The company closed its doors for good in July 1998. While mostly releasing game show titles (most of which were Wheel and Jeopardy!), GameTek attempted to branch out into other genres to little success. The original First Edition release promoted a sweepstakes ending that New Year's Eve, in which winners received a trip to Hollywood to see the show plus a $2,000 shopping spree on Rodeo Drive.Įasily the most recognizable producer of Wheel titles. Second Edition and Third Edition each have a zoomed-in shot of the puzzle board with title. The 'only vowels left' cue is the 'correct letter' sound played five times in succession.įirst Edition has two different covers: the original has the puzzle board with title and Wheel with 1986 Round 1 template but not hooked up to its flippers the second has the Wheel with flippers and the title shown in puzzle board form as seen on the previous artwork. The solve cues for the MS-DOS and the Commodore 64 are a loop of the first few bars of John Phillip Sousa's 'Stars & Stripes Forever', while the Apple II uses a rendition of the solve cue used on the show at the time. The Commodore 64 version's Bonus Round prizes are very generic: an $11,050 car, a $10,000 boat, and a $12,000 vacation, although on the Second Edition, the vacation is replaced with a $120,000 house, making this the first ever home adaption to offer a six-figure prize. The available Bonus Round prizes are an $8,000 luxury bedroom set, a $10,500 American sports car (although the Apple II version incorrectly values it at $13,500), a $9,750 17' fishing boat (18' catamaran on the Apple II version), and an $11,200 dream vacation. Additionally, Lose A Turn is known as 'Lose Turn', like in many of the games that GameTek would later release. All MS-DOS and Apple II versions from this period use the nighttime 1985 layouts (albeit with $200 in place of the sole $150 in Round 2, perhaps to increase the minimum value to $200 the Apple II version also reverses the layouts) and the five-and-a-vowel format in the Bonus Round. The Commodore 64 versions use layouts based on Pressman's 1985 board game, although the top values are $750/ $1,000/ $5,000 and the three special spaces are kept an equal distance from each other.

The first video game version was released in August 1987 on the MS-DOS and Commodore 64, and January 1988 for the Apple II Second Edition and Third Edition were released for the MS-DOS, Commodore 64 and Apple II in June 1988 and February 1989 respectively.

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