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Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: chad1m on December 27, 2006, 12:17:37 PM
Did anyone here get anything game-related for the holidays? I got a few things: The Wheel of Fortune Deluxe board game (pretty fun), Deal or No Deal PC game (Highly recommended, nice job with everything), the Family Feud PC game (pretty much a piece) and a Jeopardy! 2007 day calendar.

What did everyone else receive?
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: aaron sica on December 27, 2006, 12:20:06 PM
I got the DVD 3-pack of LMaD, Feud, and DoND - haven't had a chance to try them yet. Monty Hall looks very old on the box of LMaD!
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: vtown7 on December 27, 2006, 12:28:22 PM
I was lucky enough to receive a DoND board game and the Amazing Race DVD Board game.

Ryan :)

/Yes, I know, technically the industry calls TAR a reality show but I don't necessarily subscribe to that.
//This is my first time doing slashes and I think it will be one of my last...
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: cweaver on December 27, 2006, 12:37:32 PM
I got the Match Game DVD from a loving daughter who scoured three counties to search for it, and when she still couldn't find it, ordered it online.

I think she's getting that Ipod she wants for her birthday.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: aaron sica on December 27, 2006, 12:48:18 PM
[quote name=\'cweaver\' post=\'141551\' date=\'Dec 27 2006, 12:37 PM\']
I got the Match Game DVD from a loving daughter who scoured three counties to search for it, and when she still couldn't find it, ordered it online.

I think she's getting that Ipod she wants for her birthday.
[/quote]

I would imagine that the MG DVD might have been under a lot of our trees this year, unless one (like me!) grew impatient to wait until Christmas and got it when it came out.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Jimmy Owen on December 27, 2006, 12:51:53 PM
I got a hand-held DoND game and a WOF plug and play game.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: KrisW73 on December 27, 2006, 01:21:33 PM
I received the DoND board game and PC game
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: gwarman2005 on December 27, 2006, 06:13:58 PM
My wife and my mother outdid themselves this year.  They scoured eBay and got me all this swag...

- TPIR stainless travelling coffee cup
- TPIR hat
- TPIR black polo shirt
- TPIR denim jacket
- TPIR DVD Game
- DoND tabletop electronic game

They know me so well. :)
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: tpirfan28 on December 27, 2006, 07:56:32 PM
The DoND handheld game

and...

the $100,000 DVD Game.  (Scathing review coming sometime....)

/For those who haven't watched the credits of that game, you can tell the designers HAD good intentions, except they went south.  Screencap coming soon...
//Match Game DVD coming with Best Buy gift cards received. :)
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Joe Mello on December 27, 2006, 08:08:49 PM
I may be getting myself the Card Sharks board game from the local Five Below

The DoND card game also keeps catching my eye.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: PYLdude on December 28, 2006, 01:00:46 AM
I got the DOND handheld...pretty nice little game.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Doug on December 28, 2006, 02:37:06 AM
Deal or No Deal plug and play game
Deal or No Deal PC game
Unused Ticket & Playbill to Jeopardy!'s 2002 $1,000,000 masters game, and 2006's Celebrity Jeopardy
The Amazing Race DVD game
And about 10 old game show board games (1950's-1970's)
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Craig Karlberg on December 28, 2006, 03:30:08 AM
I got the LMAD DVD game & the DoND PC game.  The PC game was a subsitute for the DVD version that I asked for because the DVD game got negative reviews as far as awkward glitches & such accirding to my sister-in-law.  Hence, the PC game.  I'll need to get installation privilages back first before I can play it(minor issue there).  Maybe I'll get a chance to experiment with the LMAD DVD game later this week because right now, it's kinda busy with the transition from Christmas to New Year's in full effect.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: PYLW on December 28, 2006, 11:38:17 AM
LMaD DVD game
TPiR DVD game
DoND DVD game (Which is so slow...)
Newlywed Game DVD game
$100,000 Pyramid DVD game
Family Feud second edition DVD game
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: uncamark on December 28, 2006, 12:08:24 PM
[quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'141617\' date=\'Dec 28 2006, 10:38 AM\']
DoND DVD game (Which is so slow...)[/quote]

As if the show it's modeled on is a model of breakneck pacing.

(Yes, I'm sure you're referring to the operation of the DVD, but I couldn't resist.)
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Joe Mello on December 28, 2006, 02:00:49 PM
I did buy myself Card Sharks and the Donnymid game from Five Below because at the very least, they could be useful elsewhere.  (My 3rd edition 20K game is missing its decoder and who couldn't use two decks of cards?)

