Welcome to the Diamond Head Game guide at TV Tome. The mid-1970s brought some really interesting, unique game shows to the tube, some of them defying description. There was Hot Seat, where spouses were hooked to a lie detector machine while answering questions; The Gong Show, the classic showcase of the worst amateur acts; and The Magnificent Marble Machine, where contestants played a giant pinball machine for cash and prizes. Then, there was The Diamond Head Game, the only game show (aside from special weeks of others) to originate from Hawaii. The premise: Advance through a series of question rounds to enter a giant Money Volcano (a glass enclosure with giant fans blowing everything around) to win cash and prizes. The Diamond Head Game was an interesting once-a-week syndicated game show that went through two formats for its brief half-season run, as thus:
January-April 1975 (Weeks 1-13)
The audience was divided into four sections, each representing one of the
