Match Game at least made a good effort and I watched a fair number of episodes, and the celebrity panelists were decent. It really did a great job recapturing the set from the classic versions. But there's enough slots on BUZZR (including MGHS) that it's still going be around for awhile, though I wouldn't mind the Ross Schafer version popping up again over there (no Michael Burger please). Like a TTTT, it's probably coming back again in about a decade.
Too bad with Card Sharks; Season 2 fixed some of the flaws like having so many cards to reach the goal to the point where that nobody successfully completed a run. There was a nice mixture of successful/unsuccessful runs that time, and even with its rules and stretching, the Money Cards wasn't too bad, and mixed changing one card anywhere on the 1986 versions with the one card only rule from the early days of the Perry version. The push rule was a nice addition as well, and the set/theme were nicely reimagined from the NBC run. Its still in the select company of game shows that have appeared on the "Big 3" networks as well as syndication. It's unlikely it will ever return, but I'm hinging that we'll see a lucky break.
Celebrity Dating Game was by far the least interesting of the bunch. I prefer the simpler formats of the classic versions, and although there were plenty of celebs on the classic version, they were always surprises, which was part of what made the original great.
Followed by the debut of Generation Gap. It is unrelated to the Generation Gap that aired on prime time on ABC in 1969 which was general knowledge. This version will be pop culture related.
Actually, the original version featured subjects like The Brooklyn Bridge, a bubblegum pop group of the time, as well as things like early TV and movies, along with general knowledge/events-type questions. It was Boomers vs. their parents back then, now the older end of the gap could be geriatric Millennials like myself.
But I'm glad we're FINALLY getting hopefully a version of Password that will stay truer to its roots. NBC teaming it up with TTD or even Concentration would be a nice companion.