Post by billmcdee on Feb 23, 2020 13:56:08 GMT -5
Good day one and all!
Today I'm beginning a new feature. I'll try to do one or two of these a week.
I made a list of all 77 current pricing games featured on the show. Sadly this new season has given us zero new pricing games. Usually one to two new games per year pop up but that does not seem to have been the case during season 48.
The order in which I will be presenting will be from my least favorite pricing game to my most favorite.
I was torn between a few as my least favorite, but ultimately I decided that Double Prices was my least favorite of the 77 pricing games on the show.
I would not retire this pricing game for two reasons. One, it's a nice, simple and quick game which is necessary, especially in this day and age of having nearly as many minutes devoted toward commercials as toward actual show, and two, this is one of the first 3 games ever played on the very first episode, and nostalgic as I am, I would not have the heart to retire this game.
That being said, it is to me without a doubt, even with all the prop updates over the years, the single most dull game in the current line-up.
During the rare times that it is played for an automobile, it can prove exciting, but to me playing Double Prices for a car is like playing Five Price Tags for a car and having it narrowed down to the final 2 picks, so even when it is for a car, Double Prices to me is "meh". That being said, if somebody presented me the opportunity to have a 50/50 shot at a new car, I'd leap at the chance!
Probably the only thing I do like about Double Prices now is the various staging that they use sometimes for the game, since it's not always at Door #2. I especially loved it more in the early years when the game prop was hidden behind the giant price tag.
I am curious to hear others' opinions and other's takes on this very classic pricing game. Other pricing games have used this game element over the years as part of the actual game itself (e.g. Pathfinder, Super Ball, Secret "X").
Today I'm beginning a new feature. I'll try to do one or two of these a week.
I made a list of all 77 current pricing games featured on the show. Sadly this new season has given us zero new pricing games. Usually one to two new games per year pop up but that does not seem to have been the case during season 48.
The order in which I will be presenting will be from my least favorite pricing game to my most favorite.
I was torn between a few as my least favorite, but ultimately I decided that Double Prices was my least favorite of the 77 pricing games on the show.
I would not retire this pricing game for two reasons. One, it's a nice, simple and quick game which is necessary, especially in this day and age of having nearly as many minutes devoted toward commercials as toward actual show, and two, this is one of the first 3 games ever played on the very first episode, and nostalgic as I am, I would not have the heart to retire this game.
That being said, it is to me without a doubt, even with all the prop updates over the years, the single most dull game in the current line-up.
During the rare times that it is played for an automobile, it can prove exciting, but to me playing Double Prices for a car is like playing Five Price Tags for a car and having it narrowed down to the final 2 picks, so even when it is for a car, Double Prices to me is "meh". That being said, if somebody presented me the opportunity to have a 50/50 shot at a new car, I'd leap at the chance!
Probably the only thing I do like about Double Prices now is the various staging that they use sometimes for the game, since it's not always at Door #2. I especially loved it more in the early years when the game prop was hidden behind the giant price tag.
I am curious to hear others' opinions and other's takes on this very classic pricing game. Other pricing games have used this game element over the years as part of the actual game itself (e.g. Pathfinder, Super Ball, Secret "X").