This would have been a great show. I'm glad to finally see the full pilot after only being able to find a leaked sizzle reel. Michael Burger did a great job with the ill-fated Match Game '98, he did a pretty good job here and if he's still up to hosting game shows I think he deserves another chance.

Great rare treat to see this, thank you! I have to agree with others here, I don't think this show in this fashion would have run long.

Not gonna lie, I played the shit out of the original game back in the AOL glory days. Still annoys me that I can't play a proper version nowdays.

Well I had never heard of this so here is my review: PLUS: Host Michael Burger did a fine job, announcer Randy West is good as always, I liked the concept of the punned responses and the bonus round. MINUS: The audio. Several times, it seemed like the audio of Burger's was added in post production causing confusion at times. Also there should NOT have been 5 players for this. at most 4 in the first round would have worked. The bonus money was too much. Given had this pilot been sold to what might have been GSN at this time, I'd say $25,000 would work making the first Slingo in the bonus round $5,000, the second $10,000 and the last $25,000. Also the contestants seemed to "act" a bit too much especially Tattie. Overall rating: a 6 out of 10.

They could have made it like national bingo night but with the computer generating the numbers rather than a giant prop ball machine with a jackpot of $100,000 up for grabs, and allowing the viewers at home to play along with coloured cards that they can purchase for $2 from the local Wal-mart, K-mart, or Target.

Michael Burger used to host Family Challenge for Season 2 on Freeform when it was Family Channel. He replaced former Family Feud host Ray Combs due to his death in Spring of 1996.

Great pilot. This should have been on the air.

So much audio replacement in the episode.

Slingo CD-ROM computer game seemed like a lot of fun and this TV game show adaption had some potential. But unfortunately this was a terrible idea for a game show. It could have caused you to go bankrupt and lose your job by giving away a quarter of a million $250,000 dollars in every episode. Still love your works, Wink, one of the greatest legends of game shows and television entertainment history. Keep up the great work

Loved this as a computer game

I remember playing this game. I was just a teen though, so I didn't really get into it. Thanks, though, for the flashback, Wink!

Interesting to see LBC’s (Long Beach, California) own Michael Berger hosting this pilot.

Thanks as always for the upload, Wink - I really love seeing these pilots. This is too far a cry from the PC game. The only thing we saw from the base game was the devil. I wanted to see some gold coins flying, some jokers going crazy, and just for the whole thing to go much quicker, much snappier. And have more of the proper sounds. That ding when you mark a number? The slots clunking into place? That "da-da-DA!" when you get a line? Anything? Even by pilot standards, this show didn't have nearly enough attention to detail.

No sounds from the original game?

Haven't posted any new ones in a while; was getting worried; but with SLINGO, once again; The Winkster DELIVERS!!!!!! Keep em' coming. O' Great One!

This to me looked like a yawner of a format. If it had gone to air as is, I would have given it one or two seasons before getting axed.

The game show was pretty good until the end game. I would have set it up where everything in the bonus round is the same (I’d even add extra spins on Super Slingo based on the number of completed columns in the main game) BUT once you run out of spins, the game ends. Also I’d use the “devil” differently where two things happens: 1) like baseball, you run into three devils at any point of the game you lose. Heck, I’m even open to having it where if the devils pop up on every column, gg. 2) The devil eliminates one number from the column where it lands. Make the game a bit more exciting. Otherwise, the end game is similar a snoozer and too easy to win the top prize, which makes the ending so anti-climatic.

Love this game on the computer

Wait...Slingo had a game show?!

Man, there is WAY too much ADR in this pilot. It sounds so off. Also, 5 contestants is far too much. Should have had 2 or 3 and just give them their own full boards.

This is hardly Slingo. Only single digit numbers, no classic board, no angels, gold coins, free spins, zip. Even though the TV versions of Candy Crush and You Don't Know Jack lasted less than a season's worth of episodes, they still had some original material.

Awesome

Bring it to game show network

Using a button/buzzer/plunger to stop spinning numbers? Sounds like "Spin-Off" to me. Oh, and avoiding a Devil? "Second Chance" and "The Joker's Wild" vibes here.

I had a slingo handheld game I was addicted to.

