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Japanese Quiz Show Arcade Game Confounds

Posted by simoniker on from the if-you-like-pat-sajak dept.

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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  1. OBPA by mrfunky405 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:Arcade games by zero_offset · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.

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  3. Game needs to have updates.. by LordJezo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ..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?