History Series / RaumschiffGamestar

''[=Raumschiff GameStar=]'' (RSGS for short) [[labelnote:Ger.]]"Raumschiff" means "Spaceship".[[/labelnote]] was a German {{Live Action|TVTropes}} GagSeries produced by the staff of PC gaming magazine [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStar GameStar]] between 1997 and 2004 and [[DirectToVideo released on CDs (later, DVDs) that came with each issue]]. The magazine editors and layout designers were cast as either the heroic crew of the CoolStarship ''[=GameStar=]'' (e.g. with the editor-in-chief playing TheCaptain) or the villainous adepts of TheDarkSide commanded by TheEmperor. They [[WalkingTheEarth travel the universe]] and [[TheyFightCrime fight each other]] for no apparent reason.

The series was first and foremost a continuous parody of classic and contemporary VideoGames, TV {{Series}}, {{Film}}s, and ScienceFiction literature, with the most noticeable {{pastiche}}s being of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' (the goodies) and ''StarWars'' (the baddies). ''RSGS'' ran for [[Recap/RaumschiffGamestar five seasons and 58 episodes]], each some six minutes long on average, and was discontinued when the original editor-in-chief left the magazine. It was released completely on [=DVDs=] twice but never translated from German. Nowadays, it can also be watched for free on the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9D8EBC2E18C5F95 official GameStar YouTube channel]] (German only).

In June 2009, the series was seemingly UnCanceled, with the release of a trailer (watch it with [[FanSub English subs]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHS6fHYlhQ here]]) parodying the ''Film/StarTrek'''s. However, as of December 2009 issue, this proved to be a RealTrailerFakeMovie: instead, the third season of the SpiritualSuccessor to ''RSGS'', ''Die Redaktion'', started "airing".

* JesusWasWayCool: {{Jesus}} makes a cameo in episode 50 to warn the [=GameStars=] about impending apocalypse resulting from the [[spoiler:theft of the Golden C64]].

** LooksLikeJesus: His actor later makes an appearance AsHimself in season five, asking the viewers to rescue him from this show if they need "an experienced Jesus impersonator".

* VisualPun: The series runs on them, too. One particularly subtle example is that Captain Langer is one of the shortest characters of the show... while one of the meanings of "Langer" in German is "long one" or "a tall person". [[TheOtherDarrin Michael Graf]], who played him in the 2009 trailer, had to lower his relative height to other actors artificially (usually by standing on his knees).

* StableTimeLoop: The entire first season. [[spoiler:It starts with Captain Langer assembling the crew from the survivors of the Game Reviewers' Planet gone [[ANewHope Alderaan]], and ends with him traveling back in time to help said survivors (including his younger self) escape from the planet before the Empire destroys it and disappearing.]]

* RapidHairGrowth: PlayedForLaughs when the (bald) First Mate Stangl starts mutating into the [[TheDreaded Stanglnator]], he suddenly "grows" not only [[BlondGuysAreEvil wild blond hair]], but also a pair of CoolShades, a [[HellBentForLeather leather jacket]], and a [[InstrumentOfMurder battle guitar]].

* PuffOfLogic: In episode 4x15, an AlienInvasion is thwarted by a random bystander calculating that the probability of the ''[=GameStar=]'', the Death Star, and the Andromedans duking it out over Earth at the same time is exactly zero--the aliens promptly disappear in a puff of logic. Subverted immediately thereafter when the same bystander claims that a meteorite Krypton landing just behind him at that very moment is just as probable--can you guess what happens?

Not to be confused with ''GamestarMechanic''.

* MythArc: The hunt for the Golden {{Commodore 64}} in season four. Other seasons didn't have one.

Not to be confused with GamestarMechanic

* UnCanceled: Subverted with the 2009 announcement.

The series was first and foremost a continuous parody of classic and contemporary VideoGames, TV {{Series}}, {{Film}}s, and ScienceFiction literature, with the most noticeable {{pastiche}}s being of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' (the goodies) and ''StarWars'' (the baddies). ''RSGS'' ran for five seasons and 58 episodes, each some six minutes long on average, and was discontinued when the original editor-in-chief left the magazine. It was released completely on [=DVDs=] twice but never translated from German. Nowadays, it can also be watched for free on the [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9D8EBC2E18C5F95 official GameStar YouTube channel]] (German only).

* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: How Peter saves the crew from [[spoiler:Darth Vader in the season three finale]].

* HowWeGotHere: Season three opens with the ''[=GameStar=]'' preparing for a desperate LastStand against the Death Star and being utterly destroyed. The narration rewinds to five years earlier, technically making the rest of the series this trope... except that the series ended just over 4.5 years later, technically never reaching that point again ([[spoiler:and both parties are destroyed under different circumstances in the GrandFinale]]).
** Confusing matters even further is an almost identical scene in episode 22 (where the ''[=GameStar=]'' warps away in the last moment) which takes place [[TimeTravel centuries in the past relative to the start of the season]], not five years in the future.

* ResetButton: Invoked in a fifth season episode, when the GS crew end up in an [[{{Asterix}} ancient Gaul settlement]]. When Cadet Klinge asks how are they ever gonna get back to their ship, the Captain reassures him that everything will be back to normal by the next episode.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mr. Lenhardt is the first crew member the Captain [[RecruitmentByRescue saves/recruits]] and has an entire episode ("[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock The Search for Mr. Lenhardt]]", no less) dedicated to him, but is never found or mentioned again in the first season. In the second, he appears briefly but gets derailed again and ends up in an Imperial base--and is never heard from again.

->--'''Captain Langer'''

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first season is markedly different from the other four: there are no uniforms, no catchphrase for the Captain, the ''[=GameStar=]'' looks more like a good version of Death Star than ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Enterprise]]'', some members of her crew never appear afterwards, the Empire is commanded by Darth Vader instead of the Emperor (who is only mentioned), etc.

* HostageSituation: A TwoPartEpisode in the second season is dedicated to a wacky hostage exchange of Mikkl against Darth Mopp.

->''"Oh Gott, wir werden alle sterben!"'' [[hottip:Ger.:"Oh God, we are all going to die!"]]

''[=Raumschiff GameStar=]'' (RSGS for short) [[hottip:Ger.:"Raumschiff" means "Spaceship".]] was a German {{Live Action|TVTropes}} GagSeries produced by the staff of PC gaming magazine [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStar GameStar]] between 1997 and 2004 and [[DirectToVideo released on CDs (later, DVDs) that came with each issue]]. The magazine editors and layout designers were cast as either the heroic crew of the CoolStarship ''[=GameStar=]'' (e.g. with the editor-in-chief playing TheCaptain) or the villainous adepts of TheDarkSide commanded by TheEmperor. They [[WalkingTheEarth travel the universe]] and [[TheyFightCrime fight each other]] for no apparent reason.

* NoEnding: [[spoiler:Season four ends with the Wise Man from the Mountains securing the Golden C64 from the Evil Emperor and his goons, and then immediately, Darth Lott and Darth Schmitz holding him at gunpoint. The next episode started episode five, leaving the Golden C64 arc without a clear resolution.]]

* ReadingAheadInTheScript: In one episode Captain Langer figures out the villains' EvilPlan by reading it from the script of the episode.