I appreciate the details, like the 50s TV set design of the console.

I have to do a better job of proofreading lol. I take it that the squares won't change, but that's alright. Now I can't wait to see what the tabletop version looks like.

Nate

I think I saw the Feud game out at Wal ly World Mart over the weekend already, but I didn't recall seeing PYL. (I was too busy looking for Hannah Montana stuff for my niece's 7th b-day).

I always forget to proofread my posts lol. I'm pretty sure the squares won't change. I'm guessing they will light up and judging from the pic, I just see one whammy on the board. The tabletop version will probably be better when that comes out.

Nate

I decided to try an option at Walmart.com, called "site-to-store," when ordering the box game version of "Don't Forget the Lyrics." If you don't mind waiting, compared to most other online stores, it's worth it!

Not all items at Walmart.com are eligible for "site-to-store," but when you use this option, you pay as you order the item(s) online, indicate a store in you area where you want the item(s) shipped to, and then they inform you via email when your order is ready for pickup. This way, you do not pay for shipping of your order, however sales tax is added!

A new item turning up this week on various sites (including amazon.com), is the "Ca$h Cab," box game from Imagination Games. If you go to their website (www.imagainationgames.com) you can click on a video presentation about 2008 products. Among the stuff shown is brief footage of the "Lingo," DVD game, and it also shows a "Lingo," card game, but not in great detail.

I tried emailing MGA games a few months ago, and never heard back as to whether or not their Wheel of Fortune DVD game is coming out, as announced a while ago.

I know it's not a game show, but on the Imagination site in the 2008 preview video, they even "feature" a "Bejeweled" board game.

Howzzat gonna work?

It would be hard for it to be worse than the DVD game. LCD limitations aside, I'm looking forward to it.

I've always thought PYL would make a dynamite handheld game...

If I were designing a euro board game around Bejeweled... hmm....

A bag of tiles with the different symbols. When you find a set of three (or more) you pop them and advance the scoring track for that particular symbol for you. Extra movement for a longer string of symbols. Refill from the bag. At end of game, steal blatantly from Knizia, and count only your lowest score as your real score.

Or I could just play Puzzle Quest instead.

So nice he used it twice. And rightly so, it's a great mechanism.

I knew there was a reason I liked you. :)

And for the sequel, they could do it on a hex grid. It would be, erm, ingenious...

Naah. Never work.

I was in a local Target store last night, and saw BOTH "The Moment of Truth," games (from Cardinal for $9.99, and Hasbro/Selchow & Righter for $19.99), as well as.........Itoys electronic tabletop THE PRICE IS RIGHT (for $29.99)!

From what I'd seen on the packaging, the game contains 10 popular games, including "Contestant's Row," "The Big Wheel," (aka "Showcase Showdown"), and the "Showcase." The regular pricing games include, "Hi-Lo," "Grocery Game," "Cliffhangers," "Clock Game," "Pick a Pair," "PLINKO," and IIRC "Any Number." The full-page advertisement from this year's Toy Fair showed "Hole in One," as being included, but the actual product DOES NOT!

The following link shows the prototype game (minus box), but the actual game looks even better!

http://www.amazon.com/iToys-Price-right-el...082&sr=8-37

From the box cover illustration, it showed the numbers 100 (one dollar) and 15 on the side of the "Big Wheel," in red, and all others in white. It makes me think that maybe in your bonus spin, you start the wheel at 100 and that only the 15 cent space will earn $5,000 (or $10,000 if they are going by the new rules of the show).

The actual game's "Plinko," board looks more like the show's actual board, and the box indicated that there are SIX Plinko chips included. Why the extra, I don't know, unless it was a printing error.

Like the handheld game from Tiger, you draw a card to determine the game to play, and enter a code number to get started.

That's about all I can say right now, since I haven't bought one yet, but it sure looks like a winner to me!

I'll be interested to hear hands-on reports, but I still think simple physics is going to ruin the two experiences everyone seems to be most excited about.

(And the sixth Plinko chip is in case you lose one, of course.)

I might pick up a copy at Wal-Mart this weekend if they have one. Seems really fun.

Might post a video, too.

Re: Hole in One...I wonder if that's a possible second version if this sells well. It looked like Hole in One was at the same place as Plinko on the prototype(s?).

Magic Number, not Any Number.

