{"id":215,"date":"2007-07-26T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-07-26T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T18:49:21","slug":"lets-meet-our-next-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Let’s meet our next contestant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh god, how I love game shows. I was raised on them; every day during the summer, I watched four or five a day, and every night, it was Jeopardy!<\/em> and Wheel of Fortune<\/em>, even if the latter is so amazingly easy that it wasn’t much fun. Once I actually guessed the puzzle without seeing any tiled turned over, and my mom was completely floored. I’m like, “Mom…it’s Wheel of Fortune<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

One of my few unfulfilled life goals is to be on a game show. I’ve auditioned — I went down to LA and passed the test for Rock & Roll Jeopardy!<\/em> <\/a>, but didn’t get picked for the show. Jude built me some buzzers with a lockout circuit and everything, for trivia fun at home — but I’ve never been on one for real. Last year I wrote a story for OXM <\/em>saying we needed to bring You Don’t Know Jack<\/em><\/a> to Xbox Live Arcade, let users play against each other in online trivia showdowns, but — can you imagine? — my wish list was not instantly put into production.<\/p>\n

But we’re getting closer. Scene It?<\/a> was announced at E3, and that’s a good start. Now, Sony has finally gotten of its ass to bring Buzz!<\/a> from the European market to the US. Crucially, both games feature custom, big-button controllers (four infared controllers for Scene It<\/em>, a lovely eight wured USB ringers for Buzz<\/em>). Buzz <\/em>is about two years old, and since it’s music-trivia based, maybe there were legal things to clear…but I really, truly believe that this is the next avenue for the recently-discovered casual market. Game shows are back on TV (and have been for several years) and the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire<\/em> PC games spawned like rabbits. Why console gaming has been so slow to adopt the genre, I can’t say. I’m just glad to see it’s happening.<\/p>\n

I haven’t played much PS2 of late, but I’ll definitely fire it up for Buzz<\/em>. And while Scene It<\/em> is offline, Microsoft did say at E3 that they have plans for the controllers in other games. My Live trivia showdown dreams could become reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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