Super Jeopardy!
System: NES
Release Date: September 1991
Developer: Imagitec
Publisher: GameTek
Genre: Game Show
This is Super Jeopardy! Take everyone’s favorite game show and add in another player to make things more crowded. Then take the dollar values, replace them with points, and make them exorbitantly high! This is a three round test of your genius, can you rack up the most points?
There are three rounds of play, the quarter finals, semi-finals, and finals. You can start the quarter finals any time time you want, but need a three character password to play the semis or the finals. The quarter finals does something insane and pits four players against one another. Choose which oddly animated player you want and then go to the board. Categories are shown right away. Economics! That’s where I’m a viking! And food! Proceeds to get one Econ question right. Categories repeated between games for me, but you can choose to get new ones before the round starts.
This honestly isn’t different from the other Jeopardy! games that we’ve seen, so let’s look at some random clues. I don’t think China is bigger than the US… even back in 1990… I could have sworn this was Yo Noid. No? What are things I want my wife to learn? Writer of Ivanhoe? That’s my brother! Stop asking me Ronald Reagan questions! It’s 2026 for crying out loud! If you want to make it to Final Jeopardy, you need to be quick on the buzzer, because they’ll come out of nowhere and buzz right in to steal your glory. But if you’re good, you can run the category and get nothing but sweet, sweet points.
Graphics: 1.0
Everything looks pretty bad, and what’s with the weird clapping?
Sound: 1.0
The talking is also quite bad, but it’s there, which I guess is impressive.
Gameplay: 2.0
Click the button in time to scroll through the letters to type an answer.
Difficulty: 3.0
How’s your pre-90s trivia?
Fun Factor: 1.5
I guess it’s kind of fun.
Overall Rating: 1.7
Super Jeopardy! earns a C-. It’s more Jeopardy! So if that’s what you need, give it a go.