Not sure whether the game show is still flourishing on Japanese TV. When I was living there, it still had a pretty strong hold across the channel spectrum on a weekly basis. One of the more popular ones was "Quiz Sekai wa SHOW by Shobai!!"（クイズ世界はSHOW by ショーバイ!!...The Quiz World is a Show by Trade!!）on NTV. I don't quite remember the various segments but there was the slot machine spin, and if I'm going just by the video above, a mere lucky spin can get one team a victory right off the bat.
The comical band Modern Choki Chokies（モダンチョキチョキズ）was one of many musical acts to contribute theme songs to "Quiz Sekai", and I remember the band providing some of their music as commercial jingles or theme songs to shows such as "Super Jockey"（スーパージョッキー）which was also on NTV. Modern Choki Chokies seemed to be up for any particular genre as long as they could firmly place tongue in cheek.
Well, MCC's contribution to "Quiz Sekai" was their 7th single from November 1994, "Suteki na Maana" (Wonderful Manna). From the title, I'd initially assumed that it was all about "wonderful manners" but then I remembered that "manners" isn't quite spelled that way in katakana. So I then went with some wonderful young lady named Manna. Anyways, Mari Hamada（濱田マリ）and company have opted for a late 60s/early 70s rock/funk style with all the trimmings in the music video above. In a way, "Suteki na Maana" reminds me of some of the music that Misato Watanabe（渡辺美里）provided. Fellow MCC vocalist Motoi Kishimoto（岸本基）was behind words and music with Ireme Yasuda（安田イレメ）helping out on the lyrics and then Hideya Nakazaki（中崎英也）assisting in the composition.
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