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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: mcsittel on July 23, 2006, 02:32:08 PM
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Purchased one in Omaha, NE today (July 23). Toys R Us.com
claims this and the DVD game are not available until
July 31. I didn't see any other versions of the game
for sale at Target.
I must say I think they did a good job with this version.
Nice sound effects, scrolling text for the messages,
and the ability to finish the game even after you
take the deal, and the chance to switch the case at
the very end when you're down to 2 cases.
The only down side is it takes 3 of those annoying LR44
batteries that you have to pay dearly for when they need
replacing. AA or AAA would have been preferable just
for convenience.
I'll be interested to hear others' thoughts. My son and I
have had a lot of fun with the board game-I ended up
making an 'offer chart' in Excel so when my wife plays
she can look up a value for the offer based on how
many cases are left and the availability of the top 7 values
on the board.
Matt
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Just to let you know, there is no need to hit Enter until you reach the end of a paragraph.
I'm just pointing it out now, because it's going to get really annoying really quick.
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Have the tabletop versions been popping up anywhere else yet? I know people were saying that TRU have been getting them in, but I have yet to find them at my local one. My local one has been converted to the "newer" style TRU and carries less games than they used to. I am going to call a few TRU's that are near me (Vienna, WV and St. Clairsville, OH) that I know still are the "older" style (wall of games from pretty much front of store to back), and have more games to see if they have anything yet. They're both about an hour drive for me. I was planning a trip to WV this weekend anyway, and that TRU always seems to have some different things. The last time I was there they had the "100 Mexicanos Dijeron" home game.
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[quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'124859\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 04:57 PM\'] The last time I was there they had the "100 Mexicanos Dijeron" home game. [/quote]
I actually saw that at one of the local Wal-Marts recently.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'124832\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 01:56 PM\']
Just to let you know, there is no need to hit Enter until you reach the end of a paragraph.
I'm just pointing it out now, because it's going to get really annoying really quick.
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Thanks for quickly buzzing in and identifying yourself as "resident grouch".
I'll try to avoid that in the future.
Or maybe not.
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[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'124870\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 05:28 PM\']
Thanks for quickly buzzing in and identifying yourself as "resident grouch".
I'll try to avoid that in the future.
Or maybe not.
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Holy wow. You're going to quickly find out that that WAS me being nice.
Anyhow, I was just trying to offer up a little advice to the new guy. Take it or not, the choice is yours, and I'll sleep fine either way.
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[quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'124859\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 02:57 PM\']
My local one has been converted to the "newer" style TRU and carries less games than they used to. I am going to call a few TRU's that are near me (Vienna, WV and St. Clairsville, OH) that I know still are the "older" style (wall of games from pretty much front of store to back), and have more games to see if they have anything yet.
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That surprises me, I thought that conversion COMPLETED years ago. Certainly the Seattle stores have all been "newer" for a few years now.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'124898\' date=\'Jul 24 2006, 12:14 AM\']
[quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'124859\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 02:57 PM\']
My local one has been converted to the "newer" style TRU and carries less games than they used to. I am going to call a few TRU's that are near me (Vienna, WV and St. Clairsville, OH) that I know still are the "older" style (wall of games from pretty much front of store to back), and have more games to see if they have anything yet.
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That surprises me, I thought that conversion COMPLETED years ago. Certainly the Seattle stores have all been "newer" for a few years now.
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I thought so too until I went to the Harrisburg one yesterday (I've never been to that one, going to the one that's closer to me). It's the old design with the wall of games. It's a TRU I'll be avoiding, as believe it or not, it's next door to the Dauphin County Prison...
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'124903\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 09:31 PM\']
I thought so too until I went to the Harrisburg one yesterday (I've never been to that one, going to the one that's closer to me). It's the old design with the wall of games. It's a TRU I'll be avoiding, as believe it or not, it's next door to the Dauphin County Prison...
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Hmm. Maybe it's because I live in a major metropolitan area. The Everett store in this area was late to convert, I know that, but even then it was done last time I was in there a couple of years ago.
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[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'124870\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 08:28 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'124832\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 01:56 PM\']
Just to let you know, there is no need to hit Enter until you reach the end of a paragraph.
I'm just pointing it out now, because it's going to get really annoying really quick.
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Thanks for quickly buzzing in and identifying yourself as "resident grouch".
I'll try to avoid that in the future.
Or maybe not.
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Er...Chris is 100% right about this. That's, like, one of the first five things they're supposed to teach you when you use a text editor for the first time.
