Wheel of Fortune (Game Gear)

Wheel of Fortune

Game Gear - USA - 1st edition.

Developer Imagitec Design Publisher GameTek Published 1993-08-?? Platforms Game Gear Genres Licensed, Word game Themes Game Show Series Wheel of Fortune Multiplayer Alternating versus Distribution Commercial

Wheel of Fortune is a video game adaption of the television show developed by Imagitec Design and published by GameTek for the Game Gear in August, 1993.

The game is just a simple video game adaption of the TV show as it was played in the early 1990s.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	Yes. Two AI opponents. Score: $6,550.
Finished	2025-05-08.

Wanting to add more titles to my list of beaten games for the Game Gear, I choose this one because I assumed it would be a fairly easy victory. I beat it on my first attempt.

Review

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Best Version: Game Gear

Good

• It's a passable rendition of Wheel of Fortune for a portable console.
• You can play any combination of 3 human or 3 CPU players. So, if you want to watch the CPU beat itself, you can.

Bad

• Since it's just the bare bones TV show as it was in the 1980s, the game just isn't that much fun. It's not much more than competitive hangman.
• There are no difficulty settings for the AI. So, if you're too good or too bad at the game, it won't be much fun. I am by no means a Wheel of Fortune expert, but I still won the majority of rounds, so I can only imagine how easy the game is skilled players.
• Probably for legal reasons, the game doesn't mention Pat Sajak.
• The music has the game show theme, but it's still pretty weak.
• The ending is underwhelming.
• The letter entry doesn't roll around on the edges which slows down selection.
• The computer randomly selects its contestant graphics first making them unavailable for the human players.

Ugly

• The game is very slow paced. For most of the game, you're waiting either for the wheel to spin, your opponents to take their turn, your character to offer dull animations, or Vanna White to amble across the screen.
• The art is quite poor. The characters are ugly, the wheel looks more like a roulette wheel, and the studio is all wrong.

Media

Box Art

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  USA.

Documentation

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  Manual - USA.

Fonts

The fonts from the game are in the video game font collection.

Videos

Longplay.

Play Online

Game Gear

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	The game has Vanna White and female contestant options, but none are strong.
Bechdel test?	Fail	No women talk.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	You can choose a person of color as a contestant, but he's interchangeable.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

You can also choose an elderly woman, which is nice.

Links

       

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_Fortune_video_games - Wikipedia.