Wheel of Fortune (PC, 1994) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
259A playthrough of Sony Imagesoft's 1994 game show game for Windows 3.1, Wheel of Fortune.
This is a somewhat uncommon version of the PC game, but it's by far my favorite of the old ones. I only recently found out that it was actually developed alongside the Sega CD version. That certainly explains the similarities between the two versions in their presentations. This one is quite a bit less gaudy and more reserved, but it certainly trumps the Sega CD version with much cleaner video, better sound, and by far it's best inclusion - the blue-screen actors. This is hilarious! They have all sorts of random emoting clips based on how they do, and they all tell you a bit about themselves in some of the hammiest acting ever seen at the beginning. I couldn't help the sarcasm in naming the computer players - it was just way too easy.
This took forever to get running. On both Dosbox and my old Pentium PC, the Quicktime installation had gotten screwed up (sound familiar to anyone trying to play nearly ANY game on Win 3.1 in the early/mid 90s?) and wasn't being reasonable in trying to work despite my best attempts, so on both I ended up blowing away the entire Windows installation and starting again from scratch, with the version of Quicktime that the game shipped with. Oddly enough, that fixed it for Dosbox. My poor Pentium 200 with 3.11 installed... no such luck. So, maybe Dosbox is more accomodating to the horrible glitchy quirks of early Windows gaming than real hardware, but either way... if you want to play this, I'd absolutely recommend a clean install of Win 3.1 inside of Dosbox. It plays flawlessly, if you're lucky enough to not have anything get corrupted by looking at it the wrong way.
If you'd like to see it's console cousin, check out Wheel of Fortune for the Sega CD here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAZ2uYQ_QxU
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