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[Boss Doggie]

We all know the popular ones - the Nintendo stuff (Captain N, Mario + Zelda, Donkey Kong) and Capcom stuff (Street Fighter, Mega Man, Darkstalkers).

Although not too many people recall toon-Darkstalkers. Unless you're into handsome fish guys. Or terribly drawn Demitri.

What about Double Dragon? Where instead of chasing an enemy thugs, Billy and Jimmy are super heroes?

Oh and there's Mortal Kombat, where KOOOOOOOOOMBAT TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!

Any other toons? Also I kinda wish it's still a trend. I would love a cheesy cartoon based on games like Civilization.

 

[Red Arremer]

There was the Earthworm Jim cartoon, and it was actually pretty good.

 

[FYC]

Battletoads

It was just a pilot though.

 

[Boss Doggie]

There was the Earthworm Jim cartoon, and it was actually pretty good.

Oh yeah I remember that. Pretty catchy opening too and didn't look cheaply made. Weren't the creators also behind the cartoon?

Battletoads

It was just a pilot though.

I only saw it here during December when the local channels would air various Christmas toons every before lunch. Kinda disappointed that it didn't have an actual show.

Then again, the toads involve punching balls, goring enemies, and all that violence.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

There was the Earthworm Jim cartoon, and it was actually pretty good.

This show holds up amazingly well. It's as funny as it's early morning counterpart, Freakazoid. Possibly more so.

 

[FYC]

Sonic Underground

Sonic SatAM

Sonic X

Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog

I don't really remember much about them, actually. I liked watching them when I was growing up though.

 

[Red Arremer]

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog was very cheesy.
SatAM I remember being decent.
Underground was pretty bad, and I never saw Sonic X (that came out pretty late).

 

[massoluk]

The Tiger Sharks
It's like the culmination of every thing. Where do you go after ThunderCats and SilverHawks? FISH!

edit: oops not videogames. Thought I'm in OT

 

[Kokonoe]

To be honest, I never saw the Zelda cartoon growing up, but I watched all the episodes on Netflix a few years ago when it was still on there, and although it's not the best thing in the world, and some of the stuff gets repetitive, I find it's kind entertaining to watch for a silly cartoon.

Mega Man has the best video game cartoon out of them all, though.

Sonic Underground was radical

Sonic SatAM was cool

Sonic X was weird

Sonic X is anime.

 

[FYC]

Sonic X is anime.

Bah, close enough

 

[I-hate-u]

Piece of shit.

 

[Rctdaemon]

Name yer poison.

Spoiler

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (2013), Bubsy Pilot (1993), Rayman (1999).

 

[Auskeek]

I still own a VHS tape of the Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm cartoon. I will never watch it again.

 

[Rlan]

It's kind of odd that the only thing that kind of has a TV show right now is... Pac-Man?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIJDwVsrag

Actually now that I think about it, Angry Birds currently has a cartoon as well, but it's via their Apps only.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdAJxmGtNDI

There is also rumor of a new Sonic show called "Sonic Boom" in the works.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

Sonic SatAM

I always thought this show was better than a Sonic the Hedgehog-related cartoon had any right to be.

 

[Tizoc]

Name yer poison.

Spoiler

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (2013), Bubsy Pilot (1993), Rayman (1999).

Spoiler

THERE WAS A 1999 RAYMAN ANIMATED SERIES?!?
How's the Pacman cartoon?

I enjoy Adv. of Sonic the Hedgehog TBH...

 

[qq more]

There was the Earthworm Jim cartoon, and it was actually pretty good.

I first watched it a few years ago and absolutely loved it. It really does hold up well! I've never even played any of the games at the time either!

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

I still own a VHS tape of the Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm cartoon. I will never watch it again.

Was this it?

I was amazed by how awful it was. I think I ended up throwing it away.

 

[Mupod]

There was the Earthworm Jim cartoon, and it was actually pretty good.

First post, man. I loved that cartoon. Especially that one episode with the Nameless Beast

Spoiler

Rosebud

I also really liked the Megaman cartoon, I stayed over at my cousin's and played vidyagames all weekend fairly frequently and we always watched that in the morning.

 

[Rlan]

Tend to also be forgotten, but the original Saturday Supercade stuff is some weird, low rent stuff.

Frogger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXUVX9FiUEQ

Q*Bert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gABowePQzY0

Donkey Kong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HffzM9vGYpU

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

Man, I haven't seen that Donkey Kong cartoon for 30 years, probably. The only thing I remember was that Mario was kind of a dick.

 

[BocoDragon]

There was the Earthworm Jim cartoon, and it was actually pretty good.

I remember the day this premiered, and it felt dissonant to the attitude of the games (totally wacky instead of an ironic mix of wierd n wacky)... But I did watch it for awhile and it was not bad for what it was.

 

[Boss Doggie]

oh god what happened to mario

 

[@MUWANdo]

What was the name of that Captain N-style show with all the terrible Z-tier characters from Acclaim or Accolade or whoever?

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

What was the name of that Captain N-style show with all the terrible Z-tier characters from Acclaim or Accolade or whoever?

Oh gosh...Power Team?

Power something.

 

[TEJ]

oh god what happened to mario

better question is, why is q-berts girlfriend {i'm assuming its his gf} wearing a skirt with no shirt?

 

[Red Arremer]

better question is, why is q-berts girlfriend {i'm assuming its his gf} wearing a skirt with no shirt?

