Interactive Vision Gameplay: Oscar's Letter Party - Part 2

Gameplay footage of Sesame Street: Oscar's Letter Party, for the View-Master Interactive Vision—a late 1980s edutainment videogame console that uses VHS tapes instead of cartridges or discs. Part 2 of 3.

For more about the Interactive Vision, please check out the following links:

An article about the system: http://www.gamecola.net/7-10/dr.htm

A full review of an Interactive Vision game: http://gamecola.net/7-11/paulreview.htm

Gameplay footage of Cartoon Arcade (the game that comes packaged with the Interactive Vision): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D45993A26386521B

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[Lachlant1984]

I see what you're doing at around 3:33, you're rapidly pressing the buttons to change the song, are both tracks playing live from the tape, or is one of them stored within the IV system? I'm guessing it's the former, but how do they do it?

[GCIntVis]

I actually have no idea how they do it. Sorry!

[chiklit]

@Lachlant1984 If you play back the tape in a regular VCR deck you'll see they have two audio tracks. One is stored in the regular audio portion of the tape, the other one is stored optically on the left side of the video. On the right side of the screen is a barcode-like thing that it loads the graphic overlay and programming from.

[jmmuppetman]

the Octopus sound like Clifford of Muppets Tomight

[BuddyBoy600alt]

Does anybody notice that's the Eel at 3:25 from "Squeal of Fortune?"