Space Sucker, from Diff'rent Strokes

[Atariboy2600]

I remeber that

 

Its was on Season Five - Episode 99 call 'Shoot-Out at the O.K. Arcade' (2-Oct-1982)

 

 

in "Shoot-Out at the O.K. Arcade," a Diff'rent Strokes segment, kid-star Gary Coleman bested his brother, the local video game champ, in a game of Space Sucker.

[Atariboy2600]

Opps almost forget you can download a 3 part ideo of that show, just had to fine it in many diffint names, like O.K. Arcade;)

 

Diff'rent Strokes - O.K. Arcade (5.01) (1 of 3) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsWSNNT1ZY

 

Diff'rent Strokes - O.K. Arcade (5.01) (2 of 3) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpi233Sxqck

 

Diff'rent Strokes - O.K. Arcade (5.01) (3 of 3) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyNhVhyEc6g

[supercat]

...one of my early video game childhood memories has gotta be the episode of "Diff'rent Strokes" where Arnold goes head to head against his older brother Willis playing an arcade game called "Space Sucker".

 

When fake video games were needed in movies, television shows, and commercials, how were they done? Was the task simply given to animators to produce something that looked like a video game, or was a programmer assigned to do up a video game mockup with the proviso that it need not be playable as an overall game; it just had to be able to look good for a few seconds at a time. Stuff like "you win" or "you died" graphics wouldn't need any continuity with game action, since those could be spliced in later.

 

Does anyone know how such things were done?

[+Random Terrain]

When fake video games were needed in movies, television shows, and commercials, how were they done? Was the task simply given to animators to produce something that looked like a video game, or was a programmer assigned to do up a video game mockup with the proviso that it need not be playable as an overall game; it just had to be able to look good for a few seconds at a time. Stuff like "you win" or "you died" graphics wouldn't need any continuity with game action, since those could be spliced in later.

 

Does anyone know how such things were done?

The fake games I have seen over the years usually looked like they were made without even using real computer graphics. And the actors just pretend to play, as you would expect.

[+Random Terrain]

Opps almost forget you can download a 3 part ideo of that show, just had to fine it in many diffint names, like O.K. Arcade;)

 

Diff'rent Strokes - O.K. Arcade (5.01) (1 of 3) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTsWSNNT1ZY

 

Diff'rent Strokes - O.K. Arcade (5.01) (2 of 3) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpi233Sxqck

 

Diff'rent Strokes - O.K. Arcade (5.01) (3 of 3) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyNhVhyEc6g

 

I thought we were already watching those and commenting on them:

...well a lil searching, and I found the parts:

 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rTsWSNNT1ZY

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dpi233Sxqck&amp...ted&search=

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qyNhVhyEc6g&amp...ted&search=

 

 

....man, it has been AGES since I've seen this episode!!!....

[mos6507]

...one of my early video game childhood memories has gotta be the episode of "Diff'rent Strokes" where Arnold goes head to head against his older brother Willis playing an arcade game called "Space Sucker".

 

When fake video games were needed in movies, television shows, and commercials, how were they done? Was the task simply given to animators to produce something that looked like a video game, or was a programmer assigned to do up a video game mockup with the proviso that it need not be playable as an overall game; it just had to be able to look good for a few seconds at a time. Stuff like "you win" or "you died" graphics wouldn't need any continuity with game action, since those could be spliced in later.

 

Does anyone know how such things were done?

 

 

Tron and Last Starfighter (and probably Bishop of Battle from Nightmares) did it with CGI. Superman III was a program for the Atari 8-bit that played out a fixed sequence like a movie. This episode looked like they used the same sort of video paintbox thing ala the Cars "You Might Think" video.

[Dan Iacovelli]

I remember watching the episode differn't strokes it was cool(when alnord got older the show lost it feeling it should have ened there instead of adding danny corksy)

I didn't know danny played the voice of jack spicer on xlaxion showdown.

the bishop scene from nightmars was totaly awsome .

[atarilovesyou]

When fake video games were needed in movies, television shows, and commercials, how were they done? Was the task simply given to animators to produce something that looked like a video game, or was a programmer assigned to do up a video game mockup with the proviso that it need not be playable as an overall game; it just had to be able to look good for a few seconds at a time. Stuff like "you win" or "you died" graphics wouldn't need any continuity with game action, since those could be spliced in later.

 

Does anyone know how such things were done?

The fake games I have seen over the years usually looked like they were made without even using real computer graphics. And the actors just pretend to play, as you would expect.

 

 

Yep, it's funny how the directors musta made Arnold and Willis look more 'fake' playing the games during the episode, letting go of the joysticks, weird stuff like that. I mean, they musta known that it looked fake, even for then!...plus during the dream sequence, where he inserts the quarter in where the joystick panel is...i've NEVER seen that before.

 

I'm thinking this was like 80's Photoshop techinques...but I always remembered those graphics for being WAY ahead of their time when that game came out...look at the space sucker itself, it was very well animated for the time. If they weren't generated via a computer, how else could they have done it?..they certainly didn't look like animations.

 

The controls appeared analog, judging by the movement of the character.

 

Ps...how many games can you spot in that episode?...all I could really tell was Pac Man.

