[quote name=\'bwood\' date=\'Jun 22 2005, 10:36 AM\']The game is now available at GameStop. I bought my copy at one in Columbus Ohio last Friday.
First things first, as with most of the TV games, don't be fooled by the so called "screenshots" on the back and what you saw on the net. The images are not that crisp and clean. They look to be about 8 bit and that's really the only thing that's wrong, but I know since everything is self contained it would be hard to use better graphics, I just wish they wouldn't have presented them the wrong way. At first it was a real dissapointment to me, but I've learned to accept it. Your drawings look ok, it's just the border around them and the score recaps.
The drawing pad works really well. There are 3 game modes, easy, med., hard. Learning to look at the TV as you draw is challenging at first, but gets easier after a while. You press down harder to draw and to move your pen, you just tap where you want it to go and it doesn't make a mark.
The LCD screen is not like the one shown in the pic (like the puzzleboard to the 95' Tiger WoF handheld) it is actually improved upon (dot matrix made from squares).
The game has two rounds. The drawing round (you pic 5, 10, or 15 rounds at the start of the game). And the quick draw round (90 seconds to draw as many pics as you can correctly). Whoever's in the lead after Quick Draw wins as in the show. The scoring system is odd, you have one minute and when you get the drawing correct and press the button, you score however many seconds are left on the clock. The quick draw round has set scoring per pic, but it depends on what mode you play as to how much it's worth.
I haven't played it in a "party" setting yet, but plan to. I've had words like "Beethoven" and "Pharoh" in easy mode but I pulled it off.
The game came with a leaflet that boasts a new console called "The Perfect Mate" which is kind of a NG/DG hybrid, or so it seems. I emailed Senario and it's due out Aug./Sept. along with "The Apprentice" and "WWTBAM".
The games not too bad. It is worth the $29.99 for us game show fans. I'm just happy these companies have finally started making game show TV games.
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Thank you for the info. I've looked at various outlets in my area, and haven't found one yet.
It doesn't surprise me that the quality of the graphics appears to be "8-bit," since the current line of Jakks Pacific games I've seen in stores appear that way themselves. I guess the Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune video games from JP are going to have similar quality graphics to them.
While on the subject, I saw some new information on TWO Jakks Pacific games. First, at their own site, they mention this week, about extending their agreement with Fremantle Media, in creating expansions for their Family Feud line of video games, coming out in 2006.
Meanwhile, over at amazon.com, the release date of WOF, has been pushed back to November, but there is mention of the Jeopardy TV game being available online only, and ships in 2 to 3 days. I doubt that is correct, since JP still says "coming soon."
