Game show displays in everyday life

[Scott5114]

Last week I decided I didn't want to drive through Tulsa (I-44 is a pain through there), so I took the Creek Turnpike, which bypasses the city. I pulled up to the automatic coin basket at the toll plaza and was surprised to find what looked like a vane display. It was supposed to be showing the amount due for the toll, but was blank. I threw a few different combos of coins into it trying to get it to say something, but it didn't appear to work at all. I did see one at another booth that had one segment "on",  showing the segments to be a flourescent yellow-green color.

I think my high school gymnasium's old scoreboards used to have sports-type displays. Not for sure though.

So have you ever ran across one of the standard game show displays that we're used to seeing on TPIR or other game shows in a non-game show context?

[PlinkoChip]

Well, I've seen Dom Casual and the More or Less font on many signs, posters, ads, etc. I've also seen some ultra-large folding vane displays like on the newer games used for the time/temperature outside some businesses.

[Jnelson09]

There are eggcrate displays outside banks that show time and temperature, Vane displays at some gas stations that show prices, and LED-based eggcrates in elevators.

[PriceFan14]

Vane is at almost every gas station here displaying the price (it might also be digi-face). Eggcrate is on all those signs that flash and change and such (like the FF board). I think I've only ever seen one other TPiR font out there and that was recently (I just don't remember which one).

[Garvin8r]

The time/temperature displays for my hometown bank were SportsType from the time I moved here in '85 until the late 90s, at which point they moved to a single-color matrix system.  I would have loved to buy that display at the time.

[Plinkoman]

A few weeks ago, my church used the same font as the That's Too Much board on the front of the church bullitens. I pointed this out to people and I really don't think they cared that much. 

[Scott5114]

Vane is at almost every gas station here displaying the price (it might also be digi-face). Eggcrate is on all those signs that flash and change and such (like the FF board). I think I've only ever seen one other TPiR font out there and that was recently (I just don't remember which one).

If by "FF" you mean Family Feud, they didn't use eggcrate displays on the original version. They used flip-disc displays, better known to game show fans as Ferranti-Packer displays. MoDOT, Missouri's road agency, uses the Ferranti-Packer font set on their permanent Changeable Message Signs, but the pixels are orange LEDs rather than fluorescent yellow-green discs like on Family Feud.

I've seen a few displays outside banks and such that looked like they were built similar to eggcrates, but with a different font. I've never seen a "true" eggcrate display, using the same font as on TPIR.

Here's a photo of the vane display on the Creek Turnpike. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Creek_Tpk_vane_display.jpg.

[Chief-O]

If by "FF" you mean Family Feud, they didn't use eggcrate displays on the original version. They used flip-disc displays, better known to game show fans as Ferranti-Packer displays. MoDOT, Missouri's road agency, uses the Ferranti-Packer font set on their permanent Changeable Message Signs, but the pixels are orange LEDs rather than fluorescent yellow-green discs like on Family Feud.

Ferranti-Packard. Sorry, but I am quite picky about that.

[jaydlewis]

Ferranti-Packard.

Something that just struck me...any relation to Hewlett Packard?

[tpir08]

A few gas stations I know have sports-type displays.

[PriceFanArmadillo]

Do those billboards that use trilons to rotate between three different ads count?  Trilons are a method of display common to game shows, right? 

I saw one of those on my way to work this morning and wondered about that.

[Jnelson09]

Just thought of another one: Whack-a-mole score displays are Vane displays.

[tpir08]

If you notice a lot of times general mills cereal boxes have the pricedown font.  I know it isn't a display but it is a well known font.

[PriceFan14]

What I meant was "in the nature of" the FF board. The way it changed from "Family Feud" in lights with the rest of the board in black to "Family Feud" in black to the rest of the board lit up...the sign changing.

[gamefro]

If you notice a lot of times general mills cereal boxes have the pricedown font.  I know it isn't a display but it is a well known font.

I haven't seen Pricedown on General Mills boxes...  However, one of the biggest uses of the Pricedown font outside of TPiR is probably for the main title in the Grand Theft Auto video game series (used to write the words "Grand Theft Auto" on every release since GTA3 in 2001).