More Game Show Slots!

[davemackey]

Capitalizing on the state lottery games that offer prizes of $1000 a week for life, Bally Gaming has come out with a whole series of new progressive slot games called \"Cash For Life\". While most of the slots are generically themed, there are three based on licensed properties and two with game show roots.

The one that's not a game show is \"Saturday Night Live Blues Brothers\". This is an extension of a new product lines that features \"Saturday Night Live Coneheads\" as well.

The two game show themed slots are \"Concentration\" (complete with the classic logo) and \"Bob Eubanks\". If you go to www.ballygaming.com and follow the links, you can see descriptions of the machines.

Well, every slot machine can't have Dick Clark in it!

Right now the machines are in most major jurisdictions and have just been introduced in Atlantic City at Trump Taj Mahal and the new Borgata casino.

[uncamark]

Last week I took an online survey on slots and recognition of various entertainment people and characters.  Even though I've never been in a casino, they still let me take it--and if the survey is legit (and it probably is), some slot manufacturer is *considering* slots based on \"Lingo,\" \"You Don't Say!\" and Chuck Woolery.

If any of these come to pass, you'll know where you saw it first.

[tommycharles]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Aug 14 2003, 04:29 PM\'] Last week I took an online survey on slots and recognition of various entertainment people and characters.  Even though I've never been in a casino, they still let me take it--and if the survey is legit (and it probably is), some slot manufacturer is *considering* slots based on "Lingo," "You Don't Say!" and Chuck Woolery.

If any of these come to pass, you'll know where you saw it first. [/quote]
 Are any of these slots even remotely related to game play? I haven't seen any of these, mostly because I don't meet the minimum height (or is it age?) requirement in any casino, but are they just regular slots w/ GS logos all over them , or is there an actual game related element?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Aug 14 2003, 02:40 PM\'] Are any of these slots even remotely related to game play? [/quote]
 For the most part they are regular 5-reel multi-line video slots, but they often have a bonus game that is tenuously related to the theme that you get to play if you line up three of a given symbol across a pay line.

Did you look at the video of how the Pyramid slot plays that someone posted here a while ago? That would give you a good idea. Lemme find you the link again:

http://www.igtonline.com/megajackpots/new_...es/pyramid.html

[Neumms]

I usually play blackjack, which is, of course, based on \"Gambit,\" but I do enjoy the TPIR slots. Where Pyramid and Jeopardy really aren't based on luck at all, much of TPIR is, so the feel of it translates better to a slot machine. Plinko is fun, and although Cliff Hangers is one of my favorite pricing games because of the skill factor, the slot version (minus the pricing) is pretty interesting.

At least, as slot machines go.

[Brandon Brooks]

I usually play blackjack, which is, of course, based on \"Gambit,\"

No, no, no, my friend.  Gambit is based on blackjack.

Brandon Brooks

[Don Howard]

No, no, no, my friend. Gambit is based on blackjack

For real? The next thing you'll tell me is that Tic-Tac-Toe pre-dates The Hollywood Squares.

*insert \"twinkle in the eye\" icon here*

[Robert Hutchinson]

I had this neat idea for a pen-and-paper version of Wheel of Fortune. Instead of spinning a wheel, you could draw parts of a picture for every missed letter . . .

(Henry Hook stole all his ideas from Cross-Wits!)

[GS Warehouse]

Whenever I'm playing acey-deucy, passersby think I'm playing Card Sharks!

[Neumms]

I think it's crazy for how short lived and much reviled \"The Magnificent Marble Machine\" was, how many of the smaller-size home game versions you see even today in arcades and bars.