Video World

Vdeo World is the final new Richie Rich segment in the animated series. It first aired 19 November 1983 on ABC, during The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show.
== Summary ==
Freckles and his brother, Pee Wee, expected to meet Richie and Gloria at a video arcade, but upon arrival they discover all of the existing video games have disappeared. Another boy tells them that all of the video games in the city are gone too, and Freckles wants to inform Richie about this.
Meanwhile, Richie is playing a video game invented by Professor Keenbean at the Rich Invention Center, in which video game characters fly out of the screen and go after Dollar, but Richie informs the dog that they are not real. Richie and Gloria want to head to the arcade to meet up with Freckles and Pee Wee, so he arranges for a ride in Bascomb's limousine.
Gloria notices police cars in front of the arcade, and wonders why. Richie believes it is a simple crime to solve, believing that the criminal might have stolen a lot of quarters. Upon arrival, Richie and Gloria meet up with Freckles and Pee Wee, who inform them of the disappearance of the video games, and wonder why. Behind a street light, a villain named Computo appears, and declares he was the one who stole the video games so he could claim as many microchips as he can to gain power and possibly rule the world. Computo overhears Richie mentioning that Keenbean's video has a chip that he cannot get at, so the villain sneaks into the limousine before the kids and Bascomb head back to the Rich estate. After the kids leave the limousine, Bascomb gets approached by Computo and zaps him and even zaps his mouth shut.
After Richie starts playing Keenbean's video game, Computo ends up in the Rich Invention Center and zaps the kids, Keenbean and Dollar, and informs them of his plans. As Computo jumps into the video game's screen, Richie consults Keenbean on what can be done to outsmart the villain. Professor Keenbean uses one of his inventions, a time-travelling machine that could also be used to teleport Richie and his dog Dollar into a video game, similar to the Walt Disney movie Tron. While inside the video game, Richie was being approached by a computer-generated dragon, which Richie defeated using a powerful sword which is revealed after Freckles pushes a button. They then approach a castle with three doors, and Dollar randomly chooses a door, similar to the game show Let's Make a Deal - and has found Computo, who then has even more power and makes Richie's sword disappear, putting Richie in harm's way as robots are about to attack Dollar and he. Professor Keenbean takes over the video game control, and successfully teleports Richie and Dollar out of the video game and back into the Rich Invention Center. Richie learns that Computo is headed for Washington, D.C. to prove he has more power. The gang head to Washington, D.C. where Computo is given what Richie calls a more powerful microchip, and when he receives it, Richie uses a powerful magnet which Pee Wee played with earlier, and draws Computo's battery to the magnet, and as the villain runs after Richie to reclaim his battery, he runs out of power and crashes to the ground. Richie promises to reprogram Computo when the police arrive.
To wrap up another case, the gang are at a private airport where their flight is scheduled to depart soon, but Dollar asks Richie for a quarter, making Gloria believe he wants to play a video game, but he actually rides a mechanical horse instead.
== Trivia ==
* This may be the only Zillion Dollar Adventures segment to not be aired in the syndication package, but is available on the Boomerang website and streaming app and on Amazon Prime.
* Pee Wee Friendly makes his only appearance in the series in this episode. Like in the comic book series, he does not speak, but unlike in the comics he supposedly wears a long olive green sweater and has thicker dark hair.
* Bascomb, the Rich family chauffeur, had his first speaking part in three years in this segment. His last speaking role was in "Spring Cleaning", which was part of Episode 3 in Season 1. Unlike his previous appearances, he has the most lines in this segment.
* Computo's voice sounds like the voice work of Frank Welker, who also voiced Chopper in Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch and previously voiced Mechman, a robot Buckwheat was creating for a science fair in an episode of The Little Rascals.
* When Computo was demonstrating his superhuman strength in Washington, D.C., the music heard in that scene was also heard midway through the segment "Horse Sense" which was shown earlier in the season on The Little Rascals.
* Because this was the final first-run episode of the series, and two episodes had yet to air, repeats of "The Maltese Monkey" and "The Giant Ape Caper" would be aired in the final two weeks of the series in order to fill ABC's episode order.
== Voice Cast ==
* William Callaway as Professor Keenbean
* Nancy Cartwright as Gloria Glad
* Christian Hoff as Freckles Friendly
* Sparky Marcus as Richie Rich
* Frank Welker as Dollar the Dog, Computo
Category:Richie Rich
Category:Richie Rich episodes
Category:TV Episodes
Category:Richie Rich Zillion Dollar Adventures segments
Category:Series finales
Category:The Funtastic Index