History Trivia / SaturdaySupercade

** Mario, with the first voice actor ever to portray him being veteran Creator/PeterCullen.[[note]]However, the first live-action actor to portray Mario was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ePUeCFOMTM Harris Shore in a commercial]] for ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong}}'' home conversions shot in 1981, edging him out by approximately two years.[[/note]]

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Considering that the games adapted for this show were all licensed by different companies, it'll be hard to see this in full form on TV again, or on DVD. It doesn't help that the segments are all individually owned by different companies. Warner Home Video said [[http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Saturday-Supercade-[=DVDs=]-Planned/14789 they had plans]] back in 2010, but as of 2022 nothing seems to have come of them.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Considering that the games adapted for this show were all licensed by different companies, it'd be hard to see this in full form on TV again, or on DVD. It doesn't help that the segments are all individually owned by different companies (but Warner Home Video said [[http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Saturday-Supercade-[=DVDs=]-Planned/14789 it has plans]] in 2010...)
** Specifically, the rights to the ''Donkey Kong'' and ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' segments are held by [=NBCUniversal=]; this was a result of Universal and Nintendo settling a lawsuit over Donkey Kong being a ripoff of King Kong. The ''Q*bert'' shorts are apparently owned by Sony Pictures (as it appeared briefly in "Minisode" form on their Crackle streaming service); Sony owns rights to the game. (Columbia Pictures owned Creator/{{Gottlieb}} at the time, and even after they were spun off under the reign of Coca-Cola, Columbia still retained the rights. It's why there's a Columbia copyright in the credits for ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''; Disney had to license Q*bert and crew from Sony.)

** The official holders of ''Frogger'', ''Pitfall'' and ''Kangaroo'' remain a mystery, as Warner Archive has never publicly said if they have rights or not to these three like they did the above mentioned four. Although one can speculate they must have at least one of the other segments if they were considering a "Saturday Supercade" release, that kind of implies they have more than one segment, otherwise it would have to be just a ''Space Ace'' release.
** When Website/PlatypusComix got a hold of [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/kidzone/satamhogg.html CBS' Saturday morning preview special]] for 1983, which contained rare ''Supercade'' clips (including one of Pitfall), they made a point to emphasize that the show was hard to find and that the Donkey Kong clip they provided was the first to be circulated on the Internet ''without'' a farsighted SouthernBelle being involved.
** Since the release of the first episode, more segments have been found with ''Donkey Kong'', ''Q*Bert'', ''Space Ace'' and ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' having most, if not all, of their segments found in some form or another. While ''Frogger'' has six segments, while ''Pitfall'' and ''Kangaroo'' have two each (along with a small segment of a third for the latter). With a total of four full recordings of Supercade itself floating around the internet.

* ExecutiveMeddling: [[https://twitter.com/jeffzwarren/status/1524672788211982337 According to writer Buzz Dixon]], the ''Q*Bert'' segment was originally pitched as what he called "Road Runner in 3 dimensions." However, Joe Ruby trashed the idea and point blank told him and fellow writer Gary Greenfield, "I want ''Series/HappyDays''!"

** Further adding to this, only one full episode is commonly circulated among certain circles, containing one segment each of Frogger ("Spaced Out Frogs"), Donkey Kong ("Gorilla My Dreams"), Q*Bert ("Crazy Camp Creature"), and Donkey Kong Jr. ("The Teddy Bear Scare"), leaving out Pitfall, Kangaroo and Space Ace. When Website/PlatypusComix got a hold of [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/kidzone/satamhogg.html CBS' Saturday morning preview special]] for 1983, which contained rare ''Supercade'' clips (including one of Pitfall), they made a point to emphasize that the show was hard to find and that the Donkey Kong clip they provided was the first to be circulated on the Internet ''without'' a farsighted SouthernBelle being involved.

** Since the release of the first episode, more segments have been found with ''Donkey Kong'', ''Q*Bert'', ''Space Ace'' and ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' having most, if not all, of their segments found in some form or another. While ''Frogger'' has six segments, ''Pitfall'' has two, and ''Kangaroo'' only has one present and accounted for. With a total of four full recordings of Supercade floating around the internet.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Because of the above, this means that any release of the show will likely only be able to come in the form of its individual segments (including an MOD-DVD release of the Q*bert segments from Sony[[note]]And even then, not all the segments are included; two of them are [[MissingEpisode missing]]. It's believed Sony didn't want to pay music clearances on them. A similar fate happened with Shout Factory on another Ruby Spears cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/PunkyBrewster''.[[/note]]).

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Because of the above, this means that any release of the show will likely only be able to come in the form of its individual segments (including an MOD-DVD release of the Q*bert segments from Sony[[note]]And even then, not all the segments are included; two of them are [[MissingEpisode missing]]. It's believed Sony didn't want to pay music clearances on them. A similar fate happened with Shout Factory on another Ruby Spears cartoon, It's Punky Brewster.[[/note]]).