DVD: Starcade First Edition #1

Description: Episodes: 19, 59, 60, 62, and 63 Invitational. Includes behind the scenes footage from Starcade. JM Productions.

STARCADE was a game show where contestants compete by answering trivia questions about video games and by playing video games. The show aired on TV stations across the US in the 1980's, generally on Saturday mornings or early afternoons. It featured the hottest video games of that time. Today, the games of STARCADE are considered the classics of the video game industry.

STARCADE shows included:
Game Questions: Trivia questions about video games were asked to determine which contestant would pick the game to be played.

Game Play: Two contestants played 4 different video arcade games for prizes and the right to play the Grand Prize round.

Grand Prize Round: Winning contestant played against the clock to try to score the average number of points scored by more than 30 different players playing the same game for the same amount of time. If the contestant scored the required number of points, he or she won the Grand Prize, most often a video arcade game.

Hotline: News and trivia about the video games.

Bumpers: Going to commercial breaks, questions were asked and answered against the backdrop of the side of a video arcade game.

Name the Game Board: Contestant with the most points after two games attempted to identify four video games by sight and sound for prizes.

Mystery Game: In every show, one game was designated as the Mystery Game. If contestants chose to play the mystery game, they instantly won a prize.

This is the first DVD release from the same people that created and produced the Starcade TV show. The video quality is amazingly good for a 20-year-old TV print. It includes:

• 5 Classic Starcade Episodes, including #63: Starcade Invitational which saw the champs from previous shows go head-on
• Behind-The-Scenes Featurette
• Episodes feature Super Pac Man, Buck Rogers, Tac Scan, Star Trek, Super Zaxxon, Joust, Star Wars, and more!