My mother was absolutely obcessed with this version of the game until she memorized all the puzzles and could just solve them by memory. Eventually it showed up on the Internet Archive and I gave her a shortcut on her desktop to that site and she still plays it after all these years.
Oddly enough my mom was equally obsessed with this game. We had multiple machines in my house growing up, and I cannot even begin to count the hours she spent playing this on the older Compaq that sat in our basement and was kept around purely for dos games like this.
battra92 Yes! I actually remember memorizing by habit some of the puzzles.. go to play with family and just fill in 'Walla Walla Washington' with dirty looks from the room, haha.
VideoGameMaster0426 the real meaning is those are free letters and they show up at the beginning of the puzzle. So any phrase that is up there, those letters automatically get filled in.
GameTEK: the AAA publisher of "grandma games". I call them "grandma games" because Grandma would buy them in a heartbeat and expect her grandchildren to play them, *without* getting angry about it. The problem is, we weren't "cultured enough" yet to solve any of the puzzles, ask any jeopardy questions, or get an X on the hollywood squares board.
Your comment is especially funny to me because my grandma actually had a 286 with a monochrome screen with this and Jeopardy which I loved to play as a kid around 1990.
Ahhh... those bips and boops of a wonderful internal speaker. Just barely at the tonal level of melodic coherence... and just enough shrill volume to give you an instant headache.
The nostalgia I have for this game is real. My family and I would spend HOURS playing this on our IBM PS/1 2133 back in the day. Thanks for the reminder of fond memories!
We'd play this whenever we were at my grandma's house, since she had it on this game selector thing I think my dad actually programmed on her computer so my cousins and I could play games without destroying the thing.
The nostalgia from hearing the intro of this again after so many years hit me like a ton of bricks. This is one of a very small handful of games I can remember playing with my parents... I also remember liking "Vanna's" green dress since that was my favorite color as a kid... what a blast from the past!
There was one version of Wheel of Fortune that had both Pat and Vanna in it- the one for the Wii that was released back in 2010 that got ported to the 360/PS3/WiiU in 2012.
It also had Wii Speak support, so you could call out letters. I haven’t been able to test it myself, so I have no idea how accurate the voice recognition is.
This was the first PC game I ever played as a small child. I remember my dad had a DOS machine in his room in the early 90s but spelling wasn't really my thing and still isn't so I promptly went back to playing Mario
this actually WAS comforting to watch so thank you! I remember going over to my grandmothers house (believe it or not she had all the latest computer gear in the 80's) and I played this during the summer when school was out. ahh good times way back when. Thanks for sharing, brings back some really warm memories :)
I used to love watching Wheel of Fortune as a kid in the '80s, during summer vacation, of course. I never wanted to play the computer version, though. Interesting side note, back then, after each round, the winner of that round would spend their money on gifts. Unused money could be used on a gift certificate at Service Merchandiser (a defunct store chain where you order from a catalog) or can be banked to be added to future winnings (good if you were saving up for larger prize, but risky). Different time.
Thank you for this. I played this often back on my first computer. I saved a copy of the game, mainly because I played it with my grandmother sometimes. And while she is long gone now, I still have that game with her name in the Champs list to remember those times with her.
You just brought back a ton of memories. This is one of the only games that my family gathered together to play. That only happened a couple of times but I still remember it. I also remember the computer opponents either being dumb as hell or instantly knowing the phrase without giving the player any leeway. Or maybe its just because I was a dumb kid and didn't know the phrases.
If you ask me, the best Wheel of Fortune video game is on the Wii. It includes Pat _and_ Vanna, both of them voiced, and supports the Wii Speak for calling out letters.
Thank you for making this video. It brought back so many memories of me and my family playing this on my first computer in the 80's. I completely forgot about it until I saw the thumbnail.
