OK, maybe it won't be remotely fun but I figured what the hey.
I was at Matt O's home game page today looking at the catalog ad for the Tattletales game that never was, and one of the things I noticed was a delibrate effort to make the game look like part of the show's set, which I thought was nice for, well, atmosphere I guess.
It got me thinking and I came up with a small list...Game show home games where the included game pieces looked something like the actual show. But first, what doesn't count? Game pieces that absolutely had to look like what they were modeled after; Wheel of Fortune's wheel wouldn't count for example, because that's a neccesity, but the puzzle board included in the 1980s version would get a nod because it didn't have to look like the board from the show, but it did anyway.
Here's what I conjured up:
Password Plus (puzzle board)
The Joker's Wild ("Joker Machine" for lack of a better term)
Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! ("Joker Machine")
The Price is Right (all but the 1999 edition had good recreations of the game designs)
High Rollers 1974 (Numbers board)
Jeopardy! 1999 (Gameboard was a necessity, but designing the slides to look like monitors was a great "extra" from Parker Bros.' design department)
The $10,000 Pyramid (Winner's Circle board)
Wheel of Fortune 1980s (forementioned puzzle board)
Family Feud (game board for all pre-1998 editions)
