A*mazing was an Australian children's television game show that aired in the mid to late 1990s on the Seven Network. It was famous for a relatively large and elaborate maze/obstacle course that was part of the show's studio set. Childrens television shows are television programs designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. ... A game show involves members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... See also 1990s, the band Seinfeld was a pop cultural phenomenon during the 90s and became one of the most popular TV programs ever. ... The Seven Network (ASX: SEV) is an Australian television network. ... Public hedge maze in the English Garden at Schönbusch Park, Aschaffenburg, Germany A small maze. ... An obstacle courses is a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual or team must navigate usually while being timed. ...

The show pitted teams from two different schools against each other during the course of a week.

The first two rounds of the game, a 90 second countdown timer begins and the contestants have to guess the answer to a question. If a correct response is given, they would then have to spell out the answer by stomping out the letters on a large QWERTY keyboard mounted in the floor, if the answer had two words, contestants don't need to hit the spacebar or enter key. After this the countdown timer stops and are awarded points depending on the time to correctly guess the answer and type the answer. The second school's contestants also do the same thing with the exact same number of letters as the first answer to make the rounds even and fair. After that, the first two contestants then enter the maze, collecting the letters of the answer hidden within hiding places such as a garbage can, or behind a mock cactus. Their time they have finding these letters depends on how much time it took to guess and type the answer. Ten points is given for every letter they retrieve in the time spent in the maze. The QWERTY Layout QWERTY is the modern-day layout of letters on most English language computer and typewriter keyboards. ...

In the third round, instead of featuring the keyboard the contestants competed in a video game face off. Contestants played the NES (then Super Nintendo and later Nintendo 64) games such as Tetris, Bubsy, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2, Donkey Kong Country 3, Wave Race 64, Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, San Francisco Rush, MRC, Cruis'n USA and the fly-swatting minigame from Mario Paint. The team with the most points/fastest time wins 50 points for their team and runners-up in this challenge wins 25 points for their team, originally 100 points were awarded to the winners and 50 points to the runners-up. A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ... The European SNES design is identical to the Super Famicom. ... The Nintendo 64, commonly called the N64, is Nintendos third home video game console for the international market. ... Tetris is a puzzle game invented by Alexey Pazhitnov (last name sometimes transliterated Pajitnov) in 1985, while he was working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia during the days of the Soviet Union. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and conform with our NPOV policy, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Donkey Kong Country is a video game developed by Rare and Nintendo, featuring a descendant of the popular arcade character, Donkey Kong. ... The first level of gameplay. ... A screenshot depicting one of Donkey Kong Country 3s protagonists, Kiddy Kong. ... Wave Race 64 is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 that was released on November 5, 1996. ... Super Mario Kart is the first video game in the Mario Kart series, released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. ... Mario Kart 64 ) is a racing video game for the Nintendo 64 game system; it can share up to four players. ... San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing (also known as San Francisco Rush and Rush) is an arcade racing game set in San Francisco, California. ... The initials MRC can stand for: Medical Research Council (UK) Medical Research Council (South Africa) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Cruisn USA is a 1994 arcade game by Midway Games. ... In Fantastic Dizzy, the player has to complete a sliding puzzle to get an extra life. ... Mario Paint is a productivity title created by Nintendo for use with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and was released in 1992 along with the SNES mouse peripheral device. ...

After the third round, the team with the highest score would then go back to the maze for 90 seconds (later changed to 120 seconds) to collect keys. One player will choose which side of the maze they want to explore, then when and only when that player exits that maze, the other player will go into the other half of the maze. There were seven keys including a bonus one in the maze and each key was worth 100 points. If either of the contestants found the bonus key, then both of the contestants will each get an original Game Boy, later it was a Game Boy Pocket. The original Game Boys design set the standard for handheld gaming consoles. ... The original Game Boys design set the standard for handheld gaming consoles. ...

If there's a tie after the third round, a sudden death question was read out to both teams and whoever answers the question correctly would technically win the game for the day and go into the maze to find keys.

By the end of the week, the school with the highest number of points wins a grand prize, often educational computer software.

A*mazing was hosted by James Sherry for the entire run of the series.