Press Your Luck DVD
by Imagination
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: ImaginationBrand: Imagination Entertainment
Format: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2007-06-01
Model: 4057
Product features:
- Which way will your luck turn on the "Big Board"?
- You can win bundles of cash and prizes, or could be taken to the cleaners by a nasty WHAMMY!
- It's a game for the whole family
- hosted by veteran television personality, Todd Newton
- iParenting Award for "Outstanding Products of 2007"
Toys and Games Reviews of Press Your Luck DVD
Customer Review: Whammy Madness!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Back in the 1980's game shows seemed to be at the high points of television. Still, there are very few games that were original and straight from the heart, while there were so many shows that've been revived. Classics like Family Feud had a second coming with then host, Ray Combs who tragically died in 1996, few classics like Scrabble were organic that delivered. More remakes like Name That Tune, Card Sharks & The Newlywed Game had new versions, and it seemed like the end of original shows. Press Your Luck was one of the few that broke that mold. During the shows' 3 year run on CBS from 1983-1986, it brought so much joy and laughter from the late host Peter Tomarken, who sadly was killed in a plane crash in 2006, and those irrestible pesky but always loving whammies!!. Now, the often overshadowed game show has finally been made into a DVD board game, but does it actually deliver?
Press Your Luck, is the latest in a long line of game shows being released on DVD, as a video game. The game adaptation of the classic show does a mostly adequate job of reintroducing a great game show to a whole new audience. The game features Todd Newton as the host, who is also no stranger to game shows on the computer and DVD. He was the host of GSN's revised version of the classic show, Whammy!: The All New Press Your Luck, and delivered as the guest host for the DVD game of The Price Is Right, and for Family Feud from Global Star on the Playstation 2, and P.C. Todd delivers nicely in the place Peter left behind as host, and delivers a unique and down to Earth appeal in introducing the game to new gamers. The questions that you earn spins to the board range from general knowledge, to pop culture in movies and entertainment. When you complete the question round, you take your spins to the big board for big bucks.
The producers did a great job of remastering and designing the classic look the show brought to viewers from the 80's, all the way to the great ways the whammy takes your money from a basketball player, to a whammy from outer space invading Earth. Still, there are a few disadvantages though to the game that makes gameplay a miss to die hard fans. The first disadvantage is that the game sometimes losses control on the spin count. The spin count doesn't seperate the spins that were passed to one contestant, and the ones that were earned from the question rounds. That does make that confusion tough for those who're keeping count on strategy with all the spins they're playing. Another disadvantage does deal with passed spins. On the classic game show itself, if you had any passed spins left over after you stopped a spin on a whammy, the passed spins would transfer into the earned column, allowing you to have the control to either play them or pass them to another player. Because of that flaw, it makes the gameplay a bit tougher to play and mistakes spins as spins you'd still be forced to take afterwards.
Although there were a couple of errors, Press Your Luck tries and mostly delivers on a great game show that continues to reach audiences young and old, which currently has been a part of the lineup on Game Show Network. I just wish some things could've delivered better. If you haven't seen the original show before, it is a welcome buy for DVD owners, but you might have a hard time finding this in the stores, where other games like Deal Or No Deal and The Newlywed Game or in much more toy aisles.
Graphics: B+
Gameplay: C+
Price: B-
Fun & Enjoyment: C+ for solo players; B- for multiplayer action
Overall: B-
Description of Press Your Luck DVD
Press Your Luck. The classic TV game show is now a fantastic home DVD game! Take a spin on the game board to win some big money and prizes, but watch out for the whammies or you'll be left with nothing. Based on the popular TV game show, this challenging DVD game is full of fun and surprises. It's a game for the whole family full of trivia, tactics, choices and chances. Hosted by veteran television personality, Todd Newton. For two to four players.DVD Games Toys
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