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JRA
Joined: Sep 17 2007
Location: The Opium Trail
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This is totally a nostalgic game. As a kid you loved it, but when you play it now and after you soak in all the 4-bit majesty, you realize all the flaws.
The computer never buys vowels, making you do all the leg work.
Vanna looks nothing like Vanna, though that's to be expected with games like these.
Because a lot of the function keys are, well, function keys, on most modern computers you have to go to preferences and reroute repeat strokes or whatever the fuck just to play the game, not to mention you have to reroute them back when you are done.
Way too many 40's and 50's references. 3/4 of the names were people I've never heard of. Yea it was made in 88 but damn, give me some 80's names at least (although on a recent replay it did give me Jon Bon Jovi, which was kinda cool).
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
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Not enough fabulous prizes. It's a video game, so the sky should be the limit, cf. Smash TV.
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I'm not a bad enough dude, but I am an edgy little shit. I'll do what I can. |
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Ky-Guy
Title: Obscure Nintendo Gamer
Joined: Jul 19 2006
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1418
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Not to drift from topic, but I had a Wheel of Fortune phase as a kid. When I was a kid, my grandmother's friend used to let us visit a cabin on a lake in Texas. In that cabin, I would play this little Mattel LCD Wheel of Fortune game where one could make up answers to put in the machine. I would play that machine for hours, and I mean hours. Later on, I would get a Tiger LCD Wheel of Fortune game, as well as a Wheel of Fortune game for Genesis. I'd play both of those a lot, as well.
Maybe one day, I'll try the DOS version out. Then again, one day, I might have to get on the actual show.
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Fernin
Title: Comic Author
Joined: Dec 12 2008
Posts: 1179
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| The-Excel wrote: |
| Not enough fabulous prizes. It's a video game, so the sky should be the limit, cf. Smash TV. |
Figures that you'd find something to complain about, even here.
I had one of the Wheel DOS games as a kid as well, loved it back then and also now. I almost always pull it out when I do DOS Nights on my streams, though it's easily the least forgiving game to play with other people due to the stream lag... That 10 second timer for choosing what to do or what letter to play is downright cruel for that. Family Feud's timer works out far better, and Classic Concentration and Trivial Pursuit have no timers at all, works beautifully. Gotta kill the volume almost entirely, though... those bleeps and bloops are murder on the ear now.
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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| Fernin wrote: |
| The-Excel wrote: |
| Not enough fabulous prizes. It's a video game, so the sky should be the limit, cf. Smash TV. |
Figures that you'd find something to complain about, even here. |
I'm with Ky-Guy, though, the Genesis version of Wheel of Fortune is balls to the wall. As is the NES version. And the SNES version. My dad really likes video games based on game shows. 
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The Opponent
Title: Forum Battle WINNER
Joined: Feb 24 2010
Location: The Danger Zone
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| Fernin wrote: |
| The-Excel wrote: |
| Not enough fabulous prizes. It's a video game, so the sky should be the limit, cf. Smash TV. |
Figures that you'd find something to complain about, even here. |
It's all I'm good for, baby. I thought we established this.
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