"The Popular TV Game Show?" Perhaps Pressman was a little premmature in releasing Talkabout. To anyone who has played-is it decent?
New, still sealed Break the Bank game, from the 70s. I might have to pick this one up, especially for around $5.
Here's another one of the "who would wear this"? T-shirts...this one has the PLiNKO logo. Click here.
"Jeopardy" slide transparency, looks to be from around 1994.
Nice little lot of games..."Now You See It", the Pressman Feud, and the Cardinal Pyramid game. Not bad for $10.00..plus you get Hangman.
Charity auction for 4 "VIP TIckets" to TPiR Click Here.
Either the "Deluxe" or "Fine" edition of the Password home game from the 60s.
*sigh* More bootleg...this time it's the WML @ 25 special.
This might be of interest to Mark, and several others...Chicago TV week magazine, article on "21".

Quite. It's one of the few games in my collection that I play regularly. Hardly anyone ever remebers the TV show, of course, but everybody has a great time, ESPECIALLY with some of the more timely references that are now slightly dated.

Actually, you'd be amazed...This kind of "random 80's t-shirt" thing has actually become popular. In fact, I've even seen people wearing Double Dare shirts on TV. Yes, now I can wear a PYL shirt without feeling like a complete doof. :-D

They might have wanted to distinguish this game from Outburst, as both games have a similar concept of guessing ten words related to a certain category, and came out around the same time frame. ISTR Games Magazine reviewing Outburst around 1988 or 1989.

I always got a kick out of the rulesheet for that $25,000 Pyramid game with "THE $25,000 AND $1,000,000 PYRAMID" crossed out in black magic marker but still visible. :)

Now I wait to hear the esteemed Craig Karlberg's analysis on these ebay finds! ;)

Aww, do we have to?! :-P

We don't have to, but I always get a kick out of hearing his (what he thinks is) expert opinion. :)

Yes. I'm also looking forward to Craig's - and I'll put this in quotes - "expert opinion".

PS: If you look at the bottom of the Cardinal Pyramid box, you'll see that the entire board is done by hand - even the category cards.

That too...Not to mention, it lists either a 7-11 or Mystery 7 on the one card (can't remember which one). I always wondered if that was an option early on when they made the game that was later dropped...

For some reason, I always thought that silly Cardinal game came with small trilons that you set up in the endgame board. Wow, was I mistaken. My 11-year old self went on a unsuccessful witchhunt for that game in the early '90s!

I got a question about the NYSI game. Was the gameboard a rollsheet like concentration or did you set up your own letters? How were they able to create several gameboards?

The charity auction for "TPIR" tickets is for LA's major PBS station, KCET, which of course is mired in a pledge drive right now, as is most other PBS stations, as you can always tell when doo-wop shows and Suze Orman start showing up.

Are there any other PBS stations doing this sort of thing? Since a NFP organization I'm involved with did very well with a recent non-eBay, home-made Internet auction, it seems to me like something stations might want to pick up on.

Each game was printed on its own sheet of card stock, and you would open the appropriate window to play the main game, or the letters game. For the bonus game, you would tear off that game's card from the book and actually circle the answers on that card, while the host read the questions from the quiz book. I think it came with at least fifty games.

Exactly right. There were four entire, unique game boards for each of the fifty games. That's so much material for a MB game (not to mention high-quality questions) that I almost have to think they used material that had previously been seen on the TV show.

That's not uncommon, is it? I've got a few games ("Joker's Wild", "Break the Bank" and "WWTBAM" come to mind) where some of the questions were actually used on the show...or they're eerily similar!

Milton Bradley liked to brag about using material from the actual show on their Pyramid games. They lost a little credibility with me, though, because they dropped the punny titles from the categories.

Well, as Matt has said before (and as the owner of two versions, I totally concur with), the MB Pyramid is about as far away from an accurate representation of the show it is based on as you can get while still playing something that vaguely resembles Pyramid.

It wasn't uncommon, but it wasn't automatic either. Notoriously, the High Rollers game had a bizarrely useless quizbook that couldn't have come from the show. In at least some of the versions, Hollywood Squares questions were different. When I applied for a job at Milton Bradley in the early 80s, I was told I'd be able to write material for the few game show games left in their lineup, but by that time, most of the adaptations they were producing weren't on TV anymore.

Go ahead and mock, but listen very carefully :

I will not, IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, make any purchase on ebay without consulting THE ebay authority, Craig Karlberg.

His intelligence and commentary is profound, and a great service to us all.

I only wish that he would leave our little game show group and share his wisdom with the rest of the online world. Go! Leave now! Spread your unending wealth of internet auction knowledge, Craig! With Italians! and Chinese! Everyone! SHEESH!

WWTBAM questions did not come from the series. Questions from from that home game and the Junior Edition were wriiten by the couple who designed the game for Pressman.

If this has yet to be covered, I would like to start a thread about which home games use material from their respective series.

MB Feud definitely recycled some questions from the show, notably the "Men's names beginning with R" question depicted on the box of all eight editions.

Only semi-related; but the Sharedata "all new Family Feud" game uses questions from within the first couple months of the show.

Let's see here:

Seeing that BtB board game made me wag my tounge vigourlously. But I wonder if it's fair to pay more for shipping than it is the payment of the item. Doesn't seem right to me.

Ugh! That Plinko shirt looks ugly to me. The logo looks good, but I wouldn't use black as a color.

The TPIR auction is an intresting one. I'm sure my PBS affiliate is in the midst of its fundraiser or close to the end.

Not a bad lor of 4 games for $13, especially when Hangman is included(which, is how WOF got its format from).

Wow! 17 bids on a bootleg DVD eh? Some people will do anything to get something like that even if it's copied straight off of a VHS taoe.

ewwwww......

and sigh....didn't read a damn post after the first one....he's got a massive case of Henkeitis.

Wow!!! Matt S., you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. I took Craig's Ebay analysis for granted in the past, and I will *NEVER* do that again. I never knew that WOF got its format from Hangman!! I never thought to put two and two together. I'll never take Karlberg for granted again. SHEESH! ZORT!!!!

So that's why Wheel of Fortune was so familiar when I got on the show! It was, in essence, TELEVISED HANGMAN!

Thank goodness that's cleared up.

Ryan :)

PS - Next, someone will tell me that Hollywood Squares is based on Tic-Tac-Toe...

So that's what Tom Bergeron meant during the latter years of H2 when, while reciting the rules, he said, "It's tic tac toe".
Say! You could get a mint if you put that LUGGITURE up for auction.
I am now going to church to see if I can find a ban.

I was looking around for some Wheel stuff (No Boos please) and I found something interesting, a Wheel of Fortune goody bag, but look at what is also in the lot.

Wheel of Fortune Goody Bag