Just picked up my copy of the TPIR tabletop game. Early reports:

THE GOOD: Considering that you're dealing with a tiny dot matrix screen, they came up with snazzy graphics. For Cliff Hangers, you're treated to an animation of the mountain climber ascending the scale, complete with famous music. There's an introductory animation for every game. Games are faithfully executed. Plinko & Big Wheel both handle better than I expected. Big Wheel included with the game is more accurate than the one pictured on the box. All the colors are correct.

THE BAD: The pricing game you play is up to you, and this is your warning: Just skip Clock Game altogether. Skip it because they totally screwed up the execution. You have 30 seconds to type in your bids for two prizes. Yes, you have to type each bid. How hard would it have been to have an instruction come on the screen telling an opponent to turn the game board toward them and act as emcee?

Hi-Lo plays accurately but the reveal is incredibly anticlimactic. You key in the three grocery items you want for the Hi row. Then a list of the retail prices of all six items scrolls across the screen, then a buzzer or a bell sounds. Weeee.

It's not perfect, but it's a pleasant little way to fill a half-hour.

How much are you assuming that people are playing with an opponent?

The VAST majority of players will be flying solo. Bank on it.

Could you comment more on Plinko and the Big Wheel? Aren't they going to both play too fast?

Welllll...that's a matter of personal taste, I suppose. My roommate and I both found the Plinko game rather exciting to watch. Of course it goes faster on a smaller board, but the chips bounce around like you'd want and the suspense is there. It's not like watching a coin go into a piggy bank, if that's what you're worried about.

The "Big Wheel," which, according to the rules, is the part of the game that determines who goes to the Showcase Showdown...sigh...is comparable to any spinner you'd find in any other board game ever made, I suppose. Really, I guess the fact that you're concerned enough to ask leads me to recommend that you take a pass on it. I was perfectly happy.

Well, it's not at all Targets yet. Ran out to pick it up tonight, and neither one next to me had it. However, their board game section was empty (they clearanced out most of it), so they should be stocking it in a couple of days.

Anyone got a SKU (barcode number)? If so, I can post a link to check to see if they've got the item in-store.

That's what I thought.

Oh, I'd already made that decision. I was more interested in confirming my suspicions. Which I did. Thanks much. :)

Sorry, I wasn't 100& certain when I posted, since I looked at the game a few minutes before the store closed that evening.

I think I would've liked to have seen Any Number, the very first game played on the first show, but Magic Number is certainly a better choice than Pick a Number!

are there any car games in this electronic version?

Games are played for cars, but there are no "car games."

Struck out with PYL and the TPIR desktop games at two Wal-Marts today.

However, I did see Ty Tredway's mug on a Merv Griffin's Crosswords home game, though. Looks neat, but I really didn't want to take the box's advice and use the "spoiler" mode from the TV show.

I should get one of those tpir games :)

AHHHHHHHHHHH! I can't take it anymore! I can't find it anywhere! I'm ordering it on Amazon!

As the proud(?) owner of this game now, I can say that they really don't play "fast". The fun is there for both of them for many run-throughs.

Kind of odd the main theme is nowhere to be found, but the Come On Down music plays for pretty much everything.

Amazing what they did with the dox matrix screen...a dropping Plinko chip for the Plinko intro, Hans Yodelman make a cameo...bang up job.

My complaint is the bad variety of games...sub Check-Out for Clock Game, and maybe weasel in something like Buy or Sell or Take Two, it's be a little more fun.

It works to sit on the desk as a neat little trinket, too.

EDIT: The barcode number is 6954502301.

Thanks, but I picked it up later that day. I'm working on a quick video review of it to post this weekend. If it were $20 or $15, it would be the perfect price, but I still think that $30 is too much.

//Post does not contain intentional pricing game puns.

Kay-Bee has the LMAD DVD game on clearance for $4.99 and the Jeopardy DVD game w/ buzzers for $19.99. Old and busted stuff, but I figure someone might want to grab either/or on the cheap.

How was the quality of the music?

The following link to amazon.com, is to show what the Press Your Luck handheld game looks like, out of the package:

http://www.amazon.com/iToys-Press-Your-Luc...4823&sr=1-2

After linking to it, you can click to see TWO views of the unit out of the packaging.

Also, at that link, you can click to see other "ITOYS, Inc" products at amazon, and you'll see an NBC Sports Trivia electronic game, as well as an Access Hollywood entertainment trivia electronic game. Both of them are very similar in design to Itoys "1 VS 100" handheld game.

