Jeopardy! (Game Gear)

Jeopardy!

Game Gear - USA - 1st edition.

Developer Imagitec Design Publisher GameTek Published 1993-??-?? Platforms Game Gear Genres Licensed, Trivia Themes Game Show Series Jeopardy! Multiplayer Simultaneous versus Distribution Commercial

Jeopardy! is a video game version of the television trivia game show. It appears to have been developed by Imagitec Design and published by GameTek in 1993 for the Game Gear as part of the Jeopardy! franchise.

The game simulates the Jeopardy! television game show as it appeared in the early 1990s.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	Yes. $13,000.
Finished	2025-05-07.

Being a fan of Jeopardy!, and wanting to add another video game to my list of victories, I played this game and beat it on my second try.

Review

4	3	4	3	4

Best Version: Game Gear

Good

• The game recreates most aspects of Jeopardy! including the game show format, the theme song, and has audio samples of Alex Trebek and the show's sound effects.

Bad

• The game only allows for two contestants regardless of whether you're playing against a CPU or a human.
• The audio samples are very compressed and sound terrible, and the beeping that plays when you're trying to answer a question is annoying.
• Some of the answers are very specific. For example, "chips" will be wrong when the game is expecting "potato chips."
• The AI opponent buzzes in less than half of the time which doesn't seem very realistic.
• Most of the questions felt out of date. Despite its 1993 release date, the questions felt like they were from 1983.
• Rather than follow the flow of the game, the game remembers your position in the categories. So, if you were on the bottom row of the first column, and your opponent moves to the top row of the second column, and you get control of the board, rather than move the cursor to the second row of the second column, the cursor will still be on the bottom of the first column. This is a minor thing, but it's still annoying.
• The ending is underwhelming.

Ugly

• The game's graphics are terrible. While the pixel art is acceptable, the graphics programming is quite flawed. Text obscures background graphics, the character animation is buggy, and the font is ugly. You also see the same animation every time you buzz in, and answer questions, which slows down the game play.
• In the second time I played the game I already encountered the same category with the same answers which suggests a very small trivia database.

Media

Box Art

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  Game Gear - USA.

Documentation

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  Manual - USA.

Fonts

The game's font is in the video game font collection.

Videos

Longplay.

Play Online

Genesis

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are three different female contestants, but they are interchangeable.
Bechdel test?	Fail	No women ever speak.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	Every contestant option is white.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

The game also has elderly male and female contestants, which is nice.

Links

         

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!_(franchise)#Video_games - Wikipedia.