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  • [keyboard typing noises]

  • [Wheel of Fortune theme plays over PC speaker]

  • Mmm, retro computer noises.

  • I still use this IBM AT all the time, for those of you that asked about it.

  • I keep it set up all the time just in case I want to play stuff like Wheel of Fortune for DOS!

  • And you know what, I had another video pretty much all ready to go for today,

  • it was like 90% complete.

  • And then that last 10 percent, augh.

  • I was about ready to film, it was all good, it was totally ready and everything was all

  • set up -- and I don't have the part that I need.

  • That's just how it goes making retro hardware videos.

  • So whatever, I got that part on order and in the meantime, the only solution

  • is to play WOF.

  • Specifically this one released by ShareData Incorporated in 1987 for IBM PCs and compatibles.

  • There are actually quite a few variants as far as puzzles that were released over the

  • years, just in my collection alone.

  • On top of the original 1987 release which I had a copy of that my uncle gave me back in the day.

  • We put it on a floppy disk along with a bunch of other shareware.

  • Maybe he thought this was shareware because it was released by Share Data.

  • It's not though. This was a commercial game, this was pirated and I didn't know it.

  • Later on when I started collecting though I picked up a couple of these boxed releases

  • for this DOS version of the game.

  • The first one was Wheel of Fortune Golden Edition.

  • What makes itgoldenother than the box logo?

  • I don't know! It just sounds good.

  • This was by the time that GameTek had kind of taken back their rights to manufacture

  • these Wheel of Fortune games for themselves.

  • Anyway this golden edition: it's got a thousand new puzzles over the 1987 original.

  • Now everybody's favorite Wheel of Fortune is an all-new Golden Edition!”

  • All right, whatever, I thought this was pretty much the one that I had as a kid but turns out, not really.

  • This one was 1989, the gameplay looks identical.

  • And so I ran across this other copy: Wheel of Fortune First Second and Third Editions

  • This is kind of strange too because, once again, it's not exactly the one that I had.

  • I mean, what I had was the first edition but the First Edition here

  • is sort of a retroactive titledfirstedition.

  • They changed around the startup screen, I do not appreciate that.

  • This is always a good sign when on the back of the box there's a spelling error on the

  • example puzzle they give.

  • Judge Joseph Wopner?”

  • Do they mean Joseph Wapner who was a judge on The People's Court?

  • Because that's spelled with an “A,” “W-A-P-N-E-R.”

  • Anyway inside of each of these releases from GameTek you get the same stuff really.

  • There's a registration card here that is apparently super urgent in its insistence that you mail it in.

  • And this little two-sided piece of paper that lets you know the instructions for setting

  • it up and playing and all that stuff.

  • And it applies to all of the versions of Wheel of Fortune that were effectively the same

  • game just under different names and they had some different puzzles: the first, second,

  • third, and the golden edition, as well as a junior edition.

  • I've never actually come across that for the PC, I've only ever seen the NES one.

  • And of course you also get the games themselves on some floppy disks.

  • Each of these are double-sided, double density and they just happen to come in the five and

  • a quarter inch and three and a half inch varieties.

  • So let's go ahead and play none of these!

  • We're just gonna go right back to the 1987 PC original I had a copy of as a youngster.

  • [PC speaker WOF music plays]

  • And once again, they all look and play identically, it's just

  • they have different puzzles in each release.

  • They all have this serviceable PC speaker rendition of the theme song that was used

  • from 1983 to 2000 or so in various forms.

  • I believe the title is key wheel something... dang it what's the name of this song,

  • I don’t remember the name! [walking away from the microphone]

  • Changing Keys!

  • That’s what it is! [walking back] Yeah it's a song called Changing Keys written by Merv Griffin.

  • [late ‘80s version of Changing Keys plays]

  • You know, he did like a crapload of uh,

  • game show stuff.

  • That's kind of another reason I wanted to cover this. I was playing that modern version

  • of Wheel of Fortune, I saw it on a few different systems and picked it up on PS4 cuz it was

  • on sale or some crap and I'm like, “what is this?!”

  • Like I haven’t watched Wheel of Fortune in years so the game had changed kind of a lot!

