Favorite Homemade Game Show Softwares

[rebelwrest]

He didn't earn the nickname "BugJon" for nothing.

That said, though, echoing what others said, his Price is Right game was better than any computer game sold commercially.

BigJon's Wheel of Fortune was also fantastic.  Yes, I was one of those who used custom wheels to create the daytime wheel layouts.

\I did love all the options including turning off the toss-ups
\\But not that IKing feature

[SuperMatch93]

Was that Joytube?

No, I remember it being a DOS game. I'll see if I can find a link to its website on the Wayback Machine.

[Jeremy Nelson]

There was also a really good Scrabble Sprint game executed in DOS years ago. It had show-faithful graphics and was probably released somewhere around 2000.

I guess this makes me a packrat. (Run the shortcut - I bundled in DOSBox)

THANK YOU. Honestly, playing it again, I'm doubly impressed by how smooth and bug-free it was.

[TLEberle]

Jeremy:

Would you be so kind to share a couple of screen shots?

Smooth and bug free, huh? Squad goals, those.

[TLEberle]

\I did love all the options including turning off the toss-ups
\\But not that IKing feature

I remember his Whammy! game had a pile of bonus or wacky squares, but no documentation I could look up to see what "Greed" or "Beat the IRS" meant.

/I was rather put off when I made it to the end of Russian Roulette and one of the Killer Questions and one of the answers was "Circumfrence."
//and the one time that I managed to win on the final spin and the $100,000 incremented on screen $50 at a time.
///I almost really did go make a sandwich.

[cliffhanger285]

Was that Joytube?

No, I remember it being a DOS game. I'll see if I can find a link to its website on the Wayback Machine.

Looks like it was eventually released for free:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070310053320/http://home.earthlink.net/~vrflyer/spin2win.htm

[SuperMatch93]

Is Palace still active? I remember being amazed at the screenshots of the versions of SOTC and other games that people ran on there, but I never signed up for it myself.

[JasonA1]

Is Palace still active?

Yes it is! Send me a PM.

-Jason

[Jeremy Nelson]

Jeremy:

Would you be so kind to share a couple of screen shots?

Smooth and bug free, huh? Squad goals, those.

Folder below!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12A-2K4xmEDjt2TDxpBgvDn15djSKbIXi?usp=sharing

[TLEberle]

Oh that’s a beauty. Thank you sir,

[PYLdude]

I’ve said BigJon had plenty of issues with his games, and it wasn’t just the bugginess; to me there were far too many games that should’ve had a player against CPU option (Blockbusters and Bullseye especially), and he left in some errors that oughta have been caught before launch (“walwus” is not a word).

He didn't earn the nickname "BugJon" for nothing.

That said, though, echoing what others said, his Price is Right game was better than any computer game sold commercially.

I didn’t download it, but I was more partial to his Wheel of Fortune. Even if the wheel mechanism was vertical.

The games that he at least looked to have made an effort with came off pretty good. His Wheel was good, his Whammy and PYL games were decent, and I also enjoyed the Scrabble game.

[nowhammies10]

I remember his Whammy! game had a pile of bonus or wacky squares, but no documentation I could look up to see what "Greed" or "Beat the IRS" meant.

As I recall, the "Greed" space stole everyone's score and combined it into your own, e.g. if the scores are 5000|7500|12500 and Player 1 hits "Greed", the scores become 25000|0|0. I think "Beat The IRS" shaved off a percentage of your score, but I can't remember that for sure.

ObThread: I've got most, if not all, of the games that folks have created over the years. Happy to share if anyone's looking for something in particular.

[Jeremy Nelson]

\\But not that IKing feature

That was the virtual host ala Vanna in Wheel CD Rom games, right? If so, it was a nice portfolio concept.

[rebelwrest]

I remember his Whammy! game had a pile of bonus or wacky squares, but no documentation I could look up to see what "Greed" or "Beat the IRS" meant.

As I recall, the "Greed" space stole everyone's score and combined it into your own, e.g. if the scores are 5000|7500|12500 and Player 1 hits "Greed", the scores become 25000|0|0. I think "Beat The IRS" shaved off a percentage of your score, but I can't remember that for sure.

ObThread: I've got most, if not all, of the games that folks have created over the years. Happy to share if anyone's looking for something in particular.

I'll take you up on that offer.  What do you have in your inventory?

[That Don Guy]

I made one that's about as "old school" as you can get - a self-programmed version of Celebrity Sweepstakes playable on pretty much any "big iron" computer that had a Fortran compiler; this would have been back around 1975. Each position, except for #4 (always Carol Wayne, of course), had one of two random celebrities; the game was played normally, but odds were set more or less randomly and there were no actual "questions" - instead, a number from 1 to 100 was randomly chosen, and if it was greater than the celebrity's odds, they answered it correctly. (That was a serious flaw, in that the favorite would always have the correct answer if the question wasn't scratched.)