Game Show Computers

About this Guide

A treasury of acronymns and monickers given to computers that appear as tools or characters on game shows.

• Brainchild - Beryl
• Catchword - Bryan
• Chain Letters - Wordsworth (because he'd tell you what the word's worth)
• The Crystal Maze - "Computer"
• Countdown - CECIL (Countdown's Electronic Calculator In Leeds)
• Cyberzone - Thesp
• Family Fortunes - Mr Babbage
• 50/50 - Flynn
• First Class - Eugene
• Love at First Sight - Cupid
• The National Lottery Big Ticket - Bernie
• Raise the Roof - ERIC (Electronic Random Inquisitor's Computer)
• Space Cadets (1) - AL (based on HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey)
• System 93 - Herman the Computer
• Virtually Impossible - Codsby