[Atariboy]

I never really watched this show, how is the Facts of Life related to it? Someone told me it was a spinoff of this.

[Dan Iacovelli]

I never really watched this show, how is the Facts of Life related to it? Someone told me it was a spinoff of this.

Edna Garrett (played charlote rae) was the house keeper at Drummond's penthouse,she also worked as the house mother at the EastLand high school for girls(same school that Kimberly Drummond daughter of

Philip Drummond ) later Edna became the schools dietician. toward the nd of the series she left the school to her own bussiness "Edna's Eddibles" when it got burnt down they turned it into a college shop

Edna got married and her sister took over.

the only regulars who stayed with show from the start was: Blair,Nattalie and Tootie and of course Edna. Jo came on at the start of the second season,who was then joined by george and andy and pepper.

[Jess Ragan]

One of the nannies left Diff'rent Strokes to be on The Facts of Life, or vice versa... I don't remember which. There were at least three nannies on Diff'rent Strokes... one of them is currently playing Ms. Puff on Spongebob Squarepants, one was incredibly old and is probably dead now, and the last pretty much vanished after The Facts of Life was canceled. And yes, I know entirely too much about these women.

[Dan Iacovelli]

One of the nannies left Diff'rent Strokes to be on The Facts of Life, or vice versa... I don't remember which. There were at least three nannies on Diff'rent Strokes... one of them is currently playing Ms. Puff on Spongebob Squarepants, one was incredibly old and is probably dead now, and the last pretty much vanished after The Facts of Life was canceled. And yes, I know entirely too much about these women.

that was mrs. garrete (I think she was more like house keeper then an nanny)

there was three: Mrs garrete was the first one

Adelaide Brubaker (played by Nedra Volz) was the second,

and Pearl Gallagher (played by Mary Jo Catlett) is the third and yes she does the voice mrs.puff on spongebob.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff'rent_Strokes

[jboypacman]

The teacher in the Space Suck ep. was also on M*A*S*H if am correct.She ends up marrying Klinger.

[+Random Terrain]

The teacher in the Space Suck ep. was also on M*A*S*H if am correct.She ends up marrying Klinger.

Yep, among other things:

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001034/

[jboypacman]

Oh yeah she was on After*M*A*S*H* as well.

[A Sprite]

 

Shouldn't be hard to do it in an 8-bit. But is the gameplay there? This is my first experience with the game or the show, but it looks like someone waving a Buck Rogers shaped mouse cursor over a paint program. The space dragon is roughly the size of an SUV, and just one shot pops it...

 

How do you keep the game exciting for more then 5 minutes without importing a cheering crowd?

Edited September 16, 2007 by A Sprite

[atarilovesyou]

Yeah, you're right....this game would probably be a stinker...no replay, just dodge and shoot.

 

On the graphical front, I'm not sure 8 bit would handle the animation of the spacesucker...the tail is pretty animated. You could toughen the guy up to take more shots, but it seems like nothing in the game fires at you.

 

Maybe if there was some way to spice things up...a fuel gauge or something. Having levels where you have to fight different SpaceSucker bosses, basically different versions of the dragon (color, firepower). Maybe some speed levels where you have to react through mazes, kinda like the jetbikes level in Battletoads....hmmm...

[Math You]

A few more meteorites/asteroids might make it more challenging.

 

[mattkain]

Slightly off topic (and probably already posted somewhere), but has anyone ever seen this clip of a vectrex on Charles in Charge?

 

 

Strange choice for a system to use in the show. On a related note, does anyone remember how on Growing Pains whenever they would bring up videogames, Ben was always playing some fictitious NES game called Super Beato Brothers (or something like that)? I always wondered why they didn’t just use Mario. I’m fairly certain that there was at least one episode where the secondary storyline revolved around Ben’s quest to obtain the new Super Beato Brothers game. I've tried to find clips, but with no luck. There's also an episode of Square Pegs where one of the characters gets addicted to Space Invaders. It used to be on Youtube, but I think it's been removed.

 

MattKain

[atarilovesyou]

Slightly off topic (and probably already posted somewhere), but has anyone ever seen this clip of a vectrex on Charles in Charge?

 

 

Strange choice for a system to use in the show. On a related note, does anyone remember how on Growing Pains whenever they would bring up videogames, Ben was always playing some fictitious NES game called Super Beato Brothers (or something like that)? I always wondered why they didn’t just use Mario. I’m fairly certain that there was at least one episode where the secondary storyline revolved around Ben’s quest to obtain the new Super Beato Brothers game. I've tried to find clips, but with no luck. There's also an episode of Square Pegs where one of the characters gets addicted to Space Invaders. It used to be on Youtube, but I think it's been removed.

 

MattKain

 

..yep, that Charles in Charge one I remember from ages ago as well...still remembered the lines!...the Super Beato Bros thing I'm sure was just a copyright thing.

 

Square Pegs??..good GOD now I 'barely' remember that show...even IN had a video game episode?? wow!

[Lizabeth]

Emilio Estévez played in a short film called Nightmares. He played a game called The 13th Bishop and he got addicted to the video game and won again the Bishop only to find out that he would also be trapped inside the machine as an icon.....so weirdly erie.?Only in the 80's Lol.

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