I'll be buying one, repackaging the "lie detector", and will commence marketing "Maury: The Home Game."

/YOU could be the father!

"Find out how recklessly wild your teenage girl REALLY is!"

/Motivational Drill Sargent not included.

If your city is fortunate enough to have a Go! The Game Store in your mall, They have Identity the home game on sale, %50 off (about 12.50) and Password the DVD game on sale for 75% off (6.25).

I've seen the Password DVD game for $3.99 at Gabriel Brothers, a regional store in the Kentucky/Ohio/PA/WV area.

While on the topic of the Identity board game, how hard to find is it? Have copies surfaced on eBay? What has been the going rate for it on eBay? The capitalist in me wants to snag all the local Go! store's copies this afternoon...

I've personally had a very hard time finding it. I finally ordered the small tin version from Amazon, but I still don't have a copy of the box game. Of course, the bigger capitalist question is whether anybody is going to WANT your horde of Identity home games.

You'd want a copy...right? ;-) I'm speculating that the local shop will even have copies of Identity.

The way I see it, the Identity box game could (tons of emphasis on 'could') be the Top Secret of this generation--presumably a home game with a low print run, at least compared to mass-produced games nowadays. If there are at least 3 copies, I'll snag one for myself, one for Matt if he's interested, and one to see what happens on a certain online auction site.

Last I checked, there was a stack of 'em for sale at a store in Water Tower Place, or the other Michigan Avenue high-rise mall whose name eludes me.

If any of the collectors out there are really interested, I'll check to see if they still have 'em, and ship them out your way.

Good. Gives me something to do other than studying for finals...

...and are you referring to Westfield North Bridge?

There's also Chicago Place and 900 N. Michigan. Don't know which one besides Water Tower has the games store--they're all too rich for my blood. :)

That's the one. West side of Michigan over Grand Avenue.

/love to browse the olive store

Yeah, I just snagged the Match Game DVD game at Gabriel Bros. They had Password as well (own it already). However, the price here (SE Ohio) was $5.99. Still, a great deal.

I just stumbled across this link:

http://www.target.com/ITOYS-Password-Elect...e/dp/B00170A3S6



I know I'm going off-topic, but while on the subject of locating hard-to-find games from this past year, I thought somebody might know if they've seen a Simpsons edition of "Trivial Pursuit" anywhere?

* NOTE *: I'm not referring to those Simpson trivia games from Cardinal; supposedly Hasbro/Parker Brothers released a "Trivial Pursuit" DVD/Board game with a Simpsons theme last year. I haven't found a copy anywhere (not even on eBay)!

This little British online job says it exists, but I can't find it at the store they mention.

I'll take a peek at my Wal-Mart this weekend when I'm in.

According to www.endlessgames.com website, a second edition of the TPIR DVD game is coming out this summer, with Drew Carey. It supposedly features a new way to play Plinko and games including Hole in One, Swap Meet, Coming or Going and More or Less. If this was already posted, fine. I didn't have time to look through 50 plus pages of stuff.

A quick search tells us that Mr. Zager told us back in February. All I had to search for was '+Price +"2nd Edition"'.

If that artwork ends up being final (never a guarantee anymore) it would, surprisingly, be the first home version of Password (or any other game show for that matter) with Allen Ludden's image on it.

That's the prototype look they had at the Toy Fair...but they had said that they were specifically waiting for MDP to premiere, to see if it was going to be worth the tie-in to it.

I just hope they spell his name right, if applicable, unlike the video slot machine that calls him "Alan Ludden".

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

It looks like the new ESPN Jeopardy box game has a new design for the game board, with sliding pieces (similar to Pressman's WOF games) concealing the "clues":

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=U...21&plpage=1

Sorry, I tried to click-on the individual item, but got an error message. Maybe it will work shortly hereafter.

It''s still broken for me, too. I wonder if this is one of those things that shouldn't have made it live yet...

