By the Super Bowl, the system was in 30 sites, including three in Chicago. Currently, sites across the country are hooked up to NTN. The system can also be found at Champs in Lake Geneva, Wis.
Currently, none of these bars charges any sort of cover to play QB1. As the regular football season gets underway, QB1 competition will take place on weekends college and pro games and, of course, on Monday nights during Monday Night Football. Throughout the season, QB1 players will compete on a national basis for prizes such as commemorative steins, football jackets, trophies and rings.
On Saturdays, the NTN network will offer a schedule of three to four nationally televised and regionally televised college games. On Sundays, NTN will broadcast up to 10 or 11 pro football games. Bar owners may choose as many as three of those games.
On Tuesday nights, the system changes gears and offers its version of a live game show with Showdown. The minute trivia-based game show, which airs at p. Chicago time, allows bar patrons to compete with other Showdown players in other bars across the country. Players compete for prizes such as cars, Walkmans and Watchmans. It offers three half-hour shows nightly starting at 6.
Competition is only among players in each bar. During daylight hours, NTN fills its airwaves with an AP-based news, weather and sports text channel, not unlike the cablescroll text seen on local cable systems.
The system also allows bar owners to plug in their own ''screens'' of information-a sort of in-house electronic blackboard.
A drawback of QB1, however, is its length. Even Downs and Perille admit the games are in an embryonic stage and still have some fine-tuning to go through. With the technology now in place, however, the door is open for many other interactive video games, Downs said. The company is also looking at basketball and hockey versions of QB1 as well as a whodunit and a treasure-hunting game. Perille and Downs believe the system is unlimited in its capabilities. Downs sees the day when folks at home will be able to play QB1.
Instead of a satellite dish on the roof, home viewers will pick up the QB1 signal through a decoder and the Vertical Blanking Interval VBI on the station that carries a football game. The VBI is ''unseen'' television lines that station officials use to broadcast printed information to each other. A QB1 monitor sits alongside the set. QB1 players then predict the next play of the game run, pass, punt, etc. There are usually 12 keypads to a bar up to 20 can be supported , and team play is encouraged.
The keypad, working like a portable phone, sends a radio-frequency signal to the in-house antenna, which relays these choices to a personal computer in the bar. Meanwhile, a QB1 referee views the game at the Carlsbad, Calif. During several ''critical'' games this season, NTN officials will also have ''spotters'' in stadium press boxes. Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 0 guests. New Scaratings Welcome to the new Scaratings.
Posted: Fri Sep 06, pm. I used to love QB1 back in the mid 90s and played it fairly regularly. I know it has been gone over several times on this board and others, but the game now lacks any form of legitimacy.
I haven't played the game in perhaps five or six years, but I noticed the scores from yesterday's game in the Hall of Fame. Local Sunday games used to have some problems, but the national games were at least somewhat reasonable. What fun is it to reenter answers after a play and get credit for it?
Who do you think you're impressing? What do you expect from a player on the west coast? He simply had a buddy relay him all the plays from two hours prior. No different than any other west feed game. Posted: Mon Sep 09, pm. Well, hell. Looks like we have one here in The Site-Poor Backyard, too, based on the results from Sunday's games. F CUBS!!!!! Posted: Tue Sep 10, am. Posted: Fri Sep 20, pm.
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