218 · Hollywood Squares
Two contestants play a version of tic-tac-toe, with "celebrities" filling in for the squares. The selected celeb is asked a question, answers it, and the contestant must agree or disagree with their answer. A correct guess captures that square. After three games, the winning contestant picks a key and a car out of two separate pools, hoping to match the two up and win the car.
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SHOW NOTES
Hollywood Squares NES Longplay
Hollywood Squares Wii
Hollywood Squares TV Show
Show notes
- It’s time to go Hollywood! Hollywood Squares that is!
- NES Longplay
- Introductions
- AND WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD SQUARES, let’s meet our celebrity guests, Michael Esposito x9
- And today’s contestants, hailing from the great city of Buffalo, NY topping off at 200 Sean
- And his opponent, barreling in from Niagara Falls, NY Joe
- And let’s give it up for our host Michael Esposito!
- What better way to cover Hollywood Squares on the NES than playing a game of Hollywood Squares
- Overview
- two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. In each “box” on the tic-tac-toe board there is a celebrity guest who tells you the answer and the player must then assess if they are telling the truth or not.
- Questions
- The celebrities that are featured in this NES game are also
- Joke: My Inner demons
- Right: Not real
- Wrong: Nintendo Employees
- Talk about how the biggest draw of the game is absent from. This is just Tic-Tac-Toe Trivia. Or worse, SQUARES
- This developer is better known for bears and apes, but they are also the developer of this game?
- Joke: Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria
- Right: Rare
- Wrong: Activision
- Talk about Rare
- Hollywood Squares has had several spinoff shows: Storybook Squares, The West Virginia Squares, Nashville Squares, And this music focused one known as BLANK
- Joke: Hip to be Square
- Right: Hip Hop Squares
- Wrong: Square Dancing
- Talk about the video game version trivia questions and the generality of the questions being asked
- This popular paper-and-pencil game can be tracked all the way back to the ancient Egyptians in 1300 BC
- Joke: Assassin’s Creed
- Right: Tic-Tac-Toe
- Wrong: Dots and Boxes
- Talk about traditional games and their impact on video gaming
- In NES Hollywood Squares you can win a fake brand new car by picking the right key to match the right car, in this other game show you answer questions IN a car:
- Joke: Cops
- Right: Cash Cab
- Wrong: Carpool Karaoke
- Talk about the inconsequentiality final prize
- Hollywood Squares is our 3rd Game Show Video Game, what was our first?
- Joke: 10-Yard Fight
- Right: Jeopardy!
- Wrong: Wheel of Fortune
- Talk about the Game Show Genre and how trivia adapts to video games
- Bob Barker, Alex Trebek, Michael Eposito what do these names have in common?
- Joke: They are all past their prime
- Right: They are all hosts
- Wrong: They are all in the top 10 boy’s first names
- Talk about the lack of a host in these video games
- Is it ever a good idea to put vodka on your eyeglasses?
- Joke: I think it works faster up your butt
- Right: Yes, for cleaning
- Wrong: No
- Randomness of the questions and how there doesn’t seem to be any consistency
- Hollywood Squares would take a long time to expand on the brilliance of the NES version, but after many years we finally got a sequel on this console
- Joke: N-Gage
- Right: The Wii, just like every other shovelware game known to man
- Wrong: Xbox 360, as a follow up to the popular 1vs100
- The celebrities that are featured in this NES game are also
- EGL
- For the car we have this important question: IS IT ESSENTIAL
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