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[[Game Show]] from the mid-1980s in which two contestants competed to solve animated picture puzzles drawn by a computer. Some of the puzzles featured a yellow robot, named Herbie in America and Mr. Chips in the United Kingdom.
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# Roy Walker, with his friendly personality and having many memorable catch phrases himself.
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* [[Bonus Round]]: Here's a 5×5 board filled with catch phrases. Make a line horizontally, vertically or diagonally and win a prize package; make a line that includes the center box (containing what we think is the most difficult puzzle of the group), win the prize package and a great bonus.
* [[Home Game]]
* Personnel:
** [[The Announcer]]: John Harlan. The British version went through seven different announcers.
** [[Game Show Host]]: Basketball star Rick Barry [http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC/BC%201985/BC-1985-01-14.pdf hosted the American pilot]{{Dead link}} (Page 120), but Art James helmed the series. Roy Walker, Nick Weir and Mark Curry hosted in the UK.
** [[Studio Audience]]
* [[Sudden Death]]: If the players failed to answer the Bonus Catchphrase when it was fully visible, they were shown one more and whoever got it won the round. If they didn't get that either, they continued playing sudden death until someone got one.
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* [[Art Evolution]]: The catchphrase graphics of the first few series looked like contemporary micro games, using many of the graphical techniques used then to draw the catchphrases. The last few series had graphics rivalling cartoons.
* [[Carried
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Say what you see" (popular enough by the late '90s to be used ''as'' a catchphrase on the programme), "It's good but it's not quite right", and "Keep pressing, keep guessing." The most iconic one, of course, is "Riiiiiiiiiiiight!"
* [[Laser
** Shouldn't the karma have actually happened to the ''producers?''
* [[Spin
* [[Title Drop]]: "Catchphrase" was once used as a catchphrase. The animation for that particular puzzle was almost a literal title drop.
* [[Visual Pun]]: Practically ran on them, particularly when the graphics improved enough to draw things as opposed to words.
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