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** Softie and GameTek made electronic versions of ''Classic'' for MS-DOS (recycling contestant sprites from ''[[Card Sharks]]'') and the NES.
** Pressman and Endless Games each made a ''Classic'' home game, a decade apart, with full-color rebuses.
** Tiger Electronics made an LCD handheld game, albeit with some [https://web.archive.org/web/20150112155659/http://wat.midco.net/jvipond/gameshow/tiger-goofs.html misspelled rebus answers].
** The most recent was a PC game based on ''Classic'', which on the box is stated as having been licensed by NBC. Yes, the network will license the rights to a home game but won't ''actually'' let the show see the light of day.
** During the plugs for the home game, Trebek would often mention that it was a good tool to use for contestants to get familiar with some of the ''Classic'' symbols used such as the awl, the aisle and the ewe/mare with the lipstick. (Awl, aisle and the omnipresent oar were all staples of puzzles on the original show.)
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* [[Rearrange the Song]]: The [http://www.gameshowthemesongs.net/sounds/Concentration/CONCEND.mp3 1985-91 theme tune] was a rearrangement of the ticket-plug cue used on ''[[Body Language (TV series)|Body Language]]''.
** From 1969-73, the mid-show camera pan of the audience had Milton Kaye playing the standard "Puppet on a String". When Bob Clayton described the Chevrolet Nova awarded to the player calling two Wild Cards on the same turn, "See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet" was played.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Daytime prize model Paola Diva, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060718103129/http://wat.midco.net/jvipond/images/aloha.gif as seen here].
* [[Shout-Out]]: One ''Classic'' puzzle. First line: an awl + a dozen eggs; second line: a tree + a caricature of [[Gregory Peck]].
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: A number of ''Classic'' contestants, after having had taken a prize using the "Take!" matches or had a prize taken, would snipe at each other. What hath [[Jerry Springer]] wrought?
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