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With Bob Barker's recent retirement, it made me think of how many afternoons I spent as a kid watching games like Plinko, Cliffhangers, etc on the Price Is Right.  Heres my top five;
1.) Price Is Right - for the reasons above
2.) Jeopardy - because it allows me to express my wealth of useless knowledge every night
3.) Press Your Luck - the most intense game ever
4.) Family Feud - in all it's Richard Dawson smooching greatness
5.) Finders Keepers - the game on Nick in which kids rip apart a house looking for one item. 

Whats everyone else's top five?

Let's see.......These are some that I liked. Going back to the 70's again.

Deal, No Deal
Make Me Laugh
To Tell The Truth
Name That Tune
Truth Or Consequences
The Dating Game
Newlywed Game
Lets Make A Deal
Hollywood Squares
Family Feud
The Price Is Right

Japan might have us beat in this department.

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.Jepordy-Same reasons as Darksiders!
.Let's Make a Deal- Love it when they get the donkey door! And the nonsense about dressing funny is bizzare! Who thought up     that gimmick was a genuis!
.I used to like What's My Line,when I was a kid...lotsa fun!
.the Newlywed Game-I loved watching two lovebirds get real p**sed at each other! Welcome to marriage,baby!
.MATCHGAME-The sexual innuendu in that game show is bizzarly,pre-AIDS-70's! I always wondered who was humping who...except Charles Nelson Reilly,because thinking of his sex life gives me the willys! :bluesad:

PRICE IS RIGHT- Pure Americana
JEOPARDY- It's like a backwards Trivial Pursuit without the pie-pieces
DOUBLE DARE- I wish they'd make a grown-up version on this show.   Seeing old ladies or stuffy businessmen doing crazy stunts when they lose a double dare.  Priceless!  :teddyr:

That's about it...Game Shows have been pretty weak since the advent of "Reality TV".  :hatred:

Match Game was my all time favorite gameshow.

Others include:

Liar's Club
Joker's Wild
To Tell the Truth (old and new)
Hollywood Squares (old and new)

and

Press Your Luck was fun
Tattletales
Battlestars (similar to Hollywood Squares, but it didn't last long)
Weakest Link (the second American series hosted by George Gray; he was hilarious)

Gameshows are too much fun. :teddyr:

I can't watch game shows nowadays. Seriously I'll lose interest in it immediately. "The Price is Right"  is the only one I could ever sit still long enough to watch all the way through.

I'll put price is right up on the top.  But truth be told, only if Jerry Springer is a repeat.

Press your Luck sums it up in two words: THE WAMMY!!!

Jeopardy (even if Alex Trebek shaved off his moustache), cause you learn something everyday

Password, is just funny

Hollywood Squares, see Password

Bonus Entry
Family Feud; only, only, only if, by some miraculous act of God, Ray Combs is resurrected and becomes host forever.  He was the best (if not, funniest) host.  Right up there with Richard Dawson; and way better than those last three hacks.

Worst Game Show
Wheel of Fortune, nothing more than hangman for gamblers

Growing up, I remember my mom watching Jeopardy all the time. She loved it. Plus, she was good at it. I would be astounded at how many she would get right. However, I was not that fond of it since I wasn't good at it and it made me feel like a moron. Alas, mom died about 4 years ago and I took up watching Jeopardy in her honor. These days I find that I am much better at it and even surprise myself at how many I get right. My wife is amazed by my performance, but then again, I have her snowballed into thinking I'm a genius. lol

1. Jeopardy
2. Family Feud
3. Tic Tac Dough
4. The Jokers Wild
5. Beat the Geeks  :teddyr:

Match Game
Jeopardy
Win Ben Stein's Money
Hollywood Squares
Password

Not much of a fan of the modern game show concept.  I don't see much difference between modern game shows and reality shows.  Which is probably the goal.

I always enjoyed that old game show concept, where the show was basically an excuse for celebs to make witty ad libs.  That's really a dead genre now.  Maybe because wit itself is pretty comatose.

Was that the one where celebrity couples would guess each other's answers? And one celebrity would sit off the set and would wear huge headphones and appear on a little TV screen beneath their mate? I think they were asked The Newlywed Game type questions, i.e. "Where is the funniest place you ever made whoopie?".

Somehow the discussion about Charles Nelson Reilly/Brett Somers/Jack Klugman/Bobby Van/Elaine Joyce got me trying to remember the name of this one.

Yep, that sounds like Tattletales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattletales).

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Hell yeah!  This is my kinda topic!
Joker's Wild- This always had a special place in my heart.. great music, Vegas-type slot machine, and for the most part, really easy questions.  I got really excited when a contestant would spin two jokers in the first 2 windows; I hoped for the 3rd that could win the game for them.

Press Your Luck- Yeah, it's typical of '80s cheese and Reaganomics.  But it was still fun and exciting, as "Big Bucks" would help you catch up VERY quickly if you whammied.  Damn shame that producer Bill Caruthers, announcer Rod Roddy and host Peter Tomarken are no longer with us.  R.I.P.

Scrabble- Not really like the board game at all but still a great success.  The Scrabble Sprint round was pretty fast-paced.  Chuck Woolery was well-suited for this show.

Whew!- Forgotten classic from the late '70s/early '80s.  One contestant would try to correct incorrect statements to move up a board after the other contestant put "blocks" (5-second penalties) behind some of the trilons that housed said statements.  The blocks were in the form of famous villians, fictional and non-fictional (or based on them) like Nero, a mad scientist, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.  A great bonus round involved correcting spoken incorrect sentences to physically advance through ten cardboard cutouts of the villains.  $25,000 awaited.  Tom Kennedy hosted.

