Saturday Supercade! Who remembers it?

[Stringfellow]

I had forgotten about this show for some time till I came across it here
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/1065-saturday-supercade/
They even have a long video of the opening which is really cool to see.

[captain nintendo]

Wow, that brings back memories!

Thanks

[chrisbid]

it would be awesome if nintendo would allow somebody to rerelease these, im sure of all the games they had on that show, the nintendo license would be the biggest barrier to a DVD release

[jcheatle]

Man, I remember this, but very vaguely. I would've been in the 3-5 year old range when they first aired. What's more amusing is that while I never had an Atari or anything at that age, and i was too young to hit the arcade, I *do* remember loving the show to death.

And while I'm sure they'd be moderately painful to watch today (they just don't look to have aged well, even from that brief clip), I would SO buy the set if released on DVD.

[Sniderman]

I'll see your Saturday Supercade memories, and I'll raise ya.

Sniderman's Corner of Doom (http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/sniderman)

Yup, actual animated cels from the show adorn my walls. And I have a (quality 7-8) VHS tape that contains two 1-hour episodes. Need to burn it onto DVD one day. Good watchin' fun.

[jboypacman]

wow i remember watching saturday supercade.i would be sure to get up early so i could have breakfest and sit down in front of the t.v. watch pitfall harry,donkey kong,and the rest.there was a pole position cartoon as well that came on right after as well it had two talking cars just like nightrider which am sure thats where they got the ideal from.lots of good memories from when i was a kid.

[NE146]

Yeah.. I got this 3 hour video of Saturday morning cartoons (including commercials) from this time that includes Supercade.

I think someone here posted the torrent for it a year or two ago...

[Dire 51]

I remember the show quite well. It was a Saturday morning staple for me... while it was on, anyway.

[GarrettCRW]

If Warner Bros. (who owns the library of Rupy-Spears, the Hanna-Barbera off-shoot that produced Saturday Supercade) could cut through the piles of legal tape, I'm sure they'd be able to make a decent pile of cash selling the series. (The episodes featuring Kangaroo are particularly sought after, since they are supposedly missing from the tape-trading circuit.)

What's always struck me as funny is how CBS parlayed a huge amount of its success on Saturday mornings during the '83-'84 and '84-'85 seasons on Saturday Supercade....right as the Crash happened. (The show got pulled for reruns of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle in late '84 or early '85.) Of course, I'm sure someone at CBS knew this was a bad idea, since the preview show for the '84-'85 season focused heavily on Dungeons & Dragons (and settling in particular on "The Girl Who Dreamed Tomorrow" and, IIRC, "Child of the Stargazer").

[diskoboy]

I remember the second season..

For the first season, our local CBS affiliate didn't run the show for some reason. Cartoons on our CBS station were over by 10am. And it was news, Soul Train, and ultra-shitty movies until prime time.

Half of the cartoons most of you 80's kids remember, I never saw. They never ran Pole Position here, either...

I remember the DKjr and Frogger segments most... Was Dragon's Lair/Space Ace part of Supercade as well? Or was that a different show?

[joshnickerson]

For some reason, I only vaguely remember the Q-Bert and Donkey Kong segments.

And is it just me, or did DK Jr. sound like Scrappy Doo?

[Sniderman]

Space Ace was part of the second season of SS. Dragon's Lair was a seperate show, and aired on ABC. Got all of the DL eps on DVD too. Good times, good times.

Agreed. I'd like to see the Sat. Supercade eps released on DVD. Part of me thinks it's possible, since the Zelda and Super Mario toons just got released. Why not the SS shows?

The other part of me thinks lining up the rights to the characters from a half-dozen of so different videogames might be nightmarish. Sat. Supercade contained toons based on:

Q*Bert
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Pitfall
Frogger
Kangaroo (second season only)
Space Ace (second season only)

Yup, I betcha the rights would kill this project.

[GarrettCRW]

And is it just me, or did DK Jr. sound like Scrappy Doo?

Well, IIRC, he was voiced by Len Weinrib (the original voice of Scrappy, heard in that first intro with him and in the few Scrappy eps to feature the entire Mysteries, Inc. crew), so that would be why.

Speaking of series that would be nice to see on DVD, Pole Position would be great, presuming of course that DIC and Shout Factory! can get Namco to clear the rights (since the original deal was-obviously-done by Atari) for a DVD. The show had some of the best animation in any DIC show not named MASK or Inspector Gadget (The Real Ghostbusters falls into that range where DIC was doing it cheap, cheap, cheap), and managed to create a fine series around a license with absolutely no story whatsoever.