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chris319:
Matt: do you have the home game of Word for Word?
What is your favorite implementation of a TV game as a home game?
Jeremy Nelson:
Matt- which version of Jeopardy is sitting just beneath the LCD American Gladiators handheld? I don't recall a home version with a yellow box.
--- Quote from: Chelsea Thrasher on September 01, 2025, 06:31:32 PM ---I played the hell out of the NES adaptation of Davidson HS (which did a ridiculously good job adapting the show's music for 8-bit).
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I was in almost in the exact same boat as you, only it was my library that rented the games. Until years later when I put two and two together and realized it was THAT David Wise who did the music, I was always a little disappointed that the Gametek NES game show OSTs were all so good and the 16 bit ones were so inconsistent.
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: chris319 on September 01, 2025, 08:35:48 PM ---Matt: do you have the home game of Word for Word?
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Yes. In the earliest stage of collecting, it was a gift from a cousin I think of as a sister. It had been in her family. It's one of the few I'll be keeping.
--- Quote from: chris319 on September 01, 2025, 08:35:48 PM ---What is your favorite implementation of a TV game as a home game?
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i like the ones that can recreate games 100% faithfully, without having to figure out a way for buzzers or timers to work. The first two that come to mind are The Who What or Where Game and It Takes Two. Strange choices both, I know.
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on September 01, 2025, 08:37:45 PM ---Matt- which version of Jeopardy is sitting just beneath the LCD American Gladiators handheld? I don't recall a home version with a yellow box.
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It's a still-sealed audiobook (cassettes!) of The Jeopardy Book from 1990. Just one of the wacky things that have oozed their way into my stuff.
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: aaron sica on September 01, 2025, 08:07:09 PM ---Completely unrelated to the games, Matt, but where did you get the little shelving units that you sit the games on?
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The wire shelves are all a single unit I bought at a box store (Home Depot or Lowes or something) about ten years ago that just happened to fit my closet perfectly and was a decent height and depth for the bigger games. The rest are just cheap particle board bookshelves I've had forever.
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