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Oscar's Letter Party

Oscar's Letter Party is a 1988 Sesame Street interactive home video released for the View-Master Interactive Vision video game system. The system came with a simple controller which included a joystick and three colorful buttons. As the video plays, the characters address the player directly, and ask the player to make a choice by pressing one of the buttons. The video has a number of different soundtracks recorded, and the player's choices toggle back and forth between the soundtracks, giving the impression that the player has changed the course of the story.



Picture Segment Description
OLP1
SCENE 1 The game opens up with Oscar the Grouch discovering that his trash can is surrounded by happy faces. Using the controller, the player erases them for him.
OLP2
Muppets Grover and Christopher play a game where he gets tickled, then holds up a sign saying "STOP" when he wants the tickling to end.
(First: Episode 1300)
The player can hit the blue button to tickle Grover, and the red one to make him stop.
OLP3
OLP4
OLP5
SCENE 2 Oscar reveals that the player will be able to attend a grouch party, but must do some things first. First, Fluffy displays four random letters and wants the player to choose one.
OLP6
SCENE 2 cont'd Once the player has picked one, Oscar hears a car, alerting him that the party decorations have arrived. As he leaves, he presents a film that may have the chosen letter in it.
OLP7
Cartoon Psychedelic alphabet.
The player can hit a button when their letter appears on screen for a message from Oscar.
The beginning and endings are cut.
OLP8

OLP9
SCENE 3 To make sure the player is worthy enough of attending his grouch party, he conducts a grouch test. However, if the player proves they aren't grouchy they'll get an invitation to Bob's party instead.
OLP10
SCENE 3 cont'd Before the test, Bob appears, hoping the player will attend his normal party.
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OLP11
OLP12
OLP13
SCENE 3 cont'd ‎For the first part of the test, Oscar has the player make a grouch word.
OLP14
SCENE 3 cont'd After the first test, Bob comes by the can to make sure the player is coming to his party.
OLP15
Muppets "Octopus Blues"
(First: Episode 2221)
The player can hit their green button to make 8 fish appear when they hear the number 8.
OLP17
SCENE 4 cont'd Next, Oscar presents a grouch music test. He plays a song that can be sung two ways...
OLP18
Muppets Big Bird sings "May I Be Your Friend?" to Samantha the Eel in his nest.
(First: Episode 1593)
The player can press the blue button to hear Oscar's grouchy lyrics, and the red button for Big Bird's nice lyrics.
OLP16
SCENE 5 ‎Oscar writes the results on his scorecard and asks the player to remember their letter for the next segment.
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OLP19
Cartoon A Rube Goldberg device is used to display the letters of the alphabet.
(First: Episode 1113)
The player can hit their green button when their letter appears.
Only the first part of this cartoon is shown.
OLP20
Muppets Kermit sings "The Frogs in the Glen."
(First: Episode 1786)
When the player hears the word "frog", their green button will make an animated frog appear.
OLP21

OLP22
SCENE 6 ‎While Bob blows up the balloons for his party, Oscar runs the "Grouch Two-Plex" at his can. Two films appear above him (one about a butterfly and the other about pigs), which will give more proof as to how grouchy the player is.
OLP23
SCENE 6 cont'd (alternate 1) If the player picks the pig film, Oscar gives it a good review: 4 oinks.
OLP23alt
SCENE 6 cont'd (alternate 2) If the players picks the butterfly film, Oscar gives it a bad review: 4 yucks.
OLP24
Muppets Grover asks Maya to help him follow an arrow. The arrow keeps changing direction until Grover falls down, exhausted.
(First: Episode 1641)
The player can hit their white button to make an arrow that matches the one on screen.
OLP25
OLP26
OLP27
OLP28
OLP29
SCENE 7 Now it's time for the "Party Quiz". Oscar gives choices for party games, decor, music and presents. He plays a film while he tallies the score.
OLP30
Muppets Kermit sings "Caribbean Amphibian."
(First: Episode 2205)
The green button will make an animated frog leap to a lillypad.
Animation of island maps replaced with a repeated shot of frogs jumping, and one additional second of Kermit singing. A few frames are cut at edit points.
OLP31
SCENE 8 Oscar gives the final tally, which gets the player into either Bob or Oscar's party.
OLP32
SCENE 8 cont'd (alternate 1) ‎If the player gets Oscar's, then they get to attend a party with Oscar, his elephants and The Grouchketeers.
OLP33
SCENE 8 cont'd (alternate 2) If the player gets Bob's, then they get to attend a party with Bob and the kids.

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