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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm too young for that shit and the other DIC cartoons.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want to punch you for making me feel old, punk.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        lol ok boomer

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I want to punch you for making me feel old, punk.

      lol ok boomer

      You gays gonna kiss?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're awfully eager. Why, you wanna watch?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Perhaps

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I sometimes wonder how many DiC cartoons even had any real lasting relevance besides Inspector Gadget. I like some of their shows and always found the company interesting but I always feel like nobody but oldgays and cartoon enthusiasts will even know who they were besides Gadget and maybe the vidya cartoons they made.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I had to watch Liberty Kids during history in school

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Lasting relevance?
        As in still somewhat known or still talked about? Because no one except oldgays and cartoongays would ever care about cartoons that are off the air
        They made:
        Dennis the Menace, the Real Ghostbusters, The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Super Mario Brothers Super Show/Zelda, Captain N, Captain Planet, Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, Madeline, Steet Sharks, Bump in the night, Mummies alive
        They may not be timeless classics, but there were some good shows in there.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I hate when younglings act like defunct companies had no impact on anything when in fact they produced hit after hit and impacted the industry forever.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I want books to learn more about tv animation, but it’s hard to learn about tv companies especially when most books are just about film animation.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >He will never know the joy of hearing DIC over and over
      Poor guy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      DIC cartoons are comfy as hell

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I need to get back to watching COPS.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I distinctly remember an episode where this group of guys goes into a party shop and buys a bunch of masks, then leaves.

          Literally thirty seconds later they store back into the store, not wearing those masks, and rob the place.

          Even the cartoon cashier was like 'Am I being punked?'

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            "The Case of Berserko's Big Surprise". Berserko is not a smart boy.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Fun fact: this series aired for two seasons (1988 and 1989) and was set during the then-future, in the years 2020 and 2021.
          >That's right kids. The future is now

          Well shit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >le comfy
        Frick off

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It was an actual cartoon? I only remember Captain N from the Nintendo Power magazine.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It only loosely resembles those prose stories.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      tee hee.... dic

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dic did some good shit (and a lot of bad shit). Suggest you hit up kim's place.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nobody actually watches these cartoons they just complain about the designs being different

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      DIC got me into Tokusatsu with Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Damn, Princess Lana looks like THAT?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Literally no, she does not.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >axel rosered

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He's the BEST!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Axel Rosered
      Where's the inflation pic

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Moviebob and Andrew Dobson still think Captain N is canon.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This made me realize I know nothing of the backstory to how that show got made. Now I have to watch one of those Youtube videos "Everything you didn't know about Captain N".

    I sort of like how they gave 80s cartoon character personalities to video game characters that otherwise had no personalities, even if they were corny. Mega Man being a growling midget is especially weird and has stuck with me any time I think of that character in any context.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It was from a different age, where a video game company would just say "frick it just do whatever you want we don't care we make money" instead of handing a 10 thousand page tome of what you can and cannot do with the characters.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The mid 90s put a hard stop to that. I think the first spin off media that the mainline company was overly hands on was Pokemon. That success combined with the rise of the internet meant that most companies didn't bother with American window dressing with any leftovers giving up in the early 2000s

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Even Pokemon up until the Johto series was really werid, Japanese, did what ever it felt like episode per episode. When Pokemania happened world wide they realized the series is global and going to be around for a very long time, that's when it got mandated and became dull. Gone was stuff like Garry and his cheer leader squad, realistic guns appearing in episodes. Out there plots like The Island of Gaint Pokemon, Girls/Kids day, Ash dressing up as a girl to get into a gym and then winning the badge cause he saved a Gloom from a fire or Ash getting a badge for making a psycho psychic girl laugh
          Around Johto, every episode was "Ash and friends walk down a dirt road and meet some character of the day or a town filled with featured Pokemon and team Rocket tires to take them" until it's time for a gym battle
          Sun and Moon/Journeys shook up the anime by making it more of a SoL which is more refreashing than watching Ash lose the league again and again but it's still no where as wild as the Shudo era

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      its basically what parents think of their children's video game characters but made into a show.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Is that good or a bad thing? The intro to this show makes it look awful

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Captain N is a standard 80s toy (Nintendo) commercial. It's dumb, but knows it is. It's about the gags and some child-friendly light action, rather than serialized plots or in depth characters. Its biggest sin for most in the modern age is that it at a glance doesn't resemble any of its source materials since the artists and writers would just go off in whatever direction they wanted to make what they felt would be "interesting". For many, you watch it because you like that hokey era of Saturday Morning animation or to see just how little fricks were given by any of the game companies involved. I personally have nostalgia for it, so my view is biased. At very least, you'll probably enjoy the bad guys (as most shows, they're frequently the most entertaining parts).

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            We got surfer dude Alucard.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous
            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              So true

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I loved the shit out of cartoon Link from that era

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I miss the annotated series like you can't imagine.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It was funny, like they were trying to dodge something. It was like "We're not saying we're Nintendo, specifically...but you know what we're talking about, riiiiightt?"

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I would say bad seeing as how most of the characters are really moronic versions of themselves

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Only if you go in expecting characterization that wouldn't exist until later.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              This. So much this.

              >they only maybe read the manual

              My dude, that's all there WAS to read back then.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It was really bad.

          I'm not even sure where Simon's design is from. It's not even close.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The creators never played the games or knew anything about them , leading to some very interesting concepts.
          For example, the Metroid in the captain N universe is a giant bio-mechanical base resembling a brain that's linked to Motherbrain. So basically they just turned Zebes into the death star and called it Metroid.

          But then they also somehow know Samus is a woman because in the comics she shows up and flirts with captain N.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >they also somehow know Samus is a woman
            To be fair it's the only notable thing about the game. If that twist happened today there would be threads in every board with poltards complaining that Nintendo just tried to indoctrinate kids into becoming trannies.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It's a mix sometimes. There's moments like the Castlevania 3 episode where the entire thing as previously stated is more "someone faxed me the manual and I worked from that". And then you have episodes like "The Trouble With Tetris" where you have a game that seems impossible to make an episode about so they just do whatever works. And then you have stuff like "Quest for the Potion of Power" is a beat-by-beat playthrough of Zelda 2 to about the fourth 5th Palace.
            >go to town and encounter lady who says "Sorry, I know nothing"
            >Assist townsfolk, get something that helps you on your quest
            >journey through a desert where rocks fly through the air in constant bombardment
            >enter dungeon, encount and defeat first boss Horsehead (only vulnerable on his head)
            >journey continues
            >in graveyard full of flying eyeball monsters (Moa), fall into a secret spot to reveal a pathway to the Island Palace
            >In Island Palace, encounters and defeats a horse riding Iron Knuckle (Rebonak)
            >episodes final battle is vs a towering robed wizard enemy (in this instance, Ganon) who can only be defeated by reflecting his own magic at him
            This means the people making Captain N got farther into Zelda 2 than most actual Zelda fans

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >This means the people making Captain N got farther into Zelda 2 than most actual Zelda fans

