Twitch, Shout! Factory to Host 6-Day STARCADE Marathon August 28

All available episodes of world’s first video game arcade show to air exclusively on Twitch

 

LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO – August 16, 2017 – Social video platform Twitch will partner with Shout! Factory to host a marathon ofStarcade, the classic game show where contestants competed in arcade video games. The Starcade marathon will feature all available episodes that aired in the original broadcast run, most of which have not been widely aired in over a decade, as well as interstitials and game intros hosted by Geek & Sundry’s Erika Ishii. The marathon begins August 28 at 11 a.m. PT and will air through September 3 on Shout! Factory’s official Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/shoutfactorytv.

In syndication from 1982 to 1984, Starcade was a groundbreaking game show where contestants competed in classic arcade video games, such as Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga and Centipede. It aired on WTBS (now TBS) and, as the first of its kind, it set the stage for future video game-themed TV series and served as a platform for introducing new arcade games to consumers. The show was hosted by Mark Richards and Geoff Edwards, created by the partnership of James Caruso and Mavis E. Arthur, and produced by JM PRODUCTION COMPANY.

This classic show follows in the footsteps of Shout! Factory’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon which was used to launch their official Twitch channel.

 

 

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About Shout! Factory TV

SHOUT! FACTORY TV is a premiere digital entertainment streaming service that brings timeless and contemporary cult favorites to pop culture fans. With a uniquely curated entertainment library, the channel offers an unrivaled blend of cult TV shows, movies, comedy, original specials and more – presenting an exciting entertainment alternative to major streaming services. SHOUT! FACTORY TV’s programming leverages a distinctive library of pop culture-defining entertainment curated from Shout! Factory, Westchester Films, Timeless Media Group, Scream Factory, major studios, independent producers and other sources from around the world. Whether reliving childhood memories or discovering television series, movies and comedy specials for the first time, SHOUT! FACTORY TV provides an immersive, high-quality viewing experience across a wide variety of screens and platforms, online at ShoutFactoryTV.com on smartphone devices, tablets and connected TV, and on the Roku player, Samsung Smart TVs, Apple TV, Amazon Fire and Amazon Channels. SHOUT! FACTORY TV also is available as a branded channel on streaming services Amazon Prime, Pluto TV, Twitch, Xfinity on Demand, Popcornflix, Hulu, and launching soon on Xumo and Opera TV.