Arcadia is a weekly television show about video gaming and related subject matter. It is produced by 18-50 Televisión Guatemala

Guatemala

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. The show is hosted by Tomás Gálvez.

About the show

The first episode of Arcadia was televised on August 2008. As of June 2010, the show has had a total of 67 different scripts. The original idea came from Diego Burgos, who contacted 18-50 Televisión to suggest them to add a videogame based show to their regular broadcast. As a result, 18-50 Televisión offered Burgos the opportunity to produce the show. Burgos contacted Tomás Gálvez (among other friends) to host Arcadia. Eventually, Gálvez became the show's host and, together with Burgos, they came up with the name and the show's theme and segments. The name "Arcadia" was chosen among a whole lot of options, including "El Control" and "Start/Select".
Since the first episode, Arcadia has been produced by:

• Diego Burgos
• Dabner Ortíz
• Alfonso Sierra (who, as of June 2010, is hosting another 18-50 show named Central Atómica together with Rodrigo Dubón)
• César Castro
• Daniel Correa

The show can be followed by Internet in real time or at the show's official website.

Segments

The show elaborates on the matters of and related to videogames, its coverage ranging from videogame releases, news and reviews to videogames' social impact, media and myths. These themes are divided in segments, such as:

• Reseña: a description of a videogame's characteristics, focusing mainly on gameplay, reception and opinion.
• Tema: discussion on a subject pertinent to science, society, trends, etc. which is, in some way, related to the universe of videogames.
• FM Juegos: presentation and discussion over the music of videogames. Mainly, this segment develops on videogame composers and musicians (e.g., Tommy Tallarico
  Tommy Tallarico
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  , Koji Kondo
  Koji Kondo
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  ), videogame OST's and special mixes and arranges based on videogame music (such as Ultranomicon, OC Remix and Joe Pleiman's version of the Zelda
  The Legend of Zelda
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   theme.
• Retro: a special segment dedicated to the presentation, review and description of old videogames (e.g., Colossal Cave Adventure
  Colossal Cave Adventure
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  ) and videogaming consoles (e.g., Satellaview
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  , Sega Genesis and the portables Game and Watch).