Walk of Fame (pricing game)
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Walk of Fame was a pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right. Played from November 4, 1983 through November 27, 1985, it was played for four prizes: one worth between $10 and $100; one worth between $100 and $1,000; and two worth more than $1,000.
[edit] Gameplay
The contestant was shown the four prizes and then asked to guess the price of the first prize within a certain range above or below the actual retail price. If the contestant was correct, they won the prize.
So long as the contestant made correct guesses, the process was repeated for each of the four prizes with an increased range for each prize.
If at any point the player's guess was outside the required range for a prize, the contestant lost that particular prize. They were given one opportunity to continue the game (unless the wrong guess was on the final prize): Two autograph books filled with the autographs of the show's cast were shown to the contestant, one of which also contained the words "second chance" stamped inside. The contestant chose one of the books; if they chose the one marked "second chance", they continued on with the next prize; otherwise, the game ended, and the contestant kept any prizes they had won and the autograph book they had chosen. The only way to win nothing in this game was to guess outside the range of the first prize and then choose a book that was not marked "second chance."
If the contestant chose the "second chance" book, and subsequently made another mistake, the game ended, with the contestant still keeping the prizes they had won and their autograph book. If the contestant gave a bid that was outside the required range of the price of the final prize, they lost that prize and the contestant could not earn a "second chance" to win that prize.
The signatures in the autograph books were those of Bob Barker, Johnny Olson, Dian Parkinson, Holly Hallstrom, and Janice Pennington.
[edit] History
The range for the first prize in the first playing of Walk of Fame was $10, and the game used three autograph books, only one of which was marked "second chance". The contestant proceeded to lose the game on the first prize. The pricing ranges were revised by the game's second playing, and were actually varied for each playing.
After Johnny Olson's death in October 1985, the final playings of Walk of Fame made no mention of signatures (either on-camera or by Barker) in either of the books; he simply revealed whether the words "second chance" were found inside.
[edit] Retirement
The producers reasoned that inflation was causing Walk of Fame to become too difficult to win.
