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Title: Shows that plugged the home game of a different game show?
Post by: SamJ93 on July 03, 2021, 12:08:10 PM: I can't seem to find any video evidence of it, unfortunately, but I very clearly remember several Jeopardy! eps. from 1997-8 that plugged the TPiR electronic handheld game as a consolation prize. I assume they had some kind of general contract with Tiger, but it was still very strange to see a different game show--from a competing production company, no less--advertised.

Were there any other instances, besides this and that Eye Guess ep. where Bill shows the Password home game as a joke, where a game show advertised a home game other than their own?
Title: Re: Shows that plugged the home game of a different game show?
Post by: ChrisLambert! on July 03, 2021, 12:26:00 PM: John Davidson gave losing contestants other shows’ box games several times on Squares.
Title: Re: Shows that plugged the home game of a different game show?
Post by: Marc412 on July 03, 2021, 12:33:10 PM: In the early 90s contestants got both Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune video games.
Title: Re: Shows that plugged the home game of a different game show?
Post by: TimK2003 on July 03, 2021, 02:38:19 PM: The Special Celebrity Edition of Talk About, with Geoff Edwards, Marc Summers,.... had Geoff plugging the Jackpot home game (although I believe that Milton-Bradley game was long off the store shelves by then).
Title: Re: Shows that plugged the home game of a different game show?
Post by: doctorwho on July 03, 2021, 07:33:04 PM: ISTR Wheel of Fortune's Jackpot Round being sponsored by the Tiger Electronics Family Feud game at some point in the late 90s.
Title: Re: Shows that plugged the home game of a different game show?
Post by: Robair on July 12, 2021, 06:54:32 PM: "Card Sharks" actually ran ads for "Sale of the Century" by Pressman -- a show that directly opposed it.