The Price Is Right DVD
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Toys and Games Reviews of The Price Is Right DVD
Customer Review: Worth the money, fun for all fans, great party game!
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently, I started to become a TPIR Fan by noticing how clever and creative the games on the show has become. Add the fun with contestants, a host, and prizes, its why TPIR is still on CBS for 34 years.
You'll miss the comfort of interaction with Bob Barker, but considering that TPIR has not had any video game since a terrible 90 Commodor 64 game, this DVD came at the right time
when DVD's are added to the board game (no computer needed).
The game is complete with 6 whiteboards, 4 markers to write down the total prices.
They couldn't put all 40+ games they have done, but I love these games: 5 Price Tags, Cliff Hangers, Danger Price, Golden Road, Grand Game, Lucky 7, Most Expensive, Pass The Buck, Plinko, Push Over, Safe Crackers, and Shell Game.
Also, you can bid on Contestant Row's Products, spin Showcase Showdown's wheel, and compete in the final round selecting multiple choice to be "closer than the actual retail price without going over!"
*Pro: Easy set up, still shots of real products, great 3D view of the game show set, fun games that anyone can play, host explains instructions, play any part of the show, add a few video clips from the show, and 3D views of these games! All the wonderful music, graphics, and models are from the show!
*Con: Can't control the speed of the wheel, Todd Newton's voice and some of the price results are displayed too fast, different annoucners are used (Rich Fields, Rod Rodey, and Burton Richardson), and I've heard from others about control function problems. Finally, Bob Barker's not in it, although they hired Todd Newton, a great replacement.
Overall, this can be taken to a party with a DVD player, and everyone can play it with no set up. Although it's the first version, remember that a DVD can only contain so much and they certainally put a lot of effort into this game! I'd rather play this type of game on a TV, than installing a PC Game that may even still stall, or play TPIR's complex board game where someone has to read all the instructions before hand and know how to set up the game pieces, taking a lot of time.
Customer Review: Love the price is right... may never watch it again after playing this game
Summary: 1 Stars
I got the pleasure, or should I say displeasure of playing this game last night. Some friends had told me how much fun they had gotten out of the game when playing it (after having some alcohol) and I was excited to try it as I love trying new games. To my dismay, right out of the box, it comes with less dry erase pens then there are flimsy cardboard dry erase boards to play with. I understand contestant's row only has four players at a time, but we wanted everyone to play at once; they should have only included four dry erase boards).
The game play from the DVD menus was extremely choppy and needed better continuity. It would take a very patient person to play this game any really get a kick out of it. The prizes and prices were realistic but they were repeated within the first twenty minutes of game play - some sort of system should be in place on the disc to at the very LEAST order them in one specific order. This game looks like it was made about ten years ago and has very bad stills and clips from the actual show, it looks as if this game cost about $450 to make and they paid a twelve year old who is both a beginner at programming and Photoshop to do the work when he isn't delivering his paper route. Games like this make me sad for kids who have to endure the pain of playing it on Christmas day of their birthday as it will probably be in the trash by bedtime or even worse - on the way to a second-hand store where someone else is going to have to go through the pain of popping this game into their DVD player.
Unless you are very young and could enjoy the bright flashing colors and sounds from the game or very old and actually use some of the terrible products featured on the game, this 'game' is not for you. Go spend this money on a moderately priced meal at Applebee's because you will get much more pleasure out of that then you will playing this waste of time.
For as far as endless Price is Right goes, I wanted the 'fun' to stop within thirty minutes.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.
Customer Review: If I wrote code like this...
Summary: 1 Stars
The first time we played this game, when initially going to the "Contestant's Row" section, it put the same prize up, oh, I don't know - maybe 13 out of 20 times? This is one of the most blatant bugs you can have in a piece of software. In fact, I can't even go on enough as to how horrible this is - if I could get into negative numbers on handing out stars I would. Was there a testing team when this product was developed, or were they permanently out to lunch, playing Halo, or both? Would you like to know how easy it is to write code that WON'T show you the same product 13 out of 20 times when you return to Contestant's Row? It looks something like this:
Randomize
Call ContestRow()
Function ContestRow()
prize_number = Int((100 * Rnd) + 1)
DisplayPrize(prize_number)
End Function
Function DisplayPrize(number)
wscript.echo number
End Function
Doesn't look so big of task, does it? That is if you are a software developer. If I wrote code like the people that developed this game I would never sell anything due to the frequent requests of my customers to return their money, which leads me to believe that this product's software development was perhaps left in the hands of the Director of Marketing in an effort to cut costs? Or maybe it was the janitor...
Customer Review: A nice game, has solo features
Summary: 4 Stars
I got this game when it came out in 2004. There hadn't been a TPIR video game in years, so I was excited about it. It has 12 games, there's no way to fit 70 plus games on a disc. But the games are mostly popular ones. Plinko (natch), Cliff Hangers, Golden Road, Lucky Seven, Shell Game, Five Price Tags, Most Expensive, Safe Crackers and Danger Price are included. The game features an option to just play the games without the bidding portion, which I like. The games are randomly determined, but you never play the same game twice.
Now the not so good stuff. The products repeat, so you may start remembering the prices of things, which spoils the fun. You're given pads and markers, but it's up to you to keep track of what you've won, the game doesn't do it for you. It's a multitude of announcers, including the late Rod Roddy. When spinning the wheel, you have no control over it, and I believe it sets back to $1.00 for the second spin (not absolutely sure about that). It can only be assumed that Bob Barker would have commanded a high fee, so they hired Todd Newton for that job.
Overall, it has its flaws, but a good game to try out. Much better than the dreaded 2nd edition released.
Customer Review: Not "JUST LIKE THE REAL SHOW!"
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a huge Price is Right fan and this game was not "just like the real show" as they advertise. The game play is slow and choppy. You really have to know what you're supposed to be doing next to keep it moving at all. Also, to know who goes on to the next round, you're supposed to add up the value of your prizes... but they don't always tell you the value of the prizes! Speaking of the prizes it seems like fifty percent of the time the prize is "A NEW CAR!!" It is exciting the first few times, but then you start to get them every other turn and it isn't so exciting.
Overall, this game is really only fun if you make it so. After the first time few times playing I lost interest. We only bust it out when the right group of people is here to make it exciting.