This ITV kids’ game show from Anglia Television premiered on 18 November 1994 and ran for ten weeks.
The interactive Virtual Reality (VR) game was presented by a computerised fish named Codsby, whose voice and facial expressions were really those of actor-comedian Logan Murray, who was wired to a computer using technology called VActor (Virtual Actor). Sensors attached to his face transmitted eye and lip movements to the animation.
The animation was displayed on a monitor which moved on a gantry above the studio floor.
Each week, the game sent a team of four youngsters into a virtual world called Sim Station Alpha on a mission to recover software for computer games that had been pirated by a baddie called the Ice Woman (Tricia Hitchcock), from onboard her “Net Ship”, the Obliterator.
Four VR games were played against the clock – Tetris Towers, Virtual Dodgems, Castle Ghastly and Skimmer World – and the contestants earned points for completing tasks, up to a maximum of 40,000 points.
Sometimes they played directly against the Ice Woman’s champion, The Freeze (David Gillies).
Codsby
Logan Murray Ice Woman
Tricia Hitchcock The Freeze
David Gillies Cass
Sally Chattaway Qwerty
Ben Fellows
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The animation was displayed on a monitor which moved on a gantry above the studio floor.
