It still feels lonely without Pat and Vanna. But if you do online play, and you've got people talking - they would only get in the way.

The way Wild Card works is annoying. It prompts you to use it after each turn. However, if you hold it to the Bonus Round, it DOES give you the 5th letter.

Quick tip: You can speed up the game (by cutting certain animations), by holding L2.

I'll be online at about 4:30 - if anyone wants to play, just start a game (I'll do either - I like the Road Trip mode), and invite me (Hastin).

Good point. I think a Square command would've worked just as well.

That was fast! I've allready won a Million Dollars!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Hastin/IMG_0029.jpg

:)

//Boy my Cell Camera sucks!

I'm not going to click it. ;) Both of the times I've managed to pick up the wedge, it was followed by a Bankrupt the next spin. Also, outside of my one $100,000 win, I've spun $25,000 each bonus round. Hm..

The Million Dollar Password PC game is now available for free trial and eventual purchase here. Taken from my earlier review of the "leak", here is some information on the game:

It's pretty much true to the format of the show. Four rounds of up to five words each. Your faux celebrity partner gives you clues to the word. They're full-body animated, so they'll also use minute gestures to indicate what kind of clue they're giving (opposite, continuation, etc.) All of the music, sounds and cues, including VO from Regis taken from the actual show are included. The graphics aren't that bad looking, either.

Three unlockable minigames include a crossword and word search game using clues, Password-style and a word association game. Unfortunately, in this version, no ability to play Password with friends using the game's word bank. But you can have a two-player game where you and a friend are receivers to your respective celebrities.

If you like to be the receiver when playing, you'll enjoy this game.

So they're going through with the PC version of MDP. I figured they wouldn't since CBS canned it. I remember Chuck Woolery plugging the computer version of Greed, which never was released when FOX pulled the plug on it.

Just noticed something: The host on the box is rarely credited anymore. I found Donny's name on Pyramid but no credits on MGC, The Singing Bee, or AYSTa5G.

You're absolutely right. Add to those Million Dollar Password, Don't Forget the Lyrics, The Moment of Truth, Identity and at least a few different versions of Deal or No Deal. And a quick spot check of some slightly less recent games shows folks like Anne Robinson and Louie Anderson going unidentified.

As I say on my website, the most interesting one to me is Merv Griffin's Crosswords, for a couple of reasons. One is that it's not even identified as being based on a TV show. It's called "The Social Wordplay Game," and there's only the slightest reference to the TV show on the underside. Secondly, while it's probably safe to say most people would recognize a Regis, a Howie, a Foxworthy or even a Wayne Brady, having a picture of Ty Treadway on your box game is probably not a huge selling point. Some board game collector in the distant future will look at that box and assume the person on the cover must be Merv Griffin!

My wife dragged me into Dollar Tree today, and to my surprise I found an apparently new 5th Grader card game. Haven't opened the box yet, but by the looks of it, it's a downsized version of the Disney edition.

I stopped at a Kroger store near Columbus, OH today on my way home from a road trip for a snack and a Coca-Cola from Mexico (gotta love glass bottles and real sugar soda), and they had so many different home games I was shocked.
This was just a plain ol' Kroger, but they had at least a 40 foot section of board games. I've never seen anything like this before. Right off the top of my head I can remember: Deluxe and Disney Deluxe WoF board game; Cash Cab DVD game; DoND HH, Board and tabletop game; PYL HH, AyStaFG Board, card and DVD game; Password and MDP HH game; Dont Forget Lyrics; MG Crosswords. There were more I was just shocked to see them at a Kroger. So, if you're looking for one of the "newer" home game releases out and have a Kroger nearby with a toy section they might be worth checking out. The prices on them were a little high though I thought.

^ A DVD version of Cash Cab? Hmmm, something I'll have to check out in addition to the MDP DVD game. Also, somewhat game show related, Winning Moves is releasing a card version of Scattergories. Go to www.winning-moves.com

It's already out. I saw it at a local game store about a week ago.

^ I've been looking for the Scattergories card game here in NYC. No luck so far.

The Cash Cab DVD game is news to me, and has me wondering if the OP meant to say "board" game, which I have, but bought online last summer, from Barnes and Noble.

Speaking of which, B&N's website is now listing the LINGO board game, but no details as to a release date, box art illustration, or price. It only shows that it is by Imagination Games, and is subtitled "Competitive Word Game," though they left the "p" out of "competitive."

It's legit...DVD edition. Saw it at the Toy Fair...thought I mentioned it.

Yeah it probably was the board game, the box was smaller and I saw Imagination Games and automatically thought DVD. There were so many games there it was hard to keep it all straight. I just quickly scanned everything, I had been driving two hours at that point. Sorry bout that.

