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TPiR Pricing Game Question
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'dmota104\' date=\'Oct 9 2003, 12:07 PM\'] To the best of my knowledge, "Check Out" is the only pricing game in TPiR's history to be retired -- and then brought back into the rotation.
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Check Out disappeared for a year, and then was revived with the current 1.00 either way range rather than 50 cents needed to win.
Pick a Pair disappeared for about three years and returned in 1990 with the simpler current setup as opposed to the Ferris Wheel setup.
I didn't see this, but as per a post in ATGS several years back, Make Your Move reportedly was played once or twice in 1986 before its return as a regularly played game in 1989. The 1986 format had a board of nine numbers as we see now, but with TWO three digit prizes and one four digit prizes, and one of the digits was to be used TWICE.
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'TV Favorites\' date=\'Oct 9 2003, 12:54 PM\'] I heard that Three Strikes was retired for a while and then brought back, but I could be wrong about that. [/quote]
If it disappeared for a while, it could have been due to budget reasons(as the game is now played for a high-end car, which was not the case in the 70s and most of the 80s). One season(1994-95 I think) saw that and Golden ROad not played for the last third of the season due to budget reasons. There was a gap of several months that 3 Strikes was not played just before the change to the \"one strike in the bag\" rule.
Steve Gavazzi:
Golden-road.net was recently contacted by an anonymous someone who's been able to give us the premiere date of every pricing game since about 1981, so I think it's now safe to say that the legendary 1986 playing of Make Your Move is nothing more than a myth.
As for 3 Strikes, there was a period in Season 26 where it wasn't played for 13 weeks. When it returned at the end of May, the \"one strike in the bag\" rule had been instituted.
Robert Hutchinson:
I still miss Penny Ante, malfunctions and all.
PeterMarshallFan:
I miss Super Ball too.
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