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1->''"You take a game show, plug 'Anime' in the title -- it gets butts in seats! Because it's something that's recognizable."''
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3Greg Wicker (or "Greggo", as he's fondly known) hosted and produced [[FanRemake adaptations]] of various classic {{Game Show}}s at fandom conventions all over the world between 1999 and 2018. Initially, Greggo started out doing shows at {{Anime}} conventions, later branching out to conventions catering to other fandoms.
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5While at Project A-Kon in May 1998, Greggo watched games of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' and ''Series/NameThatTune'' that were being held there. While he enjoyed the shows, he felt he could do better, feeling that said productions were a bit lacking and the audiences were watching rather than doing. He submitted a proposal to Project A-Kon's con chair for a version of ''Series/MatchGame'' to give congoers a chance to do something other than the traditional Q&A panel typical of conventions. He was accepted (it helped that the con chair was a fan of the franchise), and he debuted ''Anime Match Game'' the following year. It went so well that he did it again the following year.
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7Greggo's shows typically had the same general feel of the shows on which they're based, complete with software he programmed himself and all the dollar figures converted to Yen (to fit with the anime motif, to ensure he stayed relatively within budget, and because announcing totals in thousands of Yen rather than tens of dollars [[RuleOfCool sounds more impressive]]; toward the end, he changed from Yen to a fictional cryptocurrency called "Greggo Dollars"). On the occasion when he did a non-anime convention, some games (notably ''Jeopardy!'') were played with points instead. Much of the software has since become available through [[https://www.etsy.com/shop/greggosgameshows/ Greggo's Etsy store]].
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9If you've never seen any of his shows before, he regularly recorded and posted videos of many of his shows on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/gregdasgo his]] Website/YouTube channel.
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11In addition to all the adaptations of the classic shows he's done, Greggo also came up with several formats of his own that found their way onto convention schedules. One of them very nearly became an actual television show.
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13In late 2018, Greggo suddenly announced he was retiring from all conventions and shows immediately. As it turned out, this announcement had come after [[https://www.newsweek.com/man-who-strangled-foster-cat-turns-himself-gets-arrested-1193834 he'd turned himself in to local police for strangling a foster cat while drunk]]. Soon after, he began getting a considerable amount of help with his long-time alcoholism and depression.
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15!!Shows Greggo did:
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18[[folder:Classic Game Shows]]
19[[index]]
20* ''Series/AllStarBlitz''
21* ''@Midnight'' (only played once, in 2015, using software borrowed from Laugh Out Loud)
22* ''Series/{{Battlestars}}'' (based on the 1981-82 format, with the Battlestars Two endgame)
23* ''Series/{{Blockbusters}}'' (based on the Cullen version)
24* ''[[Series/BullseyeUS Bullseye]]'' (only played a few times, in 2009 {once} and 2015 {twice})
25* ''Series/ChainReaction'' (based on the 1980 format, with Instant Reaction based on its second payout structure)
26* ''Series/{{Concentration}}'' (based on the ''Classic'' format)
27* ''Series/DealOrNoDeal'' (only played twice, in 2006 and 2012)
28* ''Series/{{Definition}}'' (used both the two-celeb and no-celeb formats)
29* ''[[Series/FamilyFeud Fanboy Feud]]'' (based on the 1976-85 visuals and format)
30* ''Series/HighRollers'' (only played once, in 2010)
31* ''Series/HitMan''
32* ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'', aka ''The AWA Squares'' and ''Anime Squares'' (retired for many years, although brought back out for a few appearances in 2016; based on the mid-1970s Marshall daytime format)
33* ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' (based on the Trebek version, with Yen or points used for scoring depending on the convention {and sometimes dollars, mainly for ''Celebrity'' episodes}; anime version retired in 2017)
34* ''[[Series/TheJokersWild The Joker's Wild]]'' (based on the later years of the 1977-86 era, with the payouts and goals doubled; a version based on the 1991 category format was planned, but eventually scrapped)
35* ''Les Douze Coups de Midi'' (French game show localized for American conventions as ''The Hour of Reckoning'')
36* ''Line 'em Up'' (tweaked version of an obscure 1960s Canadian game show produced by Dan Enright)
37* ''Series/MatchGame'' (based on the 1978-82 style; retired from 2003-04 and again in 2018)
38* ''Series/NameThatTune'' (only played once, in 2010)
39* ''Series/NowYouSeeIt'' (only played once, in 2009)
