Cliff Hanger special episode of the game show Starcade, from 1983. I was the winning player. Only putting this here until the fine folks at Starcade upload it to their own channel.
As an anime fan I'm looking for the Starcade episode featuring Bega's Battle which was taken from Harmagedon directed by Rintaro who's also responsible for bringing us Akira.
That's pretty sweet bro, live this show when I was a kid. Always wanted to be in there. Even watching the reruns on here I still yell at the people for when they don't do something for more points lol
I made it my priority not to miss any episode of Starcade which aired on TBS at 5pm. I tried my damnedest to get on but the local arcades didn't endorsed or host any tryouts. I remember Jungle Hunt being one of the games as well as Joust, Star Trek, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man. One of my favorite episodes had Pac Land!!!!!
My good Christ....i remember watching this episode when I was six. I was amazed and wondered how you can play a cartoon. All these years, I always wondered what that cartoon game was. Thank you for uploading this!
I was 9 at the time, I remember my family stopping off at an arcade during a summer vacation and remember trying to play Cliff Hanger and being so confused as to what to do! How did I keep screwing up?! Fun day nonetheless!
Luckily the cartoon you are watching is actually from a film it’s not just a film it is a whole series and his name is lupin the third you could watch the series on crunchy roll if you are wondering what movie it is it’s lupin the third lupin the third castle of cagliostro it’s a pretty good movie by the guy who made the ghibili films
Fun Fact: Other games that received their own episodes are: Dragon's Lair (similar to Cliff Hanger) Pole Position II (a long-awaited sequel) Track and Field (the Olympics) Star Wars (1983, when Return of the Jedi was released)
We were surprised and confused to run out and see all the same game, especially as neither of us tested especially good at it. Mr and Mrs Stern of Slern Electronics were there for the shoot.
Being a gamer for 44 years it all started in the arcades I would skip school hunt for bottles you could get deposit cash for and spend all afternoon in the arcade
What a cool episode, love Lupin III so it's fun to watch his American presence of the 80's Giving the players only 50 seconds on a FMV game is kinda dumb haha, less chances to make up points, and on that 30 second finale, "average score"? You had to play perfect there to win. To the winner/uploader, do you still have the game?
I put so many quarters in this the year it came out and yes eventually I got to the end. I can't believe you guys had so much trouble with the beginning.
I hope whoever wins this thing loves fixing broken machines. Cliffhanger was notorious for breaking down. It was one of those Laser Disc games that were supposed to be the next best thing. If it's working, it is probably worth quite a bit. I'm a 1990's arcade jokey so this was a bit before my time. I find it funny that neither one of these guys are gamers. It looks like they just plucked to random guys off the streets. Producer: "Hey Fred, that guy looks like a nerd, grab him!" Fred: "Okay, will do! Hey kid, how would you like to be in a game show?" Contestant: "Oh gee willikers I would love too!" Fred: "Do you play games?" Contestant: "I play hiking, outdoors, and the tuba." Fred: "That's great! I think we have our new contestant!" I don't know anyone's names but there had to be a Fred in there somewhere.
Yes, the machine broke down and always had issues (failing on a few scenes wound hang the machine). The game sat in my mom's garage for almost 20 years until I sold it in the early 2000s. It did bring a pretty penny. Among the very focused laser arcade community, EVERYBODY saw me win this on Starcade. So I put out a call for best offers and sold it to a guy across the country and got $5800, plus he sent a shipper to pick it up and bring it home. Also I'd say we were both gamers - there was a 3-tiered audition process, with the third being a full day playing arcade games and recording scores. Andrew and I were both good, but this Cliff Hanger was new and wonky and neither of us had played it much.