I forgot to mention that my dad got me The Ultimate TV Game Show Book for Hanukkah.  Last year, he got me the TPIR DVD game and the GS Encyclopedia the year before.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Ian Wallis on December 28, 2006, 03:21:41 PM
I got the Match Game DVD.  I actually had it in my hand the day it was released, but decided to wait and let someone else get it for me!  :)
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: William_S. on December 28, 2006, 06:47:49 PM
[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'141622\' date=\'Dec 28 2006, 12:08 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'141617\' date=\'Dec 28 2006, 10:38 AM\']
DoND DVD game (Which is so slow...)[/quote]

As if the show it's modeled on is a model of breakneck pacing.

(Yes, I'm sure you're referring to the operation of the DVD, but I couldn't resist.)
[/quote]
Pardon the Train. But that sounds Like The $100,000 Pyramid DVD Game I got for Christmas. The Subjects Take for ever to show up, and after passing/Illegal clue.  And you can only pick from 3 at a time (Starting at the Bottom). Not the greatest game, but it's OK every once in a while.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: mrcity on December 28, 2006, 06:59:20 PM
I got the DoND board game, and a couple of Price is Right scratch-off tickets from the Texas Lottery.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Mike Tennant on December 31, 2006, 06:47:05 PM
I just got the DoND box game yesterday as a gift from my brother-in-law and his family.  Surprisingly, it's actually a pretty good game to play, at least if you play with more than two people (i.e., one host and one contestant).  We played with 6 people, which made for a rather long game (at least 2 hours) since each person gets to be both a host and a contestant once; I think the optimal number is probably 4.  Distributing the briefcases among the players who are not the current host or contestant and letting them guess at what is in their briefcases before they are revealed keeps everyone involved and makes the game far more interesting than a simple port of the TV version (which is pretty much what the 2-player instructions describe).  Also, the fact that the host has to pay the contestant out of his own money makes it more challenging.  (This part is quite similar to the way both the MB and Ideal home versions of LMAD operated, which should not be surprising since DoND and LMAD are very similar concepts, as we have noted in previous threads.)
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Matt Ottinger on January 01, 2007, 12:16:06 AM
After too many uncomfortable years of my antique-loving mother finding old games for me that, naturally, I already had, now she just gives me cash to buy whatever I hadn't already picked up.  So now I'm caught up on the DVD games.  Thanks, mom.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Jay Temple on January 01, 2007, 12:56:15 AM
I got a game show for Christmas and didn't know it--even though I picked it out myself! It was one of those $1 DVD's, and it was listed on the front as "Johnny Carson and friends." There were two shows that Carson did for CBS, a Burns and Allen show and one ep of You Bet Your Life.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: gsahost on January 02, 2007, 07:11:27 PM
I, too, got the Match Game DVD and TAR DVD Game.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: mparrish11 on January 03, 2007, 01:42:13 AM
MG DVD Set
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: trainman on January 03, 2007, 10:52:54 PM
A late addition, since it just showed up today:  I got "Absolutely MAD," a DVD-ROM including every MAD magazine from the beginning to December 2005.  It includes a full-text search, so I know that their first mention of "The Price Is Right" was in Issue #45, in which a panel of 12 editors of college humor magazines named it the "worst regular TV show" of 1958.  There is also a small Wally Wood illustration of Bill Cullen with a couple of contestants and a woman in a harem outfit.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: clemon79 on January 03, 2007, 11:11:43 PM
[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'142083\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:52 PM\']
A late addition, since it just showed up today:  I got "Absolutely MAD," a DVD-ROM including every MAD magazine from the beginning to December 2005.
[/quote]
Broderbund tried this years ago with a multi-CD set, but the browser that came with it really sucked and the files were proprietary, so you couldn't use something else to view them if you wanted to.

Did they fix that? Are the individual files of a standard format, like a PDF?
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: trainman on January 04, 2007, 10:57:55 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'142087\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 08:11 PM\']
[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'142083\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:52 PM\']
A late addition, since it just showed up today:  I got "Absolutely MAD," a DVD-ROM including every MAD magazine from the beginning to December 2005.
[/quote]
Broderbund tried this years ago with a multi-CD set, but the browser that came with it really sucked and the files were proprietary, so you couldn't use something else to view them if you wanted to.

