Starcade - "Star Wars / Tunnel Hunt / Pac-Man Plus / Super Astro Fighter / Calipso" (4/20/1985) 📺 🕹️
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- Here's another complete broadcast of an edition of "the first video arcade game show," Starcade, hosted by Geoff Edwards and aired over WTNH Channel 8 in New Haven / Hartford, CT.
The teams on this installment (S04E20, original air date January 23rd 1984) are Mike Sadek and his father Mike, both of Dublin, CA (the son attends Frederiksen Junior High School and plays baseball as well as video games, the father handles PR for the San Francisco Giants and was once a catcher); and Greg Eck (attending the University of Northern Illinois where he majors in aerospace engineering) and his brother Dave (attending John Hersey High School in Arlington, IL and intending to major in mathematical engineering when he goes to college), both from Chicago (there's your Chicago connection to this show right there).
The games to be played on this show are Star Wars, Tunnel Hunt, Pac-Man Plus, Super Astro Fighter and Calipso (yes, that's the spelling - not Calypso); the Grand Prize is the fabulously awesome video arcade game Joust.
Show voiceovers by Kevin McMahan.
Includes:
Show open (lower-third station ID shown beginning 0:41), introduction of contestants, capsuled descriptions of games to be played today, the Mystery Game shown to the audience, and a question about the number of holes in Holey Moley, before each team has 50 seconds to play Star Wars (after the description of its plot)
Promo for record album, "Paint a Rainbow in Your Heart" by Rainbow Brite (voiceover by Mark Elliott)
Plug for Alta Mira Hotel in Sausalito, after which there is a description about the Grand Prize video arcade game, followed by tabulation of the scores of each team, a question relating to Ms. Pac-Man, and a crack at Super Astro Fighter (following a description of the point of the game) for 50 seconds, and the winning team (after another tabulation of their scores) playing The Name of the Game Board, followed by a plug for the Bionic Chair; this segment ends with a question and answer relating to Joust
Promos for:
Action News Sports with Bob Picozzi
The Muppet Hour (with guests Lena Horne and Peter Ustinov)
PSA's from:
4H club (call Nancy Weiss)
Yale-New Haven Hospital and New Haven Ambulance on kite safety (with Geoff Fox)
Final question of today's show, relating to Pooyan, and a description of Pac-Man Plus before each team plays it for 40 seconds; the winners receive a SpectraVideo SV-328 (Kevin keeps pronouncing it "Spectre," however)
Promos for:
Goofy Games at Walt Disney World for May 18th (with Al Terzi) (winners from contest to be drawn on May 8th)
General Hospital, Name That Tune, Jeopardy! and The People's Court (backing music: "In the Mood" by Henhouse Five Plus Too (Ray Stevens)
PSA from Boys and Girls Clubs in Connecticut
Promo for High School Bowl
Winners choose Tunnel Hunt over Calipso to play for 30 seconds (before play commences, a description of its purpose - not "porpoise" - is mentioned); after it's all over, their family members come out to greet them, and the closing credits follow (recording cuts off before voiceover can identify himself)
This aired on local New Haven / Hartford TV on Saturday, April 20th 1985 during the 7am to 7:30am (Eastern) timeframe.
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Oh! I remember this episode! I LOVED Starcade when I was a kid. I watched this and "You Can't Do That on Television" religiously around this time.
And even YCDTOTV gave a nod to the video game craze w/the "Blip's Arcade" sketches...found out years later that the fake arcade cabinets used for them just randomly flashed colored light patterns over the glass coverings to look like actual games!
Kid at the end with the plastic baseball hat lol
As a gamer and fan, thank you for bringing out episodes not shown anywhere else! Subscribed just for this 💯 percent! Two 👍👍!
This show was so much fun.
Yeah well that was history!
Thanks for saving it in your archives and sharing it with the world. Neat
RIP to Mike Sadek Sr.
74 is too young.
The sit down version of this game was my favorite game to play at showbiz Pizza.
Pac-man plus is rarely ever shown in any sort of media so this is a cool find
Do you remember the Baby Pac-Man game? That was a combination video game and pinball machine! Nobody remembers that!
@RonMotta1972 yes, I do remember baby pac man, strange but cool game
Tunnel Hunt is my favorite Arcade game. I believe it was Polybius
The thumbnails are legit. 😂
It was one of my favorite shows as a kid, but I watched it on TBS out of Atlanta, GA. Also, I was NOT expecting to view a commercial for a Rainbow Bright record commercial. Thank God for Fast-Forward!
Do you have Rainbow Bright PTSD?
@@mrchopsticks3 Not only did Rainbow Bright has caused me to have PTSD, But when you add Pound Puppies, Cabbage Patch Dolls, Care Bears, and Smurfs I have had to seek serious mental help. This is why you should not be the eldest of 4 kids when your three younger siblings are all girls.
I remembered that this person was on the game show The Big Spin.
Love this channel! 😍
In the tail end of the channel 8 lineup, the confetti rained and rained when Tommy Simmons blew out Elaine 14-5 to win the 100 grand. Overall, another great Starcade show, Fuzzy.