@@MarcoEsc That's pretty cool man, I watched an episode before (first one ever) this one that made me think...random people, not gamers. The one I watched before was with an...I think 8 year old verse a 30 something year old...not cool. Obviously the older guy murdered him. At any rate, I'm still a huge gamer that plays everything. As I was saying before, I was a 90's arcade jockey. I hit all the Street Fighter 2 tournaments and I was damn good. I don't play many fighting games anymore (fingers don't move like they used too) but I play everything else. I competed in Halo 3 tourneys for a few years then Rainbow Six Vegas 1+2. My crew is still tied with first place for the best times in the world for Terrorist Hunts (we did it with only two people, me and one of my old clan vs 4). So I do know what it's like in the hot seat with thousands watching you....I loved it. What's really sweet and I think you will appreciate, both my fiancee and I are gamers. Our home is a literal gamers paradise. We have a full sized arcade complete with full sized stand up coin-op machines (all 90's cabs, my earliest is a 4-Slot Neo Geo MVS). We have a spare bedroom dedicated to all things retro gaming. Finally, we have two of every console including the enhanced models connected to two 4K UHD screens in our master bedroom. No kids...plenty of disposable income and no damn compromises. This is also why I'm so familiar with those damn Laser Disc cabinets. I had a Space Ace machine that I had to constantly fix. It felt like it was broken more times than it ran. Now that I know it was a legitimate competition I can say that what you did was very impressive. Thank you for setting the record straight. Stay safe my friend and keep playing!
@@Sinn0100 I always remember seeing the Street Fighter tournaments at my local arcade. The only fighting games I played were Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat. I was more of the racing, pinball, and redemption gamer. I always played the classics like Ms. Pac Man and Galaga. I still play the classics but I play more of the rhythm games like DDR and Pump It Up. It's great to have a game room in the house too. My children ask if we can get a house that has a place for a game room. That answer of course is yes.
@@LittleRockElevators Love it, I love everything about your post. Any kids that ask for a game room are good kids in my book. We don't have any kids but if we did I would like to think they would say the same thing. ;)
As a guy who won an arcade cabinet based on two anime movies that being Mystery of Mamo and Castle of Cagliostro have you ever seen any of the Lupin movies? If you haven’t please see them they are a masterpieces. Well Castle of Cagliostro is because it’s done by famous anime artist Hayao Miyazaki. So have you seen any of the Lupin movies?
LOL i remember being 10 years old and blowing all my quarters on this game and still couldn't get past 4:55 I didn't know what the hell i was doing, jerking the joystick in so many directions LOL
CLIFF HANGER IS MY FAVORITE GAME EVER HE SCORE 45,000 TO TAKE HOME THE CLIFF HANGER THE VIDEO GAME AND HE BARLEY DID IT! OKAY COME BACK AT 11:30 AM TO DO MORE. SO FOR NOW IT'S WHEEL OF FORTUNE VCR EDITION NEXT.
You would be happy to know that this isn’t just a game it’s actually a game based off a series called Lupin the third you would watch the series on crunchy roll and it’s a big hit in Japan
I thought I sucked at this game as a kid, but clearly I was an "expert". If the movement-prompts were clearer, like Dragon's Lair, this game would've been more popular.
ON TV CONGRATS TO THE BONUS PRIZE A HERSEY CHOCOLATE BARS WORTH $11,000 AND JENNY SCORED $25,000 BONUS AND THE LEFT SIDE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD STARCADE CONTESTANT WON THE VIDEO GAME NOT TOO SHABBY FOR ENTIRE DAY. OH WELL THAT'S IT FOR TODAY WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK AND IT ALWAYS BE SAFE OUT THERE AND GOOD NIGHT AND HAPPY SHOPPING AND DON'T GET ZAPPED.
Congratulations! I think I vaguely remember being happy for you at the end of that episode!! That'd be awesome to have a "Cliff Hanger" machine at home!! Anyway, did you ever get around to writing a book, "How to Win at Cliff Hanger?" And curiously, what were the articles you wrote about?!? 🙂 Also Geoff Edwards seemed like a really nice guy in the shows I've seen him in over the years. Did you ever get to speak to him off camera? Just wondering! Take care!! 😊
P.S. Congrats also on the "R2-D2" robot and boom box / pendant package. Wondering - during the bonus game, did you ever think, "Hmmm...maybe I should miss a question so I get the Activision carts instead?" Just something that came to mind as I watched the clip! 😝
Ha! Thanks. No "how to win at Cliff Hanger" but as the game was the same pattern each time, I could go to the arcade and pull stupid tricks like playing it through on one life blindfolded with my feet. I didn't see it very often in arcades, but a few times I was able to walk up to a group playing, wait my turn, then one shot it. It was fun to have for a few years in high school, then it became bulky to store in my mom's garage for some years, then I sold it for $6K. I'm sure the Starcade Cliff Hanger lives on in someone's collection. The articles were arcane BASIC programming tricks on the Commodore 64 that I wrote for COMPUTE! magazine. I think I sent it as a letter to the editor but they made it a column and sent me $75 and I was a published writer. Geoff was nice enough but we didn't hang out. Contestants were kept in a green room until our shoot. I was nervous as hell but I'm sure there was some small talk. Between takes he obsessively played Elevator Action.