              Hey, that's exactly as far as I got.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The comics were written by different people at Valiant Comics. Ironically they actually did their due diligence, other than fanon such as Link's parents, when the comics referenced the events of Zelda 2 they were accurate with details such as Bagu.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Well, to an extent. I mean, they conflated the two princesses from the first and second games, having it that it was Ganon who put the one Zelda from present day into an "eternal slumber" that Link had to wake her up from (this was how they incorporated and recapped the plot of the second game a throwaway line by Ganon pretending to be Impa).
              More so than the parents and Clatia though, I'd say their biggest made up fanon was that anyone who possesses the Triforce of Power without that of Wisdom gets corrupted into a pig. Meanwhile Wisdom and Courage have no drawbacks.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The comics were also clearly among the references provided to the folks making the CDi games

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Absolutely, the comics and cartoons, hence why the Triforce is multicolored pyramids and not gold triangles.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                And yet Nintendo basically did that anyways by making Ganon start out as the human Ganondorf.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Well yes, and it's possible Nintendo took the idea from them (it does seem like Toad was originally meant to be a maid to the princess until the American Mario cartoon popularized him as a dude), but it wasn't having the Triforce of Power that made him evil (though it might have enabled the animorph, I guess).

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nintendo's basically conflated the Triforce of Power with evil themselves by making Ganon its only consistent solo wielder. And honestly the "You need Wisdom to wield Power properly" and the Triforce of Courage briefly abandoning Link thing isn't too far off from what Nintendo ended up doing with the "Only a balanced heart can claim the full Triforce without it splitting off into its aspects" thing years later anyways.

                Really, I'm not gonna begrudge "The Power and The Price" for filling in its own blanks on Triforce mechanics when it ended up being oddly prescient of what Nintendo did anyway and also for being the best written story to come out of the "Early Zelda Spinoffs by Burgers" period.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Honestly the "huh, that's a funny coincidence (or IS it?)" that's Zelda related to me was that Ganon had the spiky skullcap in the Zelda cartoon first, then it worked its way back onto game Ganon later starting with his appearances in Oracles/Four Swords/Link Between Worlds.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Good points yes. I guess I just don't like the idea of establishing that the power part messes you up no matter who you are and what your morals and values are. I suppose it's very possible Nintendo saw what they did and said "That's not bad, but let's tweak it so it's about balancing it in general not just counterbalacing this one part".

                Honestly the "huh, that's a funny coincidence (or IS it?)" that's Zelda related to me was that Ganon had the spiky skullcap in the Zelda cartoon first, then it worked its way back onto game Ganon later starting with his appearances in Oracles/Four Swords/Link Between Worlds.

                Excellent observation, of course the shape of the cap is closer to the official art from the previous games. Question is, who added the spikes, Nintendo or Capcom?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Question is, who added the spikes, Nintendo or Capcom?
                Yusuke Nakano, an artist that works for Nintendo (well right now he's more like a general director of the art division, he had to ask a lot to let him do art for TPHD since he wanted to make art again) is credited as the character designer for the Oracle characters, including Ganon and the unused Ganondorf for it.

                He also had a one-sided arguement with Miyamoto over Link's nose in the Oracle games (one sided because the account given in Art and Artifacts was that Nakano tried to explain the reasoning behind his Oracle Link and Miyamoto was upset he no longer had the funny ALttP nose).

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >they conflated the two princesses from the first and second games
                To be fair, this is a perfectly understandable mistake.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                If you don't have the manual then yes, easy mistake to make, especially with the first princess being absent and not mentioned in the second game.

                There's one big mistake: Link turned 16 at the beginning of the second game, years after the first, he was a child during that one. Of course I suppose they could be trying to be in line with the cartoon, in which he's told about the Triforce when he's already in his mid-teens.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      sexy motherbrain

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Would you?

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      CUTSMAN’S THE NAME, CUTTING’S MY GAME! AND I DON’T MEAN HAIR!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There is no Ninetales here

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    who is the hot chick supposed to be?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Princess Lana, original character for the show but a lot of evidence points to her being what may have been at one point an interpretation of Palutena. There's been concept art discovered since that looked less like Palutena's design, so it's anyone's guess how much or little the Kid Icarus manual art went into her ultimately.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Captain N

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    And because it emphasizes what kind of show this is, here's some premises for never made episodes: just the creative team spitballing some ideas for interesting ways to burn 22 minutes.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If you ask me we were robbed

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They were really planning on making episodes out of games based on already established properties. And I thought the episode featuring the Toei mascot was pushing the envelope.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            How is that bad?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Imagine a dragon power episode.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        These 2 sound great!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The N-Babies

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If you ask me we were robbed

      Jesus Imagine if these shows continued for another year or two. I couldn't imagine this shit happening at the same time as Megaman X or Castlevania 4. Honestly the SNES killed a lot of these DIC cartoons with Sonic being the only one who thrived

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Sonic
        >thrived
        >all his cartoons die in time for Sonic 3
        >finally comes back to cartoons in time to hype up the Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure
        >it's fricking Sonic Underground

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's mind boggling that Sonic Underground was such a relic when it came out in 1999. Compare that failure to Nintendo's strangle hold over Pokemon's production to massive success and it's clear sometimes you need to put people on a leash

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The N-Babies

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If you ask me we were robbed

      A lot of these scripts are just terrible because they're just generic plots that could be slapped onto just about any cartoon like Captain N.
      Like the N-Babies episode
      >tmnt
      Shredder and Krang make a ray that turns the turtles and Splinter and April minus Michelangelo into babies, and now Mikey has to take care of them. Baby Splinter is a brat. April has a crush on Mikey. Raph is really playful. Leo has toy katanas. Donnie is constantly getting into trouble.
      Shit is gay. The worst episodes of Captain N were these generic ass episodes. The whole appeal of the series was Captain N visiting new game worlds like Bayou Billy, and kids watching the show would either go yay I've played that game or wow I want to play that game now. I get that licensing is a pain but the alternative was filling Captain N with shit episodes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >taking an existing script and rewriting it for TMNT
        David Wise is that you

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's how a lot of old tv shows in general worked; reruns weren't as accessible so at worst a viewer might think an episode seemed familiar from another show, and even more anything goes with kids media. Like

        >taking an existing script and rewriting it for TMNT
        David Wise is that you

        jokes, some writers were infamous for reusing plots.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I get that it was common practice but that doesn't make it a good thing. If they absolutely have to recycle plots and ideas, they could have at the very least shoehorned a video game in.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Video...game?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Shredder and Krang make a ray that turns the turtles and Splinter and April minus Michelangelo into babies, and now Mikey has to take care of them. Baby Splinter is a brat. April has a crush on Mikey. Raph is really playful. Leo has toy katanas. Donnie is constantly getting into trouble.

        did that actually happen? i think it did.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The N-Babies
      So it's Mojoworld with the X-Babies then?

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The characters didn't even look or act like they did in the games. Frick this Saturday morning cashgrab.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There was a lot less established about how the collections of huge blocks 'acted' in the games back then.

