THE CELEBRITY

The Overall Winner of the competition won the chance to play a brand new video game, Donkey Kong, against a Celebrity player. This was just for fun ... no prizes at stake here.

On the Pilot the celebrity was Larry Wilcox, then appearing on the TV Show "CHiPs". Larry had never played Donkey Kong (few people had ... it was a brand new game). Actually, we don't think Larry Wilcox had played many video games at all. We put a Donkey Kong in his dressing room so he could practice a bit prior to the show. It was probably the only thing that kept him on the set during our marathon taping session ... that and the magic that seemed to be associated with the show even then.



It was a tight match with the Starcade! champ taking a dramatic run at a game he'd never seen before. But Larry Wilcox won ... just barely ... the final score:

David Dyche 4,500 points
Larry Wilcox 4,800 points

And the rest, as they say, is history...