Yes.
In the eighties, did you think Blockbusters was rather futuristic? Well you were wrong, because it was not as futuristic looking as the German version of the format, Super Grips.
Unfortunately, what we really wanted to show you was a video of the show that had their version of the Gold Run actually overlaid across the whole screen, turning the contestant purple behind it. It is a rather spooky effect, unfortunately I can’t find that video now.
First thing I saw was that image and I thought “I didn’t know Ed Byrne had been on Blockbusters!”
I wonder if the contestants also won the white sofa that the Super Nintendo console was propped up upon?
I was hoping that Tommy Boyd there would say “Und das ist Super Grips!” or similar upon the main game being won, but it seems not.
The British version probably wins, on balance, based on our opening sequence being more futuristic than any game show opening sequence thereafter until, maybe, Raise The Roof, but I do like the prize displays.
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.gameshowkult.de/super.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgameshowkult%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DtEz&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhgGC84sHwL5AS1hjBi9HO8bzB2nHA
Yikes, long link thanks to Google Translate. If that somehow doesn’t work, then there’s this one: http://www.gameshowkult.de/super.htm . In either case, there’s a snapshot of the purple face.
Yep, that’s the one. There was some argument elsewhere when I first spotted it as to whether that’s actually what it was, or if the picture taker had managed to take it mid-frame. I then saw a video somewhere proving it was real. Unfortunately I can’t fidn it now.
Is this game the that we can see in the movie “This is England” ?