{"id":14319,"date":"2023-01-30T09:29:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14319"},"modified":"2023-01-30T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:29:53","slug":"riiiiiiiggght","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14319","title":{"rendered":"Riiiiiiiggght!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been watching a fair amount of old Catchphrase<\/strong> on Youtube lately. The original started in January 1986, meaning that the show is *almost* 40 years old, yet the original set design in all its space pink and blue neon glory still looks great, Ed Welch’s music package is still great and particularly those titles – imagine how hard (and probably expensive) it would have been to render that 3D world so smoothly in the mid-1980s, especially when you consider the graphics of the actual puzzles – I still think those titles were more impressive than the ones that followed when Carlton took over. Then there’s the pure adrenaline-fuel of someone hitting the big money in the moneychase only to then solve the bonus in one go rather than clean up. The excitement that we might see a different colour flashing light in subsequent rounds – ah to be seven again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway Catchphrase<\/em> was great, and really these days other than the 3D puzzles sometimes being a bit Full Of Stuff, it basically still is. Who turns over when they see Catchphrase<\/em> is on? A psychopath, like the first 3D iterations of Mr Chips. There are people in their early 20s who won’t understand the significance of why he is called Mr Chips, think on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway the point is I came across a Youtube vid of a VHS called Catchphrase For All The Family!<\/em> Which is just two-and-a-half hours of puzzles, 500 in all. A link to the answers is in the video description. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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