Q-Bert Cartoon Saturday Supercade " Thanksgiving Memories" UNCUT 1/2

This is a clip of the ORIGINAL 11 minute version of this cartoon not the cut up 7 minute version that is on youtube. There is new footage in this clip. You'll notice.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Qbert
• Thanksgiving
• Saturday
• Supercade

[alcockell]

Forgive me - but you all actually watched this crap????!!!!

Thank fuck it was never brought over to the UK...

[mlsgiant]

@alcockell Sure beat watching Benny Hill reruns from the UK.

[mcdrunkin]

@mlsgiant as an American I have to say... no way Benny Hill was awesome

[xxoxia]

@alcockell - Nah, back in 82 it was all about the Atari! Back then, I was 5, so I wasn't really aware of what other people thought about the shows, I just knew that I loved them! I used to draw Pac Man all the time. I had Pac Man everything and was really obsessed. But, now I live in the UK and can see how different TV is here. I'm surprised there are any of the same shows here, really.

[alcockell]

@Mavericker7 I remember. Basically Pacman characters and Mario Land gameplay.

Was it a collaboration between Namco and Nintendo, or did Taito license characters off one and gameplay from another?

[alcockell]

@xxoxia If I remember, the opinion I voiced was the general consensus *then*, never mind now.

Consider that PacMan was the ONLY one of the videogame-character cartoons that came across the pond. Then again - we didn't have the console war issue you had - home computers were the main thrust.

May have been the Nintendo Famicom versus the Sega Master over there - over here, it was the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro etc...

Video Game Crash didn't really happen in the same way...

[xxoxia]

@alcockell - Pac Man was my favorite when I was 5! You can't really judge kiddy cartoons as an adult. Of course they're not good. I can't stand watching this stuff nowadays, but back then, it was great!

[alcockell]

@xxoxia none of which aired in the UK Thankfully. apart from P,acman.. which was roundly panned as one of H-B's worst.

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[xxoxia]

@alcockell - Dude, if you loved the old Atari game, this was GREAT! As was the old Pac Man cartoon, Frogger cartoon, Donkey Kong, DK Jr, Kangaroo, and Rubik the Amazing Cube!

[Mavericker7]

@alcockell A video game BASED on the Q-bert cartoon WOULD HAVE SOLD. Q-bert does stuff in this cartoon he doesn't do in the video game, like shoot things out of his nose.

[Mavericker7]

@alcockell The Pac-Man cartoon wasn't really true to the game.