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Super Password is a revival of the American word game Password that aired on NBC. It is the second longest running version of the show, airing from September 24, 1984 to March 24, 1989. The show's premise has two teams of one celebrity and one civilian as they guess a word by giving one word clues to their team mate. If the team mate gets the word, it goes on the board as part of a five word super password. If the team member doesn't get it, control passes to the other team so they could guess the word. The team who got the word get's a chance to guess what the super password is, if they failed to get it, the game continues until a team correctly guesses what the super password is. After the second super password round, the team in the lead gets to play the cash word, which is the same as the main game except it's for a jackpot that grows by $1,000 each day it isn't won. If the team mate guess the word, they win the money that was in the jackpot for that day (the money they would win in the cash word would not affect the scores of the game). Two more super passwords are played and the winning team would go onto The Super Password End Game. One team member is faced away from a screen and the other team member is faced towards the screen. Ten letters which were all initials to 10 passwords and in alphabetical order are shown to the player facing the screen. They must give their team mate facing away from the screen clues to the 10 passwords. Each one they get, the letter turns to a dollar sign, if they get all 10 words in 60 seconds or less, they win a jackpot that grows by $5,000 every time it's not won. If they give away the password, they lost their chance at winning the jackpot.
Super Password is a revival of the American word game Password that aired on NBC. It is the second longest-running version of the show, airing from September 24th, 1984, to March 24th, 1989. The show's premise has two teams of one celebrity and one civilian as they guess a word by giving one-word clues to their teammate. If the teammate gets the word, it goes on the board as part of a five-word super password. If the team member doesn't get it, control passes to the other team so they could guess the word. The team who got the word get's a chance to guess what the super password is, if they failed to get it, the game continues until a team correctly guesses what the super password is. After the second super password round, the team in the lead gets to play the cash word, which is the same as the main game except it's for a jackpot that grows by $1,000 each day it isn't won. If the teammate guesses the word, they win the money that was in the jackpot for that day (the money they would win in the cash word would not affect the scores of the game). Two more super passwords are played and the winning team would go onto The Super Password End Game. One team member is faced away from a screen and the other team member is faced toward the screen. Ten letters which were all initials to 10 passwords and in alphabetical order are shown to the player facing the screen. They must give their teammate facing away from the screen clues to the 10 passwords. Each one they get, the letter turns into a dollar sign, if they get all 10 words in 60 seconds or less, they win a jackpot that grows by $5,000 every time it's not won. If they give away the password, they lost their chance at winning the jackpot.


[[File: Suppass3.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Boxart for Talking edition]]
[[File: Suppass3.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Boxart for Talking edition]]
The company GameTek made ports of the game for Commodore 64, Apple II and Home Computer. Originally, there was gonna be an NES port of the game with Regular and Talking editions (similar to what GameTek did with Super Jeopardy in 1991<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSBRwS2Tymw</ref>). The game was advertised in an unknown gaming magazine alongside Card Sharks and Classic Concentration.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170220185041/http://nintendoagemedia.com/elements_nocache/E97E9CD4-E6B0-CEBF-366AD63B27E23261.png</ref> It's unknown when the Talking edition was showed off. Two screenshots from the games were released from an unknown source.<ref>http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nrhtml/suppass.htm</ref> It's unknown why the NES ports of Super Password were never released or how long in development the games were. After GameTek filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 1997, the company went defunct in July 1998. It's unknown if a playable build of the NES port of Super Password exists today.
The company GameTek made ports of the game for Commodore 64, Apple II and Home Computer. Originally, there was gonna be an NES port of the game with Regular and Talking editions (similar to what GameTek did with Super Jeopardy in 1991<ref>https://youtu.be/VSBRwS2Tymw</ref>). The game was advertised in an unknown gaming magazine alongside Card Sharks and Classic Concentration.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170220185041/http://nintendoagemedia.com/elements_nocache/E97E9CD4-E6B0-CEBF-366AD63B27E23261.png</ref> It's unknown when the Talking edition was showed off. Two screenshots from the games were released from an unknown source.<ref>http://nesworld.com/mirror/nrhtml/suppass.htm</ref> It's unknown why the NES ports of Super Password were never released or how long in development the games were. After GameTek filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 1997, the company went defunct in July 1998. It's unknown if a playable build of the NES port of Super Password exists today.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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*[[The Price Is Right (partially found unaired pilot for syndicated game show; 1993)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially found unaired pilot for syndicated game show; 1993)]]
*[[The New Price Is Right (lost unaired pilot of Goodson-Todman game show; 1972)]]
*[[The New Price Is Right (lost unaired pilot of Goodson-Todman game show; 1972)]]
*[[Family Feud (partially found unaired pilot of Pearson game show; 1998-1999)]]
*[[Rock Feud (lost unaired pilot of cancelled spin-off of Pearson game show; 2001)]]
*[[To Tell The Truth (lost unreleased pilot of Pearson remake of Goodson-Todman panel show; 1999)]]
*[[Card Sharks (partially lost pilots of syndicated revival of Goodson-Todman game show; 1996-2000)]]


