Author Topic: Ugliest Board Game (Read 14513 times)

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #15 on:** August 11, 2009, 12:16:27 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222606\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 11:51 AM\']On the 2nd edition box game for Match Game in the 70s, who are Norma and Carl?[/quote]
As I said years ago, Brett and Charles without likeness rights.

Don Howard · « **Reply #16 on:** August 11, 2009, 12:21:04 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'222612\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 12:16 PM\'][quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222606\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 11:51 AM\']On the 2nd edition box game for Match Game in the 70s, who are Norma and Carl?[/quote]
As I said years ago, Brett and Charles without likeness rights.
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Sorry. I was sick that day.
What games actually did have the host/star and/or co-host/co-star and/or actual celeb pics on the box?
I have a beauty of Mike Darrow on the home version of The $128,000 Question.

BillCullen1 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 11, 2009, 12:44:35 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222616\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 12:21 PM\']I have a beauty of Mike Darrow on the home version of The $128,000 Question.[/quote]

And you have my sympathy and condolences. Any show where they have to stop tape and redo the intro because the host gets caught in the curtain - yes that actually happened at a taping. They obviously didn't air it.

Don Howard · « **Reply #18 on:** August 11, 2009, 12:50:09 PM »

[quote name=\'BillCullen1\' post=\'222618\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 12:44 PM\'][quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222616\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 12:21 PM\']I have a beauty of Mike Darrow on the home version of The $128,000 Question.[/quote]
And you have my sympathy and condolences. Any show where they have to stop tape and redo the intro because the host gets caught in the curtain - yes that actually happened at a taping. They obviously didn't air it.
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Now see. Jim Peck falls on his hindmost at it stays in. Mike could have achieved blooper immortality if the bit hadn't been redone. No fair!
Oh, and it's a great smiling picture of Mike Darrow on the box, it is. He has 127 teeth.
I have a $64,000 Question home game with a serious Hal March on the box. As on the show, you can check out the answers beforehand.

curtking · « **Reply #19 on:** August 11, 2009, 12:51:04 PM »

[quote name=\'BillCullen1\' post=\'222618\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 11:44 AM\'][quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222616\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 12:21 PM\']I have a beauty of Mike Darrow on the home version of The $128,000 Question.[/quote]
And you have my sympathy and condolences. Any show where they have to stop tape and redo the intro because the host gets caught in the curtain - yes that actually happened at a taping. They obviously didn't air it.
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And how exactly does that sully the board game?

joker316 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 11, 2009, 12:54:03 PM »

How about Alex Trebek on the High Rollers home game? Poor guy looks like he just walked in and was told "Last Call"

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 11, 2009, 01:07:13 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222616\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 11:21 AM\']What games actually did have the host/star and/or co-host/co-star and/or actual celeb pics on the box?[/quote]Offhand, I know Vanna is on the '92 WoF game by Tyco and Mark L. Whalberg was on one of the boxes for The Moment of Truth.

Don Howard · « **Reply #22 on:** August 11, 2009, 01:16:19 PM »

[quote name=\'curtking\' post=\'222620\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 12:51 PM\'][quote name=\'BillCullen1\' post=\'222618\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 11:44 AM\'][quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222616\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 12:21 PM\']I have a beauty of Mike Darrow on the home version of The $128,000 Question.[/quote]
And you have my sympathy and condolences. Any show where they have to stop tape and redo the intro because the host gets caught in the curtain - yes that actually happened at a taping. They obviously didn't air it.
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And how exactly does that sully the board game?
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Because, silly, it gives one pause as to whether or not the photo shot was nailed on the first take. Lowers the eBay value.
Back to the hijacked topic, The Winker graced the cover of High Rollers in the late 1980s.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #23 on:** August 11, 2009, 01:23:21 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'222625\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 01:07 PM\'][quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'222616\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 11:21 AM\']What games actually did have the host/star and/or co-host/co-star and/or actual celeb pics on the box?[/quote]Offhand, I know Vanna is on the '92 WoF game by Tyco and Mark L. Whalberg was on one of the boxes for The Moment of Truth.
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Photos of hosts (or Vanna) on the boxes of games are failry common. Offhand, I'd guess maybe about a third of them do, more or less. Virtually all the recent ones do. Foxworthy, Brady, Walberg, Philbin, Vieira, Mandel, O'Hurley, Carey, Treadway, Woolery and Bailey all come to mind in just the last couple of years, and I'm sure I missed a few. The first photograph of a host on a home game box is probably "Uncle Jim" McWilliams, host of radio's Uncle Jim's Question Bee.

