Best part really was the voice actors. I have both seasons on DVD you could buy them online on WB's store page for a while, not sure if you still can.
The video game Pac-Land was based on the cartoon, even if Namco tries to deny it. Even though the show was awful, at least it was better than the new Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures cartoon. Even though these cartoons were bad, I do like the fact they were just trying to make kids happy and entertained.
Oh, and Donkey Kong was voiced by the late Soupy Sales and he really got into the role! Dragon's Lair: For some reason, I didn't get into the cartoon that much. Maybe if it were animated by Don Bluth like the arcade game was.
Pole Position: Never got into this one either. I think they just made a generic racing cartoon and just slapped the Pole Position name on it. They were bad, but sometimes there was some funny lines here and there. I loved how they played up the anticipation for the Friday Zelda cartoon. We would so look forward to that as kids. Link was very annoying, but Captain N: Boy they sure did take some creative liberties with these characters, didn't they?
Sometimes it worked well. I loved what they did with Mother Brain, even if every Metroid fan on the planet would cringe. But sometimes it didn't work, like with Mega Man. King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard were pretty funny bad guy sidekicks, though. My friend and I were excited when they did a Dragon Warrior episode one time. Dragon Warrior: And speaking of which, I never saw this one because where I live, the stations only showed it at like, in the freaking morning!
Good job. I think you've covered every video game cartoon from the 80's. Whoa, Cary, thanks for the input! Yes, they were all pretty terrible, but props to those who actually put in some effort. Yeah, it's probably the best of the bunch, although I was pleasantly surprised by Pole Position--I thought that one was great.
I don't remember most of these shows, so at least there's stuff like Youtube out there to help fill in the gaps. Yep, that's why I put clips here from YouTube. If a particular show interests you, they're all on YouTube to watch and enjoy. Forgot password?
Register Remember Me. User Name: Password:. Blog - General Entry Tweet. Your favorite video game heroes come to life on the TV--in color! Final Verdict: Great Stay tuned for more video game cartoons! As for the 90s cartoons, they're next, so stay tuned. Ah man, that DQ cartoon is worlds better than any of the others. Log in to your PixlBit account in the bar above or join the site to leave a comment.
Game Collection Games on 20 Systems. Friend Codes. Frogger the video game, introduced in by Sega , was another advancement in technology. The goal was to get your froggy protagonist to safety as it crossed a highway filled with cars and a river loaded with sinking alligators and turtles. Here, Frogger is an ace reporter for the Swamp Gazette who goes in search of crazy stories. He's joined by Shelly Turtle and Fanny Frog. Like the video game, Frogger gets flattened by the occasional truck or eaten by an alligator.
Luckily, he can be revived with a simple air pump. It's interesting how time changes relationships. When Mario then known as Jumpman was introduced in Nintendo's Donkey Kong in , he was simply a one-dimensional protagonist trying to rescue his girlfriend, Pauline, from the clutches of a giant ape.
With the introduction of the characters on Saturday Supercade , viewers got to see a character bound for stardom. In the cartoon version of Donkey Kong , it was up to Mario and Pauline to rescue the big monkey from some scheme or another he was lured into.
Like in the video game, the mustached hero needed to rescue his girl from the clutches of Kong, voiced by Soupy Sales. However, in the end, the trio would team up to rout the actual criminals.
Popular video games begat sequels. Pac-Man was born from Pac-Man. However, the premise of Junior's adventures was different between the video game and his Saturday Supercade segment. The former pitted the young Kong against Mario to rescue his dad. The latter had Junior team up with a Fonzie-like character nicknamed Bones to find his father after he runs away from the circus.
What does one do when they want to make a cartoon about a video game that doesn't really have a backstory? They place them in a period that may or may not make sense to the viewer.
The animated version puts the protagonist and his friends in the s. That includes being bullied by a trio of greasers. The inclusion of Activision's Pitfall! Many of those games are still remembered fondly, especially sprite-based beat-em-up romps like the original arcade game and Turtles in Time for the SNES. But the Ninja Turtles series has seen a couple of reboots since the 80's, and while the quality of each successive cartoon improves, the quality of the tie-in games takes a hit.
Even modern efforts to fire up nostalgia over old favorites, like Ubisoft's remake of Turtles in Time, have been dismal. Maybe part of the issue has been the new games' tendency to use computer-generated models.
Granted, the newest series from Nickelodeon features 3D turtles, but big, beautiful sprites would be a lovely way to capture the Turtles at their most nostalgic. They might also go a long way to eliminating the messed-up collision detection some fans feel has also been a big reason behind the modern Turtles' games' failures.
For best results, the game should call back to the first iteration of the series. Endless declarations of "Dude! The Technodrome. Okay, so the Nickelodeon series has all that. But it doesn't have the one thing that would propel an 80's-inspired Ninja Turtles cartoon onto every Game of the Year List: Cut scenes with Shredder and Krang sniping at each other like a married couple. Nadia has been writing about games for so long, only the wind and the rain or the digital facsimiles thereof remember her true name.
She's written for Nerve, About. Kat, Mat, and Eric's Top 10 Games of USG's Top 20 Games of From thirsty gods to avaricious raccoons, these were our favorite games in A look back on what we tried to accomplish at USgamer, and the work still to be done. It's time for us to move on, but we'll carry USG with us wherever we go. The Real Ghostbusters The Real Ghostbusters is an animated extension of the movies -- the first movie in particular -- and it helped endear kids to the franchise, which is probably why so many of us remember it fondly.
SilverHawks Even though these partly-metal, partly-real space cops can fly, the SilverHawks never quite reached the same heights of popularity as their thunder-kitty cousins. Jem Jem is a surprisingly story-heavy series for an 80's cartoon, which makes us feel like the pop star might be ripe for an adventure game or a visual novel.
Joe G. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 80's series Unlike most entries on this list, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have a very robust roster of video games behind them. Nadia Oxford Staff Writer Nadia has been writing about games for so long, only the wind and the rain or the digital facsimiles thereof remember her true name. USG's Top 20 Games of From thirsty gods to avaricious raccoons, these were our favorite games in Press Start to Continue A look back on what we tried to accomplish at USgamer, and the work still to be done.
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