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5364192 No.5364192 [Reply] [Original]

It featured Dan Castellaneta as the voice of Earthworm Jim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtw3f43gsYI
And it was pretty weird.

Could we have a retro videogame media thread? Cartoons, anime, movies, OAV's, music, comics, manga, and stuff like that.

>> No.5364235

>>5364192
I still remember the interview where one of the animators for the sonic cartoon confessed to trying to make robotnik's ass as sexy as he was allowed to

I wish I didn't

>> No.5364260

I remember there being two different Sonic cartoon series on at the same time. Both were made by DiC, but one had a darker tone. The darker Sonic series had this whole freedom fighter storyline, while the other kidd-ier cartoon series had Sonic telling kids not to talk to strangers. Both series had Jaleel White as the voice of Sonic.

Also, speaking of later 90's cartoon series based on cartoons, there was a Sam and Max: Freelance Police series based on the Lucas Arts game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVp74a8ob-Y

This show only lasted for a season.

>> No.5364308

>>5364260
>I remember there being two different Sonic cartoon series on at the same time. Both were made by DiC, but one had a darker tone. The darker Sonic series had this whole freedom fighter storyline, while the other kidd-ier cartoon series had Sonic telling kids not to talk to strangers. Both series had Jaleel White as the voice of Sonic.


Sonic The Hedgehog: TAS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMa9Iot1Ves
This series was made for ABC in the United States. I think the Archie comics series was based on this cartoon. Also Robotnik was surprisingly dark with no comedic elements.

Then there is this series called Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x2NbK8IOpQ
This is a 'kid friendly version', I guess. Also the source for many YTP videos.

There is also a third Sonic cartoon series. Sonic Underground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGjgOwZo1M
This series only aired in Canada and the UK, and was like some weird Sonic fan fiction. It was fucking weird. Jaleel White was also the voice of Sonic in this series too.

>> No.5364317

EWJ cartoon was awesome, but only lasted 2 seasons. All the Mario cartoons were garbage, but the live action Super Show parts were actually acceptable material, usually due to the celeb guest. AoStH and SatAM were both OK for different reasons, Sonic Underground was a trashfire, never saw the OVA. Double Dragon was fucking horrible. Captain N was painfully bad, and the Zelda cartoon it came with was only good as meme material. Mega Man was amazingly bland for a show about robots fighting each other. Never watched Q-Bert, Pac-man, Carmen Sandiego, or the Saturday Supercade.

The Maniac Mansion live action show was absolute shit that had only names in common with the games. Fucking Eugene Levy ruined it. The live action game show version of Carmen Sandiego on PBS was the hypest shit ever. They actually managed to make a decent edutainment show out of a decent edutainment game series. Too bad they had to shut it down since they forgot to make participants sign liability waivers and that one kid slipped and hurt himself during the final game.

>> No.5364318

I recognize the image in OP, I'm afraid that's about it. I'm pretty sure it was good though, I remember Earthworm Jim's voice, the drawing and hardly anything else.

>> No.5364325

EAT DIRT, EVERYONE IN THE VICINITY

>> No.5364334

>>5364317
>The live action game show version of Carmen Sandiego on PBS was the hypest shit ever.

DO IT, ROCKAPELLA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1eM3WXLZrw

This show was awesome when I was a kid.

>> No.5364335

>>5364192
Yeah, though I honestly don't remember much about the cartoon in terms of quality or plots beyond knowing that I probably watched it a time or two. I was certainly an EWJ fan as a kid, I probably still have some of the toys somewhere.

Watching it just now, I can say that the opening was certainly better animated than I would've expected. I might go back and give the series a watch, the humor of the games is certainly still appealing to me.

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5364341

>>5364308
We got Sonic Underground here in the US. It was in kind of a weird place (being a late 90s Sonic cartoon), so many of the people that watched the cartoons as kids didn't really "gel" with watching Sonic in their late teens.
I liked the slapstick Sonic cartoon. It was super nutty and like watching the 3 stooges except with a robot that has an asscrack.

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5364389

>>5364335
>>>5364192 (OP)
>Yeah, though I honestly don't remember much about the cartoon in terms of quality or plots beyond knowing that I probably watched it a time or two. I was certainly an EWJ fan as a kid, I probably still have some of the toys somewhere.
>Watching it just now, I can say that the opening was certainly better animated than I would've expected. I might go back and give the series a watch, the humor of the games is certainly still appealing to me.

