My Generation
Host: Craig Shoemaker
Announcer: Lindsey Stoddart
Premise: Two teams of two contestants from the same graduating class compete in a game of musical knowledge, with the winners having a shot at a trip to the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas.
RULES: Each game pits two teams of two contestants against each other. The teams are made up of two people from the same graduating year, from 1960 to 1995. The difference in years was different each time, but was from ten to twenty years apart.
The team who won the coin toss or got the last question right chooses a category from the board. The board had five categories, and a question packet for each team's generation, for 30 questions a round. Similarly to "Remote Control," questions revolved around a skit or presentation of some kind, then the actual question followed. The first team to buzz in (each person has their own button) gets to try. A right answer is worth 50 points to the team. A wrong answer deducts 50 points, and the other team gets to try. The team that gets the 50 point toss-up then gets to try a 100 point follow-up question if they choose. If they play for it, the partner of the player who answered the 50 point question must play it. A wrong answer deducts the points, and the other team can steal the points. The team that gets the 100 point question right then can play a 200 point bonus question, where no points are in jeopardy.
The team that gets the last question right chooses the next topic and the game continues until time ends or all the questions are used up. As a bonus: if a team chooses a topic from the opposing teams' generation, and gets the first question right, they win a small prize, typically the Billboard encyclopedia or something like that.
Round two is similar, with point values doubled, and new categories. The trailing team gets first choice in this round.
Round three is the speed round, a 30 second game where two bands (one from each generation) and one word from each band is blanked out (the same word). The teams try to buzz in and name the missing word. The team with more points wins a prize, and moves through to the Time Warp bonus. Sometimes the teams were given two bands, and they had to name the song title that both bands released.
Bonus:
In the bonus game, one team member gives one or two-word clues to get the partner to say the name of the performing act on the screen (a la Password). The team must get 7 of 10 in 45 seconds in order to win the trip, and smaller prizes are awarded for each correct guess.