Saturday morning cartoon series featuring the adventures of popular video game characters.
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The Frogger segment is "Fake Me Out to the Ball Game." The Donkey Kong segment is "Apey and the Snowbeast." The Donkey Kong Jr. segment is "A Christmas Story." The Pitfall segment is "The Sabretooth ...
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The Q*bert segment is "Q-Urf's Up." The Space Ace segment is "Phantom Shuttle." The Kangaroo segment is "Lost and Found."
The Frogger segment is "Hop-Along Frogger." The Donkey Kong segment is "Get Along Little Apey." The Q*bert segment is "Dog Day Dilemma." The Donkey Kong Jr. Segment is "Double or Nothing."
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Video games were exploding in popularity in the 1980s. Characters from several of the more popular games were featured in "Saturday Supercade," a weekly cartoon series perhaps most notable for being Donkey Kong's first starring appearance in a cartoon series. The famous gorilla starred in his own segment, this time as a well-meaning but slow-witted (and sometimes easily manipulated) gorilla who had escaped the circus; his trainer, Mario, and then-girlfriend Pauline (of whom Donkey Kong had a huge crush), tried to capture the large ape. Other segments included "Donkey Kong Jr.," the famous gorilla's young son who was aided in his search by his human friend, Bones; "Frogger," about an investigative amphibious reporter for the Swamp Gazette; "Pitfall," featuring the adventures of Pitfall Harry, his pet mountain lion Quickclaw and his niece Rhonda as they traveled through the forest in search of treasure; and "Q*Bert," about the misadventures of a teen-aged orange creature. The latter two... Written by Brian Rathjen <briguy_52732@yahoo.com>
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Saturday supercade was a one hour show based on the best video games at the time. The shows changed each week. Here's what was on it.
DONKEY KONG--mario (from super mario), chases donkey kong around the world.
DONKEY KONG JR--Donkey kong's son is looking for his dad with the help of bones. A biker who is scared all the time.
Q-BERT--Q-bert is a teen who protects his town from a gang of snakes, with the help of a flying disk that the bad guys try to steal.
FROGGER--Frogger is a reporter who teams up with a girl frog, and a turtle who has everything you can think of in his shell.
PITFALL--Pitfall, his niece, and their pet quickclaw go looking for treasures.
SPACE ACE--Super hero space ace got zapped by a youth ray and changes to dexter, a nerdy little kid at the worst times.
KANGAROO--A mother kangaroo and her son stop monkey's from making trouble at the zoo.
I wish they would show this again. I have 2 full episodes on tape and would love to see the rest again.