These are the many products/merchandise/goods that were brought to us due to the success of Hollywood Squares.
Board Games[]
Watkins-Strathmore era (1967)[]
Watkins-Strathmore issued the first two editions based on the Marshall era in 1967. Both versions featured a game board that allowed for writing in the celebrities' names under each square (using crayon, soft lead pencil or a similar wipe-off medium). Each version included four decks of 45 question cards, which were dealt in packs of 5 to each square. In each deck, one card was marked with asterisks as the "Secret Square" question, which earned the player an extra $100 if answered correctly. Rules allowed for a 3-game match to be played, with $200 awarded for each game (similar to the daytime show's rules).
Ideal era (1974)[]
Ideal issued their version in 1974 with a picture of Peter Marshall on the cover. Each game's set of 9 questions came on a separate game card, which was placed into a special card reader. This allowed it to be passed between players for a 2-player game so only the question being asked to the opponent was revealed. This version did not specify a "Secret Square" rule. Matches were best two-out-of-three with no money awards specified.
A similar-looking board game based on the UK version called Celebrity Squares was released by Buckingham Toys five years later in 1979, with a picture of host Bob Monkhouse on the cover.
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Milton Bradley era (1980, 1986)[]
Milton Bradley issued two editions: The first one was released in 1980 based loosely on the Marshall era, and included a pair of Question Books that allowed for 2-player games where the opponents could not see the questions being asked to them. The second one was released in 1986 based on the Davidson era and featured a stand-up 3-D game board with 12 "Guest Star Inserts" that could be placed into the board squares to allow for different celebrities for each game play. It also included double-sided game cards with sets of 9 questions on each side and a plastic "card wallet" that displayed questions one at a time. Both versions' rules SPECIFIED that there was no "Secret Square" rule, and like the Ideal version, matches were best two-out-of-three with no money awards specified.
Parker Brothers era (1999)[]
Parker Brothers released their version based on the Bergeron era in 1999. Like the Davidson era game, the board was a 3-D stand-up with 12 "Celebrity Guest" inserts. 252 numbered, double-sided Question cards were included (for a total of 504 questions). Each question came with a real answer and a bluff answer. Early printings did not specify a "Secret Square" rule, but this was later revised so that every question with a number ending in "5" was a "Secret Square" question worth $1,000 in bonus cash. Matches were played at $1,000 per game until one player/team won $5,000 (including bonus cash). Alternate rules allowed for timed play (suggesting a 30-minute "as if you were on TV" game), with the player/team ahead once time expired being declared the winner.
Mobile Games[]
Sonic Branding Solutions (now Sonic Boom Inc.) issued two editions for cell phones; the original version was released in 2005, with appearances by Penn & Teller, Issac Hayes, Joan Rivers, Gilbert Gottfried, Pat Morita, Brad Garrett, David Hasselhoff and more. Then a "Hip Hop" edition was released in 2006, with appearances by Method Man, Redman, Bizarre from D12, Trina, Biz Markie, Cee-Lo (Green), Pitbull, Teairra Mari and many more.
Video Games[]
GameTek (1988-1989)[]
Games released for IBM-PC, Commodore 64/128, Apple II and the NES based on the 1986-89 Davidson era were made by GameTek between the summer of 1988 and the fall of 1989. (The photo of the set on both the computer and NES versions is from the 1985 pilot, as the actual show had no gold stars on the studio floor and more elaborate risers for the cars.) Much like the TV series, winning one of the first two games is worth $500, while the third game is worth $1,000 and in the event of a cat's eye game, each symbol paid $100 in the first two games and $200 per in the third game and if the game ended in a tie after the third game, a tie-breaker question worth $200 was played to decide the winner. The second game is always the "Secret Square" round for a trip. The winner goes to the bonus round where they have to choose one of the five keys and insert it into the proper car among the five offered.
