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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: mcsittel on September 10, 2006, 08:56:23 PM
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Just thinking nostalgically... do you remember your first home game?
For me it was the 2nd edition Price is Right, circa 1976. I think the 19th edition Concentration got the most use though. I can remember being disappointed to never be able to find games like Password Plus and Blockbusters in our local toy store/Kmart... for those a few years older, were they widely available?
Matt
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The Hollywood Squares home game in 1980, even though I was all of 5 at the time. A few years later, I got the 25th edition of Concentration for Christmas despite having never seen the show at the time. (What can I say? My parents had good taste.)
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Since I'm only sixteen, mine aren't spectacular. But my first home games were the original Wheel of Fortune NES game and Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary board game.
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1976 would make it the 3rd (and rarer) edition.
My first game IIRC was the 2nd edition of Wheel of Fortune (Pressman).
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[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'130942\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 08:56 PM\']
Just thinking nostalgically... do you remember your first home game?
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Yes. Yes, I do.
It was Password.
For my wife, it was The Newlywed Game. It was a wedding gift for us.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'130947\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 09:18 PM\']
My first game IIRC was the 2nd edition of Wheel of Fortune (Pressman).
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Same here. Pressman WOF, 2nd edition.
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Christmas 92, I got the new Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! games from Tyco. Boy, I was a lucky kid.
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I have an 8mm home movie of getting a Concentration home game for Christmas when I was three and a half years old. I've picked up a few more since then.
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One of either the Deluxe Wheel of Fortune or the high-falutin' Price Is Right home games, both from the mid-'80s. I played Wheel to death, and hardly touched Price.
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I probably got my first ones when I was about 5 (in the mid-60's LOL), it was Password and Concentration. I don't remember which versions.
Don
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I got a 3rd edition TPIR and a Concentration game. I remember it was a 3rd edition because it had it's version of the wheel in it, that all the different cardboard numbers for every different game.
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[quote name=\'gwarman2005\' post=\'130969\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 08:08 PM\']
I got a 3rd edition TPIR and a Concentration game. I remember it was a 3rd edition because it had it's version of the wheel in it, that all the different cardboard numbers for every different game.
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First or second didn't have those? I had one of the 70's Price home games, too, and I remember that being in there. The Showcase Showdown wheel was my favorite part. (Okay, behind Shell Game.)
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I think the first one I had was $10,000 Pyramid. It began a long line of disappointments due to variations from the TV format. The most egregious is that the Winner's Circle played like another round of the main game, describing things rather than guessing categories.
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My grandparents got me a Concentration home game for Christmas, the month before I turned four. That would have made it Christmas of 1960. I remember that the rebus on the box was "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too". It was probably the second edition, but I couldn't be sure of that.
Yup, I was into game shows as soon as I knew what they were! And I was good at guessing the puzzles, too.
The only thing thing that disappointed me (and not all that strongly) was that it didn't have swiveling trilons to reveal the prizes and puzzles. LOL!
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I really want to say it was TPiR from 1986. Either that, High Rollers 1987 or the mid-80s Wheel (regular edition).
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When I was five, I got the Video Village game. I thought it was very cool at the time, particularly the turning dice cage...
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When I was about 11, we all got three at once: Password, Jeopardy! and The Hollywood Squares. Believe it or not, Squares is the only one of the three--and the only toy from my childhood, period--to survive into adulthood without either being thrown away, destroyed by my younger brother or sold at a yard sale.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'130971\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 10:09 PM\']
[quote name=\'gwarman2005\' post=\'130969\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 08:08 PM\']
I got a 3rd edition TPIR and a Concentration game. I remember it was a 3rd edition because it had it's version of the wheel in it, that all the different cardboard numbers for every different game.
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First or second didn't have those? I had one of the 70's Price home games, too, and I remember that being in there. The Showcase Showdown wheel was my favorite part. (Okay, behind Shell Game.)
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Shell Game was in the 3rd edition. That was the only MB edition the wheel was in.
The other two did have those small cardboard thingies tho.
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After having so much fun playing it at a friend's house, my first game show home game was an Easter gift (which was rare..I didn't get anything (besides candy) very often) - for Easter 1981, the 4th edition of "Family Feud".
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My first game show board game was Sale of the Century which came with a buzzer system called Quizzard. Anyone remember this one? Five decks of prize cards: $5 Instant Bargains, $10 Bargains, $15 Bargains, Fame Game, and Winner's Prize. Because of this show, I taught myself to use the VCR to tape it everyday to watch when I came home from school. One time, I accidentally taped over one of my school band concerts, which made my mom pretty mad, but also made her realize that the board game might be a good present. Unfortunately, I didn't really have anybody to play it with, and I was only 10 at the time, so the game is long gone.
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The Junior version of wheel of fortune, circa October 1989. Junior Jeopardy! came in around Christmas '89 as well. I kept the Junior! game throughout my childhood (and the three years of my adulthood too).