There's a DOS game that I miss a lot from my childhood, I think I it all the time in 1999, when I was like 6 I guess, the title screen music was a lullaby, and the game was sort of an action puzzle with a top down perspective, and the floor was big squares, there were lasers to avoid, and some baddies. Also the main character was like aa brown ball... My brother used to tell me he was a tennis ball, but I can't remember clearly. If anyone could clue me into what this game was called, I would appreciate it a lot
Mark Trudeau it does look very similar to what I remember, but it's not quite it, since it doesn't have the lullaby at the beginning, and I remember the main character being a spherical guy instead of a human.
puterwizjake You know what? The cover for Rollin looks exactly like the thing I remember. So similar that it could be it, although I checked videos and the gameplay doesn't ring any bells... So it could be Rollin and I just don't remember the gameplay as well a I thought, or it could be another game with exactly this cover concept www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/r/rollin-2v4/rollin_1.png
This brings back so many memories of playing this on my dad's 386 Gateway 2000 when I was a kid. Every time my parents stumble across an old box of floppys somewhere in their house, there is usually one of them with a backup copy of it.
I vaguely remember that game from a school pc in my childhood. Only we played it on a green monochrome monitor. Edit I spy with my little eye a woodgrain 486!
As someone who didn't play a whole lot of video games when I was a kid, it's very nice with these kinds of videos where I can second-hand experience some retro gaming, but still from an adult's perspective. It's fun to hear about your nostalgia so, that's why I'm here and that's why I'll watch anything (by you) :)
I remember having this on the family Amstrad PC1512, and the tune played on solving a puzzle - it was a classical piece that I can't recall the name of that this very moment. I was not very good at the game, but I later became interested in the TV show (likely because we had this game). We also had a version of Jeopardy on the same machine and it also played an accurate (if primitive) PC speaker version of that show's theme song.
I'm watching because this is actually the first computer game I ever played. In '92 or '93 my dad was given an old IBM machine from a work friend of his, and that was the first computer our family ever had. It came with this game, though we played it on an orange and black monochrome monitor. Had to have been a 10 year old machine at that point that he'd replace the next year with a windows 3.1 machine that came with many games including King's Quest 6, Doom/Wolfenstein 3d/Commander Keen shareware, Jill of the Jungle, and so many others. This is highly nostalgic for the earliest time in my life using a computer, and I'm watching this now as a 30 year old in one of my IT classes.
Oh geez! My family had a copy of the first edition. I used to play it on a custom-built IBM compatible. I didn't have much in the way of games outside of some old-ish ASCII games (including a little ASCII pyramid adventure game that I can't find any trace of anymore), so this brings back a LOT of memories.
This and Family Feud were my first PC games. I've been having fun revisiting these on my Bondwell B200 laptop (In monochrome CGA) and my Toshiba Windows 98 laptop. Thanks for covering this one!
The hours I spent playing this back in the day. And when I watched the Wheel for the first time in many a year and saw that Vanna just touched screens instead of flipping the letters, it was quite the shock. Thanks for covering this game LGR. :)
I loved playing this back in the early 90's. I spent hours playing this on a old Packard Bell 486 computer and I always thought "Vanna" was wearing roller skates though.
I used to play this so much on our really, really old computer that someone gave to us. Unfortunately, I do not remember what it was but it was my introduction to command line. This game, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, and a few others ate up a lot of my time.
This was one of the very first video games I have ever played on DOS. Just listening to the PC speaker music just brings me back some good memories. One of the many things that kept me out of trouble when I was 6-7 years old.
Oh man, the nostalgia is real for this one. I definitely played the hell out of this game in the early nineties, despite being too young to actually solve many of the puzzles correctly. I also remember playing a version of Wheel of Fortune that was included with a box of cereal in the early 2000s, and I believe that one only had Vanna White in it as the main host, dispensing with Pat Sajak entirely.
I used to play this WOF DOS game a lot back around 1990 or so. We had a commodore pc compatible with a 4MHz CPU that would turbo to 7MHz. At one point a math co-processor was installed. And a CGA green monochrome monitor!
Classic memories as a kid playing this, Jeopardy, Family Feud, and Classic Concentration on my gram's Tandy 1000EX. I still fire it up from time to time when I visit.
I had this version back in the late 1980s! We had a computer with the brand name "Leading Technology" (not sure if anyone has ever heard of it), but we had tons of computer games for it.
