Didn't see this on Matt O's website, and I don't recall seeing it before, but apparently there's a DVD set featuring the best of Oblivious.
I love things like this...its a poem about the kids from Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. This VERY RARE (seller's words, not mine) collectible can be yours for just 99¢.
An advertisment congratulating Janice for 19 years on TPiR.
Nice 7x9 photo of Joe Garagiola on the set of Sale of the Century. First time I've ever seen a pic of it.
Fairly sure, but not certain that this is just a knockoff, but here's a 1954 Cadaco game called Quiz Panel.
Window Shopping game by Lowell. $24.95...game looks to be in good condition, but looks the game did see play. One of Matt O's ten rarest.
Not an actual game show game, but one that Match Game fans may enjoy. This is called Punch Line ad features fill-in-the-blank type statements.
Wheel of Fortune contestant pin. Only 99 cents!
Working MB Omni Entertainment system. Includes Password Plus.
Don't recall coming across this one often either...its the Make a Face home game. For the same price, you can also get Seven Keys and Your First Impression.
Harder to find $50,000 Pyramid game.
A lot of this appeared unpunched...Diamond Head home game. Sorry, Chris Lemon, Jane Nelson not included.

That photo of the original S.O.T.C was from when they switched formats to have couples. It appears in The Ultimate TV Game Shows Book, which I own.

Huh?

/came for the Monkey Volcano
//leaving disappointed

Aw, crap. I got you confused with Don Howard. Certainly it isn't the first time...

In any event, my apologies.

Just an observation I made:

The seller of the SoTC pic says it was dated 1956... Uh... do we have a discrepancy here? I'm pretty sure the original version of the show started in the very late 60's (like 68 or 69) and ended in the early 70's (like 73 or 74)? Have I just read a bunch of info about the show wrong, or does the seller have a mistake on his end? :P

1969-74, I can't figure out any numbers close to that which could make that look like a typo, and also fit in the original run of the show (1967, '78, '65, '76, etc.). I'm wondering if the seller wants to make the photo seem more rare than it already is?

He's got it right in the title. I think he probably just uses a stock paragraph and didn't change every variable.

Nice finds, Modor. Make a Face isn't that rare. I have two. (Yes, that make me two-faced)

I've interacted with the Omni gaming system...there is a reason why no one remembers it.

Would be interested to see how P+ is played on it, but not $30 interested.

Has anyone here played this?

-Jason

What's crazy is that Hasbro's site STILL has the Omni Manual for download:

http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Omni...ment_System.PDF

Wow, that's actually pretty creepy.

There's a Railroad Salvage around here that still sells score pads for certain Omni games (as well as pads for a machine called Scrabble Sensor, which was apparently just a chromed-up electronic Hangman.)

...as well as $10,000 Pyramid, Family Feud, Concentration and Price Is Right. No Password or Password Plus, though.

Josh

Had nothing to do with chrome and everything to do with alphanumeric displays still being really expensive then.

Line of the day.

No.

Yes.

What, you think these things just take up space in my closet? OK, yes, they do, but some of the weirder ones I have to try.

OMNI is always the clue giver, so all the players ever do is guess. As with the actual game, there are Passwords that have to be guessed, which in turn serve as clues to the bigger Puzzle. For each Password there are up to three clues given by OMNI, and each Puzzle only has three clue Passwords instead of five.

Players type in their responses. Everybody guesses on each clue, there's no taking turns and there is no penalty for an incorrect guess. A correctly solved Password scores three points if it was off the first clue, two points off the second and one point off the third and final clue.

Once a Password is guessed correctly, the player (or players, since there could be more than one) gets the chance to try and guess the answer to the Puzzle. If the Puzzle is solved, points are scored based on how many Passwords it took. Fifteen off the first, ten off the second and five off the third. If no one gets it after three clues, all players participate in a "last chance" guess worth five points.

High score after three Puzzles wins. As I recall, the quality of the clue material was just awful. If the Password was "CAT", the first clue would be something impossibly generic like "ANIMAL". So mostly it was just a great big guessing game.