Jeopardy! (PC, 1994) - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Sony Imagesoft's 1994 game show adaptation for Windows 3.1, Jeopardy!
This version of Jeopardy! (not to be confused with any of the renditions by GameTek or Hasbro) is, like it's Wheel of Fortune counterpart, the PC version of the Sega CD game released the same year, and boy did the shift to the PC let this game stretch its legs. Don't get me wrong - the Sega CD version is fantastic, but this one, with its jerky blue-screen chararcters, clean video, and easy interface is by far the better version of the two!
Check out the Sega CD version here: • Jeopardy! (Sega CD) Pl...
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[@sochabull6734]

Thank you for the complements as I was the author (programmer) of this game. We were given the exact same question set as the SNES game and all Alex & some other videos. The contestant videos were new and the backgrounds made pixel accurate so you did not see edges. The gaudy FMV was due to a limitation of Apple Quicktime, as you could only run one video at a time. I tried to randomize as must as reasonable so the contestant selections & videos were randomized. The engine was smart about accepting responses, handling typos & would soundex before compare. The computer contestants even would create reasonable invalid responses and there were Easter Eggs. But you really had to know where and how to enable them, i.e. not easy to get to. They did not provide the correct response, only allowed game selection and a few other things. BTW: All the clues and responses are in plain text in the game files :-)

[@NintendoComplete]

+SochaBull Oh wow, no kidding! That's really cool that you worked on this :) It was definitely a huge step up from previous Jeopardy games and I used to love it, so thanks! And oh man, plain text? I'm glad I never found that as a kid. I would have just cheated nonstop lol. Do you remember any of the Easter eggs? I'd love to check them out!

[@henrisocha5996]

Of course I do :-) To get to the complex ones, you have to be in control of the board. Then go to the fourth category (of 6) and the 4th clue down (of 5) and blind type into that cell (CAPS not necessary as I remember). It only works when you are in that cell. CURIOUSKEN Shows where the daily doubles are MOROR Immediately goes to the next phase (Double J or Final J) AFIKOMAN Immediately goes to Final J PDSC Play the PDSC Employee Game. (If you don't know our names, forget it) IMAGESOFT Displays a dialog giving the game number being played HAROSET Allows you to change the game number. Just blind type the number after the beep. All entries must be followed by key. means retype the whole word not last letter. Also, on the Hall of Frame screen, type MORE to see all entries stored. On Credits screen, type WHO to see a few special credits. Jeopardy creates a .INI file as documented in the readme but it has a few more options. One allows you to change the name fonts used on the podium to any true-type font! Currently they are "Times New Roman", "Sepckid", "Sepclin", "Sepcbab" all with extension .HFR and not .TTF. You can see these files in the same directory as the game. Add .INI file entries SEPCfx= where x is 0,1,2,3 for the 4 fonts it uses.

[@NintendoComplete]

Sorry that I didn't answer back sooner. That's all awesome info, thanks very much! I'm totally curious to go try that out now! I have to say, though, I'm really impressed if you had that all committed to memory hahaha. Do you remember all of that off hand? Or do you have your old design notes? Just curious. Thanks again though, this is wicked cool. I'd have never found those out on my own

[@astrodome1994]

I'm curious: were the contestants' default names and backgrounds real, or were they made up for the game? Either way, I can imagine how excited and blessed they felt being in a Jeopardy video game!

[@PhilMante]