I grew up playing this with my mom and brother! At the time, he was studying for his computer science degree. Ah, little me learned how to program around this time when we weren't playing the game. I even remember typing the guesses for my family members who didn't use computers. Ah, thanks for bringing back the memories!
Ho-leeee crap, dude. I had completely forgotten about this game. I remember around the age of 4 visiting my Aunt and Uncle, who in addition to having an NES, they also had a PC. I played endless hours of this, Classic Concentration, Police Quest, Life or Death, and the Hoyle Book of Games. They were the reason I ended up asking for and getting my first PC for Christmas one year. They were always buying the latest tech, and when they upgraded to a new 486, I was gifted their old 386 system. I know it was a pointless story, but seeing this game brought it all back.
I honestly want to think that this is one of the very first computer games that I ever played, period. Had an old Tandy from the late 1980s where you put the disk for MS-DOS in the bottom disk drive and the game in the top, and played that in the early 1990s...and this was when they still made the floppy disks that actually were floppy. Everything about this game - and Sharedata's Jeopardy!, which we also had - stays with me to this day. Heck, when we got a Tandy with Deskmate in 1992, we had to get the 3 1/2" diskette with that and Jeopardy built in. Sharedata made some pretty games with this and Jeopardy. I really need to play this again. It's still SOOOO good.
I will watch almost anything you make, because you're very entertaining to listen to just ramble on about anything. Keep on keeping on! Thanks for still posting a video even if it wasn't what you planned!
You've now covered the two games I remember playing on my grandmother's monochrome AT&T 6300: this, and World Class Leader board. Thanks for the ultimate nostalgia.
I remember playing the hell out of this game on the computer at the After School program I used to attend. It was one of the few activities they had geared toward the older children (5-6 graders)
They had this on the Apple computers at my school. And like Oregon Trail, I don't recall ever actually playing it until they upgraded the computer lab to brand-new Windows 98 machines and moved all the Apples into the classrooms for us to play with during study hall.
Haha wow, to see a video of this pop-up. Had this game on our 1st hand me down/used 386 my mom got from one of her computer wiz co-workers in the 90's. (He was an upgrade freak, 386,486,Pentium) any upgrade. Gave us a 30MB HDD as well. On that drive we had this version WOF pre-loaded, along with LSL1, Hero's Quest 1, Wolf 3D, and Eye of the Beholder AD&D, good times on that machine. Having a 2400 ISA baud modem, EGA, and adlib card also kicked a
I’m crying because this is the game my Papa first showed me when I was like 6 and getting into computers. It was our only common interest. If he were alive today i think he’d be loving how crazy tech has gotten. That music just triggered such an intense memory and emotion in me.
There is the NES ROM hack of Wheel of Fortune called Gamer's Edition which replaces all the puzzles with video game related puzzles, as well as player default names being replaced with various video game characters. Yes, Duke Nukem is in it. lolz
Here in the netherlands, we got one in Dutch. With a low-res smiling facepic of the (hot) assistant sliding across the screen to reveal the letters. Hilarious in retrospect.
This is one of the first computer dos games I had as a child. that, including Prince of Persia, Captain Comic, The Solitaire Collection, some Donkey Kong knockoff (cant recall its name but I've seen it floating around some abandonware sites) amongst other things that I cant recall off the top of my head. I cant exactly recall the make and model of the PC, but my uncle had surprised me with it one Christmas by setting it up on my grandparents dining table. It had some UI that you can customize icons for different programs on it. I loved that damned thing even though I still played my NES more and I used the computer mostly to toy around with the dos-ish paint program and type dumb stories in the text editor. Anyway, Wheel of Fortune was one of the games I first got with it... hearing that computer beep tune of the theme really struck the feels for me.
Oh yeah we had a dutch version here and me and my friend played it so much we knew all the words in the end and we still kept playing it. Thanx for the trip down memory lane. Now let's hope i don't get nightmares of the show host pixelated face.
