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** ''VideoGame/SmashTV'', an arcade game that can be described as a combination of ''The Running Man'' and ''RoboCop'', awards 'Our Exciting Home Game' as a prize in the final level. It goes meta in the console ports — you're awarded a Home Game ''in'' the Home Game!

* In ''Film/TheRunningMan'' film, an audience member who gets to choose the next stalker to send after Ahnold, is given a copy of The Running Man home game. It is not elaborated how the home game manages to recreate a game show that kills its contestants.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'', the Spanish Inquisition gives its victims the "Convert or Die" home game if they choose the latter in order to make their time on DeathRow more enjoyable.

** ''Scrabble'' then had its own home game entitled [[RecursiveAdaption TV Scrabble]].

** ''Scrabble'' then had its own home game entitled ''TV Scrabble''.

** ''SmashTV'', an arcade game that can be described as a combination of ''The Running Man'' and ''RoboCop'', awards 'Our Exciting Home Game' as a prize in the final level. It goes meta in the console ports — you're awarded a Home Game ''in'' the Home Game!

* A ''SaturdayNightLive'' sketch featured a game show called ''I'm Gonna Have Sex With your Wife''. It consists of the sleazy host taking each contestant's wife off-stage and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin having sex with them]]. At the end, the two runner-ups are given with the "''I'm Gonna Have Sex With your Wife'' home game":

*** "[[MemeticMutation Yo dawg, we heard you like homegames so we put a homegame in your homegame so you can game at home while you game at home!]]"

-->-- Don Pardo, '''WeirdAlYankovic''''s ''I Lost on Jeopardy!''

** ''SmashTV'', an arcade game that can be described as a combination of ''The Running Man'' and ''RoboCop'', awards 'Our Exciting Home Game' as a prize in the final level. It goes meta in the console ports — you're awarded a Home Game ''in'' the Home Game!

*** "[[MemeticMutation Yo dawg, we heard you like homegames so we put a homegame in your homegame so you can game at home whily you game at home!]]"

* In ''HomestarRunner'', Homestar's game/talk show "The Show" offers runners-up "a year's supply of our home game", according to the Strong Bad Email [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail136.html geddup noise]].

* Also featured is the opposite of this trope: game shows like ''{{Scrabble}}'', ''Trivial Pursuit'' and ''Pictionary'', which were, of course, home games made into game shows.

* In ''TheRunningMan'' film, an audience member who gets to choose the next stalker to send after Ahnold, is given a copy of The Running Man home game. It is not elaborated how the home game manages to recreate a game show that kills its contestants.

* In an episode of ''{{The Fairly OddParents}}'', a knight tries to pull out the Sword in the Stone, but apparently breaks his arm out doing it. He is then awarded the "Sword in the Stone Home Game"...and breaks his fingers trying to pull it out.

* In an episode of ''{{Histeria}}'', the Spanish Inquisition gives its victims the "Convert or Die" home game if they choose the latter in order to make their time on DeathRow more enjoyable.

-->-- Don Pardo, '''WeirdAlYankovic''''s ''I Lost On Jeopardy''

Home adaptations of television game shows are made mostly of paper, cardboard and plastic, and often the game play has to be changed significantly to fit the relevant constraints. Since the 1980s, many home games have been created for popular home computers and video game consoles. ''[=~Jeopardy!~=]'' and ''WheelOfFortune'' are probably two of the biggest examples in recent years, at least from the game show front.

* Also featured is the opposite of this trope: game shows like ''{{Scrabble}}'' and ''Pictionary'', which were, of course, home games made into game shows.

* In an episode of ''Histeria!'', the Spanish Inquisition gives their victims the "Convert or Die" home game if they choose the latter in order to make their time on DeathRow more enjoyable.
* In RatchetDeadlocked, the [[AnnouncerChatter announcer will occasionally remind viewers to purchase the Dreadzone Home Game.]] Given that Dreadzone is essentially a reality TV show about brutal gladiatorial combat, [[FridgeHorror well...]]

* Fictional game show ''Numberwang'' in ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' is revealed to have an equally overly complicated home game in a Series 2 sketch involving a pair of 400-sided dice that are too small to see with the human eye and a 37-volume rule book.

* In an episode of ''{{Histeria!}}'', the Spanish Inquisition gives their victims the "Convert or Die" home game if they choose the latter in order to make their time on DeathRow more enjoyable.

Home adaptations of television game shows are made mostly of paper, cardboard and plastic, and often the game play has to be changed significantly to fit the relevant constraints. Since the 1980s, many home games have been created for popular home computers and video game consoles. ''[=~Jeopardy!~=]'' and ''WheelOfFortune'' are probably two of the biggest examples in recent years, at least from the game show front ([[Tropers/PotatoBucket this troper]] doesn't know whether things like "American Idol" video games count or not).

Home adaptations of television game shows are made mostly of paper, cardboard and plastic, and often the game play has to be changed significantly to fit the relevant constraints. Since the 1980s, many home games have been created for popular home computers and video game consoles.

Fictional Examples:

* ''[=~Jeopardy!~=]'' and ''WheelOfFortune'' are probably two of the biggest examples in recent years, at least from the game show front ([[Tropers/PotatoBucket this troper]] doesn't know whether things like "American Idol" video games count or not).

-->-- '''WeirdAlYankovic''', ''I Lost On Jeopardy''

* When Garfield of ''GarfieldAndFriends'' has a DreamSequence and is a contestant on a game show called ''Name That Fish'', one of the things he wins is a copy of the home game. It appears to be a box with a fish sticking out.

** ''SmashTV'', an arcade game that can be described as a combination of ''The Running Man'' and ''RoboCop'', awards 'Our Exciting Home Game' as a prize in the final level. It goes meta in the console ports - you're awarded a Home Game ''in'' the Home Game!
* When Garfield of ''GarfieldAndFriends'' has a DreamSequence and goes on a game show called ''Name That Fish'', one of the things he wins is a copy of the home game. It appears to be a box with a fish sticking out.
* ''[=~Jeopardy!~=]'' and ''WheelOfFortune'' are probably two of the biggest examples in recent years, at least from the game show front ([[PotatoBucket this troper]] doesn't know whether things like "American Idol" video games count or not).
* Fictional gameshow ''Numberwang'' in ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' is revealed to have an equally overly-complicated home game in a Series 2 sketch involving a pair of 400 sided dice that are too small to see with the human eye and a 37 volume rule book.
* Also featured is the opposite of this trope: game shows like ''Pictionary'', which were, of course, a home game made into a game show.
* In an episode of ''TheFairlyOddparents'', a knight tries to pull out the Sword in the Stone, but apparently breaks his arm out doing it. He is then awarded with the "Sword in the Stone Home Game"...and breaks his fingers trying to pull it out.

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