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Who exactly was playing the original Wheel of Fortune game? Hobos, winos, and lonely bartenders? This version is specifically for people who have procreated and the results of that procreation. Same damn game yet again! How could they possibly have graced us with such splendor in the same month as Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit and Fisher-Price: I Can Remember? It was a great month to be an NES owner, wouldn't you say?

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only FIVE months later, in March 1990, GameTek did it a THIRD time with Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition. That seems a little indolent, a little slothful if you will, but if kids were finding the original game too difficult, I suppose we should help them out a little.

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Then, a year later, in October 1989, GameTek dropped another bombshell on us in the form of Wheel of Fortune: Junior Edition, aimed at the younger crowd, using the same code, graphics, music, everything. Rare develops a game based on the ever-popular American television game show Wheel of Fortune, and GameTek, an up-and-coming fresh-faced publisher, sent it out to all the lovely game stores in America.

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