40* ''Series/PanelQuizAttack25''
41* ''[[Series/{{Password}} Anime Password]]'' (based on ''Super'', with its aesthetics and format)
42* ''[[Series/CardSharks Play Your Cards Right]]'' (based on the British format, as another group had been doing ''Card Sharks'' for a while; reused the intro from a failed 2011 pilot)
43* ''[[Series/{{Pointless}} Pokémon Pointless]]'' (''Pointless'' with all the questions being about ''Pokémon'')
44* ''Series/PressYourLuck'' (based on the 1980s format)
45* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' (based on the Barker era into 2007, then the Carey era afterward)
46* ''[[Series/{{Pyramid}} The ¥25,000 Pyramid]]'' (based on the 1980s Television City era, complete with 7-11 and Mystery 7, though from 2004-09 it was based on ''Donnymid'')
47* ''[[Series/SaleOfTheCentury Sale of the Centur¥]]'' (based on the American daytime format from about mid-1985)
48* ''Series/{{Scrabble}}'' (based on the 1986-90 format, [[https://greggosgameshows.wordpress.com/2018/03/18/scrabble-debut-next-weekend/ using licensed software from Home Game Enterprises]])
49* ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' (only played twice; was retired due to legal issues with JM Productions)
50* ''Series/ThreeOnAMatch'' (fuse of the first two formats: players match pictures, with one match winning the game and a prize)
51* ''Series/TicTacDough'' (based on the later Martindale/Caldwell years)
52* ''Spy Games'' (adaptation of the unsold 1988 show ''Top Secret'', itself famous for Parker Brothers briefly releasing a tie-in board game)
53* ''Series/WheelOfFortune''
54* ''[[Series/WinBenSteinsMoney Win Richard Kim's Pocky]]'' (only played once, in 2004, as a modification for Katsucon)
55* ''Series/WinLoseOrDraw'' (based on the Convy format)
56* ''[[Series/WinTuition WinAdmission]]'' (only played once, in 2002)
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60[[folder:Original Formats]]
61[[index]]
62* ''Face Off'' (debuted 2012; five-player visual quiz where players pick an anime face and answer a question regarding that character)
63* ''Farkle'' (debuted 2010; two-player general-knowledge quiz based on the dice game)
64* ''The G.R.I.D.D.'' (three-player general-knowledge quiz with a wacky scenario not unlike those of the ''[[Series/WhereintheWorldisCarmenSandiego Carmen Sandiego]]'' game shows; very nearly became an actual show on the Anime Network in 2004, before plans of it being a 24-hour cable channel were scrapped)
65* ''Know Your Role'' (debuted 2015; three voice actors get clues {starting very vague and getting progressively more specific} and must identify whether they played that role or not)
66* ''Majority Rules!'' (based on ''Would You Rather?'', and used under that name for the entirety of 2014)
67* ''WebAnimation/ThePokemonGameShow'' (debuted 2013)
68* ''Ponyville Derby'' (a ''My Little Pony''-skinned ''Wheel of Fortune'')
69* ''Shut the TARDIS!!'' (debuted 2013; a ''Series/DoctorWho''-themed take on ''High Rollers'')
70* ''Stop the Music!'' (debuted 2011; somewhat a reworking of ''Series/NameThatTune'' into an elimination-style game)
71* ''Strikeout'' (debuted 2010; mashup of elements from several game shows {see JustForFun/XMeetsY}; known as ''Knockout'', with a boxing motif, through 2013 - the version used from 2014 onward had a baseball motif)
72[[/index]]
73[[/folder]]
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75!!Greggo's shows provide examples of:
76* AllOrNothing: Round 2 of ''Know Your Role'' had each celebrity contestant holding a Joker. If they knew that the role Greggo was talking about '''absolutely''' was or was not theirs, they could play the Joker when they rung in. If right, they scored ''double'' the value they rang in at...but if wrong, their score went down to zero.
77* CelebrityEdition: Parodied with ''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' and ''Celebrity Match Game'', which had fictional characters as the guests, although the first such ''Jeopardy!'' show had Creator/UncleYo as (somewhat) himself.
78* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
79** ''Farkle'' originally had numerical digits for the "dice", which were changed to dice pips sometime during the show's first month in the rotation.
80** ''Match Game'' originally used physical set pieces, with no Flash at all. The physical Super-Match board was dropped in 2001 or 2002, replaced by a board run in Flash (also used for the show's intro).
81** ''Press Your Luck'' originally had physical Whammy cards, which the contestants could keep. This was removed by the ninth episode.
82* FanEdit: Of a sense. In January 2013, [=YouTube=] user [=tpirman1982=] took the intro of Greggo's first ''Anime Price Is Right'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sBKT5M8cM added]] the then (2004)-current light border and opening titles plus a second, more accurate version of the ''Price'' logo at its proper spot (the one used in the original 2004 edit appears shortly into the intro).
83* FanRemake: Pretty much half of Greggo's bread-and-butter, ranging from well-established franchises to cult classics (such as ''Three On A Match'') to outright obscurities (such as ''Line 'em Up'').