(And now I hope this can go back to the TRU discussion, 'cause honestly, I love learning about pointless stuff like this. :-))
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[quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'124859\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 05:57 PM\']
Have the tabletop versions been popping up anywhere else yet? I know people were saying that TRU have been getting them in, but I have yet to find them at my local one. My local one has been converted to the "newer" style TRU and carries less games than they used to. I am going to call a few TRU's that are near me (Vienna, WV and St. Clairsville, OH) that I know still are the "older" style (wall of games from pretty much front of store to back), and have more games to see if they have anything yet. They're both about an hour drive for me. I was planning a trip to WV this weekend anyway, and that TRU always seems to have some different things. The last time I was there they had the "100 Mexicanos Dijeron" home game.
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I live in Vienna...As of yesterday, they have the box game and the card game that comes in the mini-briefcase. No electronic game (and to my chagrin, no Deluxe Wheel either. Vienna, WV--One of three towns in America without a Target.)
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FWIW, Aaron (if you're interested in driving that couple extra miles), the Lancaster, PA store was renovated some time ago and does not have the wall of games. However, they still do have a pretty good selection of games there.
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I have gone to Vienna, WV to shop all of my life, but what is the TRU. Adam, I know you probably already did this, but have you checked KayBee? If you feel like going to a Target, there is one in Bridgeport, WV at the Meadowbrook Mall.
Also, by the end of typing this message I finally figured out that it is a Toy's R Us.
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[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'124938\' date=\'Jul 24 2006, 11:51 AM\']
I have gone to Vienna, WV to shop all of my life, but what is the TRU. Adam, I know you probably already did this, but have you checked KayBee? If you feel like going to a Target, there is one in Bridgeport, WV at the Meadowbrook Mall.
Also, by the end of typing this message I finally figured out that it is a Toy's R Us.
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That's ok. I'm not used to seeing that abbreviated (especially with the "R" not backwards) and it threw me too originally.
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[quote name=\'Adam Nedeff\' post=\'124908\' date=\'Jul 23 2006, 11:58 PM\']
and to my chagrin, no Deluxe Wheel either
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According to this thread (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=11057\"), the new Deluxe Wheel is only available online, not at any Target stores.
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Bums me out about Vienna, I used to find all kinds of things there first that I couldn't find here yet. I love going to Vienna. I remember they had a hobby store in the mall a few years back that still had the "Finders Keepers" home games new on the shelves (as well as Double Dare and a few others). It was like $20 or something and I bought it anyway. Just amazed me how those had sat there all those years. On a funny side note, a good while back I discovered there was a Western Sizzlin' restaurant there (Parkersburg), we used to have one here many years ago and my family loved it. I took my Mom there one night, we ate, it was good. One day we decided to go back, and on the door it says "CLOSED: ASBESTOS". So much for that. Then, the next time we went down that way it was demolished. So now we eat at Ryan's in Parkersburg or Caesar's in the mall.
Anyway, I'll call later in the week to the TRU to see if anything's changed. Was really looking forward to heading down that way this weekend. Oh well.
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Bwood, I would recommend the Golden Corral next to the old Montgomery Wards (the Big Sandy Superstore). Also, about this hobby store was this next to the JcPenney? It is almost like bwood, Adam, and I should get together for a game show discussion sometime in Vienna.
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[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'125042\' date=\'Jul 24 2006, 10:52 PM\']
Bwood, I would recommend the Golden Corral next to the old Montgomery Wards (the Big Sandy Superstore). Also, about this hobby store was this next to the JcPenney? It is almost like bwood, Adam, and I should get together for a game show discussion sometime in Vienna.
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Yes, that store was next to JCPenny ("Just Toy & Hobby" I think it was called), and come to think of it, I did eat at the Golden Corral next to Big Sandy, it was pretty good. I wasn't excited about eating there that day because we have one here (I like to eat at different places) , but it was so much different. I think we went there 'cause the Sizzlin' was torn down.
I agree, it is like we should get together. Heck, I'd drive down that way to meet up sometime. It's not that far for me at all. I'm over that way almost about every chance I can get. Would be nice to meet some people who share the same obsession as I do.
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[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'125042\' date=\'Jul 24 2006, 09:52 PM\']
Bwood, I would recommend the Golden Corral [/quote]
On a whole, I find Golden Corral's to be very, very, subpar, compared with other chains, such as Ryan's and Old Country Buffet.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'125160\' date=\'Jul 25 2006, 05:35 PM\']
On a whole, I find Golden Corral's to be very, very, subpar, compared with other chains, such as Ryan's and Old Country Buffet.
