Super Jeopardy!

Super Jeopardy!

NES - USA - 1st edition.

Developer Imagineering Publisher GameTek Published 1991-09-?? Platforms NES Genres Licensed, Trivia Themes Game Show Series Jeopardy! Multiplayer Simultaneous versus Distribution Commercial

Super Jeopardy! is a trivia video game developed by Imagineering and published by GameTek on the Nintendo Entertainment System in September 1991.

The game is part of the Jeopardy! series and based on the 1990 television miniseries, Super Jeopardy! which pitted four former champions against each other. A completely unique game with the same title was made for MS-DOS which is superior in every way.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	Yes. Against three other AI opponents.
Finished	2022-09-16.

Although I found pretty much all of the game show adaptions on the NES to be pretty awful, I still wanted to beat them. Having already beat all the other Jeopardy! games, I still needed to finish this one.

Review

4	3	3	4	6

Best Version: NES

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• It's one of the few NES games at the time which uses a fair amount of voice samples.
• It's one of the few NES games to support four controllers.
• Each of the avatars is animated in a few different ways. Buzzing in, showing joy when you get a question correct, and frustration when you get it wrong.
• The game accurately enforces the new rules of Super Jeopardy!.

Bad

• Probably because they didn't want to pay to use his likeness, the game doesn't use Alex Trebek as the host.
• The game's pacing is quite slow with long delays between each answer.
• The games doesn't have a difficulty setting, so, if you find it to be too simple or too hard, you're out of luck.
• Each of the AI characters always look the same and have the same name despite the game having several different characters to choose from.
• Some of the answers and questions were a little off. For example, one answer was about what glass is made of, and I correctly entered "silicon," but the game was expecting "sand."
• The AI sometimes buzzes in immediately even when the answer has a lot of text to read.
• Though I prefer the multi-lined text input over the single line used in the Rare games, the developers should have had one button dedicated to backspace.
• Although the game uses the Jeopardy! theme song, the timbre is off, and there are a couple inaccurate pauses in the music.
• Most of the sound effects are pretty bad and don't match the show.

Ugly

• Every avatar option is white, and all of them are poorly drawn. At least they had some women.
• There is a constant annoying beeping sound as you enter your questions.
• The voice quality is terrible, it's clearly not Trebek's voice, and, it doesn't even sound like a voice actor, just some random guy saying the lines. Considering the game focuses on this as a feature, it's a bit embarrassing.

Media

Box Art

The box has a promotional photo from the Super Jeopardy! miniseries with four player booths, and uses the official logo, but, is otherwise pretty boring.

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Documentation

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  Manual.

Videos

Longplay.

Play Online

NES

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	You can choose female characters, but they're just sprite swaps.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There are no named female characters.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	Every character template is white.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Links

     

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