      For example, Mario is a plumber from Brooklyn right? Nope, in the official anime tie in he was a grocery store owner from Kyoto. Fans came up with that plumber shit and Nintendo ran with it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Arcade Mario Bros is where all that plumber shit came from and riding on the heels of "Mario the Construction Worker" stuff within Donkey Kong and Wrecking Crew. The idea of Mario being a New Yorker is basically Nintendo of America flexing that they beat Universal in the "Donkey Kong is a ripoff of King Kong" lawsuit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Never heard of Mario being from Brooklyn being a fan thing, its more like Nintendo of America thought of him as an Italian american guy, since they're are stereotypically associated with jobs like construction and blue collar jobs back then, as well as living in New York or Philadelphia.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >stereotypically
          So you're saying NoA is RACIST???

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Never heard of Mario being from Brooklyn being a fan thing, its more like Nintendo of America thought of him as an Italian american guy, since they're are stereotypically associated with jobs like construction and blue collar jobs back then, as well as living in New York or Philadelphia.

          Didn't Nintendo of America give him the name Mario in the first place? It's not like Nintendo was unwilling to accept stuff from NoA. Otherwise he'd still be Jumpman.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They mistook Sypha Belnades' sprite for an old man during an episode meant to promote Castlevania III.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Are they just expies of certain characters or just literally Zelda and Pit?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They are literally themselves imagined by people who didn't know anything about the games outside maybe manuals, if even that.

        Pit is called Kid Icarus the whole time, BTW

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This is Zelda.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You got to be kidding.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Man 7 year old me went crazy over that design.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I don't see how anyone can hate the designs on this show, they look great from where I'm standing.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Dolphin shorts were the best thing to come out of the 80's and fashion in general.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Now post the Zelda from the LoZ DiC series

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Now post the Zelda from the LoZ DiC series

          Evil doppleganger Zelda from the original Zelda non Captain N one was hot as frick.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Hilda before Hilda

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Hilda before Hilda

            Does this make evil mirror Lana the Captain N Cia?
            Now I want to see Captain N's take on Cia.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The Zelda series from the Super Mario Bros Super Show was frickin' FIRE.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They are literally themselves imagined by people who didn't know anything about the games outside maybe manuals, if even that.

        Pit is called Kid Icarus the whole time, BTW

        They had someone play the games on a crappy TV, which is why Mega Man is green.

        Also, despite making Mother Brain their main villain, the show's writers had no idea who Samus was.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ironically I remember cartoon Mega Man being blue because my shitty TV from the 80's has the tint slightly off.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They might not have even had the sprite to go off and merely were given a description of "blue wizard" or something. The Castlevania 3 episode really feels like someone who read the Castlevania 3 manual at most and took everything to its most literal conclusion
      >Alucard is Dracula's rebellious teenage son
      >the Poltergeist King, a character invented solely for the manual, is a major player for the episode
      >the most literal interpretation of "Simon whips a candle and a powerup comes out"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They mistook Sypha Belnades' sprite for an old man during an episode meant to promote Castlevania III.

        Here's Captain N Alucard btw

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Is that a radical boombat??

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          if only he could be this happy in cannon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          At least this one isnt taking it up the ass

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That just goes to show how not canon he is

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is this really as bad as Mother brain having a space ship called "Metroid" for her base?

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder of what could have been

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know what that was, but I was really hoping when the van fell through space that Kevin would get out of it, 37 years old and 80lbs overweight with the zapper still around his waist excited to be back in video game land.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Okay, Why did this pitch fail?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why wasn’t this greenlit?
      What’s stopping this from happening?
      The IP not being that popular?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Does the main girl character have a name?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        neeshargo

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I don’t get it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It’d be fun to draw crossovers with her or Kevin but I’d have to re-watch it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What? Why do you think that’s bad?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          takes itself way too seriously

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The heart of Videoland being a generic cityscape as opposed to the monolithic Palace of Power is a huge downgrade in my opinion

          At the establishing shot of the Palace of Power, for comparison.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I like how by season 3 DiC completely stopped giving a frick thanks to NBC slashing their budget. Not only was the animation a huge downgrade, but episodes had to alternate between Mega Man and Simon to avoid paying Capcom and Konami at the same time. I think Game Boy stopped appearing too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      let's be glad Fire Emblem and its sequels/spinoffs never arrived to States at the time. If Captain N had an SNES and DiC actually played the games, they'd be horrified. Genocide and incest this side of GoT

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >implying they'd have those
        You under-estimate Nintendo of America's 90s censorship.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That was the point. Had they released FE Stateside decades earlier, it would’ve been a mess

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I wish Fire Emblem was in because I want to see how they wouldve handled Marth. Something tells me he wouldve been something like a king arthur look-a-like

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >90s Fire Emblem cartoon
        >It's the most basic King Arthur shit ever.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Like King Arthur and the Knights of Justice? That show was neat.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How would Hades be like if he was in Captain N?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          "How would modern characters be in Captain N" is a tricky question to answer earnestly. Many decisions were made due to the times themselves. The characters predate things like voice acting, in game cutscenes, even high resolution art. It's easy to look even at a manual that has an image the size of a postage stamp that looks like this and get it wrong. Less so a character who starts talking the minute they're on screen and has a full color art the bigger than a computer monitor.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            So, they looked at blurry pixels on a broken TV, made guesswork of the images in the manual, and then added their own 80s Saturday-Morning cartoon cliches onto the characters and called it a day?

            I was thinking that Marth would be a total narcissistic ponce pining for Lana like Brock(to the dismay of Simon and Caeda), Sonic and Dante wouldn't be changed at all, but they would play up Demifiend as a depressed loner guy riddled with tattoos working for the devil. Jack Frost wouldn't be changed at all, but would be treated like a cartoon mascot with Hee-Ho as his verbal tic, and Crono would either be treated as a silent protagonist or a spiky-haired dude with a big appetite and lightning powers who travels through time with Lucca(which would be interpreted as a Velma clona).

            If Wai-Wai World ever made it stateside, there would've definitely been an episode dedicated to it.

            It's a shame that Nintendo never got the memo from Konami and made a game out of Captain N.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              In one particular instance, accuracy would be forbidden even if they could: Pero from the NES game Puss'n Boots. The game is part of a series games (almost entirely released in Japan) that are based on the anime film series... an anime film series animated by Toei, who even went on to make Pero their company mascot and logo. I can assure you, Captain N was never animated by Toei, so another studio drawing their mascot could have made heads roll if he was even recognizable.

              But here's a "what if" for you: Ganondorf, BUT they never realize it's the same character as the pig wizard. So the show makes him Ganon's brother for plenty of villainous "mom always liked YOU more!" squabble as he teams up with Ganon... and takes the "dorf" part of the name to stretch for a cheesy Dolph Lundgren/Arnold Schwarzenegger impression and caricature.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What did the N in Captain N stand for?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      probably nintendo

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >no Samus
    She was the best part of the comics when she appeared

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This was the Best interpretation of Samus ever!

