Author Topic: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents? (Read 7143 times)

Joe Mello · « **Reply #15 on:** December 28, 2006, 02:00:49 PM »

I did buy myself Card Sharks and the Donnymid game from Five Below because at the very least, they could be useful elsewhere. (My 3rd edition 20K game is missing its decoder and who couldn't use two decks of cards?)

I forgot to mention that my dad got me The Ultimate TV Game Show Book for Hanukkah. Last year, he got me the TPIR DVD game and the GS Encyclopedia the year before.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #16 on:** December 28, 2006, 03:21:41 PM »

I got the Match Game DVD. I actually had it in my hand the day it was released, but decided to wait and let someone else get it for me!

William_S. · « **Reply #17 on:** December 28, 2006, 06:47:49 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'141622\' date=\'Dec 28 2006, 12:08 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'141617\' date=\'Dec 28 2006, 10:38 AM\']
DoND DVD game (Which is so slow...)[/quote]

As if the show it's modeled on is a model of breakneck pacing.

(Yes, I'm sure you're referring to the operation of the DVD, but I couldn't resist.)
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Pardon the Train. But that sounds Like The $100,000 Pyramid DVD Game I got for Christmas. The Subjects Take for ever to show up, and after passing/Illegal clue. And you can only pick from 3 at a time (Starting at the Bottom). Not the greatest game, but it's OK every once in a while.

mrcity · « **Reply #18 on:** December 28, 2006, 06:59:20 PM »

I got the DoND board game, and a couple of Price is Right scratch-off tickets from the Texas Lottery.

Mike Tennant · « **Reply #19 on:** December 31, 2006, 06:47:05 PM »

I just got the DoND box game yesterday as a gift from my brother-in-law and his family. Surprisingly, it's actually a pretty good game to play, at least if you play with more than two people (i.e., one host and one contestant). We played with 6 people, which made for a rather long game (at least 2 hours) since each person gets to be both a host and a contestant once; I think the optimal number is probably 4. Distributing the briefcases among the players who are not the current host or contestant and letting them guess at what is in their briefcases before they are revealed keeps everyone involved and makes the game far more interesting than a simple port of the TV version (which is pretty much what the 2-player instructions describe). Also, the fact that the host has to pay the contestant out of his own money makes it more challenging. (This part is quite similar to the way both the MB and Ideal home versions of LMAD operated, which should not be surprising since DoND and LMAD are very similar concepts, as we have noted in previous threads.)

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #20 on:** January 01, 2007, 12:16:06 AM »

After too many uncomfortable years of my antique-loving mother finding old games for me that, naturally, I already had, now she just gives me cash to buy whatever I hadn't already picked up. So now I'm caught up on the DVD games. Thanks, mom.

Jay Temple · « **Reply #21 on:** January 01, 2007, 12:56:15 AM »

I got a game show for Christmas and didn't know it--even though I picked it out myself! It was one of those $1 DVD's, and it was listed on the front as "Johnny Carson and friends." There were two shows that Carson did for CBS, a Burns and Allen show and one ep of You Bet Your Life.

gsahost · « **Reply #22 on:** January 02, 2007, 07:11:27 PM »

I, too, got the Match Game DVD and TAR DVD Game.

mparrish11 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 03, 2007, 01:42:13 AM »

MG DVD Set

trainman · « **Reply #24 on:** January 03, 2007, 10:52:54 PM »

A late addition, since it just showed up today: I got "Absolutely MAD," a DVD-ROM including every MAD magazine from the beginning to December 2005. It includes a full-text search, so I know that their first mention of "The Price Is Right" was in Issue #45, in which a panel of 12 editors of college humor magazines named it the "worst regular TV show" of 1958. There is also a small Wally Wood illustration of Bill Cullen with a couple of contestants and a woman in a harem outfit.

clemon79 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 03, 2007, 11:11:43 PM »

[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'142083\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:52 PM\']
A late addition, since it just showed up today: I got "Absolutely MAD," a DVD-ROM including every MAD magazine from the beginning to December 2005.
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Broderbund tried this years ago with a multi-CD set, but the browser that came with it really sucked and the files were proprietary, so you couldn't use something else to view them if you wanted to.

Did they fix that? Are the individual files of a standard format, like a PDF?

trainman · « **Reply #26 on:** January 04, 2007, 10:57:55 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'142087\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 08:11 PM\']
[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'142083\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:52 PM\']
A late addition, since it just showed up today: I got "Absolutely MAD," a DVD-ROM including every MAD magazine from the beginning to December 2005.
[/quote]
Broderbund tried this years ago with a multi-CD set, but the browser that came with it really sucked and the files were proprietary, so you couldn't use something else to view them if you wanted to.

Did they fix that? Are the individual files of a standard format, like a PDF?
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Yep, they're PDFs. Therefore, the DVD works in my Mac, unlike the Broderbund set.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #27 on:** December 30, 2009, 12:37:27 PM »

Reviving this thread: I got the 1 vs 100 box game this Christmas. Haven't played it yet but it looks quite fun and fairly true to the show.

Anyone else get anything?

clemon79 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 30, 2009, 01:59:21 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'233191\' date=\'Dec 30 2009, 09:37 AM\']but it looks quite fun and fairly true to the show.[/quote]
"For 101 Players"

Jay Temple · « **Reply #29 on:** December 30, 2009, 03:14:36 PM »

I got a four-disc set, Classic Game Shows & More. w00t! Tangentially related, I also got a stack of blank DVD's.

Author Topic: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents? (Read 7143 times)

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