===Television===
===Television===
*[[The Price Is Right (partially lost Dennis James episodes of game show; 1972-1977)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially lost Dennis James episodes of game show; 1972-1977)]]
*[[Tattletales (partially found syndicated version of CBS game show; 1977-1978)]]
*[[Tattletales (partially found syndicated version of CBS game show; 1977-1978)]]
*[[To Tell The Truth (lost first season of syndicated panel show; 1969-1970)]]
*[[To Tell The Truth (partially found first season of syndicated panel show; 1969-1970)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially found Australian adaptation of Mark Goodson game show; 1973-1974)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially found Australian adaptation of Mark Goodson game show; 1973-1974)]]
*[[Snap Judgement (partially found NBC game show; 1967-1969)]]
*[[Snap Judgement (partially found NBC game show; 1967-1969)]]
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*[[The Price Is Right (partially found Doug Davidson version of Goodson-Todman game show; 1994-1995)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially found Doug Davidson version of Goodson-Todman game show; 1994-1995)]]
*[[Match Game (found ABC revival of Goodson-Todman game show; 1990-1991)]]
*[[Match Game (found ABC revival of Goodson-Todman game show; 1990-1991)]]
*[[Champion Blockbusters (partially found British game show, 1987-1990)]]
*[[Champion Blockbusters (partially found spin-off of British game show, 1987-1990)]]
*[[Släktslaget (lost Swedish adaptation of "Family Feud" game show; 2000)]]
*[[Släktslaget (lost Swedish adaptation of "Family Feud" game show; 2000)]]
*[[Password Plus (found unaired George Peppard episode of Goodson-Todman game show; 1979)]]
*[[Password Plus (found unaired George Peppard episode of Goodson-Todman game show; 1979)]]
*[[The Price Is Right (partially lost episodes of CBS game show; 1972-2007)]]
*[[Distraction (partially found American adaptation of British game show; 2005-2006)]]
*[[I've Got A Secret (partially lost syndicated revival of Goodson-Todman panel show; 1972-1973)]]
*[[Press Your Luck (lost British adaptation of American game show; 1991-1992)]]
===Miscellaneous===
*[[To Tell the Truth (lost unreleased DVD game based on panel show; 2005)]]


==Reference==
==Reference==

Revision as of 23:52, 20 October 2022

Suppass4.jpg

Boxart for Regular edition.

Status: Lost

Super Password is a revival of the American word game Password that aired on NBC. It is the second longest-running version of the show, airing from September 24th, 1984, to March 24th, 1989. The show's premise has two teams of one celebrity and one civilian as they guess a word by giving one-word clues to their teammate. If the teammate gets the word, it goes on the board as part of a five-word super password. If the team member doesn't get it, control passes to the other team so they could guess the word. The team who got the word get's a chance to guess what the super password is, if they failed to get it, the game continues until a team correctly guesses what the super password is. After the second super password round, the team in the lead gets to play the cash word, which is the same as the main game except it's for a jackpot that grows by $1,000 each day it isn't won. If the teammate guesses the word, they win the money that was in the jackpot for that day (the money they would win in the cash word would not affect the scores of the game). Two more super passwords are played and the winning team would go onto The Super Password End Game. One team member is faced away from a screen and the other team member is faced toward the screen. Ten letters which were all initials to 10 passwords and in alphabetical order are shown to the player facing the screen. They must give their teammate facing away from the screen clues to the 10 passwords. Each one they get, the letter turns into a dollar sign, if they get all 10 words in 60 seconds or less, they win a jackpot that grows by $5,000 every time it's not won. If they give away the password, they lost their chance at winning the jackpot.

Boxart for Talking edition

The company GameTek made ports of the game for Commodore 64, Apple II and Home Computer. Originally, there was gonna be an NES port of the game with Regular and Talking editions (similar to what GameTek did with Super Jeopardy in 1991[1]). The game was advertised in an unknown gaming magazine alongside Card Sharks and Classic Concentration.[2] It's unknown when the Talking edition was showed off. Two screenshots from the games were released from an unknown source.[3] It's unknown why the NES ports of Super Password were never released or how long in development the games were. After GameTek filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 1997, the company went defunct in July 1998. It's unknown if a playable build of the NES port of Super Password exists today.

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Television

Miscellaneous

Reference