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Missed opportunity to put him in Smash Ultimate
    >He's not a video game character
    Shut up homosexual he's video game adjacent.
    They had Megaman, Pit, and Simon Belmont it would've been the perfect reunion. At least a Mii costume or something.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Japan didn't get this you moronic zoomer, Miyamoto doesn't even know the Mario cartoons.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That didn't stop them adding shit like Little Mac who was only popular in America. Nearly all Japanese players complained it was a waste of a character because they had no idea who the frick he was.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The game was still MADE and RELEASED in Japan, these shitty cartoons were not.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Luckily they got their billionth FE character to make up for it.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Why do they like FE that much? The stories aren’t even good and characters are interchangeable. I don’t get it.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Persona but in ye olden times

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                that doesn’t help me

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Lots of dialogue and character interactions and choices that can effect things.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You get to frick the girls in it while inserting yourself as the MC, either as boy or girl.
                Its why awakening is super popular despite being one of the worst FE's.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That didn't stop them adding shit like Little Mac who was only popular in America. Nearly all Japanese players complained it was a waste of a character because they had no idea who the frick he was.

      Minecraft Steve got in because all the trolls overvoted for him in the ballot. Yet everyone is happy for it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Minecraft Steve got in because all the trolls overvoted for him in the ballot. Yet everyone is happy for it.
        It's the most popular game ever. I promise you trolls had nothing to do with it, and it was just every little YouTube watching zoomie voting for it 1000 times each.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      he is

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >spoils every reveal trailer with "Not actual gameplay footage"
        Bravo, Sakurai

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They're legally obligated after a lawsuit involving Ubisoft I believe for fake marketing showing their games running off dev PCs rather than the actual consoles.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Of course it was Ubisoft.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Fun fact, Lana was supposed to be Palutena fron Kid Icarus.

    It got shortened to Lena, then a scriptwriter mistyped it as Lana and that was that.

    This makes the episode where she got mind controlled WAY hotter

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It’s not forgotten to me

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >no fanart
      >not forgotten
      Pick one or the other

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It’s a reboot/revival story I’m writing. It’s currently at over 220,000 words

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          post it

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            (Archive of our own URL) /works/26315026/chapters/64077052

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There's fan art of Captain N

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I meant fan art not from the 80s

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Captain N and the Super Smash Bros

      That's a catchy title.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Duck Hunt is actually a trio with the third being a human wielding a NES Zapper.
          So Captain N could already be in Smash if he was meant to be the stand in for the player.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Minecraft Steve forever ruined this.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Which is better Palutena or Lena?

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A Nintendo crossover cartoon in the 80s could've been so fricking cash but the characters hadn't really been established and the animators didn't give a frick. You can tell the moment they ran out of ideas and just started making generic 'Baseball' game episodes

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the characters hadn't really been established
      You didn't need 50 games worth of lore to establish that Megaman is fricking Blue

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And yellow, like the box art.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the tv they had was literally the wrong color. Remember that the companies gave them NOTHING to work with, someone had to fricking rent the game to show the design team.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    what other dic cartoons are good?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Inspector Gadget, Mummies Alive

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Real Ghostbusters, Carmen Sandiego

      Ulysses 31 and Mysterious Cities of Gold are techinically Cinemaphile

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This show was trash anyway.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      But is it trash on its own terms or trash because it's not some imagined Subspace Emissary cartoon you'll never have?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I think having the characters in your video game show actually look like the video game characters and actually using the protagonist of the game you took your main villain from is a pretty low and reasonable bar to clear that Captain N's staff wasn't able to.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Accurate to what?

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >that megaman's voice
    Alluring, entrancing, true audio erotica.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That would require existing to be able to watch it to have been forgotten in the first place

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wasn't there a lot of weirdly gay references with this character? not like le LGBT, but just homoerotic stuff. thats what I remember weirdly

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Would a gay eggplant have have a couple of hot tomatoes like this?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            those could be dudes, they have man faces.

            I have no idea.

            idk i just recall him being weirdly gay with another fat character. maybe my brain is fried

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              He was almost always around King Hippo.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                King Hippo's nipples and droopy man boobs are so fricking disconcerting.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                They aré henchmen duh

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Scrunched face
            >Third leg
            Fricking lmao

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Frick you Zoomers. Why you want for everything to be gay or trans?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Pre 90s, trans and homosexual was considered funny, which was why you saw shit like Bugs Bunny dressing in drag. 90s cartoons didn't show cross dressing to be pandering, they did it to laugh at them.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          ?t=602
          It's not even "haha he's wearing a dress" so much as "haha the bad guys are wearing paper-thin disguises and nobody can tell".

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I want more of that Megaman's voice. MORE.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I have the DVD set, so no, not really.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This was the Super Smash Bros of its time.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      But no Minecraft Steve.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >of its time

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    And will still be.
    Because how the FRICK can the cartoon forget about samus aran, but keep mother brain?
    The fricking comics had her! There's no excuse, the creators couldn't been THAT moronic to forget her.

    >But then again everyone looks like a train wreck so dodged the bullet.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      She was a really good character in the comics as well.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Depends
      >If they thought Samus a robot, anything on the table
      >if they thought Samus was a man, something goofy and perhaps based on the sprite (gangly Dirk the Daring proportions?)
      >if they thought Samus was a woman, 10/10 babe-a-rama

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nintendo never told the writers that the protagonist of Metroid had a name. Really.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The reason they didn’t have Samus in the cartoon was because it was still considered a spoiler that she was actually a woman.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Be honest
    If you were in Kevin's place, Lana or Samus?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lana because Samus intimidates me.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Samus of course. What are you, crazy? Who would want to hitch themselves to some antiquated idea of inherited position rather than a woman who worked herself up from nothing into the nightmares of pirates around the galaxy?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >than a woman who worked herself up from nothing
        She was literally given everything by Space Birds even part of her DNA is from them.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Captain N Samus has a different origin.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Samus. She is an a nórdic blonde goddess, Lana is a Princess but shit genes

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Nordic
        After Dread, is Samus even human at this point?

