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(Lowell 1958)
(MB 1964) (Bid It Right: The Price Is Right Card Game)
Based very loosely on the TV show,
this simple card game based on out-guessing your opponents is actually
a good little strategy game in its own right.
(MB 1973) Three Editions (First Edition is The New Price Is Right)
The third edition is particularly
rare and prized by collectors.
(MB 1986)
(Endless Games 1999) Two Editions
The first Endless edition featured
exactly the same design and pricing games as the 1986 MB version.
The second Endless edition (2004) was a much more thoroughly developed
game featuring dozens of familiar (and more recent) pricing games from
the show.
(BCI 2008) COMING MARCH, 2008
26 episodes
of the long-running series, focussing on the Bob Barker version but including
at least some episodes of the original Bill Cullen one.
(GameTek 1990) Only one edition, called First Edition
(Ludia 2008) COMING SOON
What appears to be a very ambitious
downloadable computer version of TPIR is scheduled to be released in the
coming months. A preview video is available HERE
which shows graphic representations of many of the most popular pricing
games and features the voices of announcers Rich Fields and the late Rod
Roddy. (A Ludia developer later indicated on the Golden-Road.net
website that Roddy would not be featured in the final version. He
also indicated that the final version would feature 16 pricing games.)
(Ludia 2008) COMING SOON
In addition to the computer release
of the game above, the manufacturer also plans to release the game on the
Wii, Nintendo DS and XBox 360 platforms.
(Tiger 1998) Electronic LCD handheld game with two expansion cartridges.
(iToys 2008) COMING
FALL 2008 - ANNOUNCED AT TOYFAIR
According to Matt Scott, "It's brilliant.
Picture a little machine that kinda looks like a video poker game on one
side with buttons....on the other side of the table top, a miniture version
of Plinko! And, on the side of this contraption, a Showcase Showdown Wheel.
The box says ten games will be part of this, as will Drew. It looks absolutely
cool."
(Endless Games 2005)
Twelve pricing games, plus Contestant's
Row, the Showcase Showdown and the Showcases, all featuring generous use
of actual video, stills and sounds from the show. Todd Newton is
the (unseen) host, and the DVD also features images of some of the TPIR
models and prize descriptions read by announcers with TPIR experience.
According to the Endless Games website, a second DVD edition, this one
featuring Drew Carey is COMING SOON
(Endless Games 2008) COMING
SOON
At Toy Fair
2008, Endless Games announced a line of portable card games based on a
number of their game show licensees.
(Harper 2007) Come On Down! Behind the Big Doors at The Price
Is Right by Stan Blits
Blits, a long-time staffer, offers
a lively but sanitized look at the history and production of the show,
with no mention of the controversies the show weathered over the years.
Bob Barker provides a foreword which is all of 59 words long.
ORIGINAL 60s
THEME (Sixth Finger Tune):
On
the Sonny Burke and his Orchestra single Sixth Finger Tune
(Decca c1960)
Composed by Charles Strouse (Annie)
for a Broadway play called Sixth Finger in a Five Fingered Glove.
LATER 60s THEME:
On
the CD The Best of TV Quiz and Game Show Themes
(Varese Sarabande 2000)
This theme was later used on the
Goodson-Todman game Snap Judgment.
MODERN (1972-
)THEME:
On
the CD Classic TV Game Show Themes
(Varese Sarabande 1998)
Covered
on the CD Television's Greatest Hits Volume 6: Remote Control
(TVT 1996)
Remixed
for the Crystal Waters single Come On Down (Strictly Rhythm
2000)
The last one is an odd dance mix
by Paul Johnson.