# Why aren't there more (any?) videogame shows on TV?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-more-any-videogame-shows-on-tv/117746>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 7, 2002, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-more-any-videogame-shows-on-tv/117746 "2002-07-07T05:24:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-more-any-videogame-shows-on-tv/117746/21 "2002-07-09T07:33:12Z")

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\*It’s Saturday Supercade, gather 'round,  
We’ve got your video friends together,  
It’s Saturday Supercade, it’s time for fun,  
And no one else can do it better!

And it feels sooooooo riiiiiiiiiight,  
You know it’s Supercade ti-i-ime,  
Let’s have some Supercade fu-u-un!

Oh yes it’s Supercade time,  
Let’s have some Supercade fun, fun, FUN!  
[doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot]  
Oh yes it’s Supercade time,  
Let’s have some Supercade fun.\*

Kill me now.

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-there-more-any-videogame-shows-on-tv/117746/22 "2002-07-09T11:54:44Z")

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**Moderator’s Note:**

_Ding! Ding! Ding!_

Congratulations!..You have advanced to the next level:

CAFE SOCIETY

Continue posting about video games, TV shows, and TV shows about video games, and rescue the beautiful Princess from the Giant Ape, while eating as many of the **Purple Energy Pills** as possible and avoiding Trolls, Sock Puppets, Flames, and especially the dreaded **Eutychus** and **Ukulele Ike** monsters and their deadly Ban Rays!

_[Mindless little electronic jingle that will remain lodged in your memory for the rest of your life]_

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