SPP Emergency Backup Tape

SPP Emergency Backup Tape was a special backup tape, being one of the last few showtapes released for Showbiz Pizza Place's hosting the Rock-afire Explosion.

For some stores, this was the last tape used before Concept Unification would start at their location. Each tape sent after SPP Christmas '89 / Wave Bday would become increasingly more rare as stores would convert to 3-Stages.

Despite the later years of Cyberstar being mostly re-used segments from earlier showtapes, the last showtapes became the "Best of" series, bringing back every single Cyberstar segment for stores to have. It was said at this time that due to the Rock-afire Explosion being phased out, stores could play whatever showtapes they had without sticking to the most recent show. The Best of series could be seen as an encouragement of this.

Emergency Backup Format
As stated in the Concept Unification Installation Manual, the emergency backup tapes were used in the event of a deck failure. A deck failure would mean the store would need to order a consumer stereo deck as a replacement, which could not support the 4-channel audio of a standard showtape. A standard tape had audio on Hifi left/right, with the programming signals on linear left/right, while the emergency tape duplicated the signals to both linear and Hifi left, and the audio to both linear and Hifi right. This resulted in the birthday signals being lost, with only the standard shows being able to play.

Show List:

 * 1) Intermission 1
 * 2) Cyberstar Intro
 * 3) Segment 1
 * 4) Tune Machine 1
 * 5) Intermission 2
 * 6) Cyberstar Intro
 * 7) Segment 2
 * 8) Tune Machine 2
 * 9) Intermission 3
 * 10) Cyberstar Intro
 * 11) Segment 3
 * 12) Bach to Rock
 * 13) Intermission 4
 * 14) Cyberstar Intro
 * 15) Segment 4
 * 16) Olympics
 * 1) Cyberstar Intro
 * 2) Segment 3
 * 3) Bach to Rock
 * 4) Intermission 4
 * 5) Cyberstar Intro
 * 6) Segment 4
 * 7) Olympics
 * 1) Cyberstar Intro
 * 2) Segment 4
 * 3) Olympics
 * 1) Segment 4
 * 2) Olympics