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rebelwrest

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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2024, 11:05:54 PM »
He didn't earn the nickname "BugJon" for nothing.

That said, though, echoing what others said, his Price is Right game was better than any computer game sold commercially.

BigJon's Wheel of Fortune was also fantastic.  Yes, I was one of those who used custom wheels to create the daytime wheel layouts.

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SuperMatch93

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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2024, 11:34:52 PM »
Was that Joytube?

No, I remember it being a DOS game. I'll see if I can find a link to its website on the Wayback Machine.
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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2024, 08:48:10 AM »
There was also a really good Scrabble Sprint game executed in DOS years ago. It had show-faithful graphics and was probably released somewhere around 2000.

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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2024, 10:39:17 AM »
Jeremy:

Would you be so kind to share a couple of screen shots?

Smooth and bug free, huh? Squad goals, those.
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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2024, 10:41:31 AM »
\I did love all the options including turning off the toss-ups
\\But not that IKing feature
I remember his Whammy! game had a pile of bonus or wacky squares, but no documentation I could look up to see what "Greed" or "Beat the IRS" meant.

/I was rather put off when I made it to the end of Russian Roulette and one of the Killer Questions and one of the answers was "Circumfrence."
//and the one time that I managed to win on the final spin and the $100,000 incremented on screen $50 at a time.
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cliffhanger285

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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2024, 11:44:01 AM »
Was that Joytube?

No, I remember it being a DOS game. I'll see if I can find a link to its website on the Wayback Machine.

Looks like it was eventually released for free:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070310053320/http://home.earthlink.net/~vrflyer/spin2win.htm

SuperMatch93

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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2024, 01:19:25 PM »
Is Palace still active? I remember being amazed at the screenshots of the versions of SOTC and other games that people ran on there, but I never signed up for it myself.
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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2024, 01:54:37 PM »
Is Palace still active?

Yes it is! Send me a PM.

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Jeremy Nelson

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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #23 on: October 01, 2024, 10:18:29 PM »
Jeremy:

Would you be so kind to share a couple of screen shots?

Smooth and bug free, huh? Squad goals, those.
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TLEberle

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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2024, 10:22:04 PM »
Oh that’s a beauty. Thank you sir,
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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #25 on: October 01, 2024, 10:26:55 PM »
I’ve said BigJon had plenty of issues with his games, and it wasn’t just the bugginess; to me there were far too many games that should’ve had a player against CPU option (Blockbusters and Bullseye especially), and he left in some errors that oughta have been caught before launch (“walwus” is not a word).

He didn't earn the nickname "BugJon" for nothing.

That said, though, echoing what others said, his Price is Right game was better than any computer game sold commercially.


I didn’t download it, but I was more partial to his Wheel of Fortune. Even if the wheel mechanism was vertical.

The games that he at least looked to have made an effort with came off pretty good. His Wheel was good, his Whammy and PYL games were decent, and I also enjoyed the Scrabble game.
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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #26 on: October 02, 2024, 08:58:46 AM »
I remember his Whammy! game had a pile of bonus or wacky squares, but no documentation I could look up to see what "Greed" or "Beat the IRS" meant.

As I recall, the "Greed" space stole everyone's score and combined it into your own, e.g. if the scores are 5000|7500|12500 and Player 1 hits "Greed", the scores become 25000|0|0. I think "Beat The IRS" shaved off a percentage of your score, but I can't remember that for sure.

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Jeremy Nelson

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Re: Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares
« Reply #27 on: October 03, 2024, 10:00:37 AM »
\\But not that IKing feature
That was the virtual host ala Vanna in Wheel CD Rom games, right? If so, it was a nice portfolio concept.
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