  • So that caught my attention but then there's just this particular video game version where

  • I'm like, does everything really need a bunch of cosmetic loot boxes

  • that you get every time you level up?

  • Yeah even Wheel of Fortune cannot escape that fate.

  • Then there's the odd meta humor from the host, *not* Pat Sajak!

  • [Not-Pat Sajak talks for a bit]

  • Speaking of hosts, that's one thing that is -- who knows

  • what you're gonna get when it comes to Wheel of Fortune games.

  • There's almost none of them with Pat Sajak and only a few of them have Vanna White.

  • They always make a big thing about it anytime she's in any of these games but yeah, she's

  • not in the modern one, and she's not in the 1987 classic either.

  • I always called her Vanna as a kid, cuz I mean it's -- you know It's supposed to be her.

  • And it's EGA, so what if she's got red hair and yellow skin it's close enough!

  • [brngh brngh]

  • Anyway Wheel of Fortune CGA for DOS: it uses one of the warmer color palettes here.

  • I always thought that that worked well for that golden glitzy kind of

  • glamorous 1980s Wheel of Fortune style.

  • Fits right in with the diamonds and the luxury cruises and the saxophones and the perms.

  • And yeah It just screams 80s.

  • As far as gameplay goes it is as simple as it gets.

  • I don't even know what to say man.

  • It's Wheel of Fortune, youre practically playing Hangman except there's no men being hung.

  • And don't even worry about now that other kind of stuff that you do now like toss ups

  • and the beeping near the endoh it’s a final spinor you know, pieces that you

  • can pick up off the wheel, none of that crap.

  • In this one you spin, you guess a letter, and if it's there, cool.

  • If not, well darn.

  • Try again next round.

  • You can lose a turn, you can go bankrupt, you can buy a vowel if you got some cash.

  • And if youre *wheel-y* fortunate you might be able to solve the puzzle and get to keep

  • your money at the end of the round.

  • Yep, the only person who gets to keep anything in this game is the person that solves the puzzles.

  • You can actually attempt to solve the puzzle at

  • any time too, that always amused me for some reason.

  • Probably because immaturity.

  • And after three rounds, whoever has earned the most money that they were actually able

  • to keep moves on to the bonus round!

  • And you get to just select from a number of showcase items.

  • I always picked theAmerican sports caras a kid because

  • well that's just what kind of kid I was, I don't know.

  • So what if it's not the most expensive, I wasn’t greedy, I just wanted a friggin sports car!

  • Anyway after this is yet another bit of simplification relative to the modern day game show.

  • NoRSTLNE,” you just put in some consonants and put in the vowel and guess it correctly

  • before the time runs out.

  • Hooray!

  • You've won absolutely nothing.

  • Such is the plight of game show games in virtual form.

  • What's the point?

  • Oh, I won a vacation or a car or some...”

  • I don't know, doesn't matter because you didn't actually win it.

  • You just [chuckles] You get to put your name in a high score table and it sticks around

  • in a DAT file in a DOS program for decades.

  • Such is life.

  • And that's Wheel of Fortune.

  • I’ll probably never talk about this again, hehe.

  • I don't even know what I'm talking about it now.

  • Oh, yeah, because I didn't get to finish my other video and I needed something comforting

  • and this is comforting.

  • It's oddly comforting, especially playing it on period-accurate hardware.

  • Unfortunately, I don't have my original Packard Bell Legend 486.

  • You know, I have some bits and pieces of that -- I want to build that computer, try to get

  • it working again hopefully sometime in the near future.

  • But yeah, that's not the hardware project I'm working on, I'm working on like five other

  • things and you know, they're all falling apart and everything is awful.

  • But that's okay because no matter what we will always have Wheel of Fortune for DOS

  • in all its various confusing forms that really don't differ from each other at all.

  • And that's okay.

  • And if you thought this video was okay, then I am shocked!

  • That just means you'll watch anything.

  • I mean more power to you, whatever.

  • If you liked this, yeah, watch some other things that I did there right here, I'll link to them and stuff.

  • And if not, there are new videos every Monday and Friday.

  • And as always, thank you very much for watching!

[keyboard typing noises]

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LGR - 命運之輪 (LGR - Wheel of Fortune)

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    林宜悉 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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