Friday was a very eventful Price is Right $1,000,000 Spectacular. Gigantic cars given away, big prizes everywhere, and (again) another million dollar winner. This one was on a $1,000,000 game for a change: Clock Game. The videos are below, but I would really just like to say that the million dollar wins are getting ridiculous. I love seeing big winners and also I don’t want to take anything away from contestant Cynthia’s win. She played brilliantly and deserved it, truly deserved it. Plus winning the showcase at the end of the show cemented the fact as well. However, it’s three millionaires in, what, five episodes? A bit much if you ask me. What do you all think? Or were you one of the few people watching Duel instead? Here are two videos from Price.
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Do you remember when we talked about a “Price” PC game in development? Well, after a long wait, it has been released to the public.
I must say, it’s pretty good. Graphics are good-looking,
There’s only a couple of minor issues. First, the prizes are video clips from actual aired shows, so there’s a very small chance that somebody playing may have that episode on tape, and can then guess the ARP exactly. Second, it would be nice to have keyboard support for typing in bids. Clicking on “hidden arrows” up and down gets the job done, but it’s not the way the average user would expect to enter numbers on a PC game.
The complete list of pricing games:
- 3 Strikes
- Bonkers
- Check-Out
- Cliffhangers
- Flip Flop
- Freeze Frame
- Hole in One (or Two)
- It’s in the Bag
- Master Key
- Money Game
- Plinko
- Punch-A-Bunch
- Push Over
- Race Game
- Range Game
- Shell Game
Overall, I give the game 4/5. Try it out first, then buy it if you like it. I certainly did. :-DLudia’s “The Price is Right” software is available as a 30-minute free trial or as a $19.99 purchase (plus applicable sales tax). Download it here.
As a tip: You can skip through Rich’s explanation of Contestant’s Row, the pricing games, etc., by clicking anywhere in the main portion of the screen. However, you cannot skip through prize descriptions (unless you bid on the first showcase, which will then produce a “Skip” button to click on during the second).
CBS tried putting Drew Carey’s Power of 10 on Wednesdays at 8:00PM ET and it failed rather spectacularly. Drew’s getting a second chance as four new $1,000,000 episodes of The Price is Right have been ordered to start airing April 30th at 8:00PM ET. The show has been very consistent in winning its time slot Fridays at 8:00PM ET, albeit it has had literally no competition. Facing Deal or No Deal and Moment of Truth is a tiny bit different than the soon-to-be-glue (and rightfully so) racehorse named Amne$ia.
This is actually going to set up a really interesting game show division. You’ll have Deal or No Deal with its big-money-flashy game crowd. You’ll have Moment of Truth with the slightly cynical and human emotion crowd. And finally you’ll have The Price is Right with the older skewing safety game crowd. I don’t think it’ll be a big surprise to see Price is Right skewing the oldest, but I’ll be really interested to see what show takes a bigger hit from this schedule change. I’d expect to see Deal lose more, but I’ve been wrong many times before.
We had our second millionaire in the three episodes of Drew Carey’s $1,000,000 episodes of The Price is Right. And by this point all I’m saying is, “I really don’t care anymore.”
Congratulations for him on winning. But it’s getting a bit insane. I really rarely watch The Price is Right when it’s on; I have classes and a career; but I’ve heard that a double showcase win has happened an extremely large amount of times. Now we have two on the million dollar episodes? Isn’t that a bit much? I thought the $1,000 range was fine initially. Apparently it needs to be a bit tougher. Of course CBS doesn’t care. I keep hearing that the show will be way over budget and offer crappy prizes which really amuses me. These specials are doing fantastic in primetime on Fridays. If they keep doing this well, CBS will give them more and more money and that million isn’t going to really be a huge issue. They’re fun specials, but I’m completely losing care of anyone winning a million dollars now, and that’s just not good.
Game Show Friday Night
A lot of game shows were on the major networks Friday. I was out at a party so I didn’t get to check all of them out, but a few notes.
1: Wow, Drew Carey has to be the luckiest person in the universe. First Power of 10 and now Price is Right.
2: Amne$ia wasn’t as god awful as I expected, but it still seems off to me. It’s another one of those shows that does not fit in primetime despite the efforts of producers. I really unfairly compared this to Moment of Truth; it’s like comparing apples and oranges. I’m still more of a fan of Moment of Truth. I felt more emotion on that game than I did on Amne$ia, and Mark Walberg comes off as a much stronger host than Dennis Miller. But still, not a bad little show at all and one of the few times where my snap judgements were really wrong.
