In 1997, Canadian TV show, Video & Arcade Top 10 listed off the following as the “Pioneer Top Five” for the best-selling LaserDisc titles:

  • Godfather I Wide Screen
  • Godfather II Wide Screen
  • Godfather III Wide Screen
  • Terminator II Collector’s Edition
  • Evening Star Wide Screen

Considering DVD came out the year that Pioneer had created this list for a video game show targeted at youths, it’s pretty freaking wild.

Also, the Godfather movies were all released a decade before the average target audience were even born and would combined take about nine hours to watch.

This show is just really weird. Aside from the LaserDisc top-five which never seemed to change in a single season, the music prizes were odd and the “Top 10” of the show’s own title didn’t seem to matter much either.

Second place contestants were given both a bath time “Game Boy” toy and two compact discs: Slow Jams Volume 2 and Dance Mix USA 97 Canadian Limited Edition.

With Slow Jams Volume 2, the track listings included songs like Tonight I Celebrate My Love, Between the Sheets, and As We Lay which are all titles a tween would want to have in their music collection. I don’t have much to comment on the other album.

Aside from the interesting undertones presented in one of the two CDs, there’s also this egregious decision: why the the hell is it “V&A Top 3” when “Top 10” is in the show’s freaking title?