Vanna was prominently featured in the Windows 3.1 version "Wheel of Fortune Deluxe" (it's on the Software Archive) which lives on my 486. But this version (DOS) holds a special place in my heart for all the times I used it as a break from Monkey Island.
I actually remember playing this game when I was a kid, same with Jeopardy, Hero Quest and Leisure Suit Larry (I was really good at solving the 'are you 18' questions for that one). You're making me miss my childhood X'D
This is one of the games I played with my mom when I was little, who sadly passed away. Man, at least I still have fond, nostalgic memories about us :'(
I've been trying to find this (not so shareware) version of WoF for a while now. It was included with a pack of shareware floppies I had as a kid. Thanks for the memories!
We had this on our class computer in grade 6- but for some reason it only ever played ONE PUZZLE. "A stitch in time saves nine". That was it, every. single. time. same exact puzzle. No idea why, maybe corrupted files? We still played it every single lunchtime
My mother was absolutely obcessed with this version of the game until she memorized all the puzzles and could just solve them by memory. Eventually it showed up on the Internet Archive and I gave her a shortcut on her desktop to that site and she still plays it after all these years.
Oddly enough my mom was equally obsessed with this game. We had multiple machines in my house growing up, and I cannot even begin to count the hours she spent playing this on the older Compaq that sat in our basement and was kept around purely for dos games like this.
battra92 Yes! I actually remember memorizing by habit some of the puzzles.. go to play with family and just fill in 'Walla Walla Washington' with dirty looks from the room, haha.
i need to find that archive link, my grandmother and i played this game religiously.
battra92
You are a good person.
I try (but usually fail.)
I always thought the R L S T N E in Wheel of Fortune was a scrambled R. L. Stine from Goosebumps, as a kid.
PvtDonut DJ88 So did i
PvtDonut DJ88 same
PvtDonut DJ88
That's literally what I think every time I see those letters
VideoGameMaster0426 the real meaning is those are free letters and they show up at the beginning of the puzzle.
So any phrase that is up there, those letters automatically get filled in.
same!!
Vanna (Off)White is wearing the Marge-Simpson-Collection realness.
It's Lois Griffin wearing the Marge Simpson Collection.
Vann-illa?
I still can't believe she still looks good today on TV!
@@logicalphallusy2364 Implying it's not Quagmire in a wig. Look at that jawline.
GameTEK: the AAA publisher of "grandma games". I call them "grandma games" because Grandma would buy them in a heartbeat and expect her grandchildren to play them, *without* getting angry about it. The problem is, we weren't "cultured enough" yet to solve any of the puzzles, ask any jeopardy questions, or get an X on the hollywood squares board.
They also published Frontier, the followup the Elite.
Your comment is especially funny to me because my grandma actually had a 286 with a monochrome screen with this and Jeopardy which I loved to play as a kid around 1990.
Your Grandma played video games? Wow, your Grandma rocked. Mine had to get on the phone everytime she just wanted to put a cassette in the VCR.
It's nice that grandmas are thinking of us.
My Grandma bought me Legend of Zelda just because she was sick of listening to the music in SMB.
Damn, my grandma knew how to use her VCR in the 80's.
Ahhh... those bips and boops of a wonderful internal speaker. Just barely at the tonal level of melodic coherence... and just enough shrill volume to give you an instant headache.
probably one of the reasons i have tinitus now in my 30s haha
Let's play
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Jorma oy Wheel of Fortune is way better than Fortnite
N
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It's a code, you want to sacrifice
WHEELCHAIRMEN in a blood
OFFERING for
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Maybe they called it Gold Edition just to make that ugly yellow graphics seem more appealing
Smart way to cover up graphical limitations.
Beats the cold CGA pallet.
The nostalgia I have for this game is real. My family and I would spend HOURS playing this on our IBM PS/1 2133 back in the day. Thanks for the reminder of fond memories!
We'd play this whenever we were at my grandma's house, since she had it on this game selector thing I think my dad actually programmed on her computer so my cousins and I could play games without destroying the thing.
The nostalgia from hearing the intro of this again after so many years hit me like a ton of bricks. This is one of a very small handful of games I can remember playing with my parents... I also remember liking "Vanna's" green dress since that was my favorite color as a kid... what a blast from the past!
