Post by germanname1990 on Dec 29, 2023 1:29:40 GMT -5
I know that I'm starting a topic in late December 2023 in regards to a home adpation that was released in 2009, but back on Wednesday, I got a variation that is not rare but still made me put in some work just to get it. After Googling Images of the game that were hosted by shopping sites and checking to see if I could get the game shipped to the United States, I managed to get the game through a listing that was on a French shopping branch of the Japanese financial company Rakuten. The seller actually sold me two copies, one of them boxed and with instructions!
Many of you probably know about the Deluxe Edition and the Platinum Edition with the gameplay mostly modeled after the Season 26 rules. Even so, Irwin Toys announced a Pass 'n Play version. As far as I know, no copies of the Pass 'n Play version are known to exist, but I do have some promotional pictures of it. I'm rather hesitant to show the pictures due to copyright concerns, but there was another version of Irwin Toys' game that at least some of you may not know about, although I've known about it for a while now. TF1 games, a division of the French channel TF1, released a French version of the Deluxe Edition in 2009, but I am happy to say that it's not a complete copy and paste job. In fact, it's far from it. For instance, values range from zero to 2000 euros, just like on the French version of the show at the time.
According to the instructions which I translated, here is what happens when some of the special spaces are landed on.
Hold Up steals the winnings of the opponent with the higher round score. It's replaced by a spot worth 200 euros.
Caverne automatically gives you 2500 euros in Round 3 and 2000 in Round 4 and allows you to spin again without having to choose a letter. Even so, during a test play, I landed on Caverne in Round 2 and automatically got 2500 euros. It's replaced by a spot worth 100 euros.
Voyage is similar to Caverne only it awards you 3500 euros.
The 10,000 euro Oreo wedge is there too, and it awards 10,000 euros regardless of how many times a correct consonant appears in the puzzle. It can be landed on multiple times.
Some aspects of the American Deluxe Edition, however, do carry over to this game. For example, if you land on Banqueroute, the American Bankrupt sound effect plays. If you hit Passe (Lose A Turn), the time's up buzzer from the American Bonus Round plays.
Speaking of Bonus Round, known as "La Finale" in the French version, it plays the same way as the American Bonus Round. RSTLNE are offered, and you choose three consonants and a vowel. You have 25 seconds to solve the puzzle according to the instructions.
Now I haven't been able to complete the test play due to the provided batteries (which had an expiration date of May 2014) going empty while I was in the middle of Round 2, but I bought a fresh new set of batteries and hope to check it out as soon as I can. I also hope to show videos of each in-game Wheel layout here at the Boards, but in the meantime, here's a photo down below with my Live Play game also wanting to say, "Fromage!" for the camera as Wednesday was also four years to the day I bought that off of eBay. As my Tiger and Tyco Wheel of Fortune collections are pretty much complete, so is my Irwin Toys Wheel of Fortune collection.
Many of you probably know about the Deluxe Edition and the Platinum Edition with the gameplay mostly modeled after the Season 26 rules. Even so, Irwin Toys announced a Pass 'n Play version. As far as I know, no copies of the Pass 'n Play version are known to exist, but I do have some promotional pictures of it. I'm rather hesitant to show the pictures due to copyright concerns, but there was another version of Irwin Toys' game that at least some of you may not know about, although I've known about it for a while now. TF1 games, a division of the French channel TF1, released a French version of the Deluxe Edition in 2009, but I am happy to say that it's not a complete copy and paste job. In fact, it's far from it. For instance, values range from zero to 2000 euros, just like on the French version of the show at the time.
According to the instructions which I translated, here is what happens when some of the special spaces are landed on.
Hold Up steals the winnings of the opponent with the higher round score. It's replaced by a spot worth 200 euros.
Caverne automatically gives you 2500 euros in Round 3 and 2000 in Round 4 and allows you to spin again without having to choose a letter. Even so, during a test play, I landed on Caverne in Round 2 and automatically got 2500 euros. It's replaced by a spot worth 100 euros.
Voyage is similar to Caverne only it awards you 3500 euros.
The 10,000 euro Oreo wedge is there too, and it awards 10,000 euros regardless of how many times a correct consonant appears in the puzzle. It can be landed on multiple times.
Some aspects of the American Deluxe Edition, however, do carry over to this game. For example, if you land on Banqueroute, the American Bankrupt sound effect plays. If you hit Passe (Lose A Turn), the time's up buzzer from the American Bonus Round plays.
Speaking of Bonus Round, known as "La Finale" in the French version, it plays the same way as the American Bonus Round. RSTLNE are offered, and you choose three consonants and a vowel. You have 25 seconds to solve the puzzle according to the instructions.
Now I haven't been able to complete the test play due to the provided batteries (which had an expiration date of May 2014) going empty while I was in the middle of Round 2, but I bought a fresh new set of batteries and hope to check it out as soon as I can. I also hope to show videos of each in-game Wheel layout here at the Boards, but in the meantime, here's a photo down below with my Live Play game also wanting to say, "Fromage!" for the camera as Wednesday was also four years to the day I bought that off of eBay. As my Tiger and Tyco Wheel of Fortune collections are pretty much complete, so is my Irwin Toys Wheel of Fortune collection.
