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Game shows in the Imperium

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bryan gibson

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They seem a universal - practically every country has them, for some reason. I can't help but invisioning a few...vilani game shows!


Amerriniikuura Kaandiivissshinuurii, Come on down! You're next on The Price is Statistically Accurate !

Pat, I'd like to buy a consonant for a hundred, please......


The Match Game host pulls a card from an envelope, and waving it around at the panel of stars, says..' And then the ithklur said to the hiver, "it's not all that funny, its jst so damn BLANK"


Any one have any others?
 
Given that the Planets rule themselves, I can imagine a lot of places where bloodsport contests (Imperial Gladiators?) would be very popular.

Lazerball/Rollerball is just so hokey, how can you NOT have it in a sci fi setting?
 
Survivor:Space

Contestants are left on a freighter that jumps to a new planet each week where teams have to compete in a challenge specific to the planet.

The losing team votes someone off the ship. Without a vacc suit.


Someone had to say it...
 
The Imperial Lottery, drawn on Holiday with some serious prizes.

Za Gaman, a test of endurance where unpleasant and painful non lethal tortures are inflicted on the hapless contestants.

Colony, contestants are placed in a space habitat, under constant surveillance a la Big Brother and have to sustain themselves for a year with viewers voting for events, ejections, prizes etc.
 
Planetary Survivor
The contestants are moved to a new planet/system for a week. Everyone has to compete in a challenge peculiar to that planet. The person voted out gets marooned on the planet. Automated cameras follow the marooned people until they die, get rescued, find a way off.

Running man, organ edition.
Contestants are volunteer only.
Each week two contestants are chosen by computer lottery. They each need a healthy organ that the other has. Their bios, personal data, pictures/mug shots, addresses are publisised for all to see. Anyone can capture them, by nonlethal, noninjurous methods only. The reward for capturing is 1000Cr. The first person captured gets to donate an organ to the other, survival at that point depends on the organ donated. If you need a new heart, it may be worth the risk. If your oppontent needs a heart and you need an eye, well you had better be good at hiding. An added twist, the running man must mail a 5 minute video tape each day showing a newpaper or news program with the current date.
Taken and modified from Richard Bachman's The Running Man, the book, not the movie.
It does give a person a chance, but the cost is high.
 
War World
A low law-level planet offers "players" the opportunity to be involved in real war-games. Different "reservations" are scattered about the planet, and conflicts range from one-on-one single combats, cat-and-mouse games, small-unit slugthrower engagements, and large-scale battalion-sized engagements.

The Well
Two players are each stranded aboard small asteroids. Honeycombed with tunnels, the asteroids are also home to a small escape craft - with some disassembled components. Players race against each other to see who can find a way inside, find the ship, and escape the asteroid first.
For added flair, the asteroids could be nudged into decaying orbits around local gas giants...

The Big Sleep
Not much of a game show, but an interesting game. Players, often low-income or otherwise impoverished, are offered a chance at a free low-berth passage to a different part of the Imperium. They are given 1000Cr., and told they will be asleep for at least 12 weeks. The catch is this...they have no choice in where they'll be sent. They could end up on the other side of the Imperium...or even in alien space, with only their wits and a thousand credits to help them survive.
 
Bowling for credits.

The 25,000 Credit Pyramid.

Name that Vargr!

Match-Game in the Far Future.

The Price is Right (Zhodani edition)

Truth or Hiver

The Dew-Claw (gong) Show.

And many more...
 
Westernworld
Where contestants dress up as various characters from the old west and compete in gunfights to stay in town or they get either banished to another town or must face the humiliation of being tared, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.
May include a bar room brawl contest.

Waterworld
Contestents compete for food, better water rations, better ships and soil to grow small plants in.

They must repel the other tribe made up of the "Smokers" or become a slave for a week.
 
Skleodfjlsdiyq!

Contestants are given strange vocabulary words from alien tongues - which they must properly pronounce.

Fabulous Prizes! Horrible Forfeits!

"Paat, I'd like to buy a sylable!"
 
Originally posted by General Johnnie Reb:

Waterworld
Contestents compete for food, better water rations, better ships and soil to grow small plants in.

They must repel the other tribe made up of the "Smokers" or become a slave for a week.
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Unfortunately, due to poor conception and execution on the part of the program's director and producer, it fails in the ratings and becomes a distateful footnote in history, just like a certain other media production by the same name. (The name "Waterworld" was cursed when the movie was made, new movies and television shows by that name will always fail as badly as the movie.)
 
Unfortunately, due to poor conception and execution on the part of the program's director and producer, it fails in the ratings and becomes a distateful footnote in history, just like a certain other media production by the same name. (The name "Waterworld" was cursed when the movie was made, new movies and television shows by that name will always fail as badly as the movie.)
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Because beneath the waves, in the ancient city of R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming...
 
The Great Race - program in which players must wear portacamera and leap across several star systems with almost no money finding odd jobs to achieve noble ends. Somehow, this game also goes by the name Traveller.
 
Who Wants to be a Zillionaire?
(The winner gets to be the CEO of a Mega Corp for one year)

The Gauntlet
The contestants must face fear factor type challanges that get more deadly each week until the final 4 face off for the ultimate challange...
Taking control of a 50 dTon fighter in an orbital "Dog Fight".
Winner is the last one flying.
The prize may be as small as a scout ship without payments or as large as ownership of a planet complete with Nobel Patten.
 
Although in the above the contestants shoot to disable, "accidents" happen...

Just remember that there are accidents, and then "Accidents..."

Also: "Grav-car Rollerball," where the contestants have to manuever a grav-lifted, spherical car through a series of mazes to pick up prizes and money. Betting is always high, although most planets outlaw it.
 
Ultimate Fighter
The show where the champions from various worlds and species square off for the ultimate challange.
Who will be the top man (woman, dog, cat, whatever) of the universe?
All fighting styles compete against each other
(NO class or style segregation).
 
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