Japanese Quiz Show Arcade Game Confounds

Thanks to GameSpot for its article discussing the latest Japanese arcade games showcased at the AOU 2004 show in Tokyo, with a particular highlight, as well as an example of building a play experience unique to an arcade, being Sega's Quiz Show, which "gives the player the experience of being a contestant on an American TV quiz show." The Japanese page for the game has pictures of the massive arcade cabinet, which has players "sitting behind a colorful table, just like a real quiz show", and allows each contestant to answer trivia questions which are "randomly selected by a physical, spinning wheel that's attached to the game booth."

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I just hope

[foidulus]

That this game won't dunk you in orange juice while a digital crowd mocks your worth as a human being. ah Simpsons, is there anything that can't be related to them on Slashdot?

Arcade games

[Enrico Pulatzo]

man, I wish arcade games in America were as cool as they are in Japan. American audiences don't seem to enjoy the crazy peripherials and gimmickry that fills the arcades of the East. I suppose there is hope that games like DDR may inspire a new generation of arcade gamers, but I'm not one to hope like that.

Re:Arcade games

[zero_offset]

Tried-and-true formulas and good old profit motive killed American video games. If it wasn't the next "Defender" and didn't have a Sports Theme(TM) then it never saw the light of day. That combined with the absolutely stupid trend of ever-increasing per-play prices nailed the coffin-lid on American arcade games. (As a kid in the 80s, I spent hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars in quarters -- but I only played a few fifty-cent games, and I've never looked twice at the dollar-or-more games.) I also have to assume the constant improvement in home console games and PCs contributed heavily to the demise, but I really think the Sports Theme(TM) trend was the beginning of the end. I still shake my head when I think about those endless lines of idiots mindlessly banging away on the buttons of Track & Field...

What characterized the heyday of the arcade game was creativity... and that doesn't mean "unchecked weirdness", or weird gimmicky controls, or spaz-friendly concepts like DDR.

Re:Arcade games

[The Evil Couch]

I think a big reason you'll never see games with lots of extra gadgets over here in the States isn't that the games aren't enjoyable, it's that it seems like the fanciest games over here, end up broken first, whereas in Japan, they see a game with all sorts of extras and they treat it much more gingerly than they would over here.

I've lived in Japan for a couple years as a kid and it seems like when a Japanese kid finds that the lightgun at his game is off target, he'll go find an attendant and ask for help, whereas in the US, the kid will just whack the side of the gun until it either breaks or it works better.

The Fish is your friend.

[Stubtify]

its in engrish, but at least its a start:

They are the plural opposition type quiz games which adopt the element of the party game which has familiarity anyone such as "quiz" "bingo". Because also rule is simple, anyone can participate with ease, the contents which can enjoy the development which still incandesces has become. The audience facing, the answer person who lines up (the prayer), with quiz program the same straw raincoat gimmick full load the problem sentence which is indicated in the frame and the enormous monitor. And, sort such as the chairman whom it mounds in the light talk also the person of clinging stopping the foot unintentionally, it observes, not only the prayer even in the gallery the pleasant real quiz Shaw game. That is "THE QUIZ SHOW". The popularity chairman bar moth - with popularity quiz program of the American HMTV channel where beauty serves the host. It is the popularity longevity program which 20 years or more continues from start of broadcast, Sunday evening 17 o'clock there is OA while happy circle to do in the family, you watch at this program, fixed turn. Furthermore, the answer person decides at application system from the All-American. Rather than hitting against the lottery in the number of applications of remainder, it is difficult also. As for secret of popularity, making questions and bar moth from colorful genre - light talk. That and existence of beauty . By the way the 5th generation assistant. Name:THE QUIZ SHOW (the quiz Shaw) Genre:Crowd opposition type quiz game Play number of people:1 - 4 people Basis:NAOMI Work time:Undecided Play fee:Undecided In addition:IC card use Copyright inscription:(C) Hitmaker/SEGA, 2004

OBPA

[mrfunky405]

Eight posts and still no obligatory Penny Arcade link. *sigh*

Wheel... Of... Fish!

[hitchhacker]

Kuni: What's it going to be, Weaver?

Phyllis Weaver: I'll take the box! The box!

Kuni: You took the box! Let's see what in the box!

Kuni: Nothing! Absolutely nothing!! Stupid!! You're so stupid!!!


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Game needs to have updates..

[LordJezo]

..otherwise it will become obsolete because everyone will have memorized all of the answers..

Unlike other games like DDR or Pac-Man where you can improve your skill this game would involve the players to simply learn the answers.. right?

Re:Game needs to have updates..

[Ayaress]

Like Trivial Pursuit. It's fun for about a week, then your friend goes through the box, reads all the cards, and has the game entirely memorized, and the game becomes all pursuit and no trivia.

Re:Game needs to have updates..

[MonMotha]

Actually, I have quite the same problem with DDR.

I am now to the point where I can do every single song on a DDRMAX2 machine (though I can't always muster up enough stamina for MAX300 or Maxx Unlimited). This isn't because I'm "that good". I certainly couldn't sight read many of the 9s. It's because I've practically memorized the song (at least when the steps are, not the actual sequences).

When the local arcade got a new Extreme arcade I found that there were actually a couple 8 footers that I didn't pass on my first try. While it's annoying losing your money, it's quite fun to get thrown a loop on some stream pattern you don't see very often or some more odd gallop-8th-16th step sequences.

Though don't get me started on the "100% not upbeats or downbeats" song that is memories (the 4th stage on the Naoki Neo-Standard oni course that is keeping me at #5 on this machine).