Awesomeness

Having flashbacks to Nipsey Russell's "Your Number's Up"

Well, the devil from Joker's Wild got another job.

Interesting game show slingo, I remember Michael Burger from Match Game '98. I thought he did good. He was a good game host.

Looks cool

Not a single joker? 😕

Not too bad of a concept to convert Slingo, and I liked the question-writing. There are little rules changes I'd make to streamline some stuff, but that's not my major issue... The contestants were AWFUL because they came off so fake and over-caffeinated, and the pickups for rules and explanations were so overt they were offputting, plus they had more air time than IRL Michael himself, which looks really bad from a production standpoint. Michael himself (when we could actually hear him in the studio) was great, but their editing and rules explanation definitely needed to be drilled down more. Thanks Wink!

Well, he had to win; or else all of those balloons would have been blown up for nothing. It's almost funny how the balloons just sat there on the floor in a perfect configuration; doing nothing. ("Hey, could we maybe put a few fans in the floor to keep the balloons in motion?") And, no, I wouldn't watch this. It's basically just a Q-and-A game, but the amount of money you win is based on random.

Pretty Good Format I Think It Would Work On TV Pretty Well,I Thought Michael Berger Did A Pretty Good Job As Host.

You know I have to ask ... as a fan of Slingo.... If they were gonna put this to air I have to ask you You got the Devil sure enough... BUT WHERE'S THE ANGEL AND THE JOKER????

Michael Burger is a GREAT HOST, the problem with "Match Game 98" was it was just so cheap and boring. It looked like a rejected 'GSN ORIGINAL'. Game shows should always have big fancy sets, chasing lights, distinctive sound fx... You can't stand people in front of a video wall and expect the viewers to give a crap.

I never heard of this game, but why do I have a feeling it is like Bingo? BECAUSE IT RHYMES!!!!!

Thanks as always for sharing it, Wink! Michael and the question writers are great, but cripes, what a dull game. The endgame is like Catch 21 but without any strategy.

I'd love to have seen the credits so I'd know which genius was behind the idea.

Didn't know Slingo could have had a game show! Have you tried the PC game, Mr. Martindale?

does anybody know what game show used the devil sound effect...it sounds very familiar

Well, I was right about the Bingo part since you have to match 5 numbers that you have picked.

pass the tribondddd

Former "Mike & Molly" talk show host that was on ABC in the late 80's!!!

Ray's Grand Total at 20:07

When was this pilot made?

So this was more of a "demo" to show how the game worked, as opposed to being an actual "legitimate" episode that would have/could have aired? Did this contestant actually get the $250,000?

Is it me or is the bonus game extremely broken? It seems like it is set up for a person to win all the time. Why have 5 spins if you going to give them unlimited spins if they don't match? Furthermore, why say it was unlimited spins until you Slingo if you can keep going afterward? Lastly, why the danger was only getting a devil? Seem too easy! The best fixes would either limit the number of spins or increase the risk for each spin like devils being added after each spin or forcing reel to lock if winning number was repeated.

Did anyone get the money?

Could you at least ask him if he can risk 250,000 and try the middle for 25,000 but if the devil shows up he loses?

All I want to know is how the spinning reels work and who is running them. How do we know they are stopping randomly? How convenient in the one and only taping of this game, one of the contestants comes from behind and then wins the big prize at the last possible moment. Sorry to be so cynical, but suspense and vicarious excitement for viewers at home is the point of every single game or quiz show. That keeps you watching every day and increases the value of a commercial minute. I was a contestant on three quiz shows, but those didn't involve anything spinning and stopping at random. Either you had a winning strategy or you didn't. Either you knew the answer or you didn't. Either you and your partner, if you had one, played well together or you didn't. Nothing the producers could do about that to make the game more or less exciting. It was up to the contestant coordinators to match contestants in the most likely way to produce an exciting game. The host is fine. He explained the rather complicated rules quite clearly. The contestants were enthusiastic except that Johnny barely got a close-up. It's the actual play that concerns me and would concern me every day I watched.

The best Game Show Pilot ive seen in some time. Mike is a talent that deserves a hit show. Nice to have Randy at the mic too. 😆 at the Bill Gates question.

It's The Devil!!!!

Not feeling it. I’ve seen worse though.

This should've sold