Cancelled Versions
In 1983, GameTek planned to release a version of Wheel, along with conversions of six other popular game shows (Jeopardy!, The Price Is Right, Family Feud, Password, The Joker's Wild, and Tic-Tac-Dough), for the Atari 2600. However, these plans were canceled when the North American video game crash of 1983 occurred. Since many felt that the Atari 2600 was not powerful enough to faithfully reproduce these games, it is believed that if these games had been developed and released, they would have been released as a hybrid video/board game (such as the Quest for Rings on the Odyssey2).
In 2004, Tiger Electronics teamed with VEIL Wireless Technologies to make a Wheel game which let home viewers play along with the actual TV show (similar to the 1988 Mattel game). The game, titled "Wheel of Fortune Live Play," was cancelled days before its intended release date because of technical issues. Despite its apparent cancellation, one unit was sold on eBay in December 2006 under the Parker Brothers brand name. Since it was packaged, the possibility if it being a prototype is small.
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