Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares is a quiz game based on the television game show Hollywood Squares. Versions were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and Apple II. The game is based on the…
Hollywood Squares is a card & board game developed by GameTek, Inc., released 31 December 1988 on Nintendo Entertainment System, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Hollywood Squares is
Hollywood Squares is a card & board game game developed by GameTek, Inc. and released in 1988. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hollywood Squares is a quiz game based on the television game show Hollywood Squares. Versions were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and Apple II. The game is based on the 1986-1989 version hosted by John Davidson. The photo of the set is from the 1985 series pilot (the actual show had no gold stars on the studio floor and more elaborate risers for the cars). Players have to either agree or disagree with fictitious celebrities to earn squares and make tic-tac-toe. Much like the TV series, winning one of the first two games is worth $500, the third game is worth $1,000 and the second game is always the "Secret Square" game. The winner then goes on to the…
How it plays
Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Hollywood Squares series
Hollywood Squares is the first of 3 entries we hold in the Hollywood Squares series. The next entry was Hollywood Squares in 1999.
What it launched against
Hollywood Squares launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
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