Welcome to the Retroist Saturday Supercade Podcast. In this week's episode, we're diving into the CBS early 1980s Saturday Morning Masterpiece, "Saturday Supercade". Picture this: a Saturday morning in 1983, a bowl of cereal in hand, and the excitement of tuning in to watch your favorite video game characters come to life on the small screen. For brief moment, this was something you could actually do!
We'll explore all the show segments that made "Saturday Supercade" a Saturday morning sensation: Frogger, Donkey Kong, Q-Bert, Donkey Kong Jr, Pitfall Harry, Space Ace, and Kangaroo. Each one was very different and pretty great in their own way.
I also include some retro audio from the time to set the mood. More importantly, this episode marks a slight change in the podcast's format. I am not sure how this show will inevitably turn out, but this was a fun experiment.
If this podcast does anything, I hope it gets you to check out this amazing cartoon. Segments of it are all over the internet and you might even find a few full episodes with commercial still intact.
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Production Notes
Trying to remember some details about when I recorded this show. This might have been the episode where I tried to use a condenser mic rather than the old USB headset I used for my first episode. Still, the sound quality is mediocre.
I do remember liking the format for this show. Taking a look at the various shows as if journeying through them. I was still trying to find out what the show was like.
Peachy was not around to produce audio at this point, so originally this had different audio at the start of the show. I would later replace it with the regular audio pieces that have become fairly standard.
I think this is the first episode where I used my intro for the show. Although it was originally slightly different. I remember editing it together after someone emailed me after the first show that it was odd not to have one.
Thanks for listening to the show and I hope you have a great weekend.
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