Retroist Podcast – Episode 002 – Saturday Supercade

By The Retroist

Do you like cartoons? How about video games? Well you came to the right place. This week’s Retroist Podcast is about the CBS early 1980′s Saturday Morning Masterpiece “Saturday Supercade”, which hit the airwaves on September 17, 1983, and ran for two seasons. I talk about all the show segments (Frogger, Donkey Kong, Q-Bert, Donkey Kong Jr, Pitfall Harry, Space Ace and Kangaroo), play some commercials and throw in some surprises for good measure.

If you have any suggestions for topics you would like for me to cover in the future, email them to me at theretroist@gmail.com. You can click the player at the bottom of this post to listen to the show directly from the site or you can use the subscription button below to add the show to your favorite news reader or subscribe to show directly through iTunes. Enjoy the show.

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6 Responses to “Retroist Podcast – Episode 002 – Saturday Supercade”

Mari
April 5th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

The podcast is cool. The length is perfect for topics like this, I think – fun and interesting, but not so long that people who aren’t already familiar with the subject might get all A.D.D. and wander off before it’s over. That has been a problem for me with some podcasts I would have otherwise been addicted to, just too freakin’ long. And I only have the most vague memories of Supercade… I was only four-years-old in 1983… but I like the show and definitely dig the style. Looking forward to more episodes.
The Retroist
April 5th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Thanks Mari!
Tommy Day
April 21st, 2009 at 9:13 am

I honestly had never heard of the Saturday Supercade, but their theme song definitely sounded like they were imitating Kenny Loggins, but I don’t blame them.
TheT
May 25th, 2009 at 2:39 am

I remember the Supercade but I was starting to smoke pot by then so my Saturday cartoon watching suffered. Yes pot and cartoons go hand in hand but I was sleeping in late so I missed alot of the cartoons that came on earlier. I was more of a Tarzan, Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Show, Spiderman and his amazing friends, Thundarr kinda guy. By the mid-eighties I had all but forgotten about cartoons. But from the early seventies to the early eighties I was a cartoon fanatic. I reffered to Saturday as Cartoonday for years.
Eric
June 10th, 2009 at 11:57 am

Is it wrong for a man who is approaching 40 to get goosebumps when hearing the Saturday Supercade theme? = )

Love the podcasts. Keep up the great work. I would love to hear a Magnum PI podcast!
The Retroist
June 11th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Thanks Eric, I think your Magnum podcast will happen very soon, metagirl suggests it daily. I find myself singing the Saturday Supercade song to myself in the weirdest places, which of course draws the weirdest looks.