Thanks. This Pluto experience is very interesting for me. I have many memories of watching The Price is Right as a kid during the usual sick days and snow days. I have never seen the show since sometime before Bob's hair changed to white, never any new episodes or any reruns of the "brown hair era" episodes until now. There are many aspects of the game I remembered all my life, some of the catchphrases, some of the games, some of the rules. I never forgot the mountain climbing game with the yodeling or the big wheel of course. As I'm watching these episodes I feel completely familiar with the rhythm, such as the fact that there is a commercial break after the showcase bids are placed and before the winner is announced. Some of the games instantly ring a bell in my memory as I watch them on Pluto even if I had forgotten all about them, such as the check writing game, the safe crackers game, the poker game, the "ten chances" game, the "three strikes" game (distinctly remember seeing Bob jiggle the bag of discs), the game where the car tries to catch up to the other car, the running around to put price tags on four items game and really almost every game on this show.
But I have absolutely no memory of Plinko. As I heard people talking about it in the last couple weeks I was trying to remember what it was. I avoided looking up any videos of it so I'd see it for the first time during one of these episodes. But after seeing it, it doesn't ring a bell at all like the other games. I know it debuted in 1983. I wouldn't have guessed though that all of my memories of The Price is Right were from 1982 or earlier. That would mean age 6 was the highest age at which I watched it. In which case I may have only watched it before I started first grade. So maybe I didn't need a sick day to watch it. I know I went to kindergarten in the afternoon so I could've watched it in the morning before going. It's possible I watched it later and just never happened to catch Plinko. It's possible of course I saw it and forgot it. I definitely watched game shows in my youth that didn't even debut until after 1982 like Press Your Luck and Super Password. I already knew I didn't watch it after 1987 but now feel like I may never have watched it from 1983 onward.
