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
center 	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.
center 	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.The player can hit the blue button to tickle Grover, and the red one to make him stop.
center 	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.
center 	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.
center 	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.
center‎	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.
center 	SCENE 3 cont'd 	Before the test, Bob appears, hoping the player will attend his normal party.
 	SCENE 3 cont'd 	‎For the first part of the test, Oscar has the player make a grouch word.
center 	SCENE 3 cont'd 	After the first test, Bob comes by the can to make sure the player is coming to his party.
center 	Muppets 	"Octopus Blues"The player can hit their green button to make 8 fish appear when they hear the number 8.
center 	SCENE 4 cont'd 	Next, Oscar presents a grouch music test. He plays a song that can be sung two ways...
center 	Muppets 	Big Bird sings "May I Be Your Friend?" to Samantha the Eel in his nest.The player can press the blue button to hear Oscar's grouchy lyrics, and the red button for Big Bird's nice lyrics.
 	SCENE 5 	‎Oscar writes the results on his scorecard and asks the player to remember their letter for the next segment.
‎ 	Cartoon 	A Rube Goldberg device is used to display the letters of the alphabet.The player can hit their green button when their letter appears.Only the first part of this cartoon is shown.
center 	Muppets 	Kermit sings "The Frogs in the Glen."When the player hears the word "frog", their green button will make an animated frog appear.
center 	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.
center 	SCENE 6 cont'd (alternate 1)	If the player picks the pig film, Oscar gives it a good review: 4 oinks.
 	SCENE 6 cont'd (alternate 2)	If the players picks the butterfly film, Oscar gives it a bad review: 4 yucks.
center 	Muppets 	Grover asks Maya to help him follow an arrow. The arrow keeps changing direction until Grover falls down, exhausted.The player can hit their white button to make an arrow that matches the one on screen.
 	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.
center 	Muppets 	Kermit sings "Caribbean Amphibian."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.
center 	SCENE 8 	Oscar gives the final tally, which gets the player into either Bob or Oscar's party.
 	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.
 	SCENE 8 cont'd (alternate 2)	If the player gets Bob's, then they get to attend a party with Bob and the kids.
==Credits==
* Directed by Ted May
* Executive Producer: Jon Stone
* Producer: Sonia Rosario
* Interactive Development: Glenda Revelle
* Written by Mark Saltzman
* Segments Directed by Ozzie Alfonso, Emily Squires, Jon Stone
* Segments Written by David Axlerod, Jeff Moss, Ray Sipherd, Norman Stiles, Peter Swet
** Starring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets:
*** with Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
*** Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Martin P. Robinson
*** Kevin Clash, Pam Arciero, Noel MacNeal, Brian Muehl, David Rudman, Mark Zeszotek
*** Kathryn Mullen, Ed Christie, Cheryl Blalock, and Jim Henson
** Bob McGrath as Bob
** Christopher Wein
** Marilyn Sokol
** Ivy Austin
** Maya Bernstein
* Songs by Tony Geiss, Bruce Hart, Stephen Lawrence, Jeff Moss, Joe Raposo, Jon Stone
==Also in this series==
* Let's Learn to Play Together
* Let's Play School
* Magic on Sesame Street
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