Electronic games in jeopardy?
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The “electronic game” is a weird hybrid. As we all know, there’s the video game. And there’s the board game. And each has its charms. The appeal of the electronic game, the board game with some shiny bits and loud sounds, made some amount of sense in 1980 when the high-end video game was made up of dots doing something to some other dots. But now, it seems less needed. However, Pressman Toy has made an effort to revitalize the format with “ESPN Jeopardy.”
The game asks sports trivia questions from major and minor sports, and comes in two editions:
A boxed game that includes a standing answer board and an electronic game “buzzer.”
An Attache Edition that features a plastic game board that folds to compact size, individual contestant clickers, scoring chips and a carrying case.
The game has dozens of categories, and 1,000 total questions. The “final Jeopardy” countdown uses the ESPN theme music. Categories include “Ballparks & Arenas” and “NBA Head Coaches,” among others.
Questions range from pretty easy to completely impossible for all but the most sports-addicted. The presentation is fairly old-school, with the same type of plastic standup and card inserts as were in my parents’ 1970s-era “Jeopardy” home game.
The game is OK for what it is, and the attache game is portable enough for on-the-road trivia.
But overall it’s not cutting-edge enough to draw younger players away from their Blackberries and Nintendos, and not retro enough to have a quirky charm.
By Matthew Price
From Friday’s The Oklahoman
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