# Ten Best Game Shows Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379 "2006-03-07T15:29:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/41 "2006-03-08T15:11:12Z")
> [@jali](#): > > I remember a kid’s gameshow from the 70’s. There was a giant gameboard and the contestants moved along the board. I loved the show but can’t rmember the host or the name of the game. Help! Two I somewhat hazily remember sound like this but date further back. There was Video Village and Shenanigans. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/42 "2006-03-08T15:27:25Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Does anyone remember a game show called “The Krypton Factor”? IIRC, the purpose was to find the “ultimate human.” It had stages that included general knowledge, math and language skills, memory tests, hand-eye coordination and physical strength. Was that on in the mid-70s? And it lasted for maybe 6 weeks? There was a show in maybe the late 80s that was a panel show, sort of a modified I’ve Got a Secret. There were 2 teams of 2 each. Marsha Warfield was usually on it. Anyone remember that? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/43 "2006-03-08T15:32:49Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Was that on in the mid-70s? And it lasted for maybe 6 weeks? The Krypton Factor debuted August 7, 1981 and ran five weeks. Hosted by Dick Clark. There was a syndicated kids’ version that ran from 9/90 to 9/91, hosted by Willie Aames. Thank you, Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows! The Marsha Warfield show sounds kinda familiar but IMDB doesn’t list anything that matches for her. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/44 "2006-03-08T17:32:24Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > A couple of us mentioned Match Game, if you look carefully. 😉 I always knew you had good taste! :o CJ ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/45 "2006-03-08T17:57:14Z")
2 more kids game shows that my daughter and I loved were **Legend of the Hidden Temple** and **Guts/Global Guts**. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/46 "2006-03-08T18:27:59Z")
joker… JOKER… **JOKER!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/47 "2006-03-08T20:20:18Z")
Anyone else notice that the “Price is Right” and “Match Game” they mention are the first editions, which bear little resemblance to the ones they were describing? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/48 "2006-03-08T22:15:55Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > Yep, and another blast from the past, who remembers Almost Anything Goes. It started out by having different teams from different towns in the same state compete against each other in a bunch of bizarre stunts. Hey, I do remember that show! I loved it – though I was about eight or nine at the time. I would never have remembered the name of it, though oddly enough, I seem to remember Chambersburg, PA furnishing a winning team one year. Anyway, thanks for reminding me about it. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/49 "2006-03-08T23:30:24Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > Hey, I do remember that show! I loved it – though I was about eight or nine at the time. I would never have remembered the name of it, though oddly enough, I seem to remember Chambersburg, PA furnishing a winning team one year. Anyway, thanks for reminding me about it. No problem. Actually, I had forgotten about it also, but I stumbled across a website about it while randomly surfing one day. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/50 "2006-03-09T02:32:16Z")
Pat & Vanna been on the air for nearly 24 years. Twenty Four. Nearly everyone knows “I’d like to buy a vowel” It isn’t hard and I wonder about people who can stare at a nearly filled out puzzle and not see that it clearly says “T\_E STRAI\_\_T DO\_E” But it deserves some level of recognition for staying power. Other than that - Jeopardy Who Wants to Be a Millionaire What’s My Line Family Feud Price is Right Let’s Make a Deal You Bet Your Life Name that Tune and I’m going to throw out “Remote Control” (one of MTV’s older programs - which I do think other later game shows borrowed from (though they’d never admit it), and was one of the first times we saw Denis Leary, and more regretfully Adam Sandler) ---
**Author:** ![cstamets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/51 "2006-03-09T02:52:06Z")
I still prefer the Chuck Woolery “Wheel of Fortune” over Pat Sajak. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379/52 "2006-03-09T16:54:55Z")
> [@cstamets](#): > > I still prefer the Chuck Woolery “Wheel of Fortune” over Pat Sajak. What, no love for **Rolf Benirschke**? 😛 [ol] [li]Jeopardy![/li][li]Concentration[/li][li]Password[/li][li]You Don’t Say[/li][li]The $25,000 Pyramid[/li][li]Match Game[/li][li]Remote Control[/li][li]High Rollers[/li][li]Blockbusters[/li][li]Wheel of Fortune[/li][/ol] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-best-game-shows-ever/347379.md?page=2)