I saw one episode of that crap and I’m glad I never watched that when I was a kid. Horrible representations of all the classic characters. Or Megaman and Mother Brain atleast.
There’s no way they could be so stupid nowadays. There’d be far more of an outcry if they butchered popular characters like that. Back then characters weren’t very well defined - no one could really tell what Megaman or Simon Belmont really looked like, let alone their personalities. Something like that would be impossible nowadays.
I have all the episodes, and I watched the first two seasons or so, and yeah, they’re still pretty terrible. At least Link wasn’t like he was in the Zelda series.
Well excuuuuuuuuuuuse me Princess.
Actually, you know what, that would have been way funnier.
Still looking for the first season on DVD. Already found the Zelda DVDs, and I sure as heck am not going to search for poor-quality .rm files anymore >:/
Those things just had that… something. Then again, I said the same thing about the Zelda cartoons and had a time shock.
While Captain N was very groan inducing it wasn’t the worst offender. Some of the Mario cartoons up until World were just as bad if not worse than Captain N.
I still remember one painful episode of SMB3 where Bowser (AKA Koopa:bowser: ) launches an attack on the White House. Not only was that episode tasteless to begin with (oh look it’s Barbra Bush running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off) but it hasn’t aged very well either (now if they had Jr. running around instead it could have been the best episode in the series due to sheer divination)
What we’re doing is taking entertainment meant for children and we’re saying that they’re “bad” because they don’t conform to our standards when we’re adults. Of course Captain N and Mario Bros. and Zelda look utterly ridiculous and campy to us now, but can’t we enjoy them because of this? I submit that we can!
For me the problem wasn’t so much that it was campy as the fact that they just completely destroyed the characters they were presenting. Admittedly they had very good reason to think no one would notice, but those characters have all grown (both graphically and developmentally) since then, and I wouldn’t be able to stomach seeing the ridiculousness of their personalities as presented by that show.
GAP, even as a child, I thought these were awful. Except for Mario, with all these nifty sound effects and my opinion hasn’t changed that much I can certainly think of better cartoons of the era.
The problem was that they were disposable entertainment for children and not good at that. I’ve had the urge to watch SilverHawks for some reason
I think the situations for these shows had made worse when shortly after those shows had run their course yet another video game based show came out call Sonic the Hedgehog (the SatAM version fyi) which not only shown that shows based off of video games didn’t have to suck, but that even a simple premise could be fleshed out into something watchable.
Unfortunately, the only bad part about that show is the realization that after about 15 years nothing else that Sonic has ever done has surpassed that show in terms of plot quality.
I second that motion.
Does anyone know if there was an episode for Final Fantasy? I think I remember where Kevin came into contact with a Chocobo once.
Yeah, especially when they tried to do serious things with the plot. (I’m not even gonna go into detail how they keep getting further and further from the gameplay of Sonic 1-3 & Knuckles, starting with Sonic 3D Blast, and then try to claim they’re “going back to the roots”, and keep adding more and more freaking characters whom nobody cares about. I mean … the Homing Attack was something done well to adapt the series to 3D, but … rambles on incessantly)