More rumors: Game Shows coming to XBLA

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The original NeoGAF post is down, probably due to the traffic all these leaks has generated today. Here's the Joystiq write-up. Is Ken Jennings on Live?

Xbox Live getting massively competitive social games - Jeopardy, Millionaire, etc.

Also revealed in the video game survey cornucopia are SBGs, an acronym that – while never broken down (server-based gaming?) – is defined as "programmatic, highly concurrent social interactive games." Again we see Microsoft aiming for that mainstream audience. With SBGs, you'll be able to use Xbox Live to "browse, discover and download" games ranging from game shows (they use "Jeopardy" and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" as two examples) to trivia to reality TV to puzzles to fantasy sports leagues.

One of the most interesting aspects of the model is the "programmatic" part – the content can be programmed to coordinate with special events (think Super Bowl or Oscars) and, because it's "highly concurrent" you'll be playing against "massive" groups, not to mention people in the living room with you. It certainly sounds like an ambitious program and one that would leverage the Xbox Live infrastructure to provide something besides a couple rounds of CoD4.
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I've been wanting game shows in on XBLA for years now, I'm surprised they are finally doing it. Give us Press Your Luck. Obviously the big issue now is how many points they will bleed out of people who want to participate.

I'll try to keep this updated as more news shows up.



[size=+1]EDIT - I thought this was obvious but apparently I need to spell it out: these are not downloads of old TV shows. These are (essentially) XBox Live Arcade versions of game shows.[/size]
 
I read about this...

Hmm I really don't think it's necessary to put game shows on XBL. You watch them, enjoy them and move on.
 
yeah, its hard to pay for new shows....only old hard to find shows are worth it, because most shows are free on fox.com or abc.com or so on....to ask money for game shows though...hard sell..

for me it is about as bad as a site running a trailer for a movie, and you have to watch a forced trailer of another movie before you can see it....hmmm
 
Looks like those who claimed to have read about this already don't quite get what's being offered here. Bone up on your reading comprehension, boys.

[quote name='KaneRobot']Give us Press Your Luck.[/QUOTE]

YES.
 
I liked press your luck, but I am not shelling out 100pts for each episodes, when I believe there is a best of press your luck dvd out there.
 
[quote name='fart_bubble']BIG MONEY! BIG MONEY! NO WAMMY! STOP!

Would be really stoked if this would come to pass[/quote]


Truth.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']I liked press your luck, but I am not shelling out 100pts for each episodes, when I believe there is a best of press your luck dvd out there.[/QUOTE]

You must not get what they are saying in that article. They're talking about gameshows where users would compete against each other and not actual TV shows that you just watch
 
[quote name='fart_bubble']You must not get what they are saying in that article. They're talking about gameshows where users would compete against each other and not actual TV shows that you just watch[/quote]

wait... I read another article that wasn't listed in the OP that talked about classic tv game shows coming to xbl for downloads.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']wait... I read another article that wasn't listed in the OP that talked about classic tv game shows coming to xbl for downloads.[/QUOTE]

But we're not talking about that article, we're talking about the one that the OP quoted which talks about online gameshows that we play against other people
 
and one more thing. If they bring Press Your Luck to the service, I for one would kill if they could get Sergio Aragonés on board to do some new wammy animations.
 
[quote name='ArthurDigbySellers']So this is basically the equivilent of those bar games where everyone is playing trivia against each other, except over Xbox Live.[/QUOTE]


Naked Photo Hunt? Wow...cool.
 
I would be all for interactive game shows but as much as I love Press Your Luck, it would get old REALLY quickly. The questions were always mind-numbingly easy and just pressing a buzzer to randomly stop a rotating flashing square to stop on prizes woul wear thin in a few days.
 
[quote name='KaneRobot']Give us Press Your Luck. Obviously the big issue now is how many points they will bleed out of people who want to participate.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='fart_bubble']BIG MONEY! BIG MONEY! NO WAMMY! STOP!
[/QUOTE]


They have a Philippines version of it and the contestant doesn't seem to energized to say that...but the crowd will always say "NO WHAMMY! NO WHAMMY!"

Anyway, This would really utilize the big button controllers. If it goes live, I wish they do some special event so we can win prizes...like free M$ points or Cold hard cash....or

A BRAND NEW CAR (here's hoping Let's Make a Deal/The Price is Right)
 
First of all, I am a HUUUUUUGE game show fan.

To have Jeopardy and WWTBAM mentioned is very cool. I'd think a game show like Wheel of Fortune with online multiplayer would rock beyond words could describe. I think there might be a roadblock with obtaining the rights to those games, though. Sony owns J! and WoF and just recently bought the rights to WWTBAM (they've taped that show at a Sony studio since Super Millionaire. Finally they bought out Two Way Traffic, the production company behind the latest syndicated season). I'm not saying it's a definite roadblock, but I remember the last console J! and WoF games being PS2 console exclusive.