Grabbed the TPIR tabletop game at my local Target. If owning your very own miniaturized Plinko board and Showcase Showdown Wheel is worth $30 to you, then by all means grab it. The rest of the games range from mildly interesting to achingly tedious. Clock Game is impossible given the keypad layout. Cliff Hangers is neat (yes, Hans yodels!), Grocery Game is pretty well done... the remaining games are pretty much a waste of effort. Really, how hard would it have been to swap Lucky Seven and Any Number for Magic Number and Pick-A-Pair?

My only other big gripe is that there's no place on the game unit itself to store the 175 cards and six tiny, tiny Plinko chips (seriously, they're about half the diameter of a Certs). You are provided with a flimsy plastic case in which everything can fit... I guess I just assumed there'd be a storage compartment under the unit itself. I also expected it to be a wee bit bigger, but it's not as if it's too small. The screen readouts are backlit and vivid, the graphics are very nice given the limitations of the unit, it runs on AA batteries... and it's Plinko! It's a freakin' Plinko board! No, the physics of the game aren't hampered by the smaller size... sure the chip falls a bit faster, but it's hardly a free fall; the unit was excellently crafted.

You might want to wait for the game to come down in price if you're not a fanatic, or if you're looking for more in-depth game play. Actually, combining this with the 2nd edition Endless TPIR game would give you the ultimate at-home Price simulation. I'm not usually impressed by electronic or DVD home editions, but this is a definite exception. I love it.

If the board squares actually change, that immediately becomes the Coolest Game Ever Manufactured In The History of The World. I'm not expecting it... just hoping.

I'm hoping that Alyssa Milano is waiting for me out in my car when I leave work tonight, wearing a trenchcoat and only a trenchcoat, and holding a small plate of Hickory Farms Summer Sausage and crackers. Maybe with one of those yummy cheese spreads.

Both are equally likely of actually happening.

That's my plan for it once this thing makes its way to clearance for $15. MB '86 edition + Endless 2nd edition + this doohickey should make for a nice presentation. One question, though: can you cue up specific games on demand, or do you just have to take them as they come?

Play the game however you prefer. Each game card has a 3-digit number which needs to be entered into the game.

I agree with Hastin--definitely worth $20, probably not worth it at $30.

For those crazy enough to play Clock Game on the desktop game, be aware it doesn't allow four digit prices, yet there are prizes that are more than $900...so don't waste imaginary time on trying to punch in $1000.

Wait, what? You're telling me that it's possible to configure the device such that you simply cannot win the selected game?

I read this as merely saying it's never going to be a four-digit prize, so if you're going to start high, start at $900.

Ohhhhhhh! Okay, that I get.

Moral: Get "higher" on $900, go to $950 or something like that.

Or start with 999 and go down.

Um, no, the point being made was that that would be a *moronic* bid, because unless you're right on the nose, it gives you absolutely no useful information.

Astute Price fans know that $999 shows up frequently as a Clock Game price. It's hardly moronic.

A TPIR tabletop game has turned up on eBay. It's no bargain, but there it is for someone who wants one ASAP.

If the electronic version tops out at $999, then I'm going to suggest (nay, fervently hope, for the sake of the mean IQ of the electronic gaming industry) that $999 shows up as a price significantly less frequently in the electronic game than it does on the actual television show.

I've played Clock Game once on my tabletop game. In that one playing, I had a $999 price. Thus, at that rate, every Clock Game should have a $999 price. :-)

Since the photos of the items came directly from the show (different pricing game backdrops and props can be seen, like the Shopping Spree price tag on a loop or the Punch-a-Bunch backdrop), surely the prices came from there as well.

Undoubtedly. However, for the sake of game balance, you would think that the designers chose their content such that a $999 price didn't occur every orther playing.

(Yes, I know better.)

I'd laugh if $899 showed up in between each playing with $999.

A second edition of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader comes out in October on a variety of platforms. (PC, PS2, Wii, DS and XBox 360). The game is boasting over 6,000 (3,000 on DS) questions, a multi-player mode, and unlockable fifth graders.

Huh. I would never have expected a version for the Wii, as a completely straight one-player quiz like this really doesn't gel with anything "special" the Wii has to offer. Another game that falls under that description is Deal or No Deal, coming in November. But man alive, if there's really 6,000 questions, that's a ton of content.

Also, while perusing around Amazon, there is an updated description for TPIR Wii: "Use your Wii-mote to Spin the Big Wheel, putt your way through Hole In One, drop a Plinko chip, or take a swing at Punch-A-Bunch." I seriously hope this is true....

No additional info on TPIR DS.

I have no idea what this means in the gaming world, but working in a public school, it conjures up all sorts of odd images.