Playmates was one of the groups that invested in Earthworm Jim. They had their own toy-line and were the ones who produced the cartoon series to advertise the toyline.

The cartoon was alright. It didn't quite have the same sense of humor as the first two games, but was decent as far as saturday morning cartoons go.

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5364428

>>5364235

>> No.5364441

>>5364317
The Carmen game show kept going for three seasons after that injury regardless (lasted five in total). What killed it was budget cuts, as PBS couldn't keep affording to foot the bill for prizes.

They tried to keep it going with "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego", but both the budget and the talent was lacking and it ended after only two seasons.

>> No.5364498

>>5364260
>>5364308
Don't forget Sonic X!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHsOSGJHN0

>> No.5364524

>>5364441
The big prize was a plane trip to one of the 48 states. That's not that expensive.

>> No.5364527

>>5364498
>2003-2006
No one forgot, it just wasn't around back then.

>> No.5364532

>>5364524
Combined with the other consolation prizes, costumes, animations, and the cost of the set itself, it adds up, especially for public-television.

Where in Time had to downgrade the prizes to textbooks and home computers, and even that apparently was a strain, which is likely why they had to rig the bonus round to be nigh-unwinnable.

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5364539

>>5364498
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHsOSGJHN0 [Remove]

I didn't consider it retro enough, but it is from 2003. Dear fucking god.

I also have to bring up Sonic OVA from 1999, or Sonic: the Movie as it was called in the west. This was a weird take on Sonic, Very anime. I say weird because this came out around the same time as Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast. But the OVA was based on elements of Sonic CD, bits of Sonic 3 and Knuckles and even has references to the DiC Sonic TAS from the '90s. It is an interesting take. Plus it has some pretty good animation and artwork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbp4Ne1eFw

This movie is one of my guilty pleasures. Kinda like Super Mario Bros. movie or the first Mortal Kombat.

>> No.5364558

>>5364539
>I also have to bring up Sonic OVA from 1999,

Oh, it was released in 1996 in japan. That explains a lot now. It was translated for the west in 1999, probably to help Sega of America to get the brand name out there.

>> No.5364565

Anyone remember that Crash Bandicoot cartoon series from 1997?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_4YclrGqM

>> No.5364570

>>5364558
Eh? Sonic was already a brand-name in America by then. If anything, it sounds like they released it to coincide with Sonic Adventure's debut.

>> No.5364576

>>5364570
>Eh? Sonic was already a brand-name in America by then

I meant Sonic was a bit of a tarnished brand name that was absent for a whole console generation. Yeah, the OVA was released to match up with the game Sonic Adventure, but I mean, it was also put out to help reignite the Sonic brand too.

>> No.5364685

> "From now on, like your parents were... you are the secret force of Pole Position"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_xGfrdbhY
This has got to be one of the loosest interpretations of a video game of all time. This cartoon series looks like it was meant to be something else, but at the last minute they slapped on the Pole Position license. Pole Position was an F1 racing game. I was old enough to see this when I was a kid. It does have a slick intro.

>> No.5364759

>>5364317
Super Mario 3 was OK.

>> No.5364762

>>5364685
wtf
Without the titles and singing you would swear its Spy Hunter

>> No.5364971

EWJ's cartoon was way better than the average videogame cartoon out there. At least it didn't deviate from the source material and had a style consistant with the games.
And fucking DAN CASTALLANETA.

Are there any other examples of videogame cartoons way better than the average?

>> No.5365114

>>5364971
>Are there any other examples of videogame cartoons way better than the average?

When I think of mid to late '90s cartoons based on video games, so many bad ones come to mind, like those USA network shows. Street Fighter, MegaMan, Darkstalkers, etc. Even the Mortal Kombat cartoon series kinda sucked. The first Pokemon cartoon aired in 1997, which is pretty crazy considering how long that show stayed on the air.

Earthworm Jim was one of the few rare ones that was actually alright.

