Did ITV's Catch Phrase use Amiga graphics for a few years?
I used to watch this game show a lot, and I think they used Amigas for a long while in the early 1990s, as I recognised them immediately, with rushed DPaint jobs and lots of dithering in the shading (it was OCS/ECS). Then, in the late 1990s, they were replaced with PC VGA graphics with lots of shades in the graphics. They were really both recognisable.
It was also during the Amiga years that the show's most famous gaffe, Snake Charmer, occurred. Watch this Amiga comedy and laugh your socks off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqb-j1cNPhQ |
Ha ha.
I also thought this back in the day. Certainly had that AMIGA graphics vibe. Ah good old Mr Chips. Simpler times. |
Needed a good laugh today, thanks for that!.
Remember back in the day the graphics looked very Amiga-esque. |
hilarious. Note that there's a censored version on YT where they seemed to have photoshopped the animation...
The "back & forth" effect can be found on "Son of Stag" series too :) |
I remember reading something about this not too long ago. As far as I remember they did use Amigas earlier on. I think I read it in one of the Amiga mags on Archive.org but I'm not sure.
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^ makes an appearance just after 2m and 4m10s mins below
The Amiga pointer was iconIC :D How cool would it be if someone redrew the icons from The Chart Show for MagicWB or something? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WFRcaj-XBE |
That Amiga magazine article mentioned another game show, Catchword, which I guess is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfg9M3-5G58 Those could be Amiga graphics, but they look more high-end, as I think the magazine specifies. |
Always thought they looked like Amiga graphics also, but I would never have really known. Back when Saturday night TV was a highlight of the weekend! Those days are long gone now!
I believe Catchword was a daytime tv show, vaguely remember it. Reading that article posted as well, did not realise the graphics in the kids show Knightmare were also Amiga! Loved that show a lot when I was a kid! |
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I don't think Knightmare used an Amiga which does call in to question the rest of that article... |
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Knightmare was a massive disappointment in the fields of innovation in CGI, or total lack thereof. The last few seasons did away with any pretension of CGI at all and simply filmed live castles with a camera whose output was then pixellated to look like CGI - really, REALLY LAME. |
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https://www.knightmare.com/fanzone/m...-dominics.html |
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Plus stuff like this looks very Amiga like: https://www.vrfocus.com/wp-content/u...e-Causeway.jpg |
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One of the big retro Youtube channels did a video on this, it was not an Amiga, it was some insanely powerful custom build TV production machine.
If they had an Amiga in the office it was probably just for the genlock. |
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So the consensus is that it's lies and the article is talking shit and also the https://www.knightmare.com/? I find that a bit weird to be honest. I just dunno why they'd bother to provide disinformation/misinformation like that. The website in particular where it say's - Quote:
***edit*** Some more info regarding the backgrounds and imagery throughout (not the onscreen graphics) https://www.knightmare.com/fanzone/c...mare-1987.html |
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