Pizza Maniacs (U.S. Syndicated Interactive Game Show)

Pizza Maniacs is an American syndicated interactive game show based on the 1994 French game show Pizza Rollo. It began in 1997 and is currently produced by Lady Luck Productions (as of 2014), StudioCanal (as of 1997), Fresh TV (producing animation, as of 2014), AniWorks (producing animation, as of 1997), and Clogged Toilet Films (as of 1997). It is hosted by Seth Green and has live-action portions taped at RKO Television Studios in Los Angeles, California, making it one of Lady Luck's few productions taped at the studios.
The original version, Pizza Rollo was an interactive game show that aired on French channel Canal + around 1994, hosted by David Chevalier. It was aired from Monday to Friday, at 6.30 pm.
Pizza Maniacs uses an original "video game" on screen, and unlike the original French version where child contestants would call live and control the player character using the keys of their phones, child contestants log onto the show's website and control the player character using a computer mouse or mousepad. Pizza Maniacs was 3D-polygons in it's first few seasons and later high-quality 3DCG in it's current seasons, and is about pizza delivery people who will ride through a city with their bikes, avoiding obstacles. Contestants can choose between three different characters: Pizza Rollo, Pizza Rollette and Pizza Lisa (known as Pizzo Lillo in the original version). The game's original French version was infamous for its difficulty: control was awkward as the child contestant had to use the keys from the phone to move the character, but there was also a slight delay due to the length of the connection to the TV station. Not only that, but players had to finish the level in less than 1 minute 30 seconds. Suffice to say, winners were rare. The problem is avoided in Pizza Maniacs, where the contestant uses the mouse or mousepad to control the character. Winners are nearly all the time in America.
Category:Syndication
Category:Syndicated programmes
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