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Jamey Greek:
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--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on August 15, 2025, 05:54:41 PM ---Game-show adjacent? I'd have to go with YDKJ. My dad adores that game because, in his words, it was "the first video game to call [him] a pendejo."
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Having played the original PC game - both general knowledge and the Sports edition - I was a huge fan, and was very disappointed in the Paul Reubens/Troy Stevens version. It took the irreverent, sarcastic anti-game show and turned it into more of an over-the-top parody. If they'd gone with a vibe closer to Idiot Savants or Win Ben Stein's Money, I think they would've been on to something.
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There was a pilot in 1996 produced by Ron Greenberg and hosted by Harry Gottlieb/Nate Shapiro that I would love to see. I would imagine it's a closer experience to the PC game.
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I would love to see it too. Hopefully The Game Show Vault or someone will post it. I watched Ron Greenburg’s Game Show Museum oral history to get some info on it the other day.
bulldog_06:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on August 15, 2025, 04:59:00 PM ---I’ll give a bit of a dissenting view. I’ve never looked for a board game or video adaptation to function as the real thing but instead to be a fun way to scratch the itch. That said I loved that Electric Jeopardy actually moved beyond the world of clicker crickets and a die to break ties with the blue plastic casing buttons and the score wheels, and the Quizzard not just being the buzzer umpire but having the different game modes was profoundly cool. I’ve gotten more use from the Quizzard at family events than likely all of the home games I’ve ever owned.
I wish that Deluxe Wheel of Fortune had expansion modules with new wedges and materials but it was not to be. Also I have the Millionaire for Game Boy Color within arm’s reach. I’ll never sit across from Reege but damn if it doesn’t remind me of those nphalcyon days.
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I always wanted Deluxe Wheel as a kid. Just because of those new wedges you could add. I wound up having the red box Junior version. The same with the Nintendo game...I don't know why my parents wouldn't let me get the adult versions since I watched Vanna/Pat since I was a young'un. I remember my aunt had the first Wheel Nintendo game and I was so disappointed...like where was the $5000 space in the 3rd round? lol
chrisholland03:
I'll throw an odd one into the pool - Password Plus and Jeopardy on the Omni.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMNI_Entertainment_System
To my knowledge, those two titles were the first 'interactive' home versions of a game show.
BillCullen1:
A version of 5th Grader was released for the PS2. Jeff Foxworthy hosted and it was based on the FOX prime time version. The first time I played it I made it to the million dollar question. I forgot the question but I remember my answer was "horsepower" and I won a million in make believe money.
Checking my PC collection of game shows, I see there was a version of Million Dollar Password. So that's two game shows with Reege you could play at home.
WarioBarker:
--- Quote from: bulldog_06 on August 16, 2025, 02:07:51 AM ---I remember my aunt had the first Wheel Nintendo game and I was so disappointed...like where was the $5000 space in the 3rd round? lol
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It actually could've been there (or anywhere, for that matter; it's in the ROM data alongside a bunch of other unused cash spaces), but it's not used for some reason.
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