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Ubisoft/Ludia (2010-2011)[]
Games released for the PC, Nintendo Wii, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and PlayStation 3's PSN based on the 2002-04 H² era were made by Ludia and released by UbiSoft from 2010 to 2011, featuring the voice of host Tom Bergeron with video clips of celebrities Brad Garrett, Kathy Griffin, Jeffrey Tambor and Martin Mull as the center squares. Nintendo Wii, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Playstation 3's PSN versions all have multiplayer options (except the PC version, where you are only Player X in the game). Much like the 2003-04 season, each of the three games are worth $1,000. The second game is always the "secret square" round for a bonus $1,000. The winner of the best two out of three games goes to the bonus round where Tom asks each celebrity a question while the player has to correctly either agree or disagree with their answer in order to remove one of the wrong keys from the pool of nine (the actual show had a contestant select a celebrity by correctly either agreeing or disagreeing statements about them). Then the player had to choose a key that will open a chest in order to win $20,000 in cash, plus a new wardrobe item for their avatar.
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Handheld Game[]
In 1999, Tiger Electronics released a LCD handheld game based on the Bergeron era[1][2][3].
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Online Game[]
In 2002, their official website had an online version of the show using celebrities that were on that particular week, as well as a download of the theme song. GSN also had their own Interactive online game at some point as well.
Slot Machine Games[]
Since 2002, WMS Gaming has released eight video slot machines based on the show including: The Center Square (2002), Prize Spin (2003), Premiere Night (2003), Center Star Wild (2004), Tour of Stars (2004), Autograph (2005), One For The Money (2005) and One For The Fans (2005).
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Books[]
Popular Library made two quiz books based on the Marshall era. called "Zingers from the Hollywood Squares" (not to be confused with the record album of the same name) in 1974 and "More Zingers from The Hollywood Squares" in 1978. Both of the books were a collection of questions from the show, along with joke answers from celebrities including regulars like Paul Lynde and Charley Weaver. While the humor was emphasized, the correct answers to the questions were also included.
Rutledge Hill made an autobiography called "Backstage with The Original Hollywood Square" by Peter Marshall, where it was in addition to behind-the-scenes stories from the classic show, including the original 1974 recording album "Zingers from The Hollywood Squares" in Compact Disc form with the book.
Record Album[]
Event Records produced an album called "Zingers from The Hollywood Squares" in 1974, as a collection of questions and gags that were recorded from the show. It was re-issued to go along with Peter Marshall's autobiography, "Backstage with the Original Hollywood Square" in 2002.
Magazines[]
Three issues of the "Hollywood Squares Quiz & Contest Book" came out from 1979 to 1980. It had features on the celebrities from the show, a look behind the scenes and a series of quizzes. (NOTE: The first of three issues was dated in August of 1979, extremely rare (especially the November 1979 and January 1980 issues); these are valued by collectors.)
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Collection Plates[]
Clearly, when this fad hit its peak in the late '70s, they just ran out of ideas for the subject matter. Several of these plates were planned; the only ones that appear to have been released featured the likeness of host Peter Marshall and semi-regular George Gobel.
Cancelled Merchandise[]
The Great Game Company (1983)[]
Video games based on the 1966-81 versions were going to be made for the Atari 2600, Colecovision and Mattel's Intellivision by The Great Game Company in 1983; However, due to that year's North American Video Game Crash, the projects were cancelled before getting off the ground.
GameTek (1989)[]
A full size arcade game based on the 1986 version was going to be released by GameTek in 1989; However, the project never got off the ground and the game was cancelled.
Hasbro Interactive (1999)[]
In 1999, Hasbro Interactive was going to release a CD-ROM version of Hollywood Squares based on 1998 Tom Bergeron-hosted syndicated version for the PC and Sony Playstation, but it was cancelled during development.
Majesco Entertainment (2000)[]
Majesco Entertainment was planning to do a Hollywood Squares game based on the 1998 Tom Bergeron-hosted version for the Nintendo Game Boy Color in 2000; however, the plans ended up getting scrapped before development could begin due to the company's poor sales on their early titles and licensing issues with Hasbro, according to one source (they had also planned on doing Nintendo Game Boy Color versions of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! a year earlier in 1999, but those also did not go forward).
Ludia/Ubisoft (2010-11)[]
In 2010-11, Ludia and Ubisoft released video game versions of Hollywood Squares for the PC, Nintendo Wii, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Playstation 3's PSN and was planning to release a version for the Nintendo DS, but it was never released.