There was one version of Wheel of Fortune that had both Pat and Vanna in it- the one for the Wii that was released back in 2010 that got ported to the 360/PS3/WiiU in 2012.
It also had Wii Speak support, so you could call out letters. I haven’t been able to test it myself, so I have no idea how accurate the voice recognition is.
Clint, you could make a video about a used toothbrush and it will be entertaining, don't worry about it.
Hrm, I do have a used woodgrain-pattern toothbrush that could use attention
LGR an idea for a April fools video perhaps?
pls brush your teeth. for a video. and twice a day too. you would sound different with no teeth.
Only LGR could make an 8 minute video about a Wheel of Fortune DOS game interesting.
This was the first PC game I ever played as a small child. I remember my dad had a DOS machine in his room in the early 90s but spelling wasn't really my thing and still isn't so I promptly went back to playing Mario
This was one of my first PC games as well, at my grandparents house when I was 8 or so.
this actually WAS comforting to watch so thank you! I remember going over to my grandmothers house (believe it or not she had all the latest computer gear in the 80's) and I played this during the summer when school was out. ahh good times way back when. Thanks for sharing, brings back some really warm memories :)
I played so many hours of this and Jeopardy on my Tandy 1000SL
Same. So much.
I was about to say. Shoutout to Jeopardy.
Me too! Though mine was a 1000HX
but is it a ... joy-party too? :D
Same two games for me, except on c64:)
My brother and I used to play this all the time. One of my all time favorites! Thanks for the trip back in time!
Oh man, I love Whe Of Fort
I used to love watching Wheel of Fortune as a kid in the '80s, during summer vacation, of course. I never wanted to play the computer version, though.
Interesting side note, back then, after each round, the winner of that round would spend their money on gifts. Unused money could be used on a gift certificate at Service Merchandiser (a defunct store chain where you order from a catalog) or can be banked to be added to future winnings (good if you were saving up for larger prize, but risky). Different time.
This year brings back memories of when I was a little kid I used to play this when I was 8 years old I'm now 34 and miss this era
"I'd like to solve the puzzle."
"Go ahead."
"You Fucr!"
"I'm sorry, that's not correct. It's actually `Tax Collector`."
"Isn't that what I said?"
Love your stuff, you should do audio books. You have a very relaxing voice Clint.. :)
Thank you!
If Cecil Baldwin ever has to quit Welcome To Night Vale, Clint could take his job.
Such memories
FRICK. I played this so much. I feel like everybody had a floppy of random games their uncle gave them.
Thank you for this. I played this often back on my first computer. I saved a copy of the game, mainly because I played it with my grandmother sometimes. And while she is long gone now, I still have that game with her name in the Champs list to remember those times with her.
Breakfast and LGR! Today is a good day
You just brought back a ton of memories. This is one of the only games that my family gathered together to play. That only happened a couple of times but I still remember it. I also remember the computer opponents either being dumb as hell or instantly knowing the phrase without giving the player any leeway. Or maybe its just because I was a dumb kid and didn't know the phrases.
It's time for LGR *Wheel Of FORTUNE* !!!
My cousin had this DOS version and we used to play it all the time at her house! It brings back so many memories I have of her.
Presented in glorious Rasta Vision™
If you ask me, the best Wheel of Fortune video game is on the Wii. It includes Pat _and_ Vanna, both of them voiced, and supports the Wii Speak for calling out letters.
Z, 4, Q, another Q, ah... a third Q and the batman symbol
Thank you for making this video. It brought back so many memories of me and my family playing this on my first computer in the 80's. I completely forgot about it until I saw the thumbnail.
There's a DOS game that I miss a lot from my childhood, I think I it all the time in 1999, when I was like 6 I guess, the title screen music was a lullaby, and the game was sort of an action puzzle with a top down perspective, and the floor was big squares, there were lasers to avoid, and some baddies. Also the main character was like aa brown ball... My brother used to tell me he was a tennis ball, but I can't remember clearly.
