But many game show fans on the Internet would never consider Whammy a worthy successor to Press Your Luck. Older-is-better runs deep on game show Net boards, and Whammy is a mere whippersnapper at ten years old. Maybe by 2030 the show will get some respect around the boards.
This tendency plays into the silliness lately heard about Steve Harvey's supposedly naughty Family Feud. Game show fans haven't suddenly turned super-prudish about a show with no sex or violence at all. It's just that Harvey Feud hasn't been around for very long. So it can't possibly be as good as the time-dusted Dawson and Combs versions. The older-is-better folks have to find something on Harvey's show to complain about.
Of course, in every era they've made some good game shows, some bad shows, some fair-to-middling shows. Older is not necessarily better or worse. It's just...older. Sorry to state such a thuddingly obvious fact, but on the game show Internets the reminder is necessary.
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