I really wanted to see it in its entirety. I would have just turned four when this aired. I most likely did see it. However I can't recall if I remember it or not. If that makes sense. ^^;;
I remember "The Day After". That's the reason this episode was made. At the tail end of the cold war there was still a huge fear of mutually assured destruction between Russia and the US. Many families watched "The Day After" together and I remember being pretty frightened by it. So the Mr. Rogers episode was very relevant. Back then a lot more serious issues were handled on children's television than you see now.
If it keeps getting pulled down by Family Communications when the name was actually changed maybe the video is getting flagged unfairly. Youtube is pretty strict. They give copyright holders a little too much free reign to stomp all over fair usage. Without regular people archiving things so much stuff is going to get lost.
The only thing I can think of is making it a torrent. But it will get seen by less people because it's more convenient to watch a stream than to sit there and torrent something, hoping for seeds, extracting, making sure you have the right codec, ect...
This has been driving me crazy for years. I remember trying to search it to no avail.
When I was a kid in the 80s one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons was Kidd Video. It had a live action opening about a band that was sucked into a mirror by an evil guy named Master Blaster. The world they ended up in was called The Flip Side. And was a very bizarre place. Kind of like the digital world in the first season of Digimon. One of the actors was Robbie Rist, who played Cousin Oliver on The Brady Bunch. After the episode was over there would be a music video featuring the live action band. When I was a kid I was unaware that Kidd Video had released a full album of songs . This was because it was only released in Israel. I guess the show was very popular there.
Well, some years back I found out about this album. It's actually pretty cool. But when I heard the song "You Better Run" I suddenly felt that it was a little too familiar. Now they did have an end of episode video for this song. But that's not what I was thinking of. What I remember was a little more recent. Some time in 2000's. Maybe between 2003-2006. But I won't hold myself to that. It's just a good estimate. There was a car commercial on TV. It might have been for Toyota. Maybe Honda. I don't think it was for a US manufacturer. But again I'm not sure. Not a fan of cars and I can't tell one from the other. I only know the Subaru logo because it's the constellation Pleiades. XD
So this song comes on during the commercial and I knew that I knew it from somewhere. I just couldn't place it. But it was along the lines of "You Better Run" along with something like "You better run to your *car's name* dealer" or "If you want these great deals you better run". And no, I don't think it's the Pat Benatar song of the same title. They don't really sound alike. The Kidd Video song is upbeat synth pop and the Pat Benatar song is plain rock with a slower tempo. Lyrically it's a lot different too. The song in the commercial could have been a cover of the Kidd Video song. But I remember it sounding way too familiar vocally.
This commercial could have been local. So it would be in the Philadelphia area. So basically the surrounding counties and parts of Jersey. However, it may have specified "your local dealer" instead. Meaning it was a national commercial.
Here is the Kidd Video music video for "You Better Run".
And for comparison here is the Pat Benatar video, which isn't the same song and I'm pretty sure this was definitely not what I remember.
My memory might be really off. Maybe I just heard the song in the commercial wrong. But I'm curious to know whether or not I am right.
Kidou Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble was released in 1986. But it's possible that the store got a Japanese game or received false info that it was being localized. Does anyone remember that game getting a mention in any magazines? I no longer have any gaming magazines from the 80s and 90s. Many were destroyed by a pipe bursting incident known as "The Great Flood" (all my Sega Visions! ;_; ). I also moved many times. All I have comes from the last ten years or so (nothing too recent).
It's also possible that Zeta Gundam was a working title or a cancelled game.
Kidou Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble was developed by Game Studio and published by Bandai. This is the only Gundam game developed by Game Studio. They mostly developed Druaga and Wizardry titles.
Kidou Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble aldo has a GBA port released in 2004. Game Studio did not develop this title. Their last title is listed as coming out in 1999. I don't know if Game Studio was a part of Bandai or not. I don't think so, since Druaga is a Namco series.
But it might be worth trying to track down any relevant info on Game Studio. I'm not sure how much there would be still floating around. It's been close to 20 years since they were last heard from. At least according to GameFAQs. They may have been absorbed into another company or changed their name. They might not actually be shuttered.
Bandai's library of developed and published games is huge. From what I could find on GameFAQs the only one listed as cancelled is Mobile Suit Gundam Seed for DS. That's not very helpful. If they had a game titled Zeta Gundam it's possible it was just changed or cancelled. The name could have come from a magazine featuring it as an upcoming game. Plenty of games get their names changed or go up in smoke after preliminary info is mentioned in those little magazine blurbs about upcoming games. There was never any guarantee that a game featured in that way would come to the west either. I'm thinking that the people who compiled these lists probably spent a lot of time with magazines trying to get a jump on whatever might be traded in soon. They have to be prepared for when some kid comes in wanting to trade the latest game for something else.
Could it be one of the many SD Gundam games for NES? Because other than Hot Scramble all of the NES gundam games I'm seeing are SD Gundam.
By the way, for many years I had a Funco Land flyer that was from around 1997. Might have been a little earlier actually. I kept it for a long time. It was huge and folded out to about three sections on each side. Because I moved so many times I lost a lot of important game publications and advertisements. I still wonder what was on that list that would be interesting to research now.
The Max Headroom broadcast hijacking. I saw a post somewhere some time ago about the mystery being solved. I used to watch the show as a kid. Max Headroom was a popular mascot for awhile. Cafe 80's from Back to the Future 2 featured AI waiters that were directly inspired by Max Headroom. He was also the spokesman for New Coke. I have to be the only person in the world who liked New Coke. But I hated Coke as a kid. I was so happy they made it drinkable. Then they changed it back. At least there was still Pepsi.