Click: http://www.pressmantoys.com/ and you can get a look at more new stuff coming from them this year, including a nicer view of the ESPN Jeopardy game, as well as the attache version, which feature the traditional "cricket" snappers, and scoring chips.

Pressman's selling Perudo now? Interesting.

/anyone wanna buy a Perudo set?
//cheap?

1 vs. 100 will be available for the DS in a week and a half. Here are a few screenshots. The last image shows the scoring system used in the most recent season.

While at Wal-Mart yesterday, I saw the Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Plug and Play game for a hair under $20.

I'll take a moment to point out that this is another fine product from Destination Software International, the same folks you brought you Deal Or No Deal DS, as well as a full catalog of other complete crap (with the possible exception of Balls of Fury, which GameSpot didn't seem to outright hate) shovelware.

In other words, don't expect much.

I see one issue already just in the screengrabs. In the 3rd grab, the question asks "Who is the most trusted name in news?" A better question would be "Which cable channel claims in their ads to be 'the most trusted name in news'?"

I pre-ordered 1 vs. 100 a few weeks ago. I'll write a review once I receive it.

That should seriously frighten you.

Yet another quasi-game show game I ran across today which I hadn't heard of previously--the Banzai DVD game. I found it at Go!: The Game Store at Tower City in Cleveland for $5. A few copies are on eBay.

The Identity board game was also in stock at Go! for $12.49. I snagged one copy. There's one left in the store. The sales associate told me he's had inquiries about and orders of the Identity home game from as far away as California. I wouldn't be surprised if any of those folks are from this board.

Here's a peek at some new stuff, available at various online spots:

http://www.amazon.com/wheel-fortune-card-g...7318&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Games-pyrami...7555&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Games-passwo...7593&sr=1-1

Ah, yes. The "classic" Million Dollar Pyramid.

Endless *really* added an extra zero to make it "$1,000,000 Pyramid"? Really?

These aren't even on Endless's site. Good to know some things don't change, I guess.

(What's sad is that it would still be cool to have.)

Do we have any way of finding out if that tin has the full 5th Edition card set in it, or just a smattering of the cards? If it's the full set, I'm all over that like Rachael Ray on a shiatty clue.

(Actually, I guess the "1,000 New Words!" declaration answers that last question for me. Nifty.)

And another item:

http://gifts.barnesandnoble.com/Toys-games.../e/632468009600

Thought I'd throw a tip out there for interested parties: I'm cruising Buy.com because they have a thumb drive I want on sale (4GB Sandisk Cruzer: $20 shipped), and I see they have the Identity card game for six bucks. (Plus five for shipping, but savvy shoppers should be able to circumvent or mitigate that.)

Anyhow, we have some collectors here who might be interested just for the novelty, and it says they have very few left, so I thought I'd put it out there.

Ah, yes. Family Fued. One of my favorites.

Hosted by Joe Nammath!

Just imagine if Rolf was the second banana... ;)

ROFL BENURSHCHKY

*Raygor starts running around in circles*

My 2 cents on the Sandisk Cruzer...

I've gone through two 2 GB versions in about a year. The first one's case snapped while helping a student at school, thus making the drive unusable. The second flat out died on me at work in March, after 6 to 8 months of ownership. I have been using a generic Micro Center 4 GB thumb drive ($16. CHEAP!) since then with no problems. Since it appears that the closest Micro Center from Seattle is roughly 850 miles away, the Micro Center drive is not an option. :-)

Caveat emptor, Chris.

And I've had one of the very same drives I linked above for...lessee. Since December of 2006, because it was a holiday gift at my previous job (my last day was two days later, thank Glub). And it's been BEYOND AWESOME this entire time. This second one is going to replace my Zip drive.

So I do appreciate the warning, but rest assured that this buyer is quite familiar with the product you're suggesting he beware. :)

I will repeat what Chris said--the Cruzers are outstanding flash drives when they worked for me. Obviously I'm not a fan of their casings, but I should've purchased a drive which could withstand the antics done by my sometimes reckless students. I have no clue how Cruzer #2 died. It was a great drive while it lasted.