Oddly enough, I thought I could interchange the junior board with the newer answer/question set, when all I could actually use was both the blue board and the red one (to alternate rounds...pretty weird considering that was 3 years ago).
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[quote name=\'geno57\' post=\'130975\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 10:22 PM\']
My grandparents got me a Concentration home game for Christmas, the month before I turned four. That would have made it Christmas of 1960. I remember that the rebus on the box was "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too". It was probably the second edition, but I couldn't be sure of that.
Yup, I was into game shows as soon as I knew what they were! And I was good at guessing the puzzles, too.
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Good Grief! And here I thought I'd be the first one here to claim that my first was that same Second Edition under the family Christmas tree in 1960! I loved that Schaper-green (my name for that color plastic even though MB made the game) frame--the only edition to use that color. As for the rebus on the box cover, my five-year-old mind tried to decipher it as "Tie-Puh-Wastebasket-????-Ler-Ribbon"
Not long after that, I got the Video Village home game, and, in order to make the at-home play experience more like the show, I took one of the $20 bills and wrote "Village Bus" on the back of it in black magic marker, then at the game's end I put the two plastic people on it and pulled on the bill to take them back to start while singing the Village Bus song. My sister used to make up whacked-out lyrics to that song when she sang it.
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Mine was "Shenanigans." when I was five. The home game was so colorful, I was surprised to later learn the show itself was always in B&W.
My parents pretty much took the MB age recommendation literally, so if a game was for 10 and up, they wouldn't get it for me.
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The first home game I played was a Concentration game(not sure what edition it was). I played it at my uncle Jimmy's house either in the late 60's or early 70's. That became one of the first 2 games that I had. The other one was probably a mid 60's edition of Password. I played that one at my cousin Neal's house. The first home game that I truly bought was the nid 80's Pressman WoF edition. I got it in the summer of 1986 while visiting my brother Eric who was in California at the time.
As to $otC, yes I do remember the Quizzard as well as the other components of the game. That was my favoritte of the home games in my collection for many years.
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Wow. No clue. It seems pretty likely it was a Concentration, but I suspect it was a much later edition than Mr. O's. (I came a little late to this party, but made up for lost time rapidly.) I think the one I was most excited about was the arrival of the first New Price is Right--and, shortly thereafter, it was the most disappointing. Pricing games without real prices: what a concept!
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Believe it or not, Squares is the only one of the three--and the only toy from my childhood, period--to survive into adulthood without either being thrown away, destroyed by my younger brother or sold at a yard sale.
Same here! The Squares game I've got is still near mint to this day. The 2nd edition of The New Price is Right is I got in the '70s is barely noticable now! (I'm not sure how it got that way as I've always been very careful to keep things as close to mint as possible).
I think the first I got was either Concentration or Beat the Clock. For the record, both of those are still near mint too!
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Mine was the 1987 "High Rollers" board game.
I got it when I was 4; I had no idea it was even a game show when I got it.
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Old guy - old game. My first was Lowell's Beat The Clock..a gift from grandmother at age 5. And it was about 5 days before I got curious about the timer, and you can guess the rest...
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'130971\' date=\'Sep 10 2006, 10:09 PM\']
First or second didn't have those? I had one of the 70's Price home games, too, and I remember that being in there. The Showcase Showdown wheel was my favorite part. (Okay, behind Shell Game.)
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I had the 1st and 3rd editions but was bummed because I missed 2nd, with Mystery Price and Double Digits, the exotic games they stopped playing. If they'd had the Shower Game, oh heavens. One of only two times I saw my first grade teacher mad was when I was playing TPIR with Jackie Davis during reading time.
My first games, though, were Concentration and Beat the Clock. I must've received three different copies of Concentration during my youth because I always lost the number tiles.
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'131039\' date=\'Sep 11 2006, 08:20 AM\']
One of only two times I saw my first grade teacher mad was when I was playing TPIR with Jackie Davis during reading time.
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Is THAT what they called it those days? :)
I must've received three different copies of Concentration during my youth because I always lost the number tiles.
I always managed to tear the puzzle scroll.
(Tape? What's tape?) :)
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I can't remember how old I was, but I believe it was before I was 10 (that year was 1974) when I received Concentration. I also enjoyed trying to figure out the puzzle but not understanding the solution at times. I also received The Hollywood Squares too, and I remember being upset that the TV/movie stars from the show was not on the box. The box had animated people on it instead. That did not diminish the fact that I liked the game. I can't remember which versions of the games I got.
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Family Feud 3rd edition (MB) for Xmas 1979.
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I wasn't into game shows hard core until my early teens. I know my first game was Wheel of Fortune...from probably 87 or 88. The second was Hollywood Squares...from around the same time. I bought them both with my own money as I recall and I still have 'em! ;)
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The 2 earliest recollections were around '71 or '72. They were "Password" and "Concentration", but I don't remember which one I got first.
