Electronic Catch Phrase Music Edition

by Hasbro

Product Features

• High-speed party game, perfect for music lovers
• Quizzes players on popular music from last four decades, including rock, hip-hop, country, and more
• Intuitive electronic interface has built-in timer and keeps track of score
• Features seemingly endless catalog of content
• Electronic Catch Phrase: Music Edition is essentially a high-speed musical quiz, except that you're the one giving the clues.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 7.9 x 10.7 inches ; 12.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000OKZ3GM
• Item model number: 56745
• Manufacturer recommended age: 12 years and up
• Batteries: 3 AAA batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,247 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

There is no better party game for music lovers than Hasbro Electronic Catch Phrase: Music Edition. Recommended for ages 12 and up, this game grills you on music of all genres from the past four decades, forcing you to rack your brain for every bit of musical knowledge that you have.

Electronic Catch Phrase has a built-in timer, buzzer, and scorekeeper. View larger.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: Diverse musical genres and decades represented The Bad: Can be noisy! In a Nutshell: A great game for any social gathering At a Glance Ages: 12 and older Requires: 3 AAA batteries (not included)

A Thrilling Musical Quiz
Electronic Catch Phrase: Music Edition is essentially a high-speed musical quiz, except that you're the one giving the clues. Just like classic Electronic Catch Phrase, you've got to grab it, guess it and pass it on before you get buzzed. When it is your turn, the electronic display will give you a song or musically themed phrase that you will have to describe to your teammates.

It is your teammates' objective to guess the word or song, so you'll have to think on your feet and provide the best possible clues. Do whatever it takes: shout out clues, ask questions, quote lyrics, or hum the melody. You can even score additional points by singing the song's lyrics. Once your team has guessed correctly, pass the electronic display to the next person before you get buzzed.

Endless Party Fun
The ideal party game, Electronic Catch Phrase: Music Edition features a seemingly limitless amount of content. The clues are diverse, chosen from the '70s, '80s, '90s, and 2000s and covering many pop genres, including classic rock, hip-hop/R&B, country, and oldies. The topics range from well-known to obscure, so there is something here to please people of all skill levels.

To make things easier, the game has an intuitive electronic interface. Easy to operate, the electronic display has a built-in timer, buzzer, and scorekeeper, which eliminates the need for messy manual scoring. The display screen is brightly backlit, so you can clearly see it even in the dark. All in all, it's a great way to have fun at any social gathering.

Product Description

Grab it, guess it, and pass it before the buzzer goes off! In this fast-paced game that will have everyone hooting and hollering, you'll need to do whatever it takes to get your team to guess the musically themed word or phrase. Once they guess it, pass the unit quickly before you get "buzzed." Requires 3 "AAA" batteries, not included.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

82 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fatal Flaw Ruins Otherwise Excellent Game, November 13, 2007

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Tim - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Electronic Catch Phrase Music Edition (Toy)

This is a fun variation of the Catch Phrase game that has been around for years. My family has enjoyed both the electronic and standard versions of this game.

This version asks users to guess song titles from the 60's on up. It gives you the song title and artist and you must get your team to say the song title without using any of the words from the title. It has a very fun added twist with the new "singing" rules. You can opt to play with the old standard rules, too. But for the new rules, you must get your team to 15 points (instead of 10) and you can get a bonus point when you win a round if someone on your team sang their clues. You're never required to sing, but you'll find yourself compelled to do so if you are competitive and that makes the game a lot more fun.

One minor annoyance is the electronic display width. It is too narrow for some of the long song titles. If you're unlucky enough to get a long title you'll have to sit there for a few extra seconds waiting/deciphering the words while they scroll across across the screen.

Another annoying problem we encountered was the game automatically shut itself off after being inactive for several minutes. We were in the middle of game and took a snack break and the game shut off and lost our scores.

Despite that, I would still highly recommend this game because it is so much fun if it didn't also have a fatal flaw. Repeats. After just a couple of games played we started encountering repeated song titles! We thought at first it was an aberration, but not even close. We scrolled through 10-20 songs just to find new ones that we hadn't played already in the hour or so we'd been playing. Then we would hit new titles for a while only to find a short time later the same problem!

It is not as if we went through thousands of songs before this happened. I think the first time we had probably been through about 50-100 songs when the first repeats hit. We were playing on the combined category settings (instead of one particular era it was giving us songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's). I suspect that is how most people will play it so to have this bug in the electronic game is just inexcusable. I'm sure we likely went through a small percentage of the songs stored in the games memory. Too bad the game comes to a screeching halt with this horrible bug. The game is a riot until the party comes crashing down once the repeats hit after a couple rounds.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Catch Phrase Music Edition is A Great Family Game!, November 18, 2007

A Kid's Review

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Electronic Catch Phrase Music Edition (Toy)

My family gets together over all of the holidays, and we got a kick out of this game! It was hilarious watching cousins, aunts, uncles, grandmas, and grandpas trying to get their teamates to guess the songs! Most of my family had no idea what they were doing. The game was especiallt hard for me because I'm only 12 and I don't know many songs from the 60's to the 90's! But still, I would highly recommend this game for family game night, or maybe for a Christmas/Birthday present! I had so much fun playing this game as well as the origanal Catch Phrase!

-A Twelve Year Old Music Lover :)

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars incredibly fun, but quickly played out, December 27, 2007

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Marisa C. Shank (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Electronic Catch Phrase Music Edition (Toy)

I had a blast playing the game but, I'd have to agree with one of the earlier reviews that talks about the game's "fatal flaw". My family got the game just recently as a Christmas present and being a huge fan of the original catch phrase, I was really excited to play this new version. I'm 23 years old and played the game for the first time with my wife and younger brother and sister. We were having a blast, the game is exceptionally fun when you know the song that pops up on the screen and you can try to sing it for your team earning extra points and making everyone in the room burst in to laughter. We quickly settled on the "pop mix" category that seemed to offer the best mix of older and more recent songs that all of us knew, hence the most singing. HOWEVER, to our dismay after only about an hour, maybe 3 complete games on the "pop mix" category the game started repeating songs. We scrolled through about 10 songs and found that we had already described ALL the songs that very night which obviously took all the fun out of that category. We switched to the "two thousands" category, which was ok, but contained more obscure songs that we couldn't sing as much, and if you can't sing the songs the game gets a little bit frustrating because you're often left trying to describe lots of little words like "I've", "those", "don't", etc. So, in conclusion I'd have to say that the game is incredibly fun, but I was shocked that they didn't include more well-known songs that people from various generations could easily sing because the game can be very frustrating to play otherwise.