Hi all i was watching knightmare on challange last week and they has some kids who made it to the end and basically they got a plaque and a congrats. is they ever remade this show the'y better throw in a playstation of something because it hit me that the adventure was better that the conclusion a bit like uslyssus
Thunderbirds Aren't Slow
lol yeh, my bro sis and cuz's tryed to get on the show, but in auditions u gotta anwer3 questions they got 3rd one rong . owell wud have been kool if they had got on it.....
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Dammit, when i saw those very few teams win when i was a kid i was well excited! Imagine being one of those kids! Screw Playstations, you've just won the ultimate computer game by being in the damn thing
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ok i confess i was gutted that i never made it on as my team consisted of girls and boys and all 80's show were battles of the sexes but i would have sold my 10 year old soal for one of those plaques
Thunderbirds Aren't Slow
I remember applying to go on myself . . . sadly the show got cancelled, so I never had the chance :-(
shareThe French version 'Le Chevalier du Labyrinthe' saw them win Sega Master Systems, while the Spanish version 'El Rescate del Talisman' saw them win PCs. Neither of them really fitted the whole dungeon atmosphere, though.
shareIt wasn't really the prize that was important. It was the sense of achievement gained from beating what was (is), even by adult standards, probably the most difficult television challenge ever.
"Groovy"
It was a very difficult game show. On average I think only one team per season ever won. In fact in seasons 1 and 3, there were NO winners. Therefore winning the game was a big enough achievement in itself. Who cares about the prize?
The point of this show was teaching kids that *playing* the game is important, not winning. Something that is sadly lacking today.
And a playstation? Oh please! That's very dungeony isn't it?!
Did the teams have to be single sex?
shareI don't think so, it just usually worked out that way.
"Groovy"
Not all teams were single sex. Some were mixed.
shareIts just that kids tend to be close friends with kids of their own gender, so teams tended to be single sex ones.
The prizes were kinda rubbish, especially back when they only gave 1 prize between 4 people, but I suppose they didnt have the budget to splash out on expensive prizes.
Who cares about the prize? I didn't even notice when I was young there was no prize. I just wanted to strut into school to say I'd been on Knightmare. Winning would've made you even more legendary.
I still remember watching the first team to ever win, and what a big deal it was. (And yes, the first team to win was two girls and two boys.) It felt like a massive TV moment.
It kind of annoyed me in later series. Becuase they redesigned the dungeon every year. Having only a certain amount of series time, if a team came close to the end of the series they always found a well way in room 2 that took them straight to the third level. It was as if they engineered it so at least one team won a season, purely so the viewers would see what the end of the dungeon looked like this year. This makes a mockery of the teams that won properly, and it didn't feel quite as rare when somebody did it.
Just to correct you if you don't mind. The second ever winners were mixed, the first were all male.
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The proper prize for this type of a game would be a chest full of actual gold (coins and bars, for example), rubies, emeralds, jade and other priceless gems.
Would be a bit pricey and hard to arrange, though. But think of the motivation to win the game!
The prize is important, because why else would you even play, if there's no point to any of it, if there's nothing good awaiting, if there's no motivation to go on? Why would it be fun to just "turn right, turn slightly left, turn around, go forward, stop, turn right" if there's no end result from it? You can do that at home just as well!
If that's a bit too much, then perhaps just a gold cup filled with silver coins or something. At least enough gold, silver and gems so you can buy yourself a computer or something.
Btw, they couldn't have given them a PLAYSTATION in 1987! Playstation didn't come to existence on this planet before late 1994! Do you propose they should have invented a time machine just so they can go fetch an improper prize for the kids for this type of show? If you make a show about dungeons and dragons, keep the theme in everything - don't give computer hardware as prizes! It breaks the illusion and brings 'boring reality' back into it.
Sega Megadrive/Genesis was more feasible, as it did come out in 1988-1990 (depending on the region), but also inappropriate. This was not a 'lasers and electronics' adventure show. With a futuristic space-theme, a game console might have been appropriate.
If you still think my suggestions are not good, maybe you can watch the AVGN episode called "Sword Quest", and see what kind of prizes they DID offer a long time ago for something similarly-themed..