Sale of the Century Discussion

[WarioSajak]

Nov 21, 2014 18:36:32 GMT -5 gamecrazyh said:

Even i don't think the WBMG was the final nail in the coffin for Sale.

I don't disagree, given the difficulty and kinda-cheap prizes (although I suppose the fact nearly all of them were cash does alleviate that a bit, since cash always costs money), although I'm not sure whether slimming it down from "solve five in 25 seconds" to "solve four in 20 seconds" did anything to alter the difficulty.

(Making the attempt for a car "lose and leave, or win and have the option to try for a $50,000 bonus" was definitely a bad move, though. Oddly, the guy who won the car during the final week didn't get said option.)

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My favorite endgame is the shopping.

[S_SweepFan3]

Mine's definitely not the one where you try to answer four questions in 20 seconds.

Seriously, I still don't like that end game.

[gamecrazyh]

Nov 27, 2014 11:28:15 GMT -5 S_SweepFan3 said:

Mine's definitely not the one where you try to answer four questions in 20 seconds.

Seriously, I still don't like that end game.

You mean the Winner's Big Money Game?

[gamecrazyh]

Nov 27, 2014 11:00:42 GMT -5 @kenwat77 said:

My favorite endgame is the shopping.

I like it too, but only the syndicated shopping format where all 6 major prizes come before the lot, not the cash jackpot.

[gamecrazyh]

I think the reason for the different coloring on the Fame Game board was to differentiate the syndie version from the network version.

[vahan]

With this current lease, one thing I can't wait to find out is when exactly do we get to see the randomizer installed to the fame game board, and the Winner's Board endgame debut.

Post edited: Do not air dirty laundry from other boards here.—thekid965

[carpetcrawler]

vahan, what does complaining about how another message board treated you have to do at all with the topic at-hand?  Do not air out your dirty laundry.

[Mandoli]

Someone's going to start giving out warnings. If it's not me, it's going to be someone with a red username.

Those people are not here, and they can't defend themselves. Please quit it.

[thekid965]

To answer your question regarding the Cash Jackpot, which got lost when I had to edit your post, there was no announced Jackpot on the final syndie $ale with the shopping format; in fact, none of the prizes above the level the winner could afford were even mentioned at all, for the very obvious reason that they couldn't be claimed. That player's decision to take that prize and leave or return on the next show was rendered moot by the fact he was outright given the prize he could've afforded, as compensation for not being able to win anything else—not in that format, anyway.

As for the Fame Game, the randomizer was not in play at that point to the best of my knowledge. I could be totally wrong, but IIRC the Fame Game went PYL the same day the Winner's Board came in.

My copy of the last $ale with the shopping format is currently inaccessible, however, so I can't verify any of this beyond memory.

I'm answering your questions so you understand that it wasn't the question that earned you the 10% and the hatchet on your post, but rather the belligerent way you asked it by dredging up an old grudge. That was the one toe over the line.

[addemup]

I didn't realize until I started perusing the "Wink's Vault" channel on YouTube that the WBMG was actually lifted from an unsold RG pilot called "Matchmates", except in that pilot, they had to solve 5 puzzles in 25 seconds and the puzzles were 8 words instead of 6. Thing is though, that endgame actually tied to the main game of Matchmates, it had nothing to do with the SOTC main game. That's why it seemed so out of place on SOTC.

[thekid965]

Strictly as a game in its own right, I liked the WBMG. It was decently designed, and you certainly can't argue with the potential total haul if you managed to run the table ($90,000 plus a car, in addition to whatever else you managed to pick up in Instant Bargains/Ca$h and Fame Games along the way). It just didn't really have any business on a show like $ale, which was its downfall.

But then, honestly, the Winner's Board wasn't much better in that department. Really, the only suitable endgame for a show like $ale was shopping—and that really wasn't a "game" at all, just a take-it-or-leave-it proposition at the end of each show. While it did have the disadvantage of never really knowing if a car would be given away on any given show, which the Winner's Board admittedly offered, it was a great hook to build interest in a returning champion and his/her journey to the big-time stuff. (This is actually one of the few things Temptation got right, IMO. It used the shopping format, but also gave the winner a chance to earn additional money after the main game, which could even be enough to win the car—or everything on the stage, if Temptation had decided to keep that. This is probably the best compromise between these two desirable, but mutually exclusive attractions—"anything can happen at any time" versus "scaling the mountain bit by bit.")

All of this is IMO only, of course.

[vahan]

Today was the first episode of the Syndicated edition with the randomizer on the Fame Game board.

There has also been a good chunk of newly-resurfaced daytime episodes from Spring to September 1985, and I believe the randomizer debuted on that edition around that time.

[Mario500]

The edition of the syndicated version of "Sale of the Century" the Game Show Network had in their programming today had music from the TV serial "Dark Shadows" during one of its Instant Bargain skits.

[gamecrazyh]

Wonder if the Music had to be cleared before they aired it.