Video City International (Greece)

Nickname : "The Star Wars Logo", "Blatant Use Of Star Wars", "The Glass-field", "Death by Low-Budget Star Wars", "Not so long ago, in a Greek video tape not so far, far away...", "VCI Space of Doom." "VCI of Cheesiness"



Logo : We see a black background with stars rapidly shooting forth in a "spiral" motion. Then, it quickly fades to a rapidly zooming star field. Then, two yellow-orange light trails with "VCI" written on them in threes (also in yellow-orange) zoom out from the center of the screen to the top and bottom. Finally, an yellow-orange "VCI", written in a 3D "blocky" font surrounded by a hexagonal frame, zooms up from the bottom via a "rainbow trail" effect. As the star field fades out, the logo sparkles several times, and the text "VIDEO CITY INTERNATIONAL" wipes in below in yellow-orange, followed by some text written in Greek (possibly VCI's address and phone number). Then, the logo stops sparkling.

FX/SFX : The starfield and chyron trails.

Cheesy Factor : Off the charts. The stars look like shattered glass and the chyron trails look really primitive. Also, why did they have to use the Star Wars theme? They just didn't want to make their own or they really wanted to make a tribute to the saga?

Music/Sounds : A low-budget rendition of the Star Wars theme.

Availability : Seen on old Greek tapes from the period.

Scare Factor : Medium to high; the sudden, cheap animation, loud fanfare, darkness, and the spiraling stars after the warning will startle a lot of first time viewers. But the cheesiness will lower it for some. Many will laugh at the use of the Star Wars theme.

2nd (alternate) Logo (1980s)

Logo : On an orange background, a blue object is seen "rippling". After a bit, it's stops "rippling", coming together to form the VCI logo from before. The name,address and phone number from before, this time chyroned over it, appears as the logo backs up a bit.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor : The Scanimated logo "rippling". Pretty cheap, but it's not as bad as the 1st logo. At least they actually attempted a original theme this time.

Music/Sounds : A dramatic and majestic fanfare.

Availability : Same as before.

Scare Factor : Low to medium. Like before, the sudden animation and fanfare may scare some, but the lower volume and lack of darkness makes it overall better.