Comments on: “Play2Win” Dead on National Basis

By: pj

pj — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:30:13 +0000

troy please link to the youtube if you put them up
Thanks!

By: HQ

HQ — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:07:14 +0000

My Games Fever sucks as well. Every six seconds the host was explaining how to text message with a big model phone. Any dumbass knows how to text message.

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:25:28 +0000

FYI, the show apparently airs now only in New York — they ended the show by saying so.

I managed to get the last 40 minutes on the DVR — it was so embarassing and anticlimactic. The worst part of it all — yes, the puzzles were worth more, but they only did 3 during the night (when they normally do 5). In other words, they didn’t stretch out the (minimal) prize budget any; they just stalled for much… much… much longer.

I may have to YouTube some clips from that.

By: Mark D.

Mark D. — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:45:01 +0000

Here in Canada, CityTV runs a Playmania-like show also called Play2Win. The highest cash prize that I’ve seen on that show was $2,500 CDN, which can also be won in a special bonus round. Usually, people who call in that show never end up winning the $2,500 anyway, and instead end up with $50, $225, $250, and even $500. I’m wondering if this version has anything at all to do with the version that was mentioned in this post, since both shows share the exact same name.

By: Intelligentfan777

Intelligentfan777 — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:44:30 +0000

Speaking of MyGames Fever, I did the research and found out what “Black Bamboo” is…..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bamboo

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:21:19 +0000

I think the reason the show went from National to local feed is due to pressure from the FCC. WPIX is a broadcast network and probably someone called the FCC to claim rigged-ness. Wouldn’t suprise me if MyGames Fever is next to be “axed”.

By: Steve Baxley

Steve Baxley — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:12:07 +0000

Play2Win was on WGN Superstation,thats REALLY as national as they got.

As for Midnight Money Madness on TBS, it flopped..

VIVA PLAYMANIA!

By: davec

davec — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:13:38 +0000

I thought I’ve seen ads for Play2Win on WGN Superstation over the past 2 weeks. Maybe its not on that anymore though.

That seems “national” to me (most - 75-80%- of basic cable systems get Superstation WGN).

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:51:15 +0000

I’m glad. I’ve never watched this, but Playmania is such a genius show(and by genius I mean an awesome time waster at 1 in the morning) and I want to see the original succeed.

Now if we could only get rid of Midnight Money Madness or whatever. Wait, is that even still on?

By: Josh H.

Josh H. — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:57:19 +0000

I actually managed to catch this last week Thursday night and it was part-way through one puzzle where people had to unscramble letters in a puzzle (answer was OCTOPUS, by the way).

LITERALLY every 30 seconds (maybe less) they would talk about their little “bonus round” for $1,500 (and stupid celebratory music was played). Then they upped it to $3,000 in honor of their “not going to be nationwide anymore” show.

I’d definitely rather watch PlayMania over this.