If anyone could clue me into what this game was called, I would appreciate it a lot
Jonatan Guluarte chips challenge maaaaybe.
Mark Trudeau it does look very similar to what I remember, but it's not quite it, since it doesn't have the lullaby at the beginning, and I remember the main character being a spherical guy instead of a human.
Maybe it was "Rollin"
puterwizjake You know what? The cover for Rollin looks exactly like the thing I remember. So similar that it could be it, although I checked videos and the gameplay doesn't ring any bells... So it could be Rollin and I just don't remember the gameplay as well a I thought, or it could be another game with exactly this cover concept www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/r/rollin-2v4/rollin_1.png
Oxyd? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyd
Oh, this brings back memories. Mom, Dad, and I would gather around the IBM PS/2 and play the first three versions of Wheel. Thanks for the nostalgia!
you got some really sharp screen capture of that ibm wow
Wow? I think you mean, 'WOF'
I will just watch anything from you. The smooth jazzy music and calm pacing just make your videos relaxing.
Q, Q, Q, another Q, and the Batman symbol.
Mace 2.0 🤣😭 Oh that Peter Griffin lol
Lol..:-)
Ok, no help there
This brings back so many memories of playing this on my dad's 386 Gateway 2000 when I was a kid. Every time my parents stumble across an old box of floppys somewhere in their house, there is usually one of them with a backup copy of it.
I vaguely remember that game from a school pc in my childhood. Only we played it on a green monochrome monitor.
Edit
I spy with my little eye a woodgrain 486!
As someone who didn't play a whole lot of video games when I was a kid, it's very nice with these kinds of videos where I can second-hand experience some retro gaming, but still from an adult's perspective. It's fun to hear about your nostalgia so, that's why I'm here and that's why I'll watch anything (by you) :)
Yay! It's time for an LGR thing! :)
I remember having this on the family Amstrad PC1512, and the tune played on solving a puzzle - it was a classical piece that I can't recall the name of that this very moment. I was not very good at the game, but I later became interested in the TV show (likely because we had this game).
We also had a version of Jeopardy on the same machine and it also played an accurate (if primitive) PC speaker version of that show's theme song.
Don't mind me. Just lurking around the Monday retro goodness. Used to play the heck out of this game.
I'm watching because this is actually the first computer game I ever played. In '92 or '93 my dad was given an old IBM machine from a work friend of his, and that was the first computer our family ever had. It came with this game, though we played it on an orange and black monochrome monitor. Had to have been a 10 year old machine at that point that he'd replace the next year with a windows 3.1 machine that came with many games including King's Quest 6, Doom/Wolfenstein 3d/Commander Keen shareware, Jill of the Jungle, and so many others. This is highly nostalgic for the earliest time in my life using a computer, and I'm watching this now as a 30 year old in one of my IT classes.
APPLAUSE!! APPLAUSE!!
bgh179
Please clap
Oh geez! My family had a copy of the first edition. I used to play it on a custom-built IBM compatible. I didn't have much in the way of games outside of some old-ish ASCII games (including a little ASCII pyramid adventure game that I can't find any trace of anymore), so this brings back a LOT of memories.
Every game is shareware if your scruples are loose enough.
That is the funniest and yet most true statement I've ever read.
This and Family Feud were my first PC games. I've been having fun revisiting these on my Bondwell B200 laptop (In monochrome CGA) and my Toshiba Windows 98 laptop. Thanks for covering this one!
"And it [high score] sticks around in a .DAT file in a DOS program for decades. Such is life."
The hours I spent playing this back in the day. And when I watched the Wheel for the first time in many a year and saw that Vanna just touched screens instead of flipping the letters, it was quite the shock. Thanks for covering this game LGR. :)
wof wof
you okay man?
Who's there?
Hey Poppy!
Arsenio Hall? Dang, I'm old.
I loved playing this back in the early 90's. I spent hours playing this on a old Packard Bell 486 computer and I always thought "Vanna" was wearing roller skates though.
Clint I have to ask you if you have a loving wife who gets to hear that sweet soothing voice every day because if not boy do I have an offer for you.
