Unique Pricing game lineups

[namnhu12]

Inspired by lineups that occurred last Tuesday and Thursday (essentially 2 cookie cutter lineups), I wanted to ask this:  What pricing game (current or retired) made a lineup very unique.  My answer would be Fortune Hunter.  It was the only 4P(multi prizer/Cash) game on the show.  I noticed in the 2 years it was played, that you had a variety of games that were played alongside with it.

[Alfonzo]

Easily for me, Walk of Fame. I always felt that it was retired because it was a four prize game that took an awkward amount of time to play. The car game played with it in the same half often had to either be a quickie like Double Prices or Squeeze Play. The game had a cool reveal and presentation, but with the prizes it usually offered didn't warrant the time it took in the lineup.

[namnhu12]

Very good point, Alfonzo.  It seems to me any long multi-prizer created the most unique lineups such as the ncfc (non car games for cars) in a lot of instances.  You could even go one step further and say when Punch, Grand, and Plinko was played with no car games in the same half from 1978 to about 1984/1985.  You would see more Danger Price/Poker Game/Take Two/Race Game played.

[actual_retail_tice]

I don't understand why they didn't just make Walk of Fame be a car game to begin with. It would have made more sense.

[namnhu12]

Tice,

So you would have made Walk of Fame, a 2nd multi prizer/Car game like Temptation?  Temptation seems to make unusual lineups in the past, although, now, you probably would see a long of shorter games paired with it.

[Joe]

My answer would be Fortune Hunter.  It was the only 4P(multi prizer/Cash) game on the show.

Unless of course you count Step Up, which was also played for four prizes and cash.

[namnhu12]

Joe,

Excellent point.  Step Up did create some very unusual games played together.

[SteveGavazzi]

Unless of course you count Step Up

Which you shouldn't, because it wasn't a cash game.

[Alfonzo]

Steve is correct. Step Up, like Buy or Sell or Barker's Marker$ was a game in which cash was attached to the prizes. Furthermore, all three games were in lineups in which a true cash game like Plinko or Grand Game was played. Fortune Hunter played for $5000 with prizes attached to the cash. Fortune Hunter was never played with cash games.

[CaptainPrice]

Remember the episode that had the debut of Switch? It caused Temptation to appear as the 4th game. This was rare at the time before they returned to the practice of regular car games 4th in 2005.

[wink87]

It's also rare to see Double Prices scheduled in a slot such as 1st, 2nd, or 5th. Heck, I remember a couple of schedules with Double Prices following Golden Road!

[Alfonzo]

The Phone Home was always slotted second or third. This and Golden Road were the only two pricing games that lasted more than one season that were only played in a certain half (Super Ball!! was actually played FIFTH in its debut!)

[William]

Easily for me, Walk of Fame. I always felt that it was retired because it was a four prize game that took an awkward amount of time to play. The car game played with it in the same half often had to either be a quickie like Double Prices or Squeeze Play.

Do you know of a specific date of this happening? Based on the pricing game calendars, there doesn't seem to be any confirmed example of this kind of lineup in the game's lifespan.

[Alfonzo]

While not necessarily in the same half, there was an episode I recently saw on YouTube in which Squeeze Play was the car game for the second half. Walk of Fame was played in the first half alongside four-digit 3 Strikes.

EDIT: The January 27th, 1984 lineup, per www.tpirstats.com:

Any Number
Trader Bob
Clock Game

Walk of Fame
Now....and Then
Double Prices (Played for a car).

Granted, it might not have happened as often as I remember it, but nine year old me DID remember seeing it more than once.

[namnhu12]

I will also add that during Season 28, Roger would play back to back car games. 

1) SEason 28 debut: Any Number/Let 'Em Roll (Debut)/Double Prices/Most Expensive/Plinko/Money Game

2) January 3rd, 2000 (the Aaron Paul and Rob Rosa episode): Spelling Bee/Dice Game/One Wrong Price/Barker's Bargain Bar/Card Game/Now Or Then

3) February 11th, 2000: 5 Price Tags/Cover Up/Eazy As 1-2-3/Now Or Then/Card Game/Switch?