The Price is Right
- Bring the TV show on the go
- Play all of the best pricing games
- Real moments from the show
- A party game for everyone
- Unlock classic moments
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COME ON DOWN!…The Price Is Right video game puts all the excitement of TV’s longest-running and most popular game show in the palm of your hands as it makes its debut on the Nintendo DS. Experience all of the classic moments from the show with up 4 people. You will hear your name called as you’re announced to “Come on Down!” to Contestant’s Row. Play all of the favorite pricing games, including Plinko, Cliff Hangers and Punch-A-Bunch. Spin the Wheel for the chance at the b… More >>
Don’t take the free shipping if you want to get it there in time!! I had two weeks before my husband’s birthday so I thought I had enough time. Boy was I wrong! The game came two weeks AFTER his birthday! The game was fine for the first week, then he was bored with it.
Rating: 2 / 5
“…and this showcase can be yours if The Price is Right!”
When I heard there was a game in the works, I was excited beyond reason. I immediately found and pre-ordered this game as quickly as I could. The weeks ticked by and finally, the day came when it arrived in my mailbox. I couldn’t tear through the wrapping fast enough. Turns out, I should’ve simply said “Return to Sender” from the very start.
This game, simply put, is HORRIBLY designed.
For LFATs like me (if you don’t know what it stands for you aren’t one, plain and simple), TPiR is represented by six PGs, two Showcase Showdowns, and the Showcase at the end of the show. Plain and simple. It’s fast, it’s funny, and it’s familiar.
Oh yeah, and it has a host too.
The flow of this game is ridiculous. Aside from the fact that it’s got a bunch of slowly scrolling text to represent the prize descriptions and explain the rules–scrolling text you can’t speed up–there’s a lot of time simply wasted on dissolves where cuts would do, slowing down the game considerably. More than that, you start out in Contestants’ Row, where with a brief spiel by the disembodied voice of announcer Rich Fields, to the accompaniment of a grainy, still photo of the prize you’re bidding on, you place your bid using the touch stylus.
Whether you in or lose the prize, you find yourself on stage to play a pricing game. If you lose an IUFB, you get a strike (the game operates on a “three strikes, you’re out” system) and then play a pricing game regardless. The developers had to make a few minor changes to the gameplay for games such as It’s in the Bag (they show you a product and you match a price to it), which is understandable–but what’s not understandable is why they scrimped on implementing a physics engine for Plinko so that the chips would fall in a realistic way; as it is, the chips you let loose fall down predetermined paths governed by a simple mathematical formula. I will admit however that it IS nice to see they didn’t leave out the sound of the falling chip as it negotiates its way down the board.
After each pricing game, you go straight to the Big Wheel. Lose there, and you’re back to Contestants’ Row to repeat the whole cycle.
And losing at the wheel is a virtual certainty, since unless you’re the final spinner or you get a dollar, it’s basically a certainty that you’ll get one-upped. Every time I’ve stayed on 95 cents, someone after me has gotten the dollar. And, in the unlikely event that you stop on the dollar, someone else ALWAYS ties you. And, to add insult to injury, I have NEVER won a spinoff.
I would strongly urge people to buy the PC version, as I just bought that and it’s TONS better. Get yours today:
The Price is Right
Rating: 1 / 5
Simple Review….I got the game and withing 2 days traded it in for something else…it was that boring for me not enough challenges.
Rating: 3 / 5
I ask because WHO is playing makes a BIG difference. I have watched Price Is Right (during the summers) many years. My 7 year old (the DS owner) has seen it often enough to recognize her favorite games. Someone asked WHY do you get to play if you can’t win on Contestant Row— Because that makes it VERY KID friendly! My 7 yo would have NO idea how much a gemstone inlaid globe costs… she would get frustrated pretty quickly if she never made it past contestant row!
The prices do seem off and the graphics are pretty rotten- but that doesn’t seem to matter to a 7 year old. She really likes the game and the Multi Player mode lets her pick which game she wants to play.
Its not fast- but who stops to play a game if they are in a big hurry?!?!
It’s one of her favorites.
Rating: 4 / 5
This game is fun Glad I got it. It came quickly and I was able to enjoy it without much waiting
Rating: 4 / 5