I think the games industry has just demonstrated the very depths to which it is willing to plummet in search of game ideas with Chegger’s Party Quiz.
British people my age will have fond (if slightly garishly coloured) memories of Saturday SwapShop which Cheggers (aka Keith Chegwin) presented with Maggie Philbin and Noel Edmonds (before he became an annoying git, or maybe I was just more forgiving aged 8 ), and who can forget Cheggers Plays Pop?
However Chegger’s currency has waned in recent years and he hasn’t yet figured out that whilst being as over-exuberent as Tigger on amphetemines worked in 70′s kids shows when he was 20, it just comes across as more than a little sad these days.
For nostalgia purposes, if you weren’t of that age or in a different country, here’s what you missed:
Not many men can pull off a red and gold jacket with lapels you can go hang gliding with. And that theme tune – am I the only one thinking that you could make a Rock Band downloadable tracklist purely out of cult 70′s TV shows?
October 29th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Make sure Rhubarb and Custard is on that track-list for RB 70′s TV.
[)amien
October 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I am working on the port of Chegger’s Party Quiz for the Nintendo DS
It will be a stinker too! 
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October 29th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
@Valentin: You’re a brave one for admitting that! Hope your employers aren’t watching!
And there’re rumours they want to bring Swap Shop back, too… hmmm…
October 30th, 2007 at 3:38 am
As a long time gamer I scoff at these titles also, but its amazing to watch my gf to become so involved in her games of Buzz that she actually spends time alone training with the game to get better with it. Yah for the quiz game that can reach non gamers and turn them into (somewhat) gamers.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Man, if you wouldn’t have stated, this was a REAL game show, I would have asked myselft, how I could have missed something of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy scenes… Freightning… But I like these cheap mid 70ies title designs, they are so… analog.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:26 am
My beef is less with the fact that it’s a party game (I love those anyway), but more that Cheggers is in it