Family Feud
System: NES
Release Date: May 1991
Developer: Beam Software
Publisher: Gametek
Genre: Game Show
Bring your kin with you to win a bunch of money in Family Feud! Be the first family of five to amass 200 points and head to the Fast Money Round to get the big bucks. One hundred people have been surveyed and the top answers are on the board, so get to guessing to win!
Name your family and go up against the Burtons, Trumps, or Kennedys. The game starts with the dads going head to head with the first question. Name something you’d like to own, but could not afford the upkeep. I’m going with a boat. Good answer! Then choose to pass or play. If you play, you have to keep making good guesses, because if you get three strikes on the board, the other family has a chance to steal. If they miss, you get the money and the rest of the answers are revealed. This continues with the rest of the family until one side earns 200 points.
If you win, you head to the Fast Money Round. You must quickly answer the questions posed to you over two rounds. Again, the goal is to reach the magic number of 200. If you do, you get the prize of $5000. If you don’t, you get five times your point total. Either way, you come back to face the next family. I found some of the questions and answers to be quite ridiculous, but I guess that’s true in the real Feud. And the host pulls a Richard Dawson and gets creepy with all the female contestants.
Graphics: 1.0
Are these supposed to look like people? More like robot monsters.
Sound: 0.5
Sounds are nearly non-existent, so pump your own tunes.
Gameplay: 0.5
Move the cursor around to spell answers.
Difficulty: 1.0
Some of the responses don’t make sense to me. Who the hell keeps a skunk or raccoon as a pet?
Fun Factor: 0.5
Maybe with another player you could slightly enjoy yourself, but not alone.
Overall Rating: 0.7
Family Feud earns a D-. Another crappy game show comes to us from Gametek. This is one feud your family is going to lose.