Is it just me or did the game skip the scene where they discovered the casino money they stole was counterfeit? And by "they", I mean Cliff and Marcello.
That was one of those "bonus" scenes, where sometimes the game randomly would have you play the scene, sometimes not...kind of like how they ONLY show Cliff and Jigen scaling down the side of the casino building at the very start of the game. If you mess up on your first try, the scene begins again at the point where the lights light up and they're both running out of the casino.
I noticed that when Andrew played, the game skipped to the girl scene and did not on when you played. I was always curious if they edited the scenes to let the game reset or if they had the dip switches set to delete the scenes without scoring.
They just started the countdown timer when we hit start. There wasn't any editing of the played footage for the show; the game sometimes chose to include an extra scene near the beginning. There is one edit - the first time I played, I forgot to hit start when he said "ready, set, play," so they stopped cameras and let the game reset and we started again.
@@Oldworldman shit my mistake 🤣. It’s just the guy who won the cliffhanger cabinet only cares about the game itself and not the actual story of Lupin and where it comes from.
@@FunnySuitGuy Well, I will be honest with you, as a 10, 11, 12 year old, or in this guy's case, older, we did not know where Cliff Hanger came from. At least I didn't at the time, Cliff (Lupin III) was just as much a hero to us as Dirk the Daring. It was many years later that we all learned, through arcade collecting, that this was Stern's horrible attempt at putting together a cartoon laser disc game to compete with the others that were out there in the market at the time just so they could get a piece of that Cartoon Laser Disc pie. It flopped, but, has always, remained a staple in my heart for me because it was a moment in time. I spent many quarters figuring these games out, and now that I am older, I just own them so I can get a false sense of reality that I came out good spending all that money back in the day. I sold a Cliff Hanger Arcade game for 7K, and it was not even all original! The one I have now is all original, and I have kept it a survivor for many, many years.
Oh man, I do not. I'm pretty sure that Marcello got the Activision Cartridges that were second prize for the Name the Game board. Maybe Andrew's prize was the same. I do know he had a much farther ride home and left disappointed.
This show needs to make a comeback
As an anime fan I knew that this was Lupin the 3rd, movie called The Castle of Cagliostro. And also directed by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki
It also has footage from Mystery of Mamo
As an anime fan I'm looking for the Starcade episode featuring Bega's Battle which was taken from Harmagedon directed by Rintaro who's also responsible for bringing us Akira.
I knew I wasn’t going crazy when I first saw this episode.
That's pretty sweet bro, live this show when I was a kid. Always wanted to be in there. Even watching the reruns on here I still yell at the people for when they don't do something for more points lol
The first time you met Lupin III is this.
Toonami: Am I joke to you?!
I remember watching this episode when it first aired. Was already big fan of the game.
I made it my priority not to miss any episode of Starcade which aired on TBS at 5pm. I tried my damnedest to get on but the local arcades didn't endorsed or host any tryouts. I remember Jungle Hunt being one of the games as well as Joust, Star Trek, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man. One of my favorite episodes had Pac Land!!!!!
My good Christ....i remember watching this episode when I was six. I was amazed and wondered how you can play a cartoon. All these years, I always wondered what that cartoon game was. Thank you for uploading this!
I was 9 at the time, I remember my family stopping off at an arcade during a summer vacation and remember trying to play Cliff Hanger and being so confused as to what to do! How did I keep screwing up?! Fun day nonetheless!