3: 1 VS 100 had its season finale, and who knows if it’s coming back. I truly feel Endemol dropped the ball big time. From changing the game so basically everyone who wins less than $100,000 is a dumbass to dumbing down the material, it was just a mess. Nothing against big winners like Jason Luna, but I’d like to see if he would have gotten as far with season one material. It would have been a severe challenge compared to before. The ratings haven’t exactly been fantastic, though they haven’t really gone down that much either. It’s definitely on the bubble again.
Lots of game show fans enjoy playing their favorite shows from home. With that, we have a small update on different game shows that are recently available at home or online. First off, what people are probably more excited about, iToys’s The Price is Right tabletop electronic game. It’s from the same company that did the 1 VS 100 and Family Feud games, and both are really good, so this one’s bound to be fun. It also looks like it comes with three set pieces: the Big Wheel, Hole in One, and Plinko. No word on additional pricing games on the actual console itself now, but I’d have to imagine since playing the same two pricing games over and over is going to get really irritating.
Also, Oberon Games has launched a download-able version of Crosswords. The game is fairly accurate to the show, or as accurate as it can be. The spoiler system is a bit complicated, and the annoying music just loops over and over and over. If the theme music annoys you on the show, it’s going to be worse on you playing the game. However, it’s still pretty fun just playing along with the game and seeing how you’d do. It’s a lot harder than it looked for me. Click here to download the game.
One issue I had when The Price is Right always used to do their primetime specials was my lack of general care. I found myself tuning in to see the wheel if anyone would win the million, and turning it off when it didn’t happen. Thankfully they seem to have tweaked the format correctly to make sure this doesn’t help. The first of the Price is Right Million Dollar Spectaculars will air Friday, February 22nd, at 8PM ET. These are the first under new (and absolutely amazing) host Drew Carey.
The general game change is that you don’t win the million on the big wheel anymore thankfully. There are two ways. During the show, one game is declared the “Million Dollar Game”, where if you play a perfect game during that event you get $1,000,000. Also, the other main way to win the million is through the Showcases. If you’ve seen the shows, it’s rather common to have really wrong bids on the showcases because they are so much. For the specials, if you come within $1,000, it’s declared a double showcase win, and you also get $1,000,000.
There are talks of the primetime specials to be in HD, but I’ve not seen concrete proof of this or confirmation anywhere substantial. Have I missed it somewhere? Regardless, this seems like yet another positive change for Price is Right under Drew Carey. They honestly have not done anything that wrong with the new era of the show in my eyes yet, so here’s to many more. They updated the set a tiny bit for the primetime specials. The pattern is now squares instead of circles, and honestly it looks really nice to me. Here’s actually a video of it from The Insider.
Drew Carey loses a job but gains more exposure for his leading show. First off, CBS is pulling Power of 10 as of today. The show might be back in the summer, but Wednesday night’s episode was the final one. Huge shame, because CBS really did not seem to care to switch its time slot out of two major show killers: American Idol and Deal or No Deal. I’m sure there had to be a better slot for it like Fridays at 8:00PM ET. CBS is saying they are still committed to the show and might have new episodes in the summer, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Such a shame, as it was one of the most dramatic, compelling, and fun primetime shows in a really long time.
Don’t feel bad for Drew, though. CBS is bringing back their trusty old The Price is Right primetime specials. No word on if they will be for $1,000,000 or not, but the first one will be on Friday, February 22nd, at 8:00PM ET. Six of the hour-long primetime specials have been ordered to cut down on excessive reruns from the writer’s strike. CBS has two other game shows, Do You Trust Me? (AKA Extreme Friend or Foe?) and Million Dollar Password (AKA “Oh crap here comes another Fremantle revival) waiting in the wings still.
So some really good news and rather bad news all in one. Sadly I think this might bode really negatively for a syndicated series of Power of 10 which was being developed, but here’s to hoping it still has a shot.
I have a feeling some of the more “passionate” The Price is Right fans are going to be happy when the DVD is released. First off, it’s going to be $39.98 on March 25th; it’s a four-DVD set that includes 930 minutes of shows. What shows you ask? Well you’re in for a treat if you’re a big fan.
Some newer episodes included will be Bob Barker’s full final week. However, they are going very very retro as well. Also included is the very first episode and some more interspersed. If you’re not a Barker fan, maybe the classic Bill Cullen edition will entice you. Yes, they are including some of the old black and white episodes. The twenty six episodes on the set probably won’t include and Drew Carey episodes, but I doubt many will care since those are available online. Some of you might want to pre-order it from Amazon for $10 cheaper. Do that from here.
Looks like Price fans have an early Christmas present.
I just have one word right now: “Wow.” This is one of the most authentic looking games I have ever seen. See what I mean by watching the video below.
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