/and if a Cash Cab DVD game comes out soon, then consider me a psychic.

EDIT: Just saw post above, and now it's got me thinking of what I saw...still probably was board game but that was an awfully small box.....

If the box was approximately the same size as the Merv Griffin's Crosswords game, then it likely was the board game. Otherwise, if it was even smaller, then it could have been the DVD version.

While on the subject, Pressman's website shows that a second Deluxe edition of WOF is coming soon, as well as a third edition of the traditional WOF box game. No mention of a new Jeopardy! game this year, which you'd think there would be, honoring the 25th anniversary of the current series.

I've never seen this before, but the Deluxe Wheel of Fortune game (1st Ed) is included in Pressman's "Deluxe Wooden Game Chest". It says it includes cage bingo, pewter chess, wood checkers, backgammon, Rummikub and.....Wheel of Fortune. Is it just me or is WoF kinda out of place here? I mean I know it's a good family game but usually in these sets you see more "universal" games like Tic Tac Toe, Tiddly Winks, Dominoes, some sort of card games, etc. The price on this is expensive, ranging from about $120-$150 online.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GKUD38

http://www.areyougame.com/images/large/lgPR9974-01.jpg

Rummikub is equally out of place, IMO. While a fun game, it is by no means one of the "traditional" ones.

Does Pressman have many properties left of their own?

Rummikub is older than Scrabble. Is it traditional in the way that Cribbage or Pachisi is? No, probably not. So it's probably just as well that I'm not seeing the word "traditional" anywhere in Pressman's ad copy.

(Also, if I own an IP like that, and I'm putting together a product of largely public-domain games, you bet your ass I'm going to add value by including it, especially when the components are wholly appropriate.)

Jeopardy! is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Much better than the Wheel game in terms of accuracy to the (current) show, sound, etc...includes the voice of Johnny Gilbert.

EXCEPT: Rounds consist of three categories. Doesn't hamper gameplay, though.

Probably the coolest feature of any J! game I've seen...the ability to write your name on the podium.

9 megs, 1500 A+Q's, $4.99.

I thought that with a slightly larger widescreen, they'd give you the ability to play a full game. Oh well. At $4.99, it's definitely a steal. I have a Blackberry, on which Jeopardy! costs $9.99. On top of that, there's no real SFX or music (it's all MIDI, and not good), no write your name ability, and graphics somewhere between plug and play and Super NES. So, just to recap, the iPhone has Wheel, J!, Price, MDP, and Millionaire (Family Feud, anyone?).

Just on a side note, has anybody ever gotten close to using the advertised number of questions/puzzles/words without a repeat in any computer/cell phone game? I only ask because the Blackberry version of Jeopardy, IIRC, advertised 1,000 clues, and I only got though 15 games, or 465 clues, before the game asked me to download new content (which it never does).

Grabbed Crosswords for $5 from a Walmart clearance shelf today. Actually, once you unTy it, it's not a bad little party game.

Saw the "Crosswords" PC game at a local Big Lots for $6, FYI.

Saw same said PC game as above at same said price at Half Price Books, as well as the Concentration PC game by Freeze Tag for $6.
They also had other various PC GS titles including Wheel and Jeopardy Deluxe Ed (from a few years ago), and I even saw the Millionaire Platinum Edition (3 discs: 1st Ed, 2nd Ed, Sports) from quite a few years ago. I forgot how big PC game boxes used to be until I saw that Millionaire set.

In stores now is the 2nd edition Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? box game. I saw it at a local Toys R Us this afternoon for $22. The same Toys R Us had the Newlywed Game/Match Game/Password DVD game 3-pack on clearance for $15.

Be aware that in the grand tradition of Endless Games packaging "air", that three-pack -- which looks like three separate games shrink-wrapped together -- is actually a triple-sized single box with the discs and the few playing materials rattling around inside a larger space.

It's certainly a decent deal if you want the games to play. But for those of you who might have thought (or hoped) that you were getting the three separate boxes for your collection, be advised otherwise. The fact that all three could easily fit in something a fraction of the size of ONE of the boxes is another matter entirely.

After reading about some of the stuff available at Big Lots, I went to one near me, and found the travel size version of ESPN Jeopardy! for $15!

There were a couple of differences to the one available for around $25 at most online retailers--first, it was packaged in a cardboard box, not the zip-up "attache" case; second, this one had play money instead of the colored scoring chips.

