I have never seen this game. It is really fun. It’s a lot like a matching game. Like concentration in many ways. How do you basic principle. All about memory. And it was clear some these players were not paying attention to where they saw these cards. I remembered where those aces were in that last hand, and I would’ve gone for the aces that I’ve been him. Would’ve been a really good pay day for him. Anyway, he won though, so there you go. Thanks for posting this.
@@shac9131 Some TV markets don't always pick up a program for national syndication. In some cases, the market could pick up something else or air a local program in its place. Super Pay Cards aired in the New York Market because it is a huge market for advertisers.
You know, this ain't bad at all. I could use a lil extra juice (i.e. contestants soliciting audience for advice like TPIR) and the pace to be sped up a bit. But I like this.
I'm kind of surprised this format wasn't picked up in the UK. Shows like this were all over the schedules in the early 1980s, it has that steady pace that was popular here at the time and I suspect it would have been fairly cheap to buy in as it wasn't massively successful (the UK made hit game shows out of many a US-originated flop, and this was better than that). I think this would have worked in a lunchtime or early afternoon slot. Nice format generally, although the host was a bit awkward with his intros of the contestants (I'm guessing this had a punishing schedule as he seemed a bit worn out).
These are episodes not seen in the US in over 35 years since 1982, and not seen in Canada in 25 years(Super Pay Cards ran in reruns for about 10 years on CHCH, despite lasting only one season in 1981-82 originally), This is from a Canadian airing as the US airings of the show didn't show the audience game because the US airings had more commercial time than the Canadian airings. The Super Pay Cards home game may or not have been released, I don't think any game collector has seen one.
It aired at 1:30PM in 1981-82 on WNEW, and aired in Atlantic City, NJ on WWAC Channel 53 in its first year as a station in late 1981-early 1982, I believe at 5:30PM.
Thanks for sharing...these must be from early in the run, as later episodes don't have Mary Lou pointing out during her opening payout rundown that a full house is "3 of a kind, plus a pair".
This is exactly what I have been saying to my players at work all along especially the new players if you wanna win and take down the experienced players, you've got to be aggressive, cutthroat, ruthless.
Nice quality of this show. Too bad, the intro is gone, except the ending. I remember this show was on WNEW-TV (channel 5) in NYC every afternoon back in the 1980's.
IIRC a tie did happen once, going back to 36 years old memory of the original broadcast. A tie was broken by each player taking one card not picked on the round three board, and the higher card picked won the game.
Well, it is the new generation... and besides, I didn't use Art James either, and Jen's voice actress was delighted I did it (She wished she could've voiced Jen herself)
@11:58 "It can be done, Sam" .. mmm... well... at this point in the game, the opponent has two Aces and two Jokers, so basically, four Aces. How on earth can he beat her? Of course, in normal poker a straight flush/royal would beat her, but were those even a thing in this game?
Wow...I have never been so damn bored by a gameshow! This game show has no 'meat' to it. The players have to make minimal decisions, the home viewer really cannot get involved in any way save for memory, and the cash awards are very meager.