I'm a die-hard PYL mark, too. In fact, I'm part of a community that runs user-hosted game shows (like PYL) via visual chat client. It's real fun and for true game show nuts.

I also thought Merv Griffin's Crosswords was coming to XBLA too? They announced that last year, though. Perhaps they went back to the drawing board on that one.

Either way, looking forward to whether this ends up being true.
 
I was wondering when the next gen would get some sort of game show releases. I want my Jeopardy!, dammit!

I've come quite close to subbing to these things on my cell phone before, but XBLA would be 10x better. I'd glady pony up my points for a Jeopardy! version with regularly updated questions... I hope we'd have the option to play only against those in our friends list, or offline/multiplayer at home, though?

[quote name='Regian']I'm a die-hard PYL mark, too. In fact, I'm part of a community that runs user-hosted game shows (like PYL) via visual chat client. It's real fun and for true game show nuts.[/quote]

You, sir, are awesome ;)
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']Give us "You Don't Know Jack!" and I'll be golden![/QUOTE]

Hell. yes.

Also wheel of fortune would be great.

I've always wanted classic family board games on XBLA. Like monopoly, and the like.
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']Give us "You Don't Know Jack!" and I'll be golden![/quote]
Anyone else remember the very brief TV show version of this hosted by Paul Reubens on ABC about seven or eight years ago? I think they only made about five episodes. It was pretty bad. YDKJ would be great for the interactive gameshow concept though and it would be awesome to play it on XBL. I'm all for that idea. :applause:
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']Give us "You Don't Know Jack!" and I'll be golden![/quote]



No mother fucking SHIT! I used to play that to death as a kid. I still have a few discs laying about that thankfully still run on Vista. I actually have YDKJ Mock 2 for PS1. Though, I think the best was YDKJ The Ride. That one had the most insulting cracks! Still pissed that one of my brst friends I lent it to him years ago and I think he may have lost it. Hell, that would be a MINUTE 1 purchase (day one is too slow heh) for me
 
[quote name='Regian']
I also thought Merv Griffin's Crosswords was coming to XBLA too? They announced that last year, though. Perhaps they went back to the drawing board on that one.[/QUOTE]

Merv Griffin's Crosswords has 360 sponsored sections in each show. I'm surprised there isn't a XBLA game for it out yet.

I would buy Wheel of Fortune in a heart beat. That would be a blast.

I personally think Jeopardy wouldn't be enjoyable on XBLA. I think it would be to hard to type in responses. Do keyboards work on the 360? If so then it wouldn't be bad.

I don't think WWTBAM would do that good on XBLA. There nothing great about that show. Its just trivia. And it could only be single player.
 
[quote name='Limpbizkit182521']

I personally think Jeopardy wouldn't be enjoyable on XBLA. I think it would be to hard to type in responses. Do keyboards work on the 360?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, any USB keyboard should work. Nice to have if you're one of the 6 who uses the MSN integration, and for typing in redemption codes.
 
[quote name='Limpbizkit182521']
I personally think Jeopardy wouldn't be enjoyable on XBLA. I think it would be to hard to type in responses. Do keyboards work on the 360? If so then it wouldn't be bad.
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Odd are it would just be multiple choice like some of the old console Jeopardy games if I had to guess.
 
I am sitting here watching Jeopardy!, and wondering to myself why games like this aren't on Xbox Live Arcade. It's 2008, and voice recognition technology is such that, you could use your headset, and SAY the answers, not just pick between 4 answers. Put up different versions, like Pop Culture Jeopardy!, Sports Jeopardy!, Video Game Trivia Jeopardy!, etc. and you've got yourself a winner.
 
[quote name='homeland']Gonna take a wild guess that it has something to do that its owned by Sony.[/quote]Yeah, probably, but a rip-off game could easily be made. Or, Jeopardy! could just be on PSN.
 
[quote name='vlv723']Deal or No Deal anyone?

It's fun playing that game @ Dave and Busters...as well as the Super Trivia game.[/QUOTE]

That doesn't take any skill, just luck. It would get old real quick.
 
[quote name='Limpbizkit182521']That doesn't take any skill, just luck. It would get old real quick.[/QUOTE]Not if you could get an actual payout!
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Odd are it would just be multiple choice like some of the old console Jeopardy games if I had to guess.[/quote]

Every console version of Jeopardy! I can remember (NES, SNES, N64, PSX, PS2) had you type your answer using the d-pad or analog stick. Some had the auto fill in thing, sort of like T9, which I always found more annoying than helpful.

Anyhow, the text input never bothered me... thought it worked fine.

They should put up the NES one with new questions and online play. The characters in that cracked me up. I loved how their wrong answers always looked like they were cursing like a sailor... !*@t#*rs

and how pissed off they got when they were wrong :lol:
 
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