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toucharcade.com - 11/17/2008

‘The Price is Right’ - The iPhone Game

— toucharcade.com — FremantleMedia released an iPhone version of the long running daytime gameshow The Price is Right [ App... Store, $4.99 ] The 84.5MB iPhone game offers 16 of the pricing games from the gameshow in which contestants guess at the actual price of ... (more) ‘The Price is Right’ - The iPhone Game

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