        • 2 years ago
          Boco

          She hasn't been 100% human since she was eight years old.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >8
            Try 3. Samus was literally a toddler when Ridley fricked her parents.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Ridley raped Samus's parents
              >now Samus has to rape Ridley

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'd say I would want a reboot of Captain N
    But with all the IP shit floating around I'm scared they'd frick it up even worse by being a bunch of half baked references to the games while offering nothing of actual substance

    Capcom and Konami aren't above doing that either.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is what a version of Captain N would be if it was rebooted.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiJa-H1Xyg4
      Reminder of what could have been

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's what we WANT it to be, but all tht depends on if the people in charge give a shit, and let's be straight here other mediums often don't give a shit about video games.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I thought it was a real pitch but was rejected for unknown reasons. I think the design would look better if she had a letterman's jacket with disk-kun on it.
          >other mediums often don't give a shit about video games.
          That's true. The only one that seemed to give a shit was Wreck-it Ralph and even that was ruined with a sequel that completely ignored video games and went for internet memes instead.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Im kind of not into "the hero's a grill now wow!!!" if only because we have had like six identical female led isakeis. The kevin/lana duo is also a pretty solid main character team for interacting with vidizens.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >we have had like six identical female led isakeis
              That's way too much. What we need is even more male led isekais, because a bajillion just isn't enough.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >What we need is even more male led isekais, because a bajillion just isn't enough
                That's not enough. Just change the name and keep the design and personality the same for every character.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It IS a real pitch anon, but that depended on a few things on them being views, and while respectable aren't gonna motivate and studios to pick it up any time soon

            Also Nintendo really doesn't fricking trust anybody with their IPs, and that depends on how well the Mario movies does critically and finanically.
            Capcom and Konami have no standards, and Sega is easy enough to get on board as well. But other companies will be like herding cats.
            Smash Bros had to get three games and millions of dollars in sales to get the trust of third party IP. If it's not a big name western studio you better be damn sure they're gonna watch it like a hawk, if they even allow certain IP in the first place.

            And even then, I have my doubts because again, most people in other mediums don't respect games enough to give them their due respect. It's slightly better when it comes to animation, but again it needs to be the right people.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >and Sega is easy enough to get on board as well.
              True, but Sega is also the company that says "we mandate Sonic can't show too MUCH emotion" and other ridiculous character rules that we openly know about.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >most people in other mediums don't respect games enough to give them their due respect.

              I don't think that's the case anymore; big moves especially take a ton of influence from games now, the difference is they aren't necessarily looking to use specific games for adaptations. The people making media these days are people in their 20s-50's who all grew up with video games at this point, and many of them still play. The thing is normies don't get as attached to the lore of things as more obsessive people do. I mean look at a game like grand theft auto, a normie as frick game that comedians in their 30s and 40's were talking about back as early as the 2000's. That sort of open world, do what you want fantasy has been influential in movies, but many of the people who played it can barely remember the storyline.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Look the current Resident Evil movies/tv shows and tell me people respect games as a medium now.

                Just because it's known doesn't mean its respected. The ONLY western made movie I've seen give even the slightest amount of the respect to the series is Sonic and the fans had to throw a shitfit for them to listen because they were going to frick it the first time

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Look the current Resident Evil movies/tv shows and tell me people respect games as a medium now.
                I had no idea they even made a new Resident Evil movie; the last one before that was 7 years ago, hardly new. While it may seem like the storylines aren't respected, and I'd agree, the point is more that gays are a respected medium even if franchises themselves aren't. action movie direction is largely influenced by video game action now. Horror movies are paced like horror games. The fantasy genre has been changed by stuff like warcraft getting immensely popular.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Get SNK involved too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How did gomenasai become a fantastic e-girlpop artist so fast.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't forgotten at all

    I just wish drawing reference of the Princesses Lana and Zelda were made public cause I've wanted to draw those versions for a long time

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      just take a screenshot of them

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I should have been more active in my searching when someone would post up production stuff on ebay. I slacked and now they don't really appear much anymore.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        oof

        I didn't even know we had a pic like this

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Have a few others, but as

          just take a screenshot of them

          said you're better off compiling screenshots. There's a panning shot of Lana from the first episode that gets cited a lot, and her model sheet pose got used for promotional art (you'll recognize it because it has the staff she actually never uses in the show)

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Zelda herself doesn't get any full body panning shots the way Lana got to enjoy, so she's the more difficult character to work with.
            Also Lana technically does use have the staff, but it only appears in late Season 2 episode "Having a Ball" where it bizarrely is used alongside a design that is her non-standard character model so it's even more weird it showed up at all.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I see

            Anyone got a mega link of the DVD release?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              All I could find is this.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah the whole show is uploaded on youtube RIP annotated series

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Annotated Series is still alive, it goes under "Annoverse" now.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I just got the DVDs

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous
            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                My god, I want this so badly.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                She's a bit ruddy there, but it's the best shot of her we have.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What nintendo character would you like to see Captain N interact with?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      inkling

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Write their interaction Cinemaphile

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Oh hello Inkling-chan.
          >H-Herro Captain N-dono...
          >UHHHHGGGHHH TAKE IT TAKE IT YOU b***hHHHH
          >Oh Captain N-samaaaaaa your big Amelican wiener too rarge aiiiiieeeeeeee

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >OG show
      >Everyone fricking hates him
      >He knows this, takes it in stride
      >Is secretly jealous of N and the gang and trains to be better than them
      >Begrudgingly helps them out of a few scrapes

      >Animatic
      >wienery as shit, doesn't understand why a little girl gets to wield ultimate power
      >Thinks everyone hates him, but no one really pays him any mind.
      >Girl tries to show him that he isn't hated anymore, this leads to them butting heads.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why is Sonic Sega the only one with constant videogame cartoons?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Sega is desperate for relevancy.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If there were an episode set in Sonic’s world, would it be AoStH, SatAM, or something else?
        Also, taking into account that Videoland is located inside a Nintendo system, wouldn’t that mean there exists a SEGA Genesis Videoland? Do cross-platform characters get passes or something?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Sonic's fast enough to drop in and visit Nintendoland from Sega City when he feels like it, he knows which Special Ring takes him where.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Sonic sounds like a douche in both versions.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That's pretty much been stated as his character from the outset.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Shantae, Council of Zeldas, and everyone else in the animatic

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      has the child been spook to this?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        no

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that Samus was always an absolute GIGASTACY, long before Dread.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Samus put me here for life
      The Samus I know would have just blown his head off and called it a day

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      hot

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Oh come on, they didn't even try to make her look like Roll

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This era was peak stronk wimmins, so no shit they would change her to be less demure.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        [...]
        So? Rock doesn't look anything like himself either. Hell she looks MORE like Roll cuz at leas she's got the right color scheme.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's because she wasn't Roll. She was Mega Girl. The people who made the series had no clue Roll existed. Their exposure to Mega Man was literally playing the first two games for like an hour on a tv that was busted, hence why he came out green.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          To be fair it was easy for nobody to know Roll existed. She went unnamed in anything until the ending of Megaman 3, and gets an off-screen namedrop in Megaman 4's opening text. It's almost easy to have believed at the time that Roll was a creation of the Ruby Spears cartoon, since the character didn't do ANYTHING in a game until Megaman 7 (and even had her role reduced in the US version). Even Nintendo Power knew she existed but still thought she didn't exist.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That episode was stupid.

      So Mega is sad he is not human, gets this b***h as a gift, then goes through a test to become human. Passes it, is human now but this robo b***h as well for no reason!?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >pink/white color scheme with twintails
      I need more

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Captain SUPER N.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Who is the topless b***h?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Shad's mom

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Who is the topless b***h?

        Alanis Morrisette.

