Jeopardy! (Genesis)

Jeopardy!

Genesis - USA - 1st edition.

Developer Park Place Productions Publisher GameTek Published 1992-12-?? Platforms Genesis 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 was developed by Park Place Productions and published by GameTek in December 1992 for the Genesis as part of the Jeopardy! franchise. The game is often grouped with GameTek's other releases on the SNES and Game Gear, and sometimes even the Game Boy and Nintendo 64 ports, however, this game has a unique development team, so it's not a port.

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

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	Yes. Score: $16,100.
Finished	2025-04-05.

Being a fan of Jeopardy!, and wanting to add another video game to my list of victories, I played this game a few times until I finally beat it against two other AI opponents.

Review

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Best Version: Genesis

Good

• The graphics are pretty good. The game has decent photos of Alex Trebek and accurately represents the Jeopardy! studio. The contestants also look about as photo-realistic as is possible on the Genesis.
• The game competently recreates the Jeopardy! theme song and has adequate digital audio samples of Trebek's speech and the show's sound effects. For 1992, this was pretty good.
• I think this is the best version of Jeopardy! available at the time.

Bad

• The game can be both very specific and very lenient about spelling. A lot of the answers are difficult to spell, but a single letter in the wrong spot can result in failure. The actual game show doesn't require, proper spelling, so this is only a failure of the game's input capabilities.
• The game is sometimes very specific about the wording. For example, some words can be spelled totally wrong, but, if the game's is expecting plural, you need to respond in plural.
• Unlike most Jeopardy! games which came before it, the game doesn't have a way to adjust the difficulty of the AI. So, if the AI is too hard or too easy for you, it will always be that way.
• The game handles the final Jeopardy! round in hot-seat fashion; other players are expected to not view the screen while the active player answers so they can't see their answer or have more time to ponder the question. However, the game does this even with AI opponents, which lets the player see the question prematurely.
• I don't like using one of the main facing buttons to finish your answer. I accidentally pressed it several times resulting in a wrong answer. The start button would have been a better choice.

Ugly

• Putting all the letters on a single line in the text entry really slows down input. The developers should have used more of the screen's real estate so you don't have to jump back and forth along the alphabet.

Media

Box Art

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  Genesis - USA.

Documentation

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  Manual - USA.

Play Online

Genesis

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are two female contestant options, but they're entirely interchangeable.
Bechdel test?	Fail	No women ever talk.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	There is a black contestant option, but he's entirely interchangeable.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Videos

Longplay.

Links

       

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