Press Your Luck DVD

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $16.00

Features:

• Which way will your luck turn on the "Big Board"?
• You can win bundles of cash and prizes, or could be taken to the cleaners by a nasty WHAMMY!
• It's a game for the whole family
• hosted by veteran television personality, Todd Newton
• iParenting Award for "Outstanding Products of 2007"

Customer Reviews:

STOP... on a Whammy! [Posted on 2007-07-20]
When you walk into a video store and see games that are playable on a standard DVD player, you have to realize that these machines were not designed to play games - just menus and movies. So it's no surprise that there's going to be sacrifices made when trying to incorporate gameplay into what boils down to fancy menu navigation.

The "Press Your Luck" DVD game does remarkably well given the limitations. Todd Newton (who hosted the GSN remake of PYL, by the way), does a fine job of hosting. While you can't buzz in and answer the questions like the original show, the game solves this by giving each player at least one opportunity to answer a question for 3 spins, while the other players attempt to get one. The questions were challenging but not impossible, a treat when you remember how simple the trivia was on the original show.

Where "Press Your Luck" stumbles, unfortunately, is the Big Board round. Forget about using any strategy while playing - it's utterly and completely random. The bouncing lights and shifting slides are only for decoration. What you "land on" is determined by the same principles employed when choosing a card from a fanned-out deck. Would it even be possible for the game to play like the show on a DVD player? You know: one box at a time in a seemingly random but actually complex patterns, prizes and whammies shifting in set intervals. I really couldn't tell you for certain.

Less severe, but still nagging is the fact that you have to remember what the scores are on your own. The game doesn't remind you of opponents' winnings, which may mean the difference between spinning or passing.

Speaking of "passing": the game doesn't (or can't) employ the spin/pass rules that are detrimental to the strategy of past real-life contestants. On the show, when you are passed spins, you must take them until you use them up, earn them though extra spin spaces, or hit a Whammy. In the DVD game, it seems you have the option of passing "passed" spins back to someone else immediately - though there's a limit of one pass per round.

Also, it should be noted - the player with the most money should go LAST according to the show's rules (an advantage). The DVD game makes that person go first. Not detrimental really but worth noting.

On the plus side, the new Whammy animations are quite amusing and it's been something sorely missed from the otherwise brilliant homebrew versions fans have made and posted to the internet.

Overall, if you can get it for around $10, it's worth a look. The trivia is more than adequate and the threat of hitting a Whammy when you're in the lead and have just been passed a spin adds to the excitement and tension. Hard-core fans of the TV show, however, may be griping too much to enjoy it on the same level.

Love This Game! [Posted on 2007-09-24]
I absolutely loved this game! I didn't think Imagination Games would be able to capture all of the great elements that made Press Your Luck the great game show it is, but they did. Fans of the game show will enjoy playing the DVD game.

Bad games sold by Target  [Posted on 2007-09-27]
I waited several months for this game to come out. I ordered it through Amazon-Target. I received it finally and tried to play it and not only did it freeze all the time but also kept skipping and the sound was bad. Maybe I got a bad game but with all the technology in video games this game should have been better. Very disapointing.

Real fun for the whole family! [Posted on 2007-11-12]
This game totally brought me back to the TV show I used to watch years ago. Its really fun, and it looks like Imagination has added in some twists to the game that makes it more interesting. Highly recommended!!

Press Your Luck, opened it up straight from the box didnt even work!! [Posted on 2008-05-12]
I got this as a gift for a great friend only to find out that when she tried to play it,it didnt work at all. She was so excited to get this and come to find out that something was wrong with it. I just hope she was able to return it with the reciept that i had left. Thanks

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