Super Jeopardy!
Description
Super Jeopardy! is based on the popular Jeopardy! TV game show. In this digital incarnation, 4 players compete at answering reverse trivia questions in trademark Jeopardy! fashion-- i.e., the host provides the answer and a player has to provide the questions. As many as 4 human players can participate, with the remaining slots filled by the computer. Competition takes place in quarter-final, semi-final, and final round modes.
A player will select a question from one of 6 categories. The game gives the answer to the question and the players use their controllers to buzz in. At that point, a player has 80 seconds to spell out the question (and the computer has already provided the "What is..." question preamble). If the player gets the question wrong, that player loses money and the remaining players have an opportunity to buzz in.
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Critics
Average score: 67% (based on 3 ratings)
Players
Average score: 2.6 out of 5 (based on 4 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
Typing answers instead of choosing letters with controller as in the console versions. That's it.
The Bad
Bad programming. Many questions and categories repeat very often.
But the real crime is the answer system. You often have to spell things the right way. For example, "mao" is not accepted, only "mao Tse-tung", "earthquake" is wrong, it has to be "earthquakes" (with an "s").
Worse, the game often doesn't accept the right answers from one player, but accepts them from another.
This is the least fun and least well-made "Jeopardy!" version I've ever played.
The Bottom Line
Stick to the other "Jeopardy!" games, including the older, Share Data DOS ones.
DOS · by Dar Gary (156) · 2014
Trivia
Opponent's names
In the NES version of Talking Super Jeopardy, the names provided for the other players (Karen, Mikel, Wendy) by the game are the names of the siblings of the game's programmer, David Wiebenson.
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Game added by Multimedia Mike.
DOS added by 486pc.
Additional contributors: Alaka, Martha Kay.
Game added April 20, 2008. Last modified January 28, 2024.