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A future Easter Egg to 1982 Bally Midway arcade video game Satan's Hollow may appear in 1968 Star Trek Episode Bread And Circuses (S.2, E.25). The Enterprise investigates the wreckage of a spacecraft & learns the crew took refuge on an alien world with civilization based on a cross between mid 20th century America & ancient Rome.
- Actor Logan Ramsey plays Proconsul Claudius Marcus & is your video game link.
- He was Mayor Neville in 1983 comedy Joysticks which is set largely in a video arcade full of real world game cabinets common to the time period.
- In a playoff challenge scene at around 38 minutes, McDorfus (Jim Greenleaf) plays Satan's Hollow against punk rocker King Vidiot (Jon Gries).
- At about 6 minutes 38 seconds into Star Trek "Bread And Circuses" I thought there may be a future reference to Satan's Hollow where Kirk, Spock & McCoy walk through a canyon on the alien planet. In one of Dr. McCoy's classic jabs at the Vulcan, he says: "Naturally. You could hardly claim to be an angel with those pointed ears, Mister Spock. But say you landed someplace with a pitchfork."
- I thought the camera shots interesting in this scene, as the trio are basically standing in a hollow (ageological feature being a small valley between mountains).

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00:00Possible future Easter egg reference to 1982 Bolly Midway arcade video game, Satan's Hollow.
00:11This game is a fixed shooter.
00:13The player shoots aerial enemies, gargoyles, and has to assemble a bridge piece by piece over a river of lava.
00:22And you can see this in Star Trek, the original TV series, season 2, episode 25, entitled Bread and Circuses,
00:33broadcast in 1968.
00:35The Enterprise is investigating the wreckage of a spaceship.
00:39They find the crew have taken refuge on an Earth-like planet with a civilization.
00:45It's a cross between 1950s or 1960s Earth and ancient Rome.
00:52Guest stars in this, Rhodes Reason, Ian Wolfe, and Logan Ramsey.
00:58He is your video game, Link.
01:00In 1983, Ramsey played Mayor Neville in the comedy Joysticks.
01:08The cast included Joe Don Baker, Leif Green, John Deal, Jim Greenleaf, and Scott McGinnis.
01:14It just so happens that this is set in a video arcade.
01:20Many contemporary games of the time featured in this movie.
01:24There's a big tournament playoff scene where Jim Greenleaf's character, McDorfus, and John Grease, King Vidiot, play Satan's Hollow.
01:35And it gets going at about 38 minutes in.
01:38I recently watched Star Trek Bread and Circuses, again, this time looking for possible clues to some of the video
01:46games shown in this movie.
01:48There's a big one, I think, too, Satan's Hollow.
01:51And it's at about 6 minutes 38 seconds.
01:55So here, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are walking through a canyon on the alien planet.
02:02In one of McCoy's classic, Jabs at Spock, he says,
02:06Naturally, you could hardly claim to be an angel with those pointed ears, Mr. Spock.
02:11But say you landed someplace with a pitchfork, and then a gunshot rings out.
02:17Their party encounters Rhodes Reason and Ian Wolfe's characters, who are holdout rebels fighting the tyrannical empire.
02:25The camera shots are interesting, also.
02:28They're literally cornered and standing in what amounts to be a hollow.
02:34The geological feature, H-O-L-L-O-W, a small valley, a sheltered low spot between hills or mountains.

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