Gotta make clear it's a girl somehow.

 

[TimmiT]

It's kind of odd that the only thing that kind of has a TV show right now is... Pac-Man?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIJDwVsrag

Actually now that I think about it, Angry Birds currently has a cartoon as well, but it's via their Apps only.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdAJxmGtNDI

There is also rumor of a new Sonic show called "Sonic Boom" in the works.

There's also that Rabbids show that's premiering soon.

 

[Rctdaemon]

Spoiler

THERE WAS A 1999 RAYMAN ANIMATED SERIES?!?
How's the Pacman cartoon?

I enjoy Adv. of Sonic the Hedgehog TBH...

I found 4 ~12 minute episodes of Rayman on Youtube and that was the date in the description. As for Pacman, it's not the worst Pacman cartoon (Christmas comes to Pacland has that distinction), but it's still not that great. Feel free to look it up if you're morbidly curious.

Oh gosh...Power Team?

Power something.

Why, oh WHY did I look that up?

 

[Roland1979]

TMNT
But started out as a cartoon i think, and got video games because of it's success.

 

[Roland1979]

Sonic X is anime.

I'm pretty sure anime ARE cartoons (unless full CGI of course).

 

[Akibastman]

As a kid, I was a big fan of Power Stone. As far as I remember, it was really great.

Double Dragon was awesome too.

 

[SuperAngelo64]

Western cartoons based on Japanese IPs = always terrible.

Western cartoons based on western IPs = not too bad.

And don't come at me with that Sonic SatAM garbage. Shit was terrible.

 

[TEJ]

TMNT
But started out as a cartoon i think, and got video games because of it's success.

It started off as a black and white indie comic book. Definitely does not count.

 

[Tizoc]

TMNT
But started out as a cartoon i think, and got video games because of it's success.

It started as comic series, then got an animated series which spawned the video games.

 

[Auskeek]

Was this it?

I was amazed by how awful it was. I think I ended up throwing it away.

Dug it out just to take a photo

Oh yes, Mortal Kombat at its PG best.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Dug it out just to take a photo

Oh yes, Mortal Kombat at its PG best.

I don't recall an MK character with that bowl cut lol

 

[Senor Kami]

I remember Darkstalkers. It rightfully came on at like the pre-7am Saturday death hour that they put all the ultimate crap cartoons that could maybe generate more views than running an infomercial at that time but was so terrible of a time slot that a network wouldn't dare show anything of quality.

Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter ran on a cable only network before the days of Cartoon Network... meaning that it was a fucking terrible cartoon that couldn't cut it on the Fox or Disney cartoon blocks and got picked up solely because the logic was that maybe cable had so man channels that children would get lost and confused and there was hope that airing cartoons somewhere on cable would capture those poor souls that got lost on their way to X-Men, Bobby's World, Spider-Man, Eek the Cat, Life with Louie, The Tick, Batman, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain.

Video game cartoons are pretty much all bad. At least when I was a kid. There was a significant difference in quality that even a 7 year old can notice when comparing stuff like Captain N (which I believe ran on ABC before the Disney merger and the station was a shit show for reject cartoons on Saturdays) to say, Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, Tiny Tune Adventures, Tale Spin, Batman, Animaniacs, etc. Hell, they couldn't even compete with the cartoons that aired on whatever local station you had that eventually became UPN/WB/CW. And they aired Might Max (which was > awesome), Denver the Last Dinosaur, Saber Rider, and Jumanji.

Even TBS beat them with Two Stupid Dogs and Swat Kats.

 

[TEJ]

The old disney cartoons and bruce timm/paul dini were and still are, boss.

but captain n, the superfriends, and other bare minimum effort cartoons? I look back at them with disgust.

 

[Slygmous]

Apparently there was a Sam & Max cartoon, I'm afraid to look it up.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

Apparently there was a Sam & Max cartoon, I'm afraid to look it up.

It's not bad.

 

[Senor Kami]

Apparently there was a Sam & Max cartoon, I'm afraid to look it up.

I think than ran on the Fox saturday morning block. Pretty much nothing on there was bad, especially if we're comparing it to video game cartoons that didn't run on Fox in the 90s.

 

[jwhit28]

Finding out there was a 51 episode F-Zero anime that actually had 13 episodes play in the US and a 3rd game that came out on GBA in Japan with a built in track editor that I never knew about was mind blowing.

 

[Tizoc]

It's not bad.

IIRC, the original creator(s) worked on the cartoon.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

IIRC, the original creator(s) worked on the cartoon.

It definitely shows. The animation has the same, uh 'zest' that the original comics had. There's a DVD set available. Definitely worth picking up.

 

[Sixfortyfive]

There was the Earthworm Jim cartoon, and it was actually pretty good.

You know that taste when you brush your teeth, then drink orange juice?

 

[Slygmous]

It definitely shows. The animation has the same, uh 'zest' that the original comics had. There's a DVD set available. Definitely worth picking up.

Well, it looks like I have something to track down now.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Apparently there was a Sam & Max cartoon, I'm afraid to look it up.

It's good. Watch it.

 

[TEJ]

The only thing I remember about the super mario cartoons is that mario constantly made italian food related puns.

I don't understand why they did that. It'd be like having a black character constantly make soulfood related puns, mexican character having chimichanga related puns, etc....

 

[Symthic]

Is the only video game show still around Pokemon?