Saturday Supercade (1983)

Genre

animation, family, comedy, kids

Country

United States

Length

7 seasons, 97 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This anthology series aired on Saturday mornings and features cartoon segments based on classic arcade games from the early 1980s. Each short follows characters like Frogger, Donkey Kong, and Q*bert on simple adventures.

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What happens

Saturday Supercade is an American Saturday-morning animated anthology television series produced by Ruby-Spears Productions for CBS. It aired for two seasons from September 17, 1983 to December 1, 1984. It is an anthology series consisting of four 11-minute segments based on various video games, primarily from the golden age of arcade video games. In the first season, these segments included Frogger, Donkey Kong, and Donkey Kong Jr., with the fourth segment rotating weekly between Pitfall! and Q*bert. In the second season, the lineup of segments was revised to feature Q*bert, Donkey Kong, and new additions Kangaroo and Space Ace. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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