I think they do a Titanium version for about $10-$15 more that you can jump up and down on if you need to. :) Mine generally stays on its lanyard, and floats in either my messenger bag or my laptop bag, depending on where it is needed. I have not tested them for high-school-student-grade durability because I haven't needed to. :)

I haven't heard the term "Zip Drive" since 2001.

And there's probably a very good reason....

My 2-gig Cruzer Titanium's been through a lot, including a spin or two in the wash. Still works, haven't lost anything.

I know, I know. (At least it's one of the slim 250 MB USB ones.) Thing is, it worked very well for what I used it for: a temporary off-system place to hold files until I had enough to burn a CD. Once I filled three disks, time to burn. But the process of pulling the thing off the shelf, unwrapping the cable, plugging it in, and then finding the disk with room on it for the file was just annoying enough that I rarely used it, and as a result my Downloads folder on my PC is a mess. I'd been meaning to do this for a while; I was just waiting for the right deal. :)

I was in my local Barnes and Noble bookstore today, and saw the TPIR DVD game (2nd edition), plus the WOF, FF, Password, and $1,000,000 Pyramid Quick Pick games.

The screenshots on the box of TPIR DVD game, showed Drew Carey, holding his microphone in front of one of the doors, as well as a shot of the two Showcase podiums, plus the Hole-In-One game prop.

The Password Quick Picks is merely the fifth edition from EG, packaged in a smaller-sized, tin box.

The Family Feud Quick Picks had a small-sized board, similar to EG's design used till now, but featuring only eight spaces for writing answers, instead of ten (at least shown by the illustration on box bottom).

The Pyramid Quick Picks only illustrated some cards designed similar to the old MB games, with no board to display them on. The cards shown in illustration had the Winner's Circle portion visible, with amounts of $500 each for the bottom three subjects, $1,000 each for the middle two, and $5,000 for the top one!

Finally, the WOF card game Quick Picks, featured a small board showing the same puzzle board layout, a separate board to keep track of scores, cards depicting the many different money amounts, in the same form of wheel wedges, and also includes a 10-second sand timer for the bonus round.

Although you could easily play the bonus round in any of the earlier editions, this is the first time (other than video/computer versions) the bonus round has been included.

Ex-cellent. :) Thanks for this.

I'm going to assume this was a dry-erase board of some sort? As much of a non-Wheel fan I am these days, this actually sounds pretty cool, and I might pick this up as well when I find someplace that has these on sale. I definitely need the Password though.

Sorry I didn't mention it, but yes the FF and WOF Quick Picks DO include a dry-erase board and marker. I personally think I like the WOF one myself. It's different from all the other home versions.

Here's a couple of links to new quiz books, based on two popular shows:

http://www.amazon.com/Family-Feud-Quiz-Boo...5742&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Wants-Millionaire-Qu...5872&sr=1-4

Well, I was wrong to reference it like it was an error, because yesterday I saw ""The Moment of Truth--Lie Detector Card Game," by Cardinal Industries. There is also going to be one from Hasbro coming out in August. The Cardinal game is priced at $12.99, while the Hasbro version will retail for around $20!

The box did also mention how the "Lie Detector" is for entertainment purposes only, which is obvious.

I have a Attache High Speed USB 2.0 2GB Flash Drive that I got about a month ago at Wal-Mart of all places, got it for $15 bucks and it works great, on the game show games subject I went to my local Barnes and Noble the other day, unfortunetly the cable was temporarily out so I had to find something else to do, at Barnes and Noble I saw the TPIR 2nd edition DVD game and I also saw the Family Feud quiz book but that's about it, I went to Barnes and Noble a while back and they had a DVD game 3 pack with Press Your Luck/Let's Make A Deal/Family Feud 2nd edition for about 40 bucks.