I used to play this so much on our really, really old computer that someone gave to us. Unfortunately, I do not remember what it was but it was my introduction to command line. This game, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, and a few others ate up a lot of my time.
This was one of the very first video games I have ever played on DOS. Just listening to the PC speaker music just brings me back some good memories. One of the many things that kept me out of trouble when I was 6-7 years old.
I used to play this game a lot when I was growing up! Such fond memories of playing all three contestants just to get as many guesses as possible :)
Oh man, the nostalgia is real for this one. I definitely played the hell out of this game in the early nineties, despite being too young to actually solve many of the puzzles correctly. I also remember playing a version of Wheel of Fortune that was included with a box of cereal in the early 2000s, and I believe that one only had Vanna White in it as the main host, dispensing with Pat Sajak entirely.
I used to play this WOF DOS game a lot back around 1990 or so. We had a commodore pc compatible with a 4MHz CPU that would turbo to 7MHz. At one point a math co-processor was installed. And a CGA green monochrome monitor!
Classic memories as a kid playing this, Jeopardy, Family Feud, and Classic Concentration on my gram's Tandy 1000EX. I still fire it up from time to time when I visit.
I had this version back in the late 1980s! We had a computer with the brand name "Leading Technology" (not sure if anyone has ever heard of it), but we had tons of computer games for it.
I have fond memories of playing this in middle school on an old IBM PS2. Thanks for making my day!
I grew up playing this with my mom and brother! At the time, he was studying for his computer science degree. Ah, little me learned how to program around this time when we weren't playing the game. I even remember typing the guesses for my family members who didn't use computers. Ah, thanks for bringing back the memories!
Ho-leeee crap, dude. I had completely forgotten about this game. I remember around the age of 4 visiting my Aunt and Uncle, who in addition to having an NES, they also had a PC. I played endless hours of this, Classic Concentration, Police Quest, Life or Death, and the Hoyle Book of Games.
They were the reason I ended up asking for and getting my first PC for Christmas one year. They were always buying the latest tech, and when they upgraded to a new 486, I was gifted their old 386 system. I know it was a pointless story, but seeing this game brought it all back.
I honestly want to think that this is one of the very first computer games that I ever played, period. Had an old Tandy from the late 1980s where you put the disk for MS-DOS in the bottom disk drive and the game in the top, and played that in the early 1990s...and this was when they still made the floppy disks that actually were floppy. Everything about this game - and Sharedata's Jeopardy!, which we also had - stays with me to this day. Heck, when we got a Tandy with Deskmate in 1992, we had to get the 3 1/2" diskette with that and Jeopardy built in. Sharedata made some pretty games with this and Jeopardy.
I really need to play this again. It's still SOOOO good.
I will watch almost anything you make, because you're very entertaining to listen to just ramble on about anything. Keep on keeping on! Thanks for still posting a video even if it wasn't what you planned!
Used to play this at my grandparents in the early 90s. Good stuff. Much memories :)
You've now covered the two games I remember playing on my grandmother's monochrome AT&T 6300: this, and World Class Leader board. Thanks for the ultimate nostalgia.
My family used to play this together on our Tandy 1000SX and I miss those days so much.
I remember playing the hell out of this game on the computer at the After School program I used to attend. It was one of the few activities they had geared toward the older children (5-6 graders)
I remember playing this on the family Tandy as a kid in the early 90's. Thank you for the nostalgia.
They had this on the Apple computers at my school. And like Oregon Trail, I don't recall ever actually playing it until they upgraded the computer lab to brand-new Windows 98 machines and moved all the Apples into the classrooms for us to play with during study hall.
I grew up with this one and jeopardy. That PC speaker tune really takes me back!
This probably the first game I ever played way back in the mid 80s. I almost forgot about this game. Thanks for taking me back.
LGR quickies like this remind me of the "Celebrate the moments of your lives" campaign & jingle from General Foods International Coffees
I would play this at my cousins' house all the time! Thanks for the nostalgia.
Wow! Flashback. I remember playing this way back when...thanks!
