I like Unbeatable Banzuke, but I guess that isn't really Americanized as it is just subbed (and sort of dubbed ... ).

I Survived a Japanese Gameshow is kind of lame, Wipeout I've never seen, MXC is funny and Banzai ... Banzai is just Banzai. That show was seriously weird.

I don't really have a problem with it, cuz I like Japanese gameshows (the whole punishing ignorance over rewarding intelligence is just so much more fun), but the americanized versions just ... lack something the original Japanese versions do.

Maybe it's the "wow that's so smurfing weird/cute/awesome/smurfed up" factor.