Tournament of Champions. Think you are the Jeopardy! Now is the chance to prove yourself. Put on your thinking cap and become a Jeopardy! Good luck! Answer: this popular American game show debuted in and has been hosted by Alex Trebek since In partnership with Sony, we're proud to bring you this official version of Jeopardy! Like the hugely popular game show, arguably one of the greatest TV game shows of all time, in our online Jeopardy!
Great for staying sharp and challenging yourself, come back each day for a new online Jeopardy! Good luck, and we hope you enjoy playing this official Jeopardy! The question is: What is one of America's favorite game shows? The Genesis version of Jeopardy is heading for a living room near you.
The first thing you're gonna notice when you slip Jeopardy into your Genesis are the oh-so-familiar strains of the TV game show's theme song, suitably rendered here with a tinny sound that sets the right mood. The action begins when a digitized image of the real Jeopardy TV studio appears on the screen. Other realistic pics include the category screen, the contestants you choose from a variety of digitized "real" people , and the infamous Alex Trebek.
In fact, Alex's digitized voice tells you when you've answered a question correctly -- or when you've blown it. Although more music and crowd sounds how about a little applause would add to the mood, the pics and tunes set the scene.
By pressing different buttons on both controllers, up to three players can compete. However, the action can get a little awkward for players two and three, since they have to share one controller.
Each human player gets to choose a contestant persona and a name. If there are only one or two players, the CPU fills in as the other contestant s. The rules are exactly like the rules on the Jeopardy game show, including the first rounds, Daily Doubles, Double Jeopardy, and Final Jeopardy. There are more than categories and 3, questions. Contestants answer questions through a somewhat awkward interface, where they have to spell out their answer before the time runs out.
Although it's annoying, the alternative, multiple choice, would have made the game too easy. Against the CPU, Jeopardy is fun for a game or two.
However, the CPU is easy to beat and the pace can't match the excitement of the real thing. Jeopardy plays best in two- or three-player mode. It's much more fun to pit your brain cells against your buddies'. Jazzier sounds could have pumped up the game a bit, but it's still a kick for fans and a good party game.
If you had licence to produce games for what is arguably the most powerful console on the planet at the moment, what kind of games do you think you'd make? Go on, have a think Okay, now own up, which of you said 'gameshows'?
I have to admit that it's not the first format I'd have thought of. On the plus side though, you're not exactly taxing the limits of the hardware, so that probably means it'll cost less to develop. And of course, many gameshows have a massive following. So all you have to do is either find some way of making the television show audience buy video game consoles or design the game in such a way that it appeals to the normal 'non-gameshow-addicted' gaming populace.
Gametek, it seems, have decided to go for the former option. There is nothing about Jeopardy! There's nothing in fact which distinguishes it from a video quiz game on any other games format. Anyone who read the review of Gametek's Wheel Of Fortune in issue ten may remember remarks to the effect that it could just as easily have. None Controller Pak: None. The FMV 'animation' consists of brief blurry sequences in a, small sub-window been produced on an old Commodore The same could be said of the graphics in jeopardy!
You don't even get the partially animated contestants from Wheel Of Fortune; instead, the characters are all just static and the FMV 'animation' consists of brief blurry sequences in a small subwindow on screen. For those of you not familiar with the televisual entertainment of our American cousins, Jeopardy is a popular quiz show with a standard three-contestant format and a slight twist. The difference is that the quizmaster gives the answers and the contestants then have to respond with the questions, starting with some variation of the phrase "What is?
In the first two rounds contestants make selections from one of six randomly chosen categories. Each category contains five questions - or rather, five answers - and the difficulty level of each is represented by cash values.
The more money the difficult the answer, the more money it's worth. Rather than each contestant answering specific answers, every selection is open to all - with the exception of Daily Double questions which we'll come to in a minute. In fact, no-one has to try to answer the questions at all. The reason for this becomes clear when you see that whereas a correct answer earns cash, an incorrect answer results in that amount being deducted from your total. As mentioned earlier, Jeopardy!
Within the first two rounds there is also a bonus feature, the Daily Double. This feature crops up once in the first round and twice in the second. When a contestant happens upon a square which hides a Daily Double then the format changes a little. Before seeing the answer, the person making the selection gets to wager a percentage of the money they've earned so far. If they get the question right, they double their money, if they get it wrong, they lose that amount.
Other players cannot jump in on the Daily Double questions. The second round is Double Jeopardy. However, all this means is that the cash values are doubled, as are the number of hidden Daily Double squares. The Final Jeopardy! Questions in Jeopardy! You can choose from three options: loose spelling, correct spelling both of which are fairly self-explanatory and the slightly more unusual computer-aided spelling. With computer-aided spelling, the computer will monitor your letter entries, and suggest possible words from the vocabulary in its database.
For instance, type in 'Ca' and the computer might produce 'Car'. Add an 'R' and an 'A', and the computer might suggest 'Caravan'. In this way you can also tell whether your answer has a chance of being right from whether or not it actually appears in the vocabulary.
Which brings us to the questions - one of the biggest failings of this game, at least as far as a European audience is concerned. See the pattern yet? Although categories like Biology and Nature are included, even they tend to have an American slant, and it's not uncommon to select say Biology and get an answer like 'An American who categorised every species of dung beetle in '.
There are categories which aren't specifically American, but they cover such popular subjects as Opera that's the singing, not the chat show and Artistic Quotations. This means that you won't necessarily like this just because you're a fan of Trivial Pursuit.
Gameplay in Jeopardy! Otherwise forget it. If Take 2 are going to convert Jeopardy! At the moment though, if you're a parent reading this review, don't under any circumstances buy your children this game - they'll never forgive you. Buy 'em Goldeneye instead! How many video games based on Jeopardy do you think have been released over the years? I wonder if there is anyone out there who has a complete Jeopardy video game collection? One of the longest-running game shows in existence today, Jeopardy!
It is therefore not surprising that there has been numerous computer versions of this popular game. For anyone who's never seen the TV show before, here's a super-brief version of rules. The twist is that the contestant's answer must be phrased as a question. For example, the question called 'clue' in the show may be: 'he was the first man on the moon,' to which the correct answer is 'who is Neil Armstrong? In the final round, only a single category is available.
The contestants will make a wager in secret, after which they have 30 seconds to write the question when the clue is revealed. The person with the most money after the final round wins the game. Browse By DOS - Also available on: Commodore Developer ShareData, Inc. Download KB. Play in your browser. Description of Jeopardy!
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