84* FourIsDeath: Four Whammies on ''Press Your Luck'', unsurprisingly.
85* ObviousRulePatch: Not surprisingly, quite a few.
86** ''Concentration'' originally offered admission to one of eight conventions, mimicking ''Classic''[='s=] eight-car bonus round (even using "you could win admission to one of these eight ''fabulous'' cons" during the intro spiel). However, some winners couldn't get to the con they'd won admission to, making the prize somewhat meaningless as a result (unlike ''Press Your Luck'', where con badges at least added to your score). In April 2015, this was changed to a six-month or one-year Crunchyroll subscription with the player now having to match anime titles.
87** ''Face Off''[='s=] debut show had a penalty in the elimination portion: miss a question, and your opponent got a point. This discouraged buzzing in, and hence was dropped.
88** ''Farkle'' had a few rule changes over time:
89*** Originally, each player could earn up to three Reroll tokens (obtained by clearing the board in the front game). This was dropped in late 2012 to just one per player.
90*** Originally, rolling a triple 2, 3, 4, or 6 in the front game after claiming that number's associated prize was considered a bad roll. In late 2012, this was changed to add the number multiplied by ¥100 to the Bank.
91*** Games could run as many questions as necessary in order to be completed. In early 2013, this was altered to limit each game to 20 questions, with the last one being a TiebreakerRound.
92** ''Knockout''/''Strikeout'' had several changes to its bonus round:
93*** Originally, the prize was ¥15,000 and finding any of the top seven answers removed that many thousand Yen (along with removing one of the three players). Finding all five Knockouts awarded whatever remained in the pot.
94*** By mid-April 2011, this was changed to start the pot at ¥500 and keep doubling for each Knockout found, up to ¥16,000; the team could quit at any time, as picking one of the top seven answers halved the current pot along with removing a player.
95*** Sometime between mid-August 2011 and late January 2012, the penalty for picking one of the top seven answers was altered to restarting the pot at ¥500 ([[RuleOfThree along with removing a player]]).
96** ''Match Game'' originally didn't award anything for winning the game. A ¥1,000 prize was added in September 2012.
97** ''The Pokémon Game Show'' had several, which are noted on that show's page.
98** ''Press Your Luck'' had several changes to its Big Board, but this was more owing to budget and/or accuracy to the show's board layouts.
99* PragmaticAdaptation: For budget, time, and other reasons, some games didn't have elements or props used in the originals.
100** On ''All-Star Blitz'', the [[BonusRound Blitz Bonanza]] was played with a randomizer and a buzzer. The original show had the player spinning a wheel.
101* RecycledSoundtrack: Several of the themes used on Greggo's original games should be familiar to game show fans.
102** ''Definition'' used the mid-1970s ''Concentration'' theme ("Fast Break" by Edd Kalehoff) so Quincy Jones couldn't sue (the original show initially used Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova", which later gained fame as the ''Film/AustinPowers'' theme, though later years used electronic soundalikes).
103** ''Face Off'' used the ''Series/FortBoyard'' theme.
104** ''Farkle'' used the 1990s ''[[Series/TheJokersWild Joker's Wild]]'' theme. Two prize cues from ''The Price Is Right'' were used here as well.
105** ''Know Your Role'' used the 1980s ''Series/{{Tattletales}}'' theme.
106** ''Line 'em Up'' used the second 1960s ''Password'' theme. The cue used while rapidly showing the facts for each game was the "category shuffle" piece from the 1950s ''Tic-Tac-Dough''.
107* RuleOfThree: So much. For example:
108** Three contestants played on ''The G.R.I.D.D.'', ''Jeopardy!'', ''Knockout''/''Strikeout'' (per team), ''Ponyville Derby'', ''Press Your Luck'', and ''Wheel of Fortune''.
109** On ''Farkle'', triples (three-of-a-kind) were the only scoring method shared by the front game and bonus round. Also, getting three Strikes ended the front game, and until late 2012 players could get up to three Reroll tokens.
110** On ''Knockout''/''Strikeout'', the game ended if a team found three Knockouts/Strikeouts (or, in the bonus round, three of the top seven answers).
111** On ''The Pokémon Game Show'', winning three times in the Elite Four round let you play the Championship Round. In the latter, both sides had three Pokémon, and as such finding three "K.O." squares sent you packing.
112** ''The Price Is Right'' had 3 Strikes and Secret X (get three X's in a row).
113** And, of course, a whole lot of ''Three On A Match''.
114* {{Whammy}}:
115** Obviously for ''Press Your Luck''.
116** For ''Know Your Role'', a wrong ring-in when playing a Joker caused that player to lose all of his/her points.

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