The popular games based on TV shows are still being played regularly.muddle wrote:Ok,here's my considered take on this.By 'considered' I probably mean overly influenced by having had quite a bad day with machines either being off,not accepting coins,or the screen not working properly,but here goes: In 2010,I was doing fine and from what I could tell,despite there being a dodgy economic picture overall,a reasonable amount of money was being put in the machines by Joe Public.The effects of A,B and D were probably growing ever more significant but as yet unnoticed by me.Then G happened,and the industry didn't react very well to this,became too worried about F and made some bad decisions which has certainly made C more significant and probably E as well.
The one little ray of hope I have is,that considering how likely Joe Public is to have a bad experience when playing a machine (or attempting to),due to the factors above,it's quite surprising that anyone is still playing them.Maybe there's a bit of affection for the old quiz machine from the British public,and perhaps with some sensible decisions from the industry,the current trend could be reversible.Well,I'd like to think so anyway.
Whenever I'm in a pub and not actually playing, I'll look over my shoulder and see DOND or Pointless usually being player so demand is still there I think for people to put a few quid in if it's a well publicised game from the tele. So I'd suggest more games to be based on shows particularly sport so for example maybe games based on Question of Sport and Soccer Saturday perhaps?
Might be just me but dosen't seem Pints make Prizes gets played as often. It has survived the cull that games like Match of the Day and Pub Quiz seemingly haven't but if that goes I will be in the retirement home!