| Host: Dustin Dumovich Announcers: Dean Rogers, Jim Williams, Carl Chenier, Eric Butler Gametime: Monday, Wednesday, Friday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Gameplay: ICG's Sale closely resembles the 1983-89 NBC version hosted by the consummate salesman, Jim Perry. Three players compete in this quizzer. Each contestant starts out with $20 and is asked a question. First to buzz in gets the only crack at the question. If they're right, they get $5. If they're wrong, they lose $5. Standard quiz questions are told until one of two mini games, Instant Bargain or Fame Game, are played. The Instant Bargain gives the player(s) in the lead the chance to use their earnings to buy a great prize for some of their money. The host uses the power of persuasion to reduce the price or add money to the deal as incentive for the leader to buy the item. Any instant bargains bought are bonus prizes kept regardless of the outcome. The Fame Game involves a description of a famous person, place, or thing beign described sentence by sentence until a player buzzes in with the correct answer. The winning player must (a la PYL) stop a flashing board of 9 numbers, behind certain numbers at various points are $10, $15, and $25 money cards that add those values to the player's game total. Other bonus prizes are added to the remaining numbers. After 3 instant bargains and 3 Fame Games comes the 60 second Speed Round where the rules are the same as the standard quiz, except that right answers add $10 while wrong answers subtract $10 from one's score. The person with the most bucks, wins and goes to the bonus game. This version of Sale errs to the shopping format bonus game. Thousands of dollars worth of prices are available at low Sale prices of a couple of hundred dollars. The winner simply decides if he or she will use the money and purchase one of the prizes or keep their money and return to accumulate more money and hope to stay on long enough to be able to buy the whole lot of prizes and a jackpot that starts at $100,000 and goes up $1,000 each day it's not won. Interesting notes in YIM Sale of the Century: Dustin Dumovich (Scrabble, Wipeout, Name That Tune) also developed a program that looks incredibly like the 80s Sale set in order to keep track of scores and add sound to the gaming experience. YIM Sale may be the only YIM game show to employ four different announcers that rotate announcing every couple of shows (a la the 80s Pyramid). |
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| Host: Dustin Dumovich Announcers: Dean Rogers, Jim Williams, Carl Chenier, Eric Butler Gametime: Monday, Wednesday, Friday evenings at 7:00 p.m. Gameplay: ICG's Sale closely resembles the 1983-89 NBC version hosted by the consummate salesman, Jim Perry. Three players compete in this quizzer. Each contestant starts out with $20 and is asked a question. First to buzz in gets the only crack at the question. If they're right, they get $5. If they're wrong, they lose $5. Standard quiz questions are told until one of two mini games, Instant Bargain or Fame Game, are played. The Instant Bargain gives the player(s) in the lead the chance to use their earnings to buy a great prize for some of their money. The host uses the power of persuasion to reduce the price or add money to the deal as incentive for the leader to buy the item. Any instant bargains bought are bonus prizes kept regardless of the outcome. The Fame Game involves a description of a famous person, place, or thing beign described sentence by sentence until a player buzzes in with the correct answer. The winning player must (a la PYL) stop a flashing board of 9 numbers, behind certain numbers at various points are $10, $15, and $25 money cards that add those values to the player's game total. Other bonus prizes are added to the remaining numbers. After 3 instant bargains and 3 Fame Games comes the 60 second Speed Round where the rules are the same as the standard quiz, except that right answers add $10 while wrong answers subtract $10 from one's score. The person with the most bucks, wins and goes to the bonus game. This version of Sale errs to the shopping format bonus game. Thousands of dollars worth of prices are available at low Sale prices of a couple of hundred dollars. The winner simply decides if he or she will use the money and purchase one of the prizes or keep their money and return to accumulate more money and hope to stay on long enough to be able to buy the whole lot of prizes and a jackpot that starts at $100,000 and goes up $1,000 each day it's not won. Interesting notes in YIM Sale of the Century: Dustin Dumovich (Scrabble, Wipeout, Name That Tune) also developed a program that looks incredibly like the 80s Sale set in order to keep track of scores and add sound to the gaming experience. YIM Sale may be the only YIM game show to employ four different announcers that rotate announcing every couple of shows (a la the 80s Pyramid). |