- published: 22 Jan 2013
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A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes. On some shows contestants compete against other players or another team while other shows involve contestants playing alone for a good outcome or a high score. Game shows often reward players with prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services provided by the show's sponsor prize suppliers, who in turn usually do so for the purposes of product placement.
Television game shows descended from similar programs on radio. The very first television game show, Spelling Bee, was broadcast in 1938. Truth or Consequences was the first game show to air on commercially-licensed television. Its first episode aired in 1941 as an experimental broadcast.
Over the course of the 1950s, as television began to pervade the popular culture, game shows quickly became a fixture. Daytime game shows would be played for lower stakes to target stay-at-home housewives. Higher-stakes programs would air in prime time. During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One and The $64,000 Question began a rapid rise in popularity. However, the rise of quiz shows proved to be short-lived. In 1959, many of the higher stakes game shows were discovered to be rigged. Ratings decline led to most of the prime time games being canceled. Only the daytime games survived during this period; game shows remained a fixture of daytime television through the 1960s along with soap operas, reruns, and local telecasts of old films. Lower-stakes games made a slight comeback in daytime in the early 1960s; examples include Jeopardy! which began in 1964 and the original version of The Match Game first aired in 1962. Let's Make a Deal began in 1963 and the 1960s also marked the debut of Hollywood Squares, Password, The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game.
So come on down and try your hand at the oldest game in town
Pull up a chair and dont be scared, youve got to play it round by round
Spin the wheel and take a hit it doesnt matter what you chose
Sou can sink your battle ship but theres a good chance you will loose
A little lady walking down the street
and she was born in a good and nice town
You think youve got what it takes to be her man
So you try about and ask a lady if she would like to meet
Maybe this time things will go your way
Your never going to win unless you play
Break down and take the chances, nevermind the circumstances
Break down and keep on playing, roll the dice and bet it all, put the quater in and make the call
When the odds are bad, your luck is down and you dont feel much like playing
Think about the fun you had and listent what i'm saying
You could spend your life inside and never had no fun
Maybe things this time will go your way
You never gunna win unless you play
Breakdown and take the chances, nevermind the circumstances
Breakdown keep on playing, roll the dice and bet it all
Breakdown and take the chances, nevermind the circumstances
Breakdown keep on playing, roll the dice and bet it all, put a quater in and make the call
You got to breakdown (whoaa)
Baby