Luckily the cartoon you are watching is actually from a film it’s not just a film it is a whole series and his name is lupin the third you could watch the series on crunchy roll if you are wondering what movie it is it’s lupin the third lupin the third castle of cagliostro it’s a pretty good movie by the guy who made the ghibili films
Watch Lupin the third
Fun Fact: Other games that received their own episodes are:
Dragon's Lair (similar to Cliff Hanger)
Pole Position II (a long-awaited sequel)
Track and Field (the Olympics)
Star Wars (1983, when Return of the Jedi was released)
We were surprised and confused to run out and see all the same game, especially as neither of us tested especially good at it. Mr and Mrs Stern of Slern Electronics were there for the shoot.
How the hell is Lupin the third. A criminal thief who is a horny James Bond similar to a knight who is just trying to save a princess?
I'm saying this as a Lupin III fan, but that bad Bogart impersonation explaining the game made me cringe.
Miyazaki directed this movie
Damn, sure had me cringe.
The whole game makes me cringe!
That's what made this time. Fun!
Between this and Nick Arcade.... we need to bring this back !!!!
im also real sad since this was a bay area show and i was 3 :P
The creators of Nick Arcade are working on a revival!
Being a gamer for 44 years it all started in the arcades I would skip school hunt for bottles you could get deposit cash for and spend all afternoon in the arcade
I remember this episode very much!
Juuummp!……Juuuuump!
This was what introduced me to 'Lupin The Third', and Hayao Miyazaki.
Cliffhanger, A.K.A Lupin iii
Its funny watchin how cheesy this show was years later, I loved it as a child
What a cool episode, love Lupin III so it's fun to watch his American presence of the 80's
Giving the players only 50 seconds on a FMV game is kinda dumb haha, less chances to make up points, and on that 30 second finale, "average score"? You had to play perfect there to win.
To the winner/uploader, do you still have the game?
I put so many quarters in this the year it came out and yes eventually I got to the end. I can't believe you guys had so much trouble with the beginning.
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I hope whoever wins this thing loves fixing broken machines. Cliffhanger was notorious for breaking down. It was one of those Laser Disc games that were supposed to be the next best thing. If it's working, it is probably worth quite a bit. I'm a 1990's arcade jokey so this was a bit before my time. I find it funny that neither one of these guys are gamers. It looks like they just plucked to random guys off the streets.
Producer: "Hey Fred, that guy looks like a nerd, grab him!"
Fred: "Okay, will do! Hey kid, how would you like to be in a game show?"
Contestant: "Oh gee willikers I would love too!"
Fred: "Do you play games?"
Contestant: "I play hiking, outdoors, and the tuba."
Fred: "That's great! I think we have our new contestant!"
I don't know anyone's names but there had to be a Fred in there somewhere.
Yes, the machine broke down and always had issues (failing on a few scenes wound hang the machine). The game sat in my mom's garage for almost 20 years until I sold it in the early 2000s.
It did bring a pretty penny. Among the very focused laser arcade community, EVERYBODY saw me win this on Starcade. So I put out a call for best offers and sold it to a guy across the country and got $5800, plus he sent a shipper to pick it up and bring it home.
Also I'd say we were both gamers - there was a 3-tiered audition process, with the third being a full day playing arcade games and recording scores. Andrew and I were both good, but this Cliff Hanger was new and wonky and neither of us had played it much.
@@MarcoEsc
That's pretty cool man, I watched an episode before (first one ever) this one that made me think...random people, not gamers. The one I watched before was with an...I think 8 year old verse a 30 something year old...not cool. Obviously the older guy murdered him.
At any rate, I'm still a huge gamer that plays everything. As I was saying before, I was a 90's arcade jockey. I hit all the Street Fighter 2 tournaments and I was damn good. I don't play many fighting games anymore (fingers don't move like they used too) but I play everything else. I competed in Halo 3 tourneys for a few years then Rainbow Six Vegas 1+2. My crew is still tied with first place for the best times in the world for Terrorist Hunts (we did it with only two people, me and one of my old clan vs 4). So I do know what it's like in the hot seat with thousands watching you....I loved it.
