"Wheel Of Fortune" Arcade Game

[rugrats1]

At a local video arcade, they have a "Wheel Of Fortune" game that work's like this -- there's a wheel with some numbers (I think 10 to 500) and a ring of lights. A person puts a quarter in, which causes the light ring to "spin". If it lands in a "Spin Zone", the wheel spins to determine the number of tickets won.

The wheel has no Bankrupts, Free Spins or Lose-A-Turns. Also, there is no puzzle to solve -- it's more a game of chance than an actual game.

And apparently, it's official, as it bears the Califon copyright.

Anyone seen this game at their local arcades?

[whampyl03]

Saw it in vegas once.

(To be more specific, at the Circus Circus Hotel & Casino, at that Chuck E. Cheese-esque arcade.  Not to be confused with the Wheel slots, which my relatives lost about $600.00 to in that particular trip that I recall.)

[gameshowguy2000]

I've seen that game before in a few malls' arcades. And here's the site where you can learn about it:

http://www.icegame.com/GameDetail.aspx?productID=22

[familyfeudfan]

i've played that before it took $10.00 from me before i moved on to the family feud games where i won $2.00 :)

[clemon79]

There was an ACTUAL WOF video arcade game (as opposed to the ticket-redemption game described above)...GameTek made it, and it had some sort of spinner you used to spin the wheel and select letters, and an Enter button. Solve as many puzzles as you can, being allowed X misses per puzzle. I know it's in the current MAME romset, I don't know when it became available, save that it was in 0.72, since that is the set I currently have.

[parliboy]

It's been included for awhile.  It was there when they were still doing beta numbering instead of straight incrementals.

[Craig Karlberg]

If Gametek made an arcade version of WoF, I wonder if they made an arcade version of Jeopardy!?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Feb 9 2004, 02:50 AM\'] If Gametek made an arcade version of WoF, I wonder if they made an arcade version of Jeopardy!? [/quote]
 One would think if they did, it would run on the same hardware, and therefore the ROM would already have its emulation in place and be included in the same MAME sets that the WOF one exists in. No such ROM exists, so draw your own conclusious based on that.