PE_4 Buzz

Well, I am using the Playstation quiz game Buzz to create a game show for a party, which is a test to try on my university students in April. It's my best friend's mom's 70th birthday and I asked her a bunch of personal quetions to quiz her family to see who knows her best. The questions are kind of funny... After I put the quiz together online, I went to test it from the PS3. I ran into a snag because each quiz can only have 8 question, but, you can string the quizzes together into a Playlist. So, I create a playlist with 24 questions at MyBuzzQuiz.com.

The you access the games from the Playstation. You can play quizzes from the website, but the Playstation lets you choose characters, play against up to 8 people and use the Buzz controller. You have a funny game show host and it's much, much more fun and competitive from the PS3.

The thing is, there are two Buzz PS3 games, one called Buzz Quiz TV (which is the old one from 2009) and Buzz Quiz World which is the new one and about a year old now. Both are great, The new one has more characters and different rounds of play and a few more bells and whistles, but my favorite one is the old one because they have more amusing rounds of 8 questions.

For example, whoever answers a question correct in one round gets to throw a pie at another player. Or my favorite is the round in which you are passed an explosive bomb and the only way you can get rid of it and pass it to the next player is to answer a question correctly. If you hang too long on a question, you blow up. It's really hilarious with a bunch of people. So, I chose to do the party with the first Buzz game. When the game starts, it asks you what game you want to play, you can play against other people online or with friends using questions and topics generated within the game or you can choose My Buzz where you create your own questions - this is what I did. So, it logs into your Playstation network and accesses all of your quizzes. You can choose one Quiz at a time or a Playlist with multiple quizzes. I chose the Playlist I created online which consisted of 3 quizzes of 8 questions - I assumed this would give me 3 different rounds of play, hopefully one with the pie and one with the bomb... But, no. Bummer!! There's a bug and the game will allow you to choose a playlist but it only plays the first 8 questions. I messed with it for a while and then looked online and found a forum where lots of people since 2009 have been reporting this problem. It has not been fixed. I was really bummed.

So, I tried accessing the game from the latest Buzz Quiz World and it does work from there - but, it uses one round of play and nothing as fun as the pie or the bomb. Major bummer. I sure wish there was a fix so i could use the other game, but I'm stuck.