The Original Wheel Of Fortune Game
Join the famous TV game show 'Wheel of Fortune' with this particularly faithful online version. Turn the wheel (be careful to avoid bankrupt!), choose a consonant or buy a vowel then try to find the sentence on the screen. The category is given to help you and you will have 5 turns to find the answer. There are 24 prizes available on the Wheel of Fortune prize wheel. The winning contestant from the previous rounds spins the prize wheel in order to determine the potential prize. This smaller wheel containing the 24 prize options is spun during the bonus round once a winner is crowned from the prior rounds have been completed. Apr 26, 2013 There is only one wheel and one puzzleboard. There's only one famous wheel, and it must be broken down and put back together whenever the show goes on the road.
Wheel of Fortune
DOS - 1987
Also available on: Commodore 64 - Apple II
Description of Wheel of Fortune
Read Full DescriptionOne of the most successful game shows ever made, Wheel of Fortune is a very popular TV program that catapulted Vanna White to stardom as one of the most recognizable TV celebrities.
For those who has never seen the show, WOF is a language game that requires both luck and skill. The object is to solve a 'hangman'-like mystery puzzle. Three contestants compete, taking turns spinning a huge wheel divided into sections containing various dollar amounts, as well as spaces such as 'BANKRUPT', 'LOSE A TURN' and 'FREE SPIN'. If a contestant span a dollar amount, he/she could then guess a consonant to receive that dollar amount for every time that consonant appears in the puzzle. An incorrect guess or spinning the wheel to one of the penalty spaces means control goes to the next contestant. At any time during a player's turn, they can elect to spin the wheel; ask to 'buy a vowel' of their choice, in which case $250 is deducted from their score; or solve the puzzle. The player with the most winnings at the end of the show is pronounced the champion and gets to play a bonus puzzle, which he/she had 15 seconds to solve after guessing five consonants and one vowel to be uncovered.
Softie, which later became GameTek, obtained an exclusive license to produce computer version of this popular gameshow, on the heels of getting a Jeopardy! license. The game milked the license relentlessly, releasing approximately one WOF PC game each year between 1987 and 1994. New features were added as technologies advanced, from CGA to VGA and digitized voices of Vanna White in the 1991 Deluxe Edition. Each new version features more questions than the last, although they disappointingly border on the easy side and tend to be from only a few categories (e.g. people's names, common nouns).
Still, fans of the TV show will definitely enjoy these computer releases which are quite faithful to the originals. Don't expect a tough challenge, but do expect Vanna White's characteristic smile and flipping of white cards :)
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Great but..2017-08-240 point DOS version
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I played it two times and both times all of the panels were the same for each round. I still stood around to see if the next one was going to be the same!
I didn't win the dream vacation the second time around because Rosie couldn't play the bonus round due to health issues!
MERKLEY2015-07-190 point DOS version
What's he talking about?
No thanks.2014-04-010 point DOS version
Rather not click to watch a Johnson & Johnson commercial in Spanish (which I don't even speak) to download this tiny file I can get elsewhere.
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DOS Version
Commodore 64 Version
- Year:1987
- Publisher:ShareData, Inc.
- Developer:ShareData, Inc.
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Apple II Version
- Year:1988
- Publisher:ShareData, Inc.
- Developer:ShareData, Inc.
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