IT'S A FEW GAMES...

Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, for those outside the united states, have been staples of television since the 1950s. In almost every market they're syndicated together, airing before the must-see TV. In my local area they aired on an ABC station, at 7 and 7:30, Jeopardy first. I'm gonna assume you know what the rules to Jeopardy and Wheel are, so I won't be explaining them. Without further ado...

This, issss Jeopardy! Wait, jeopardy? Jeopardy is not a puzzle game! I don't care what MobyGames says, Jeopardy is not a puzzle game. Marble madness was one thing but this is a bridge too far. Oh well, since it shows up four individual times in my list (original, teen, sports, platinum) we might as well play a round of the platinum edition.

We boot up the game and get to enter our name and pick an avatar. The game has two-player, but not three player pass and play funny enough. I pick state capitals for three hundred, with the clue being 'the gateway to glacier bay national park. I guess Alaska's capital, Juno. I'm wrong. James, represented by a sprite with the widest smile I've ever seen, guesses... worse than I did, and also gets it wrong. The answer, Juneau.

Oh suck me from the back, I said that! I just spelled it wrong!

...ok that's all the jeopardy I'm required to play, and I was intending to play a full round but the animations of the sprites make this incredibly slow. Also, for some reason there's only two players when Jeopardy is famously a three-player game. I guess that explains the lack of a three-player mode. Play this if you like 90's trivia, or just play trivial pursuit. Like with cards.

Ah well, lets go on to... Wheel, Of, Fortuneeee!!!! Unbeknownst to me when I started my first go at this game I selected one player, no computer opponent. I was very confused why the game just kept letting me spin. I also didn't realize the category was people, not person. What do you mean it's not Cerrrnos Ulidars?

...Iroquois Indians.

With another player the game went smoother, but I still felt like an idiot. Granted I didn't realize person meant a descriptor for a person, not a persons name, or I would've guessed physics teacher way earlier, probably.

If you're bored on a car trip either of these games will do you just fine, but their slow pace makes them slogs to play on your own. Get another player, or play a board game adaptation.