        FRICK WHY AM I STILL FOLLOWING THIS WEBCOMIC AFTER TWENTY YEARS, I KNOW IT WILL NEVER FINISH

        on the other hand, it's giving me more content than GRRM and Rothfuss, frick those buttholes

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i want to believe

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    GIVE ME THAT MEGAMAN VOICE. MOAR MOAR I NEED IT

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Literally what the frick was this version of Simon based on?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        jay leno, gaston and johnny bravoe

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He predates two of those.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Dudley Do-Right, Peter Perfect, The Dover Boys

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Though his role of being the team's "bottomless backpack" is certainly more in-line with Castlevania 2 where Simon just collects tons of items.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They didn't even try.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Small indie tv, please understand

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >indie

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    So? Rock doesn't look anything like himself either. Hell she looks MORE like Roll cuz at leas she's got the right color scheme.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This bigfoot photo is an early promotional image featuring in-development designs. Lana, Simon, and Kevin are the most changed, though Megaman has proportions closer to Fil Barlow's interpretation from the "Buddy Body" era of concept art.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This one is much closer to final, though Kevin and Lana are still not there. Lana's got the "Palutena evocative" design we know but her hair was closer to the final in the previous image. Duke is entirely different. The biggest change is the background itself: presumably if that is the Palace of Power, it's far more like a traditional castle than the abstract building it would become. Clever design in the rolling "computer chip" crop hills though.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        At the establishing shot of the Palace of Power, for comparison.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You know, I like the backgrounds in the DiC shows. Barring the more grounded Legend of Zelda cartoon, they just infused some real interesting design into things like Captain N, Mario, and Sonic.

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Captain N fans are the epitome of "it was good because I liked it as a kid."

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I think more they can judge it on its own merits instead of being mad at it for what it isn't.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's her name?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Captain N Girl because there's never creativity involved in the names of female variants of male characters.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Katie Keene

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Miss N

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Captain N.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >https://knoxrobbins.tumblr.com/post/186200303522/captain-n-post-launch
      Sam

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >faster shooter
      >no depth perception
      You're pretty good.

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If it existed at the time I wonder how Pokemon would've been handled

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      same as every other parody did

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Captain N wasn't a parody though

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          ??

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They would make the art based on the back sprites.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >strap on one hand but not the other
      Couldn't even stay consistent for one model sheet kek

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Checking the episode, they're consistent to the inconsistency: that is, depending on the pose and angle, Ganon's hands either will have the strap or it will disappear, as the model sheet suggests.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Checking the episode, they're consistent to the inconsistency: that is, depending on the pose and angle, Ganon's hands either will have the strap or it will disappear, as the model sheet suggests.

          one of the lesser known powers granted by the Triforce of Power

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Kek that is pretty interesting

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, I've seen it in other things of the time. For instance, Blitzwing in Transformers has his head sorta in a purple "collar" from the front, but from the back it's yellow. The animators will just go "oh well it's what the model sheet says" so when the angle changes (for an example: Transformers the Movie when he flies away from Optimus Prime) they just have his head change color because the model sheet said that's what it's supposed to do.

            ?t=33

            It takes all hands to make animation error, and sometimes that means following the guide is the error.

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The only episode that I remember is the Tetris one where everything is shaped like a box.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >that season where cast either died or was brainwashed to be evil by the newly introduced villain Nyzo

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I like Kevin's design in this. I know it's supposed to be generic but I still like it for some reason.

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Good

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I’m surprised there hasn’t been a Japanese version of Captain N or Pleasantville except with anime.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There have been. Off the top of my head, there was a really popular doujin that was about a fan of Dragonball who gets transported to Dragonball world as Yamcha. At first he curses the fact that he's Yamcha because Yamchu sucks, but then he decides to use his fan knowledge of the series to make Yamcha a really powerful character. I think he winds up killing Nappa and holds his own against Vegeta when they arrive. It goes through other sagas as well. It was a pretty good read.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There have been. Off the top of my head, there was a really popular doujin that was about a fan of Dragonball who gets transported to Dragonball world as Yamcha. At first he curses the fact that he's Yamcha because Yamchu sucks, but then he decides to use his fan knowledge of the series to make Yamcha a really powerful character. I think he winds up killing Nappa and holds his own against Vegeta when they arrive. It goes through other sagas as well. It was a pretty good read.

      Actually the closest thing you could say to Captain N that Japan ever got was Bug*ette Honey, a cartoon loosely based on the NES game Adventure Island. It's a gag filled series that features regular kids falling into a video game world that operates under video game logic, their running into and teaming up with Genjin Takahashi as they constantly have to deal with the evil schemes of King Kyura (who you might recognize as the first boss of the game). Cameos and references to other video games happen throughout, most other Hudson games, some not.

      Was successful enough to have a big screen movie, and Hudson even went and completed the loop and made a game based on the show (it's not a good game).

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        oh dang, i played the shit out of adventure island. never knew there was a cartoon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No subs of course.

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Somewhat

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the only reason i know this show exists is because an autistic kid in the background of a louis theroux documentary had an extensive live-action fan series based on it. it's not online any more, but sometimes you can find people posting gifs from it as reactions.

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Partially

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    People shit on Captain N for "getting the characters wrong" but I miss the days when there weren't wikis for every single fricking cartoon, where the "canon" of some fricking video game didn't matter, and writers were free to interpret shit.
    Bit disappointed they never did a crossover with Super Mario given DiC had the license and made a Super Mario cartoon. The Zelda crossovers were good.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >where the "canon" of some fricking video game didn't matter
      >videogame adaptations
      >canon mattering
      Wut even today the game's canon doesn't matter to the people making the adaptations

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >video game didn't matter, and writers were free to interpret shit.
      They still do, why do you think the Castlevania cartoon was shit? Trevor was in vis basement a whole season and instead we got vampire politics far more boring than Star Wars' space politics.

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I want Nintendo to let Captain N happen again, make it 10 episode mini epic on Netflix.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >a kid gets sucked into the nintendoverse through their switch
      >end up running into Kevin who's now grown a beard and is long past believing he can go back home
      >kid has to teach Kevin how to be Captain N again by telling him about all the new Nintendo tech out there and how to use it, like using the wii fit balance board like a hoverboard

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That just sound like Tron:Uprising

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          But without the ugly CGI.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Modern Nintendo is an unrecognizable monstrosity and has been ever since Iwata died and the last vestiges of his influence disappeared with the rise of Furukawa Daimao. All they care about now is coasting on the bare minimum, which they not only get away with, but thrive on, due to the actual cult they have. They don't even have a PR division because their fans vehemently defend their every transgression and pay them boatloads of money to continue exploiting them. While they're tentatively spearheading an offensive into multimedia projects for the first time in some 30 years, they have never been less inclined to make something like Captain N. Illumination is their animation studio of choice, for God's sake. They're going to make Mario so safe that Mickey Mouse is going to look like The Punisher in comparison.

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Don't mind me, I'm just posting good animated shorts with proper characterization of the videogame characters. Completely baffled how Japs can make CGI animation this good but suck at TV series.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >characterization is just [grunt] [eyuh] [hrmmph!]
      Riveting, you can totally make a show off that.

