Unreleased/Rare WOF Games

I'm very happy to see you finally get your hands on that game, germanname! Did you ask the seller where he got it originally?

Here's an eBay listing for the disks from a Windows version of WOF Deluxe Edition. It might be the Windows 3.1 version you already have, however. www.ebay.com/itm/Wheel-Of-Fortune-Deluxe-Edition-Floppy-Windows-NT-95-GameTek-1994/193291249544?hash=item2d010e6788:g:yV4AAOSwF7dcciXV

Can anybody find unreleased/scrapped/rare/lost footage of an unreleased app? If so, that would be wonderful.

I'm going to bump this one back up because I read something on Wikipedia about a Wheel of Fortune game for the Game Boy Color. It was cited to IGN I followed the link and it gave me a false release date of December 31, 1969. The only other information was that Majesco was to be the publisher. Any thoughts?

I'm going to bump this one back up again. If you go to Page 2 of this thread and scroll just after the halfway point, you'll see a February 2012 picture I posted of a CD-ROM with the 1986 Round 4 nighttime layout. It was a game made for the Apple Macintosh. As someone who never owned a Mac, I was left wondering what this 1993 game could be. As it turns out, it's just the 1991 PC version starring Vanna White only instead of being on a diskette, like on initial releases, it's on a CD-ROM. I don't know for sure why they did this considering it's the same game and they never made a CD-ROM counterpart (at least as far as I know) for the MS-DOS and Windows versions. Maybe it's because some Macintosh models had a CD-ROM drive yet not a disk drive and vice-versa?

In addition, I remember seeing the Macintosh CD-ROM version at Best Buy back around 1997 or so and being left very disappointed when I learned that my computer (which still runs on Windows 3.1 to this day) could not run Macintosh software. I would never see this very version again until just a few hours ago through this eBay listing.

www.ebay.com/itm/Wheel-of-Fortune-Featuring-Vanna-White-1993-Vintage-Mac-Game/324570073869

The bad news is that the listing ended half an hour ago as I type this up. The good news is that not only did I help myself to saving the pictures, but I was also the only bidder. Hopefully a few days from now, I'll have another rare piece of Wheel of Fortune home game history because this is actually the first Wheel of Fortune game to officially make it to a CD-ROM as opposed to Sony Imagesoft's games for the PC and SEGA CD which were released the following year. Now although I have multiple copies of this game already, I will also have the box for it. In the meantime, I'm still waiting for GameTek's 1996 Deluxe Edition that was exclusively designed for Windows 95.

I actually bought one on eBay after I read this LOL thank you

The game arrived yesterday to end 2022 on a good note for me, and unless you're an avid collector like I am, it's nothing too special. The only difference besides the puzzles and boxart is the font the Wheel uses. Instead of using Clarendon, it uses Times New Roman Bold instead, possibly to help distinguish between editions.

Now I remember seeing pictures of the second Travel Edition over at Board Game Geek years ago, and I started seeking it around the same time I got my Live Play game. I wasn't expecting it to be such a chore just to get it, but as time went on, I started to realize that this was a rare gem. When I finally found the listing for it on the evening of Christmas Day, the box was slightly worn, but everything inside looked like it had never been used. So I was very fortunate to get it in this good of a condition.

Now I made sure to send a nice thank you message to the seller promising her that I would take good care of it, even mentioning my Live Play game and how well I've been taking good care of it as well. Just two minutes later, she responded telling me that she was pleased to know how happy I was with it.

I'll post pictures soon. Other than that, Happy New Year, ladies and gentlemen!

Just a few days ago, over at Facebook's Game Show Memorabilia Museum, someone made a post regarding a 1993 Deluxe Wheel of Fortune board game from the Danbury Mint. It's essentially a beefed-up version of Tyco's Wheel of Fortune games only with 42 spaces on the Puzzle Board as opposed to just 33. The Wheel values are the same as Pressman and Tyco's Wheels, but the color scheme is much different. I don't know if this has been released or not (so far I found no evidence of anyone owning a copy; a quick Google Image search has also turned up nothing), but if it has, it probably would've been the most expensive home version of the show ever released as it had a price tag of some $500. Now even with a payment plan of about $50 per month, it still looks like something that only a few could afford back in 1993, especially considering that I read that many were trying to save up as much money as possible following an early nineties recession. That recession and its aftermath may have contributed to low sales of this home adaption.

Now I have the picture, but I'm rather hesitant to upload it here without permission. Even so, I plan on recreating the Wheel layout soon.