Just for consideration and amusement, contemplate for a moment the content and activity of most American game-shows you have watched on television. They almost invariably pit contestants against each other for some form of currency or consumer gods, *ahem* goods. The Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune, Who Wants to be an Asshole on Television? etc. Not much in the way of entertainment other than aural and visual stimulation while the tv trays are out and adorned with Stouffers. The point of these types of challenges are typically to foster desire and skill, but what is the skill really? Is it luck, chance and an encyclopedia? Bollocks! And so I direct your attention to Haneru no Tobira. Just one of the many Japanese game shows where stamina, endurance and courage are its own reward, not money. Watch the clips and tell me, what is more imaginative, spinning a wheel for money, or spinning humans, for the sake of entertainment. Risk is its own reward.
