Classic Press Your Luck Java Game

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About this Software

This page contains a Java implementation of the 80's game show Press Your Luck. Note that this is not production-quality software. Note that this is not even complete yet. Please report any bugs to me at brian@oddchange.com.

The applet only works at 1024x768 resolution for the moment; if your browser window isn't at least that large, you won't be able to see everything.

Note that you will need the latest version of the Java Runtime Environment in order to run this program successfully. The latest version can be downloaded at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html. The newest JRE from Sun causes some problems under Internet Explorer. You may want to disable it after playing the game, by going into Control Panel and unchecking the plugin box. It works fine under Linux.

Starting the Game

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Instructions

More detailed instructions will follow at a later time. Basically the game is completely manual, like my previous DOS version of the game. However, everything is now mouse-driven rather than keyboard-driven.

The left mouse button over any object is used to perform the most common action on that object (this is subjective, of course). The right mouse button always pops up a menu that give you the full range of actions. (There are a few exceptions, but that's the gist of it.) On number boxes, left click at the top of the box to increment it, or the bottom of the box to decrement it.

Although this is intended to be a recreation of the 1983-86 game, I added the Big Bank so that the new version of Whammy! could be played.

Feedback

I'm not currently working on this software, but if you have suggestions, tell me and I will see what I can do.