MikeK · « **Reply #24 on:** August 11, 2009, 01:40:09 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'222628\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 01:23 PM\']Photos of hosts (or Vanna) on the boxes of games are failry common. Offhand, I'd guess maybe about a third of them do, more or less. Virtually all the recent ones do. Foxworthy, Brady, Walberg, Philbin, Vieira, Mandel, O'Hurley, Carey, Treadway, Woolery and Bailey all come to mind in just the last couple of years, and I'm sure I missed a few. The first photograph of a host on a home game box is probably "Uncle Jim" McWilliams, host of radio's Uncle Jim's Question Bee.[/quote]
Saget too, on the Nintendo DS version of 1 vs. 100. Oh no! Another off-topic swerve!

Can the next off-topic swerve be which games had images from the TV show on its packaging or the game itself?

Twentington · « **Reply #25 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:09:49 PM »

[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'222596\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 10:45 AM\']Some had crude box art, and yes, some had rules that strayed from the TV show ('92 Jeopardy! comes to mind),[/quote]

Could you clarify please? I'm curious as to how you could foul up @#*($ing Jeopardy!.

clemon79 · « **Reply #26 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:43:02 PM »

[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'222631\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 11:09 AM\']Could you clarify please? I'm curious as to how you could foul up @#*($ing Jeopardy!.[/quote]
Yes, this was when they were in their "Host Your Own Game" phase. Everyone had a single category in front of them, and for that category, that player was the "host".

Here's a picture.

Never having played it, I hesitate to come to the knee-jerk conclusion that they "fouled up @#*($ing Jeopardy!." Making it so everyone can play instead of one person having to stand off to the side and "host" doesn't sound like the worst idea, honestly.

Mike Tennant · « **Reply #27 on:** August 11, 2009, 02:56:05 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'222628\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 01:23 PM\']Photos of hosts (or Vanna) on the boxes of games are failry common. Offhand, I'd guess maybe about a third of them do, more or less. Virtually all the recent ones do.[/quote]There does seem to have been a period from about the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties when host photos on games were relatively rare, especially on Milton Bradley games, which were the majority of home versions. When I was growing up (way back in the seventies and eighties) I almost never saw a home version with the host's visage. Most had drawings, rather than photos, of the show's set, too. Wink's High Rollers is the first one I vividly recall that had the host's picture (and a photo of the set with a game in progress to boot!). After that it became quite common, to the point that, as you said, that seems to be the rule today.

Fedya · « **Reply #28 on:** August 11, 2009, 03:12:19 PM »

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Could you clarify please? I'm curious as to how you could foul up @#*($ing Jeopardy!.

How about adding a bonus round? ;-)

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #29 on:** August 11, 2009, 03:24:41 PM »

[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'222637\' date=\'Aug 11 2009, 02:56 PM\']There does seem to have been a period from about the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties when host photos on games were relatively rare, especially on Milton Bradley games, which were the majority of home versions. When I was growing up (way back in the seventies and eighties) I almost never saw a home version with the host's visage. Most had drawings, rather than photos, of the show's set, too. Wink's High Rollers is the first one I vividly recall that had the host's picture (and a photo of the set with a game in progress to boot!). After that it became quite common, to the point that, as you said, that seems to be the rule today.[/quote]
Speaking of High Rollers, the exception to what appeared to be the MB policy of that period was Alex Trebek on the cover of the original version. Of course, that game was an oddity for several reasons.