Did they fix that? Are the individual files of a standard format, like a PDF?
[/quote]

Yep, they're PDFs.  Therefore, the DVD works in my Mac, unlike the Broderbund set.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Ian Wallis on December 30, 2009, 12:37:27 PM
Reviving this thread:  I got the 1 vs 100 box game this Christmas.  Haven't played it yet but it looks quite fun and fairly true to the show.

Anyone else get anything?
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: clemon79 on December 30, 2009, 01:59:21 PM
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'233191\' date=\'Dec 30 2009, 09:37 AM\']but it looks quite fun and fairly true to the show.[/quote]
"For 101 Players"
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Jay Temple on December 30, 2009, 03:14:36 PM
I got a four-disc set, Classic Game Shows & More. w00t! Tangentially related, I also got a stack of blank DVD's.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Thunder on December 30, 2009, 03:39:03 PM
I got the home version of Russian Roulette!



/More likely used for deer hunting.
//And not the "Deer Hunter" movie.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: tpirfan28 on December 30, 2009, 03:45:53 PM
TPIR 2010 desk calendar.

/Best Buy gift cards this year?  1TB hard drive for the media center PC
//Soon to be tape dubbing machine too...eventually
///Did get MG DVD with the cards mentioned previous
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: LetsGoMets2003 on December 30, 2009, 04:33:35 PM
I got the Johnny O. book from a certain someone on here, ( ;-) ) and highly reccomend it.

I also picked up Barker's and Howie Mandel's new books. They'll be good light reading for the car trips coming up.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: vtown7 on December 30, 2009, 07:34:00 PM
In a roundabout way, I got something GS related - a zorbing gift certificate (as seen in Amazing Race, Season Five)

Ryan :)

/and my other gift is the fact that I pop up on France 3 on Friday
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: joker316 on December 30, 2009, 11:02:47 PM
I got the Johnny Olson book (autographed, no less) from my wife; who also snagged an autographed copy of Wink Martindale's autobiography!!

/my wife really loves me!!!
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Tim L on December 31, 2009, 10:15:06 PM
[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'233202\' date=\'Dec 30 2009, 03:14 PM\']I got a four-disc set, Classic Game Shows & More. w00t! Tangentially related, I also got a stack of blank DVD's.[/quote]

I bought the Classic Game Shows and More set a couple months back..Good stuff on it..I Just got a $25.00 Best Buy Gift Card with I hope to use Saturday, Weather permitting..Maybe for Game Show related stuff, probably not but we'll see..
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Don Howard on January 01, 2010, 10:57:49 AM
I didn't receive this on Christmas Day, but this morning, my wife pointed out that there was a gift for me under the tree.
A New Year's present, she said, from Santa Bev. The gift is....The 2010 Jeopardy! box calendar.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: The Pyramids on January 01, 2010, 11:25:04 AM
I got myself for Christmas the '50,000 Pyramid' home game that was recently on Ebay. I am surprised no one else bid for it.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Jay Temple on January 01, 2010, 02:45:16 PM
Does it have an end game that's just the main game writ large? (I still remember my 10 or 20K home edition.)
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: The Pyramids on January 01, 2010, 04:33:52 PM
[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'233378\' date=\'Jan 1 2010, 03:45 PM\']Does it have an end game that's just the main game writ large? (I still remember my 10 or 20K home edition.)[/quote]

Yes it does.
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: Winkfan on January 02, 2010, 07:13:15 PM
None for me, just a gift card. But I did treat myself to a copy of the new Regis Philbin CD, "Just You, Just Me," which he recorded with his wife, Joy. It's a pretty good CD; much like the one Reege did in 2005 (I also have a copy of that CD as well). Mostly, it's duets, but Reege and Joy have a couple of "solo" turns apiece.

Cordially,
Tammy
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: The Ol' Guy on January 02, 2010, 10:14:02 PM
This year I had to buy the presents myself, because I couldn't find the games in stores. Ordered myself Cash Cab, and will place a belated order for Lingo, after a short wait to see if it hits the shelves. The places I hit had many games by Imagination, but neither of these. With Toy Fair coming up, perhaps a few stores will order up Lingo for delivery asap. One can hope, anyway.....
Title: Game Show-Related Christmas Presents?
Post by: chad1m on January 04, 2010, 12:52:31 AM
Got the Jeopardy & Password 2010 calendars, the $1,000,000 Pyramid tin game, an 80s Double Dare lunchbox & Remote Control T-shirt from eBay, plus Buzz! Quiz World for PlayStation3.