Mike Sadek catcher SF Giants takes the wheel
I thought that name sounded familiar. And since this show was taped in San Francisco, he was well known for his days with the Giants
I'm just here for Kermit to randomly give me warts.
Before Nick arcade before video power
R.I.P. Geoff Edwards!!!?
March 5th, 2014
I got this episode tape trading way back when.
Ditto!
Me too - that’s why you’re seeing it here! 😄
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV My copy didn't keep the commercials though.
I remember this
Special Thanks to Geoff Edwards SubHosts for "The All New Let's Make a Deal!" Standing in for Monty Hall, Because Monty Hall has Laryngitis Back in 1985!!!?
⭐️
Tempest is the best...
Anyone else come here from Reddit r/baseballcards ?
Released a full year after Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus is Midway’s second attempt at continuing the franchise without Namco’s involvement. Unlike Ms. Pac-Man, which would feature new mazes and new intermissions to encourage further play, Plus is a simple modification of Namco’s original classic. The running theme is that it’s a far harder game than the 1980 original, so much so that even those well-versed with vanilla Pac-Man may have trouble. Beyond that, there’s little else to say about it and little to recommend nowadays, unless you’re desperately seeking the hardest version of the original game you can find.
Simple mod? No way! One of the most exciting versions of the game. Better than the actual official sequel Super PacMan. Get the coke can and the ghosts go invisible and change direction? It's my favorite PacMan game.
@SoulforSale You are referring to Pc-Man Plus which is known as the unofficial sequel. NAMCO had no part in the creation of that game. It was created solely by Midway. When playing Super Pac-Man, you move around the maze eating keys, and each key you eat unlocks tunnels that contain various items such as fruit, shoes, and other odd items. This game has the usual four power pellets, but it also has two Super Power Pellets. When you eat one of these, Pac-Man triples in size, and can eat through anything. Also, there is a button that can be held to make him move quite fast.
They should have applied multipliers to the games to try to even out the points. Low scoring games like Super Astro Fighter pretty much don't matter. Someone who does even a little better on a high scoring game will bet someone who does much better on all the other games if they are all low scoring.
Nintendo's Campus Challenge events in the 90s did this. In 1991 when the games were Super Mario 3, Pinbot and Dr. Mario, they multiplied the SMB 3 points by 10, I think. Maybe 100. Pinbot was just the score, which was an odd game to include anyway since to move on you just needed 200,000 points. And then Dr. Mario was worth either 100 or 1000 times your score. (10x whatever the SMB 3 was.) It made it so you couldn't just dominate one game and win.
Geoff Edwards Previous Game Show "The New Treasure Hunt!" (1974-77), and he will return in (1981-82) in (Syndication)!!!?
Bruh no fucking way could you win games by playing games this would have been a absolute dream to me if i grew up back then
"Dark Vader". SMH. So many people called him that.
You know, it's not like the Fuzzy Memories channel to consistently cut off the show before it ends.
This is the 2nd "Starcade" upload on this channel in which I've noticed the production logo is omitted.
It wasn’t on the original recording. I could’ve edited it in from another source, but…🤷♂️
@@FuzzyMemoriesTV -- Ah. Just double checking.
Thanks for addressing the matter all the same. It is very much appreciated.
@@FuzzyMemoriesTVthanks so much for uploading what you do, regardless of a missing production logo. 🙄 Love and so appreciate the Time Machine you provide for us.
Why the scared ghost monsters look like the tops of apples I’ll never understand…
those faces on the thumbnail have gotta be photoshopped 🤣
Never! (microsoft paint) 😄
No, humans just contort like that naturally. And also expand.
Microsoft Paint maybe?
Camera work during gameplay was absolutely abysmal
Geoff Edwards be like "WTH happened to my career?" 😄
He really really seemed to like doing the show and playing games so who knows
@@Albendova666 He's actually said that he wasn't a fan of video games, but that this show actually helped him get into them.
The pilot was hosted by Alex Trebek.
On the contrary. Edwards got into video games thanks to this show. And he was a video game expert of sorts until his passing.
Edwards had a good career aside from game shows as he was also a radio personality on KMPC and KFI radio in Los Angeles
Oh hell no!!! He loved doing the show!!!! He's my favorite host of all the others
Does anyone know, on the "High School Bowl" promo, what that music is? I know it from the late 1970's on WNYC Channel 31 in New York, where they used it for the open and close of "All About TV," a panel discussion show about the medium hosted by Steven H. Scheuer (who for many years wrote "Movies On TV" books that were a competitor to, and whose first edition pre-dated by a decade, that of Leonard Maltin's "TV Movies").
This is some sublime Analog Horror right here. Cringe-based horror.
He was a horrible host, tripping over names, showing no interest...but you probably wouldn't watch starcade if he wasn't hosting....😢😢😢😢
Are you saying that Geoff was horrible hosting this show?
24:34......here in Louisville, KY our high school bowl was called "High Q"
That's funny - so was that "SCTV" parody with Eugene Levy as a particularly short-fused "Alex Trebel."
@3:57 DARK Vader! 😅