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    80s and 90s video game cartoons are like a perfect time capsule to how people interpreted video game sprites back when plots were just minimal.

  61. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >blue mega man
      >bet doesn't even have that voice
      To garbage it goes

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Alternative Universe Captain N
        >Simon and Pit are more true to the games
        >Samus is there too
        >But It has Ruby Spears Mega Man

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Sizzling Circuits, that'd be delicious.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Ruby Spears Mega Man
          tl;dr?

          • 2 years ago
            Boco

            You...you don't remember the 90s Megaman cartoon?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              it was Ruby-Spears' next-to-last cartoon they'd ever made

              • 2 years ago
                Boco

                Its weird how it looked nothing like the rest of their output, too.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I guess since Ashi Productions made it slightly animesque?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Wait until you see their final cartoon, Skysurfer Strikeforce.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                it was based

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              no

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Huh. It's probably the best of the American Capcom Cartoons since classic Mega Man fits way more in the standard Cartoon formula.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              it was Ruby-Spears' next-to-last cartoon they'd ever made

              Its weird how it looked nothing like the rest of their output, too.

              It's wild that the first Classic/X team up is in this series.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Good times, good times.

  62. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Annoys me to no end how 80's cartoon podcast hosts always call it "Captain Nintendo". Pretty sure they were specifically forbidden from saying "nintendo".

  63. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    yeah because the show fricking sucked

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It was all we had at the time on NBC Saturday mornings. Nintendo/Dic pretty much owned like 1 1/2 hours of that network every weekend.

  64. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >nintendo show
    >half the cast are third party characters
    >ninty itself using kid icarus as their main reps
    the frick were they thinking?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      they already had mario and zelda cartoons

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What else did they have at the time?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      At least they were thinking, unlike Acclaim when they made The Power Team.
      >what if we made Captain N but used only Acclaim characters
      >and all of our characters had the same generic "is a protagonist" nice guy personality
      >and we set it in the REAL WORLD removing the only interesting element that Captain N has when you take away the big name Nintendo aspect

      But hey at least the characters are accurate so 10/10 best video game cartoon ever made right?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >No lewds of the blonde
        Damn.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That was broadcasted along with the original Donkey Kong cartoon wasn't it? The one in which Pauline was Mario's niece instead of his girlfriend.
        I'd like to watch that again one of these days, just to see how good/bad it really was (I was too young for my memories to allow for an objective opinion), but I haven't been able to find it on-line.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No, it was in the game show Video Power, where kids played games for points, then at the end of the show, one kid got to run through a maze of videogames and velcro games to himself in a timed run. What YOU'RE thinking of is a show that ran on NBC every Saturday morning in...I think 1985-86 (the same time years The Jackson 5 and Gary Coleman cartoons were also on NBC), Saturday Supercade, a bunch of shows based on arcade games: Q-bert, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Kangaroo, and Mario Bros. Two different game series per week, each lasting 13 or so minutes per ep.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Ah, my mistake. But wait, there was a Mario Bros, not Super, cartoon? I remember there were both Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. but that one would be news to me. Makes me even more curious.

            • 2 years ago
              Boco

              >But wait, there was a Mario Bros, not Super, cartoon?

              No, just Donkey Kong. Mario was Peter Cullen.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Fun fact: Cullen doesn't even remember he did the show, and has so little interest in video games as a whole he doesn't know Mario went on to be something bigger.

              • 2 years ago
                Boco

                Well, understandable considering his other roles went on to be way more important.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                They really aren't, Mario is 2nd only to Mickey Mouse in famous fictional characters now.

              • 2 years ago
                Boco

                I mean for him. He's gotten way more fame, recognition and money for Optimus and Eeyore than he ever did as Mario.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Kuros looks nothing like his in-game sprite
        >instead he looks like Fabio cosplaying Conan

        Cover art strikes again

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Blatantly using Higher Ground as the opening theme
        Ballsy fricks.

  65. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Do it, bro...post the evil cat-girl Lana.

      BTW, folks: The Nintendo Comics were fricking awesome.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >post the evil cat-girl Lana
        someone post it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        ironically Ken Penders started on Zelda

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Ken Penders fricking with Zelda lore instead of Sonic
          What if....

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Lara-Su chronicles, but with Gorons.
            >Link gets cucked by an OC royal knight.
            >Malon was gay the whole time.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Millions of Goron OCs.

              [...]

              Wow.

              Valiant's Nintendo Comics System was discontinued before the N64 was made

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Ken Penders fricking with Zelda lore instead of Sonic
          What if....

          Millions of Goron OCs.

          [...]

          Wow.

          If that's the only change in this timeline Nintendo would've slapped his shit to the moon.

          For better and for mostly worse, Nintendo knows their way around a court room

  66. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I NEED MOAR MEGAMAN VOICE

  67. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Sadly

  68. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What did the N stand for?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nintendo

  69. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think the saddest part is that only 80's kids who liked Nintendo and were in college by the early 00's remember or care about Captain N, they used to make articles on their personal websites or videos in the pre-monetization era of YouTube.
    90's kids onwards don't care. It ended up having a minimal cultural impact.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I liked it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's become a product of a bygone era and now only exists to make those 90s-and-onwards kids seethe because of what it isn't rather than what it is.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >It ended up having a minimal cultural impact.
      Why does this matter at all?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i always felt it was weird how little cartoons from the 70s on got reruns
      its like if you werent on hanna-barbera's a-list you got tossed in the gutter. the only exception i can think of offhand is the beetlejuice cartoon. that played in reruns on several networks, broadcast and cable, for a long while

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The strangest case to me is the 80'sNinja Turtles cartoon. It lasted 9 years, was getting new episodes until like 97, then it ends and never got rerun again.

  70. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    there is nothing wrong with a green mega man

    • 2 years ago
      Boco

      Well sure, if he's using Hyper Bomb.

  71. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Was too young to watch 80s so sorry OP
    1992 reporting in

  72. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >I can't watch a show that's not ongoing

  73. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This fashion makes me hard enough to grow an inch

  74. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I would do things to Captain N tbh.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you mean lana

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Let that anon simp for whoever they want

  75. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >2022 Captain N
    >half of the episodes are available only as DLC

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Heh.
      >Captain N various games worlds
      >Ends up in Metro City fighting the Mad Gear
      >Run and Guns in Metal Slug
      >Sneaks with Snake
      >Quips with Duke Nukem
      >Fights Geese Howard
      >Time Traveling with Chrono
      >Dealing with Eve with Aya Brea

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >that last one
        Thought nobody would notice, huh?

  76. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You could not do this show now, because Mother Brain is the main antagonist, and it would HAVE to be an accurate portrayal. The problem with that is Metroid is more overtly dark and gritty compared to the rest of Nintendo's lineup. Picture the Space Pirates fricking up the Mushroom Kingdom. The execs would never allow it.

