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Do you love quizzes? Then this is for you. Super Jeopardy! from 1991 is a DOS adaptation of the famous American game show, where contestants guess questions instead of answers — at least in theory. In practice, it's a classic quiz program that anyone who's ever watched or played something similar will get the hang of.
The game unfolds in simple text form typical of software from that era. You pick a category and an amount, the computer presents you with a statement, and you have to come up with the correct question. Theoretically, it sounds elegant; practically, coaxing the right English word out of an old PC when your English-challenged grandfather is watching it for the first time in his life isn't quite as elegant. You can play rounds solo, against the computer, or with multiple players taking turns — depending on the mode you choose from the opening menu.
The controls are archaic, but this is the seventies in the nineties — you press arrows, find an amount on screen, type your answer into the prompt. No graphics, no sound, no flair. The game waits for your input and waits. And waits. There's no drama to it, no spectacle. It's about solving clues and the remaining time is just a factor in the tedium.
What do you take away from it? Computer adaptations of famous TV formats back then were mostly collections of questions — essentially electronic catalogs. Super Jeopardy! is no exception. On screen you see monochrome text, no graphics to remind you of what you know from TV. Animation? Doesn't exist. Effects? Just the sound of the keyboard as you type your answers.
Today you can only look at it through nostalgia or if you want to see what popular entertainment looked like installed on a computer in '91. It's not bad — it's just old. If you were hoping for interactive storytelling or a game with a packed experience, you won't find that here. Which is okay. It was simply a quiz you could buy, have at home, and play with friends instead of watching a TV screen.
It's worth playing if: you want to know what game show adaptations looked like on Commodore and PC in the early nineties, or if you can enjoy extremely minimal graphics. Otherwise it's an archive, nothing more.
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