A lot of others I liked but for the 5th I'll throw in Tic Tac Dough.  Cheesy beyond belief but watchable due to the old Tic-Tac-Toe format with a growing jackpot.  And the dragon used to scare me when I was real little.. now it's silly but still fun to watch.

THE MATCH GAME and its DUMB DORIS IS SOOOO DUMB and the audiance HOW DUMB IS SHE?

Oh man the gameshows on here you guys talk about brings me back growing up in the 70's and 80's. My mom and I still remember one time on Tic Tac Dough they had this contestant named John ( forgot his last name). Who came on stage then went back to the back and Wink Martidale called out "John where are you going John come back John come back". To this day that scene still makes me laugh. :bouncegiggle:

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned. I looked at the whole thread and didn't see it, but if I did I apologize. There was a show that I don't remember the name of in the 70's where you had a panel of celebrities (much like many game shows of that era), I think three of them, and two contestants. It was a similar concept to Hollywood Squares, except that the panel would be given some out of the ordinary object or device, something that has an actual use, and each one would, usually for comedic effect, comment on the object or device and guess at the purpose of it. Then the contestants would guess at who they thought was correct for points. Of course when you've got the decade, and celebrities, and various objects being handed to them you can see how risque it could get, just like Joker's Wild could get. The objects were sometimes very obscure objects, sometimes less, like a wing corkscrew or something like that. Does anyone know what that gameshow was called?

I just figured it out. Liar's Club. It ran from 76-79. Great stuff. The celebrity panellists were given unusual objects and would make jokes about what the purpose of the object was, one of them telling the truth. The contestants would then make wagers on which celebrity was telling the truth. What a wacky show. Good stuff.

I knew it by description.  There was an episode where Dick Gautier had some sort of device he made a false description of and said it was used for something like breaking a bird's legs or something.  Betty White, an animal-rights activist, was mortified and gave him this disgusted look.  Funny!

In no particular order:

* BEAT THE CLOCK
* TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
* LET'S MAKE A DEAL
* JEOPARDY
* THE NEWLYWED GAME (those old episodes from the 1970s are hilarious)

Don't forget the classic "Make me Laugh"  My memories are pretty foggy on that show, but I just remember it was entertaining.

I remember the '70s version, hosted by Bobby Van.  Pretty dumb but I remember Frank Zappa was on it once.. interesting!

Press Your Luck
Lets Make a Deal
Family Feud
The Price is Right
Hollywood Squares

(all the 70s/80s versions, of course)

Takeshi's Castle
Price is Right
Pointless
Only Connect (the hardest game show ever !!!)
Call my Bluff

Oh yeah . . . they had guests like Gallagher and Vic Dunlap . . . and wasn't Bobby Van the host?

 

Great contestant.. and a REALLY young Garry Shandling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9aTfJa0LQU

there used to be a game show TREASURE ISLE hosted by JOHN BARTHOAMEW TUCKER and remember PASSWORD? and $25;000 PYRAMID, and kids game shows like STORYBOOK SQUARES(HOLLYWOOD SQUARES FOR KIDS)SHANAIGANS,and STARCADE

Back in the early '80s, Starcade was on REAL early in the mornings on cable on the weekend.  When I'd visit my mom I'd be too tired to get up that early (6:00 I think).  I did once, watched it, and loved it.  I remember Elevator Action being one of the games played in that episode.

Press your luck
The Jokers wild
Lets make a deal
Card sharks
Match game

PASSWORD,$25:000 PYRAMID,THE NEWLYWED GAME,THE DATING GAME(once featured TOM SELLECT)CARD SHARKS,THE JOKERS WILD,

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I have and still do watch game shows.  But more often than not, I like to play computer programs based on the bigger game shows.
So without further ado, here is my top five list

5.  Dream House.  I doubt any of you remember that one.  It ran for only 2 seasons and the grand prize was always a house.  It was likely cancelled because of its very big budget.

4.  Scrabble.  As ashamed as I am to admit it, I have a soft spot in my heart for board game inspired game shows.  This show was vastly better than Wheel of Fortune.  Sadly, it only survived for 5 seasons.

3.  Love Connection.  Does this show qualify as a game show?  Chuck Woolery was one of my favorite show hosts.  I just love hearing about the dates that went badly in that show.  I also like hearing about the dates that ended well.

2.  Double Dare.  I have so many fond memories of this show.  I especially remember reading Mad Magazine's satire of it called Double Damp.  That show's host, Marc Summers is now hosting Food Network's Unwrapped.  There was a version of Double Dare which had adults as contestants, it was called Family Double Dare.  I remember Marc Summers hosted another game show that focused on TV.  I forget what it was called.

1.  (tie) Classic Concentration/Jeopardy.  I love both these shows.  They were both hosted by Alex Trebek.  Jeopardy is such a challenge and I learn a lot from it.  Classic Cincentraion was like a mtach game and you had to figure out the pictograms.

MUSICAL CHAIRS,NAME THAT TUNE,WHEEL OF FORTUNE,EYE GUESS,WIN,LOSE or DRAW,TATTLETALES

Jeopardy - I know quite a bit of trivia and enjoy seeing what others know that I don't or the reverse. 

Press Your Luck - Kind of humorous.  I liked that it offered a different prize structure and you had some but limited control over the outcome. 

Price is Right - I remember watching this a lot while Bob Barker was host and with my grandfather before he passed away. 

Name That Tune - Remember it on USA I think in the 80's or early 90's (rebroadcast not new episodes).  I was learning the violin at the time and interesting to hear things I recognized from practice. 

Let's Make a Deal - Again, there was an element of control.  Though, it was significantly limited. 

1) jeopary
2) who wants to be a millionaire?
3) don't forget the lyrics
4) are you smarter than a 5th grader?
5) the dating game and newlywed show

no whammies