  77. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I used to have this in higher quality well over a decade ago if I recall correctly. It had a companion piece with blue Mega Man and Lana instead of Palutena.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        link?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          "used to". I no longer have it.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            okay

  78. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  79. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      nice

  80. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    would a reboot with kevin work today?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Eh it wouldn't be Kevin who'd go into videoland, it'd be a girl just as with every other recent western isekai show.

  81. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'll never really get over Gameboy. Not that I find him that terrible as a character (you can't really bring down the quality of Captain N in that way), but more that everyone's some fanciful design interpretation that was focused on injecting character into 8x16 pixels... and then Gameboy is Literally Just A Gameboy With A Dot Matrix Face. I know FIl Barlow drew some concepts that at least gave him something unique, but that the character wound up how he did is just kind of... weak.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I really like the main MC’s design. I wish there were more like that.

  82. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's no Ruby-Spears Megaman. I liked those storytimes more.

  83. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You want this, don't you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULslwGCpOdc

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yes

  84. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      cute

  85. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  86. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What is Simon like in the games?

  87. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Captain N is just hilarious to me. All these TOTALLY NOT character designs, the generic white boy and girl MCs. It's just funny

  88. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Perhaps

  89. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I’d rather have Kevin than another genki girl casual gamer, plus keeping the previous set designs.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        But what if Kevin was the Villain, planning on an ultimate reboot to restore the Video game world to the way he remembered it before Casual gamers like the new Captain N changed it. A Gen x'er trying to keep the last bit of childhood he has, as he hits 40.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >80s era Nintendo/Dic character refuses to move on
          Then I'd say Dobson wrote this premise

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Why does his character need to change at all?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What do you mean change, he didn't change. The world around him changed. He only wants things to go back to the way things were, the way Nintendo land used to be before it became what it is today.
            If you don't die a hero you live long enough to be a villain.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Man, you really want Kevin to devolve into being Dobson.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I like the concept but feel sad it will never have a chance of happening ever. It could make for a good webcomic or series of animatics but even that would be a stretch if he actually wants it to have a chance of being made. One of the comments say he’s working on other pitches too, so it doesn’t seem like a high priority.

  90. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I still hate this show over how they butchered the most compelling and multilayered villain in video games Eggplant Wizard

  91. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >2022... I am forgotten

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      are there more comics? I used to love Captain S, fun parody by screwattack

  92. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The DiC Alf cartoon was better
    Fil barlow's designs for Melmac were great

  93. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Who owns Captain N?
    Nintendo or whoever owns DIC?
    IIRC when the DVDs came out they had to ask for permission to Nintendo to release it.
    Normally shows are owned by someone and it doesn't matter who owns the IP they can release it since they own it like say the 87 TMNT cartoon but here it seems like Nintendo might actually own the characters.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Good question. Wild Brain, formerly Cookie Jar, own all of DiC's assets and they officially uploaded DiC's owned cartoons so they have stuff like the Super Show, Sonic cartoons and Captain N officially on YouTube, but not The Real Ghostbusters due to Sony owning the rights of that show.

      But that complicated matter further: Does this mean the ad revenue gets split among themselves, Nintendo, Capcom, Konami and whichever guest third party is used? They DID used to have the 90's Mega Man cartoon too but got removed a year or two ago as the licence expired and Capcom wasn't interested on renewing, allegedly.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nintendo Japan let Nintendo of America do what they want in the 80s/early 90s as long as they got good money and NOA like any american company would license their characters for anything. Eventually in the mid 90s Japan got stricter and stricter which is why there was a drought of nintendo licensed things between the 90s until the late 00's.

        It wasn't until the late Wii/Wii U Era that their slower sales lead to them finding other revenue sources and Iwata stated they would look into licensing more. This is why we started getting more licensed stuff like figmas and companies making more mario merch/whatnot. This is also when they stated they wanted their properties to be movies and shows, we've gotten pilots like the Kid Icarus shorts, the Pikmin shorts by Miyamoto and even the star fox one so they'd been playing with the idea until they finally went with that Mario movie. If that Mario movie is a huge success you can bet your ass Nintendo will be more license friendly with movies and shows again.

        So perhaps, and just perhaps someone could pitch them a renewed Captain N/Smash hybrid and Nintendo could say yes. It's not likely but it's likelier than it's ever been in say the last two decades for a Captain N revival. Of course a Smash cartoon seems more likely than a Captain N one but whatever.

        I guess if they are able to upload the show then that means they do own the show outright. The actual character might be owned by Nintendo since he did appear in Nintendo Power first in a way.
        Similar to how Fred Wolf owns the original 1987 TMNT cartoon but Nick (since they bought Mirage) own the actual characters from the show.

        I do remember that shout factory had to get their Packaging of their DVDs by Nintendo, who knows why.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          IIRC Shout Factory is a division of Wild Brain (if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me) so probably Nintendo still retains some leverage over Kevin Keene, Duke and Lana.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Reminds me about the whole Sora thing.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Do you think a reboot would still have Mother Brain be the big bad or would it be Master Hand or King K Rool?

  94. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >only two seasons on youtube
    >can’t find the third season
    >can’t search through Cinemaphile archives because it brings up mega man
    I wish companies would make this stuff easier to watch

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Third season is attached to Super Mario World.
      https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLySo2SlSHPSPsMPvx3vXPmReAe05Vro9H
      Keep in mind this is was before the axe fully swung down on NBC cartoons, so the animation is complete garbo, even by Captain N standards, and Mother Brain and Ham and Eggs barely show up.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        thanks I’ll give it a watch

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Hey but there's a diamond among all the rubbish: Return to Castlevania.
        Check out Alucard's new bat flip.

  95. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Good thread, everyone. Remember, Captain N will never truly be forgotten so long as it lives rent-free in the heads of zoomers who seethe that it isn't the Smash Bros cartoon they can't have.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Should we have a second thread? A more generalized "DiC Videogame cartoons" follow up thread.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        up to you. There were two other dic threads but they died relatively fast.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Hop on, nibba.

          [...]

  96. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I grew up in the 90s so I never caught any of the DIC Nintendo cartoons and didn't get to watch them until early youtube in 2005 or so. I found them neat for what they were but it was Captain N that I fell in love with, I loved the concept and even if they got things wrong just seeing those games interpreted in animation was cool.
    Weird that Captain N never crossed over with Mario counting they even shared a block and Zelda did crossover.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Weird that Captain N never crossed over with Mario counting they even shared a block and Zelda did crossover.

      Mario and Luigi were also supposed to be from the real world so it would have been weird, I guess.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Emphasis on were since Nintendo later decided to establish (*cough*retcon*cough*) that Mario and Luigi were never from a different world than the Mushroom Kingdom and that the early DK games simply took place in a more modern looking part of it (dunno where Mario's accent comes from, did he grow up among Piantas?).
        Terrible decision in my opinion, long live Brooklyn Mario.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Now, to be fair, New Donk City is still very much Brooklyn, just more in contact with the more fantastical shit.

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