What's really sweet and I think you will appreciate, both my fiancee and I are gamers. Our home is a literal gamers paradise. We have a full sized arcade complete with full sized stand up coin-op machines (all 90's cabs, my earliest is a 4-Slot Neo Geo MVS). We have a spare bedroom dedicated to all things retro gaming. Finally, we have two of every console including the enhanced models connected to two 4K UHD screens in our master bedroom. No kids...plenty of disposable income and no damn compromises. This is also why I'm so familiar with those damn Laser Disc cabinets. I had a Space Ace machine that I had to constantly fix. It felt like it was broken more times than it ran.
Now that I know it was a legitimate competition I can say that what you did was very impressive. Thank you for setting the record straight. Stay safe my friend and keep playing!
@@Sinn0100 I always remember seeing the Street Fighter tournaments at my local arcade. The only fighting games I played were Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat. I was more of the racing, pinball, and redemption gamer. I always played the classics like Ms. Pac Man and Galaga. I still play the classics but I play more of the rhythm games like DDR and Pump It Up. It's great to have a game room in the house too. My children ask if we can get a house that has a place for a game room. That answer of course is yes.
@@LittleRockElevators
Love it, I love everything about your post. Any kids that ask for a game room are good kids in my book. We don't have any kids but if we did I would like to think they would say the same thing. ;)
Incredible!
As a guy who won an arcade cabinet based on two anime movies that being Mystery of Mamo and Castle of Cagliostro have you ever seen any of the Lupin movies? If you haven’t please see them they are a masterpieces. Well Castle of Cagliostro is because it’s done by famous anime artist Hayao Miyazaki. So have you seen any of the Lupin movies?
wow
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LOL i remember being 10 years old and blowing all my quarters on this game and still couldn't get past 4:55 I didn't know what the hell i was doing, jerking the joystick in so many directions LOL
nice Marc:) Do you still have the cabinet? And what did u do with the pendant?:)
That game ended up being very rare and highly collectible, so I sold it for a good price in the early 2000s. The pendant I gave my daughter
1st time watching this, made me think of Dragon’s Lair
How does Lupin the third a horny James Bond thief remind you of a game where you just need to go to a castle and save a princess?
Im from the bee swarm simulator game we were talking about u
CLIFF HANGER IS MY FAVORITE GAME EVER HE SCORE 45,000 TO TAKE HOME THE CLIFF HANGER THE VIDEO GAME AND HE BARLEY DID IT! OKAY COME BACK AT 11:30 AM TO DO MORE. SO FOR NOW IT'S WHEEL OF FORTUNE VCR EDITION NEXT.
You would be happy to know that this isn’t just a game it’s actually a game based off a series called Lupin the third you would watch the series on crunchy roll and it’s a big hit in Japan
You can also watch the whole movie on Netflix if that's easier. It's Lupin the third: the castle of cagliostro.
9:35 WOW!! shes working!! shes in TROUBLE!
never see that coming
So, a Lupin the Third FMV game was released in the west with the name of Cliff Hanger? Lol
yes
Did you ever watch the movie associated with the game? It's pretty sweeeet.
The guy is ignoring all comments related to Lupin the third. It’s like he wants to avoid the topic.
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I thought I sucked at this game as a kid, but clearly I was an "expert". If the movement-prompts were clearer, like Dragon's Lair, this game would've been more popular.
ON TV CONGRATS TO THE BONUS PRIZE A HERSEY CHOCOLATE BARS WORTH $11,000 AND JENNY SCORED $25,000 BONUS AND THE LEFT SIDE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD STARCADE CONTESTANT WON THE VIDEO GAME NOT TOO SHABBY FOR ENTIRE DAY. OH WELL THAT'S IT FOR TODAY WILL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK AND IT ALWAYS BE SAFE OUT THERE AND GOOD NIGHT AND HAPPY SHOPPING AND DON'T GET ZAPPED.
shut up spammer
nail it
WILL SEE YOU LATER TODAY AT 3:30 AM HERE ON CZcams.
