SNES Game Review: Jeopardy: Sports Edition

 In my previous evening blog edition I talked about how movies were made into video games like Aladdin, The Lion King, The Jungle Book, and so forth.  That same can be said about tv/game shows as well.  Things like Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy were/are game shows that turned into video games on the Super Nintendo.  GameTek made the game for this and here is what they do well, and what they should have improved on.

Positives:

1. Variety: Over 1700 questions provide you the opportunity to flex and work your brain to do what you need to do to win the game.  So this is something they did well.

2. The likeness of Alex Trebek: Yep our favorite host of Jeopardy at least had his likeness in the game.  The voice seemed off for him so it may not have been his voice (or if it was, you can tell just how 90's the equipment was) but his likeness is in it, even if again it was 90's video game likeness. 

3. Quick pace: Yes despite the puzzles, if you wanted to not do that and just wanted to beat the game once, it is a quick playthrough.  Typically 30 minutes or less if you wanted to just play it without the massive amount of questions/puzzles to this game.

Negatives:

1. Bland: There isn't any natural sound to base the game off of.  It's rather bland and just makes you think you are in an elevator or something like that.  Kind of a downfall due to that because the game has to have more than just that.

2. Limitations: This is probably more on GameTek doing this but the game has a lot of limitations and does not provide a lot of ability to have more than just a regular game should.  I felt they could have opened it up with more animations at least to make the game more lively.

3. Tendencies: I played this game a few times but even though there were over 1700 questions it seemed some tended to be repeated.  I wasn't sure what to make of it but I didn't understand it a lot anyway.

Overall Rating/Rank:

This is just a merely average game, much like Monopoly, Wheel of Fortune and so on.  Don't be surprised if you get bored of it quickly because it is a limited game in scope.  I'd rate it a 5 out of 10 but rank it like 419th or so on the SNES radar.