I do like watching anything you do Clint!!! I have memories of borrowed copies of WOF, boy pre modem days are nostalgic!!!
Haha wow, to see a video of this pop-up. Had this game on our 1st hand me down/used 386 my mom got from one of her computer wiz co-workers in the 90's. (He was an upgrade freak, 386,486,Pentium) any upgrade. Gave us a 30MB HDD as well. On that drive we had this version WOF pre-loaded, along with LSL1, Hero's Quest 1, Wolf 3D, and Eye of the Beholder AD&D, good times on that machine. Having a 2400 ISA baud modem, EGA, and adlib card also kicked a
Great video. Brought back memories! I even remember the tune too - never heard the original it was based on in Australia.
I remember this one... I also had Castle, Captain Comet, some fishing game, a bunch of Apogee shareware...
I still play this with my daughter in Dosbox. I used to play with my Mother back in the day on my IBM.
I loved playing this on my old Compaq Portable. Thanks for the rememories!
I’m crying because this is the game my
Papa first showed me when I was like 6 and getting into computers. It was our only common interest. If he were alive today i think he’d be loving how crazy tech has gotten. That music just triggered such an intense memory and emotion in me.
There is the NES ROM hack of Wheel of Fortune called Gamer's Edition which replaces all the puzzles with video game related puzzles, as well as player default names being replaced with various video game characters.
Yes, Duke Nukem is in it. lolz
Oh man, I used to play this with my sister and Dad all the time as a kid. So incredibly nostalgic.
Here in the netherlands, we got one in Dutch. With a low-res smiling facepic of the (hot) assistant sliding across the screen to reveal the letters. Hilarious in retrospect.
This is one of the first computer dos games I had as a child. that, including Prince of Persia, Captain Comic, The Solitaire Collection, some Donkey Kong knockoff (cant recall its name but I've seen it floating around some abandonware sites) amongst other things that I cant recall off the top of my head.
I cant exactly recall the make and model of the PC, but my uncle had surprised me with it one Christmas by setting it up on my grandparents dining table. It had some UI that you can customize icons for different programs on it. I loved that damned thing even though I still played my NES more and I used the computer mostly to toy around with the dos-ish paint program and type dumb stories in the text editor.
Anyway, Wheel of Fortune was one of the games I first got with it... hearing that computer beep tune of the theme really struck the feels for me.
My mother was on the show 30 years ago. A friend of hers had this and she went over to her house and played it occasionally to prepare.
I remember playing this version of Wheel when I was in grade school before they upgraded the DOS computers! Memories~
Love this. Played it a lot when I got my first PC clone back in the day.
Oh yeah we had a dutch version here and me and my friend played it so much we knew all the words in the end and we still kept playing it. Thanx for the trip down memory lane. Now let's hope i don't get nightmares of the show host pixelated face.
Vanna was prominently featured in the Windows 3.1 version "Wheel of Fortune Deluxe" (it's on the Software Archive) which lives on my 486. But this version (DOS) holds a special place in my heart for all the times I used it as a break from Monkey Island.
Wow, I'm getting a serious wave of nostalgia. I remember having this game on my Tandy 1000 back in the day.
Oh man did this bring me back to kid days I had a copy and played all the time it just brought me back thanks again LGR
I actually remember playing this game when I was a kid, same with Jeopardy, Hero Quest and Leisure Suit Larry (I was really good at solving the 'are you 18' questions for that one). You're making me miss my childhood X'D
This is one of the games I played with my mom when I was little, who sadly passed away. Man, at least I still have fond, nostalgic memories about us :'(
I remember playing this on our first PC as a kid. Undefeated WoF champion at my house to this day.
I've been trying to find this (not so shareware) version of WoF for a while now. It was included with a pack of shareware floppies I had as a kid. Thanks for the memories!
I don't know that I'd watch just anything but I definitely watched this! I remember playing this game way back when...the memories!!!
We had this on our class computer in grade 6- but for some reason it only ever played ONE PUZZLE. "A stitch in time saves nine". That was it, every. single. time. same exact puzzle. No idea why, maybe corrupted files? We still played it every single lunchtime