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Would you have posted if you liked it?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'125161\' date=\'Jul 25 2006, 07:52 PM\']
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'125160\' date=\'Jul 25 2006, 05:35 PM\']
On a whole, I find Golden Corral's to be very, very, subpar, compared with other chains, such as Ryan's and Old Country Buffet.
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Would you have posted if you liked it?
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I may, and I may have not. I was simply offering an alternative dining solution--one, which, IMO would provide them with a better experience.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'125162\' date=\'Jul 25 2006, 06:04 PM\']
I may, and I may have not. I was simply offering an alternative dining solution--one, which, IMO would provide them with a better experience.
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Okay, Mark.
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[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'125042\' date=\'Jul 24 2006, 10:52 PM\']
Bwood, I would recommend the Golden Corral next to the old Montgomery Wards (the Big Sandy Superstore). Also, about this hobby store was this next to the JcPenney? It is almost like bwood, Adam, and I should get together for a game show discussion sometime in Vienna.
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The Northeast contigent, when they get together (which consists of myself, DaveRomanjr, Mystery7, and ChuckNet) absolutely loves "Fire Mountain". It's a chain that's also under the same umbrella as Ryan's. Coincidentally enough, the Fire Mountain location where I'm at housed a Golden Corral previously.
Perhaps we could have some type of G.E. College Bowl type thing with the Northeast Contigent vs. the WV/VA game show fans. :)
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'125165\' date=\'Jul 25 2006, 09:07 PM\']
Perhaps we could have some type of G.E. College Bowl type thing with the Northeast Contigent vs. the WV/VA game show fans. :)
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I'm game :)
This is the guy who won a Quiz Bowl Tournament in High School with a game show question. I was on the team all four years. I always said that during my career, a game show question would come up, and one of my last matches as a senior I hear..... "He was the original host of Jeopardy..." and that's all I needed to hear. I don't even know what the rest of the question was. I answered it and my team (and the other team, and the whole room) was like "whaaa?". That was the game (and tourney) winner. Sounds like an easy question to all of us, but do you really expect a bunch of 18 year olds (in 2003) to get that one?
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That makes two team members of the WV/VA team. Bwood, since you were in quiz bowl and you graduated the same year I did, did you ever play against Ritchie County High School? If you did, do you remember a chubby guy that always sat closest to the reader, that was me. Also, which tournament was this that your team won. It sounds like the question your team won on was a Ernie Anderson/Adam Nedeff question at Marshall SCORES.
Word to the wise, I am ranked the highest scoring player in the 2006 Region 4 Tournament at Saint Mary's University.
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Hey, I sadly live in West Virginia, lol. I go to WVU.
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[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'125177\' date=\'Jul 25 2006, 10:58 PM\']
Hey, I sadly live in West Virginia, lol. I go to WVU.
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Yeah, sadly. I go to Wheeling Jesuit University. Since the WV go are getting to know each other, what part of WV are you from, and would you like to join the team. If we get Adam Nedeff on we got our team.
Also Bwood, what part of Ohio are you from? From the info provided it sounds like you live either south or west of Belpre.
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[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'125175\' date=\'Jul 25 2006, 10:53 PM\']
It sounds like the question your team won on was a Ernie Anderson/Adam Nedeff question at Marshall SCORES.
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It pretty much has to be. I can't remember the Art Fleming question, but Ernie always tries to shoehorn an obscure-to-this-generation game show question for any tournament that we do. Off the top of my head, I know we've had questions where the correct answer was...
"The $10,000 Pyramid" (answered correctly)
"Match Game" (answered correctly)
"Family Feud" (answered correctly)
"Scrabble" (answered correctly)
"Blockbusters" (It was an audio question: "Identify this NBC game show, hosted by Bill Cullen, by listening to its theme music." The question was missed, and to my delight and amazement, the wrong answer that the team gave was "Hot Potato.")
We also use "Alphabetics" as a 60-Seconds Round category now and again.
So by golly, we have SCORES veterans here...I had no idea.
One other thing...rebelwrest, e-mail me if you can.
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I'm from SE Ohio, more Zanesville/Cambridge as the general area. We were in so many tournaments I couldn't even count (or remember most of them). I think the technical name for the main league we were in was the SEOQL (Southeastern Ohio Quiz League, where the Fleming question came up) which pretty much consisted of schools right here in the direct area. The television broadcast tournament we appeared on every year was WHIZ TV's High School Honor Society (Zanesville, OH). We also took part in the Muskingum Valley League Tournament (also local schools) and a few tournaments at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland among others. We kept busy, as we were always on the move. My Quiz Bowl coach during my junior and senior year was a big game show fan so we always had things to talk about during those long drives to tourneys.