I remember being a little upset on the "Concentration" game because on the box cover, the number squares were blue (my favorite color ath the time), but inside the plastic number tabs were white numbers on *red* squares.
I don't think I ever played the Password game as it was meant to be played. At the time, I was more fascinated on the wallets with the little red windows.
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My first was either Password Plus (1st edition) or Concentration (22nd edition). Both of those came out at roughly the same time, so it's hard to say which one I got first. I recall being stumped by the first Concentration rebus, "Cigar Store Indian," because, as a kid in 1979-80, it was not a phrase I had ever had much reason to hear.
I later rid myself of both games in a fit of game-closet cleaning, only to acquire the first two editions of P+ and the first edition of Concentration (complete with Christmas gift tag to some kid named Jim inside) from eBay many years later.
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My first games were Concentration and Password around 1970 (I was 10 at the time). My Mom gave them to me ... and I've been hosting game shows at home (and a few other places) ever since then! I went from writing out Cross Wits puzzles on chalkboard to a box for the $25,000 Pyramid complete with Christmas lights to Press Your Luck programmed on an IBM PCjr to Computer Game Shows today!
Eric
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Jeopardy 2nd edition, Password 7th edition, Eye Guess 2nd edition (I think), and Concentration 10th edition, probably in that order. All before I graduated from kindergarten in June 1968.
Thanks to Matt Ottinger's page, I pieced some of these memories together (can't believe I remember what the boxes looked like).
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At the tender age of four I received the Second Edition of Concentration .
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Mine was the future collectors dream come true....or would that be nightmare....I was in a 'dime store' with my grandparents and there facing me were Price is Right and Match Game...I could only have one....I chose TPIR, brought it home and within a day or so it was completely screwed up by my little brother....had I known then what I know now I would have knocked him senseless for that...even though he was just a kid.
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[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'131171\' date=\'Sep 11 2006, 09:56 PM\']
Jeopardy 2nd edition, Password 7th edition, Eye Guess 2nd edition (I think), and Concentration 10th edition, probably in that order. All before I graduated from kindergarten in June 1968.
Thanks to Matt Ottinger's page, I pieced some of these memories together (can't believe I remember what the boxes looked like).
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I have to concur with Curt... all those were floating around our house in the 60's (Mom and Dad must have somehow known), and we also received not one, but TWO copies of the "Eye Guess" home game one Christmas. (The one with the fake-looking logo that looked nothing like the real "Eye Guess" logo.)
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'131354\' date=\'Sep 13 2006, 07:02 AM\']
I have to concur with Curt... all those were floating around our house in the 60's (Mom and Dad must have somehow known), and we also received not one, but TWO copies of the "Eye Guess" home game one Christmas. (The one with the fake-looking logo that looked nothing like the real "Eye Guess" logo.)
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Seeing as how you and Robair are both huge game show fans......Did you two play a lot of home games together "back in the day"?
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For me, it was one of 3 games... can't remember which came first. It was either a second-hand copy of the late 70s Tic Tac Dough, Wheel of Fortune Jr. Edition, or a secondhand Password. Can't remember the year, but the decoders were blue plastic (not like the leatherette of other editions).
Greg
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I remember being upset when seeing the NBC bookshelf box games at a friend's house and wondering why our local NBC station didn't carry "Rhyme Time," etc.
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the only toy from my childhood, period--to survive into adulthood without either being thrown away, destroyed by my younger brother or sold at a yard sale.
Are you sure we're not related?
It's a good thing I never owned the Hope Diamond as a kid or my mother would have given it to my aunt who would have sold it at a garage sale for $20. Then some jackass from Palo Alto would be going around bragging about how he bought the Hope Diamond (which used to belong to ME) for $20 at a garage sale. At least my mother could have waited until my corpse was cold before she started to liquidate my estate :-P
(True story: there was once a garage sale in Palo Alto where someone, not knowing the value of the merchandise in their possession, sold a lamp for $50. The buyer of the lamp took it to an antique appraiser who determined that it was a genuine Tiffany lamp worth a couple of thousand dollars. This story is courtesy of my aunt the garage sale maven, who was not the seller of the lamp.)
ObGameShows: Kenny Williams and his wife used to own an antique store in Santa Monica, California. I'll bet they knew the true value of a Tiffany lamp ;-)
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Coming in late here...
[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'131039\' date=\'Sep 11 2006, 11:20 AM\']
I had the 1st and 3rd editions [of Price] but was bummed because I missed 2nd, with Mystery Price and Double Digits, the exotic games they stopped playing. If they'd had the Shower Game, oh heavens.
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If it makes you feel any better, the 2nd edition had Double Prices. Double Digits has never been in a home game.
And Shower Game didn't come around until 1978, anyway, so that would have been sorta hard. ;-)