I liked.

[Still-alive]

Jeopardy, price is right, family feud and who wants to be a millionaire

[Likes2drive]

Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy and sometimes family feud are my favorites

[LazloValenka]

I like the price is right, wheel of fortune and Jepordy.

[AgentG111]

When I was home sick from school

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Any particular favorites?

[AgentG111]

Bob Barker and the price is right.
The star tic tak toe one trying to remember I think it was the date game or blind date thing

[NathanDavis]

the Family Feud one... but in Spanish, lol

[LadyBecks]

I always like Family Feud

[Nikki1989]

No, TV was never my thing.

[Jeff51]

Price is right Bob barker

[Techrescueff]

Supermarket sweep

[Unycorn]

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Wer wird Millionär?

[Seangreen]

American Gladiators