Here are some links to get a sneak peek at what are at least prototype packages of iToys new DOND and WOF games:

http://www.amazon.com/iToys-Wheel-Fortune-...508&sr=1-14

http://www.amazon.com/iToys-Deal-No-Handhe...770&sr=1-15

http://www.amazon.com/iToys-Deal-Tabletop-...770&sr=1-16

Amazon.com DOES NOT list/illustrate the tabletop Million Dollar Password game, though iToys' own website still does show it.

Andrews McMeel, which produces the Jeopardy! day-to-day calendar is apparently producing 2010 Million Dollar Password and Price is Right desk calendars as well. (All three are available at Amazon for pre-order.)

Anybody know of a release date for the Press Your Luck iPhone/Xbox/etc. games from Ludia?

They haven't made an announcement that I've seen, so I can tell you, at least with regard to the potential XBLA game: anyone who does know, couldn't tell you.

To comment on this, when it does arrive, it should be interesting. I know that the quetion bank will eventually show repeat questions, but the gameplay should be tough to duplicate. Let's face it, the questions are not really the "meat and potatoes" of the game as much as the board is.

I sincerely hope you mean "shouldn't" here, since Curt King did a damned fine job of it many many years ago with far fewer resources.

I'm sure he meant "shouldn't". When I did a PYL sim for an Anime Convention, it wasn't too bad...and no it wasn't Greggo's prog either; though I drew up the logo. Not exactly a project a "novice" should be taking on. When Chris Colbourne did the audition software for Whammy, and GSM PYL, he said it wasn't bad to do.

The problem is that the recent commercial versions of PYL, have been pure crap. They don't look good, and/or they don't play good. However, with the fine job Ludia displayed on The Price is Right release, I'm sure they will do just fine.

I used a poor choice of words and phrasing. What I meant is that it should be tough to play the same game twice. With TPiR, as much as I enjoy the game, once you run through it, you start to duplicate prizes and such. The only thing that adds a total variable is the wheel.

Yeah, Curt did a great job. I had to download it again, to give it another whirl. I played that baby like mad when he first released it.

Interesting addition to the iPhone stable...Ruota della Fortuna (Italian WoF).

$2.99. Unlicensed game, but it looks to be pretty fun (from what I can make of the description, it says the rules from the show apply).

Available on iTunes.

If it's unlicensed, I suspect it won't be for long, since the Boulder Dash clone I downloaded the other day was gone within 24 hours.

For those of you interested in the development of 1 vs. 100, 1up.com has posted a preview, including game footage. It sounds like fun. And even if it's not, who cares? It's free!

1 vs. 100 for the Xbox 360 from 1up.com

IGN, in two articles, reports that "Target and Ubisoft will come together at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, June 2–4, for an exclusive preview of the upcoming titles Press Your Luck 2010 and the all new The Price Is Right 2010...E3 attendees will be the first to experience Ubisoft's video game adaptations of the popular television game shows, which are produced by FremantleMedia North America. Created by Ludia Inc. and licensed by FremantleMedia Enterprises, these titles will be available on store shelves this fall." The second article makes mention that Family Feud 2010 is also being developed by the same team for a future release. Sadly, no word yet on Jeopardy! 1999.

So it looks like we'll have some new screenshots, videos and information on these games later in the week.

I saw the LMaD DVD game on sale at Big Lots for $5. Monty Hall's image was removed from the box art.

Joystiq has some additional commentary on the matter. (Mainly directed at Feud and PYL, though.)

Gotta love one of the comments:


PYL will probably be an instant purchase for me...TPIR and Feud, I don't know.

Heh, what made me laugh was the comment next in line after that.

I agree in that I will be interested in PYL.

Ubisoft's E3 presentation is on G4 right now. The news of the game show titles is on the bottom of the screen on the news ticker, but who knows if they will show any gameplay footage or mention these game show games during their presentation.

I saw the same LMAD dvd game plus FF and DOND for $4 each at Big Lots.

Here is a link to some screen shots from the game:
http://www.destructoid.com/e3-09-i-pressed...10-134662.phtml

Here's some pics From E3 of PYL 2010: game looks good so far!

http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-...photo_key=97741

EDIT: Here are pics of Price is Right 2010...doesn't look like much has changed, except the player models are in 3D, like PYL's.

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-09-i-played-...10-134665.phtml

Reading the description of TPiR, it seems like they're adding new games, including Safe Crackers.

The PYL game also looks very polished, including sweet new Whammy animations (of the whammy karate-kicking a bear. I'm in love).

One can only imagine what happens after that...otherwise, I think I'll be one of the first to get it when its released.

Does that remind anyone else of the Charmin bears who wipe their butts on national TV?

Both are looking great. I'm looking forward to it.