Truth be told, Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy games nowadays, are uninspiring. Games like this one give off the impression somebody cared with what limitations they had. For the NES games, Jeopardy got treated a little better than Wheel of fortune did. The original Jeopardy NES titles at least had the theme song, where the WOF games had a butchered version of the theme, but the family edition from 1990 had all-original music, composed by a then 23 year old David Wise (Who went on to compose the music in the Donkey Kong Country games, and his soundtracks are amazing. You get a real taste of what he was capable of when you listen to the Family edition's bonus round theme.) Also, Jeopardy Jr. Edition is probably the best jeopardy game ever made - Simply due to the fact regular jeopardy video games had categories and clues aimed at aspiring contestants - Junior edition was aimed at children, so adults wouldn't find it a challenge, and could actually compete against one another without burning clues. BUT on the other side of the coin, "Talking" Super Jeopardy from 1990 has got to be the creepiest NES game I've ever seen. Yes, it's cool to have voices in a video game (This is 1990 we're talking about, audio in video games was still primitive.) but in order to fit them all on an NES cartridge (Which topped out at 1 MB) they had to be compressed. It didn't help that sound effects were pre-recorded and compressed as well. And if you don't value your eardrums, the 1990 PC version of Talking super jeopardy, is what the internet would call "Ear Rape" it's like someone turned the volume up on all the sound effects and forgot to turn them down. Probably the most inspired version of jeopardy is the SNES games. For what it was worth, they got a lot of things right. The category and clue fonts, the sound effects (Even the creepy animation of Alex Trebek in the 1992 SNES version was bearable.) After this one, Jeopardy games are more or less the same game. There's no career modes, no unlockables, no rewards for winning games. There's a reason GameTek and THQ went out of business selling the WOF & Jeopardy titles.

[@TortureVisionTV]

Those FMV sequences are pure gold (especially contestant #3). LOL

[@BookishKateGames]

I had this game as a kid. My dad purchased it for me and my sisters. He also discovered that the audio files in the game were just .wav files that could be removed or added. My dad, being the nerd that he was, thought it would be funny to record himself copying Alex Trebek's lines, and replaced all of the in game audio with his own recordings. My sister was mortified when she was playing with her friends once and heard my dad's voice instead of Alex Trebek. I would also like to add that my dad also recorded himself doing the sound effects, so when the daily doubles came up, instead of the sound you heard on the show, you heard my dad instead going, "DOO DOO, DOO DOO DOO DOO, DOO DOO DOO, DOO DOO DOO!"

[@TheDarkwingj]

Dang

[@NintendoComplete]

That's hilarious, I love it.

[@NintendoComplete]

A thoroughly excellent and strangely obscure version of Jeopardy! for classic Windows, complete with gaudy FMV all over the place. This game doesn't pull punches - some of these questions are quite difficult!

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

" some of these questions are quite difficult!" Duh, it's Jeopardy after all.

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

2:53, Let's Play JEOPARDY!

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

And Now, Here is the Host of Jeopardy!, ALEX TREBEK!

[@bono212]

This was absolutely one of my favorite games as a kid. I was hoping to find the video clip of Trebek if you returned to a saved game. He'd say, "Welcome back, what's new?" And as a kid, for whatever reason, I found that *super* heartwarming, lol.

[@Wesley_C]

RIP Trebek 🙏🏻👍🏻🙂

[@PhilMante]

11:00 They referenced this on MASH where col. Potter is reading about a bunch of cadets getting expelled from west point, to which hawkeye replies "they should all be sentenced to this breakfast."

[@hillbilly4christ638]

Oh my I never seen this game of Jeopardy before.🙂

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

12:56, DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

[@billygsell3625]

Why is the people at 0:47 look like they are doing a real estate listing??? Thumbs up for the game itself for having the actual original theme song and some of the names of Alex Trebek's Jeopardy's first season (as the modernized version we know didn't debut until around 1996 or 1997) as the PC game's actual theme. R.I.P. Alex Trebek

[@NintendoComplete]

Hahaha that type of interface was a common sight in Windows 3.1 games. It was all built in as part of the standard Windows UI, so pretty much ever game at the time made for Windows shared interface elements with MS Word and Excel lol. Not great for immersion. Windows 95 stuff thankfully moved away from that.

[@rileysutton2823]

23:54 "Think" music from 1964-75, 1978-9/1984-97

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

This is JEOPARDY!

[@animemangafan1987]

RIP Alex Trebek

[@markheying2830]

RIP Alex Trebek.

[@aaronbruceladner1983]

23:29, FINAL JEOPARDY!

[@theobserver4214]

This is pretty good compared to what you’d find before on DOS and consoles. The 1987 DOS version is pretty poor compared to this and the Windows 95/98 version.

