(The) Million (Dollar Money) Drop

OK, Game.city have just released their latest gameshow based cash-in and it’s Million Dollar Money Drop. In fact it’s a sort of weird amalgam of US and UK presentation – US set, UK currency, UK theme tune, UK questions (or at least I don’t think many US players will have a chance at “What was the name of Jo Brand’s 2009 autobiography?”). It plays a fairly decent game of Million Pound Drop, although it did hang up on me during play which seems like a pity. Provided that’s a one-off, it’s a much more successful interpretation than their Deal or No Deal one a little while ago, it plays 1-8 players Jackbox-style and it’s £9.99.

If you don’t want to fork out for that, Ash the Bash is playing his own very good interpretation on his Twitch stream tonight from 8pm you can join in with.

In other news, Fremantle getting very excited about buying up Japanese format The Walls which they’ve called Inside the Grid. You can watch the Japanese pilot with English subs if you want. I think it’s got something, in the same way I really enjoyed Wall Go in The Devil’s Plan, but for an hour show it’s really slow to get interesting and the ending is an awful lot of a lot of time with not very much happening. The middle bit’s quite fun though – quite difficult to see it as anything but a one-off or occasional series really, as a regular show it’s going to get tiresome quickly.