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mcsittel · « **on:** September 10, 2006, 08:56:23 PM »

Just thinking nostalgically... do you remember your first home game?

For me it was the 2nd edition Price is Right, circa 1976. I think the 19th edition Concentration got the most use though. I can remember being disappointed to never be able to find games like Password Plus and Blockbusters in our local toy store/Kmart... for those a few years older, were they widely available?

Matt

MikeK · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2006, 09:12:36 PM »

The Hollywood Squares home game in 1980, even though I was all of 5 at the time. A few years later, I got the 25th edition of Concentration for Christmas despite having never seen the show at the time. (What can I say? My parents had good taste.)

chad1m · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2006, 09:17:57 PM »

Since I'm only sixteen, mine aren't spectacular. But my first home games were the original Wheel of Fortune NES game and Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary board game.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2006, 09:18:08 PM »

1976 would make it the 3rd (and rarer) edition.

My first game IIRC was the 2nd edition of Wheel of Fortune (Pressman).

Don Howard · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2006, 09:20:01 PM »

[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'130942\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 08:56 PM\']
Just thinking nostalgically... do you remember your first home game?
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Yes. Yes, I do.
It was Password.
For my wife, it was The Newlywed Game. It was a wedding gift for us.

Gus · « **Reply #5 on:** September 10, 2006, 09:37:34 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'130947\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 09:18 PM\']
My first game IIRC was the 2nd edition of Wheel of Fortune (Pressman).
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Same here. Pressman WOF, 2nd edition.

Jeremy Nelson · « **Reply #6 on:** September 10, 2006, 10:02:45 PM »

Christmas 92, I got the new Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! games from Tyco. Boy, I was a lucky kid.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #7 on:** September 10, 2006, 10:02:48 PM »

I have an 8mm home movie of getting a Concentration home game for Christmas when I was three and a half years old. I've picked up a few more since then.

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #8 on:** September 10, 2006, 10:45:55 PM »

One of either the Deluxe Wheel of Fortune or the high-falutin' Price Is Right home games, both from the mid-'80s. I played Wheel to death, and hardly touched Price.

KWJCDon · « **Reply #9 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:01:24 PM »

I probably got my first ones when I was about 5 (in the mid-60's LOL), it was Password and Concentration. I don't remember which versions.

Don

gwarman2005 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:08:00 PM »

I got a 3rd edition TPIR and a Concentration game. I remember it was a 3rd edition because it had it's version of the wheel in it, that all the different cardboard numbers for every different game.

clemon79 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:09:33 PM »

[quote name=\'gwarman2005\' post=\'130969\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 08:08 PM\']
I got a 3rd edition TPIR and a Concentration game. I remember it was a 3rd edition because it had it's version of the wheel in it, that all the different cardboard numbers for every different game.
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First or second didn't have those? I had one of the 70's Price home games, too, and I remember that being in there. The Showcase Showdown wheel was my favorite part. (Okay, behind Shell Game.)

Jay Temple · « **Reply #12 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:16:11 PM »

I think the first one I had was $10,000 Pyramid. It began a long line of disappointments due to variations from the TV format. The most egregious is that the Winner's Circle played like another round of the main game, describing things rather than guessing categories.

geno57 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:22:35 PM »

My grandparents got me a Concentration home game for Christmas, the month before I turned four. That would have made it Christmas of 1960. I remember that the rebus on the box was "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too". It was probably the second edition, but I couldn't be sure of that.

Yup, I was into game shows as soon as I knew what they were! And I was good at guessing the puzzles, too.

The only thing thing that disappointed me (and not all that strongly) was that it didn't have swiveling trilons to reveal the prizes and puzzles. LOL!

BrandonFG · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2006, 11:27:58 PM »

I really want to say it was TPiR from 1986. Either that, High Rollers 1987 or the mid-80s Wheel (regular edition).