[@markheying2830]

My guess for that Final Jeopardy Clue would have been 1 of the following 3. 1: France 2: Italy 3: Spain

[@Scottwilkie18]

Basically they took the sega cd clips of Alex

[@NintendoComplete]

Scottwilkie18 I'd guess they took the clips from this one since these are much higher quality than the Sega's. Same source files at least.

[@henrisocha5996]

Yes, Sega came first. We had the original files as source I think and our video wizard, Wes Kashiwagi, did the matting to our graphics.

[@japoople]

I think the PC ones were reused by Sony Imagesoft for the Sega CD version.

[@boisegameshowguy]

I imagine Alex had fun filming these regardless of platform. He made it look fun, at least. Then again, he did have a drink or two during the phoney Jeopardy filmings lol 😂 ☎️ 🖲

[@zymaymyn]

0:40 I wonder if 'Software Engineer' was in this game.

[@gameshowguy2000]

If you have a newer QuickTime Player, you MUST uninstall it first before installing the game. It won't work without it. THEN reinstall the newer player.

[@michaelhealy1767]

It will be 20 years this summer since Ken Jennings was 1st on jeopardy and this fall 2024 Ryan Seacrest will be doing wheel of fortune And Ken Jennings will be hosting jeopardy still. I loved jeopardy back in 1975 and 1976 also throughout 1984 as well as 1996 And spring summer fall 1998 as well as 2000.

[@HarlemHyena]

>File under H >Answers "Skeeball" Nice one.

[@NintendoComplete]

HarlemHyena Lmao yeah, apparently I was a bit herp-derp there

[@PriceRight89]

As Alex would say, "Remember the category!" Plus, not to be outdone, one of the computer players answers "Coolidge" in the same category.

[@arnoldcabrera37]

Oh. Sorry. That's not right 5:20 The answer there is! 11:20 Let's take a look at an answer 15:03 Contestant #3 7:32 16:35 Oh, I'm sorry, That's wrong! ❌ 18:19 You are correct ✓ 14:58 Yes! That's correct ✓ 11:13 Incorrect! 17:02 ❌ Sorry incorrect. Anyone else? ❌ 19:06 19:12 Sorry! That's incorrect! ❌ 23:16 19:18

[@michaelhealy1767]

Just like watching jeopardy from the start in fall 1964 on nbc art Fleming and 1983 sale of the century nbc and $25000 pyramid cbs Fall 1983 to enjoy jeopardy and even wheel of fortune bonus game as well

[@newsman9539]

I was wondering if you can maybe give this game a try, There is a cd rom game called TJ's Reel Extreme CD ROoM and it has clips from America's funniest Home Videos. Can you maybe try the game out on KZbin please? Thank you.

[@AaronBruceLadner]

Where are the Daily Doubles?

[@henrisocha5996]

See other reply for the hidden features

[@trafficlightcollection99]

The intro speech is the same as Vanna White in PC Windows 3.1.

[@MorganNye]

Yes I knew that

[@adamshariff4253]

0:06 0:15 0:32

[@Scottwilkie18]

R I p

[@michaelhealy1767]

How about summer fall 2004 and 2006 as well

[@TrungDinh-gr7bc]

0:06

[@michaelhealy1767]

Jeopardy with Alex Treback was 1st seen on wbz nbc 4 Boston daytime promo in fall of 1982 also abc TV funniest game show moments on Thursday may 10 1984 before permanent on Monday 9 10 1984 also 1st seen in 1975 and 1976 on syndicated match game pm and Hollywood squares and 1st card sharks as well as to say the least and password plus as well and even better 1st seen fall 1966 On debut of Hollywood squares as well. Jeopardy was a very fun game show and still is today as of 2024

[@michaelhealy1767]

Rip Alex Treback and art fleming

[@Lfs45intotheair]

Trebek dies

[@michaelhealy1767]

Jeopardy Alex trebexk ere started as part of match game Hollywood squares hour 10 31 1983 to 7 27 1984 nbc then to syndicated 9 10 1984 to permanent celebrating 40 years of Alex trebexk and jeopardy anniversary 40th but art Fleming was the original jeopardy back in the good old days now it's Ken jennings