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Congrats, but your description should include a spoiler alert! :)
Congratulations! I think I vaguely remember being happy for you at the end of that episode!! That'd be awesome to have a "Cliff Hanger" machine at home!! Anyway, did you ever get around to writing a book, "How to Win at Cliff Hanger?" And curiously, what were the articles you wrote about?!? 🙂
Also Geoff Edwards seemed like a really nice guy in the shows I've seen him in over the years. Did you ever get to speak to him off camera? Just wondering! Take care!! 😊
P.S. Congrats also on the "R2-D2" robot and boom box / pendant package. Wondering - during the bonus game, did you ever think, "Hmmm...maybe I should miss a question so I get the Activision carts instead?" Just something that came to mind as I watched the clip! 😝
Ha! Thanks. No "how to win at Cliff Hanger" but as the game was the same pattern each time, I could go to the arcade and pull stupid tricks like playing it through on one life blindfolded with my feet. I didn't see it very often in arcades, but a few times I was able to walk up to a group playing, wait my turn, then one shot it. It was fun to have for a few years in high school, then it became bulky to store in my mom's garage for some years, then I sold it for $6K. I'm sure the Starcade Cliff Hanger lives on in someone's collection.
The articles were arcane BASIC programming tricks on the Commodore 64 that I wrote for COMPUTE! magazine. I think I sent it as a letter to the editor but they made it a column and sent me $75 and I was a published writer.
Geoff was nice enough but we didn't hang out. Contestants were kept in a green room until our shoot. I was nervous as hell but I'm sure there was some small talk. Between takes he obsessively played Elevator Action.
What's going on? I couldn't watch the game in play because of the exact same cartoon clip being shown.
let pray
I remember this show it was fun to watch because the host is not a gamer at all work choice but in a funny way
Is it just me or did the game skip the scene where they discovered the casino money they stole was counterfeit? And by "they", I mean Cliff and Marcello.
Yes it's cut. But they retained the line, "it's counterfeit!".
That was one of those "bonus" scenes, where sometimes the game randomly would have you play the scene, sometimes not...kind of like how they ONLY show Cliff and Jigen scaling down the side of the casino building at the very start of the game. If you mess up on your first try, the scene begins again at the point where the lights light up and they're both running out of the casino.
i wonder if they still have the game machine?
as you know from my profile im a lupin fan. im quite sad about the dub of this.
I sold the game about 20 years ago for $6000.
Whatever came of the game you won? Did you Sell it?
i felt sorry for that guy
LUPIN THE THIIIIIIIIRDDDDDDDD
back up
hahha Did Geoff get burthurt at 15:17?
I noticed that when Andrew played, the game skipped to the girl scene and did not on when you played. I was always curious if they edited the scenes to let the game reset or if they had the dip switches set to delete the scenes without scoring.
They just started the countdown timer when we hit start. There wasn't any editing of the played footage for the show; the game sometimes chose to include an extra scene near the beginning. There is one edit - the first time I played, I forgot to hit start when he said "ready, set, play," so they stopped cameras and let the game reset and we started again.
Her name is Clarice. Man how about you watch some Lupin anime in your life.
@@FunnySuitGuy I own the game and some Lupin Memorabilia. Watched them all as well.
@@Oldworldman shit my mistake 🤣. It’s just the guy who won the cliffhanger cabinet only cares about the game itself and not the actual story of Lupin and where it comes from.
@@FunnySuitGuy Well, I will be honest with you, as a 10, 11, 12 year old, or in this guy's case, older, we did not know where Cliff Hanger came from. At least I didn't at the time, Cliff (Lupin III) was just as much a hero to us as Dirk the Daring. It was many years later that we all learned, through arcade collecting, that this was Stern's horrible attempt at putting together a cartoon laser disc game to compete with the others that were out there in the market at the time just so they could get a piece of that Cartoon Laser Disc pie. It flopped, but, has always, remained a staple in my heart for me because it was a moment in time. I spent many quarters figuring these games out, and now that I am older, I just own them so I can get a false sense of reality that I came out good spending all that money back in the day. I sold a Cliff Hanger Arcade game for 7K, and it was not even all original! The one I have now is all original, and I have kept it a survivor for many, many years.
Do you remember what prize Andrew received?
Oh man, I do not. I'm pretty sure that Marcello got the Activision Cartridges that were second prize for the Name the Game board. Maybe Andrew's prize was the same. I do know he had a much farther ride home and left disappointed.
Cliffhanger seems like an absolutely terrible game. LOL
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