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5365175

>>5365114
>Darkstalkers on USA Network
holy shit I forgot that actually existed

>> No.5365181

>>5364192

I was a huge earthworm jim fan back then and I loved the cartoon

>> No.5365216

>>5365114
what about medarot or digimon s1

>> No.5365229

>>5365216
>what about medarot or digimon s1

Yeah definitely. Does Yu-Gi-Oh count? Doesn't Konami own that? Nintendo had a Hamtaro cartoon in 1999 or 2000 as well?

>> No.5365236

>>5365229
on the opposite side of things diid you play the ps1 beyblade game it was pretty not bad for like 20 bucks

>> No.5365245
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5365245

The whole series is on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F60DBDA53765F96

>> No.5365247

Here's a couple cartoon pilots based on videogames...

Battletoads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtQ_RSF1jYU
Did Weird Al Yankovic perform the theme song for this cartoon?

Bubsy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNdbdSCuC4
What could paw-sibly go wrong? This one actually features Rob Paulsen as the voice of Bubsy.

>> No.5365342

This thread reminded me of the Mutant League cartoon series that was based on EA's Mutant League Hockey and Mutant League Football:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEmSMvdMH4M
The animation really wasn't very good and it has some bad early 90's CG and the sound production is awful. But it was actually an oddly entertaining cartoon that satires the real sports industry. Also this cartoon had decapitations. It lasted two seasons.

>> No.5365353

>>5365236
>>>5365229
>on the opposite side of things diid you play the ps1 beyblade game it was pretty not bad for like 20 bucks

I'm the Beyblade champion! ... nah just kidding. I can't say that I ever got into Beyblade anything.

>> No.5365397 [DELETED] 

>>5364759
>Super Mario 3 was OK.

Super Mario Bros. Super Show was made to promote Super Mario Bros. 2 in the west. Plus Zelda 2 was new at the time too, so the Super Show had Mario and Zelda cartoons to promote those. Plus the cartoon showed more Mario 2 enemies, even though Bowser was the main protagonist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quQ95LH-fzw
The cartoons were ass. But that theme song, though... The live action segments with Lou Albano and Danny Wells are amusing. The Zelda cartoon was not totally bad.

And then Super Mario Bros. 3 came out after and was included with Captain N: The Game Master. Captain N: The Game Master was pretty awful, but it has a weird charm to it. Super Mario Bros. 3 was the only part I liked. The show was just more of the previous DiC Mario cartoon. I don;t remember if this was better.

Then after that, they had the Super Mario World cartoon series. This was internet meme fodder for a reason:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTSUvoTKRwI

>> No.5365398

>>5364759
>Super Mario 3 was OK.

Super Mario Bros. Super Show was made to promote Super Mario Bros. 2 in the west. Plus Zelda 2 was new at the time too, so the Super Show had Mario and Zelda cartoons to promote those. Plus the cartoon showed more Mario 2 enemies, even though Bowser was the main protagonist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quQ95LH-fzw
The cartoons were ass. But that theme song, though... The live action segments with Lou Albano and Danny Wells are amusing. The Zelda cartoon was not totally bad.

And then Super Mario Bros. 3 came out after and was included with Captain N: The Game Master. Captain N: The Game Master was pretty awful, but it has a weird charm to it. Super Mario Bros. 3 was the only part I liked. The show was just more of the previous DiC Mario cartoon. I don't remember if this was better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZGahyvICcY

Then after that, they had the Super Mario World cartoon series. This was internet meme fodder for a reason:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTSUvoTKRwI

>> No.5366041

>>5365247
He was also him in Bubsy II.

I'm sure Rob makes it a rule to keep Bubsy off his resume. Sometimes, you gotta do jobs you hate for the sake of the paycheck.

>> No.5366758

>>5365398
>>5364759

I liked the supershow better for using Mario and co. in so many different scenarios, kind of like how Mario was originally intended to be a versatile multi purpose character that could appear in anything.

Mario 3 and World kind of suffered for trying to stick closer to the games since they didn't travel as much and were more limited in what they could do. Also those fucking musical numbers that were sung by what I can only assume to be a horde of gremlins were really bad.

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>>5366758
>Also those fucking musical numbers that were sung by what I can only assume to be a horde of gremlins were really bad.

I couldn't have summed that up any better. Also, there was that one time when Milli Vanilli was featured one episode. It's strange. :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ses06u43g_I

>> No.5366836 [DELETED] 

Unfortunately, yes.

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>>5366836

>> No.5366861 [DELETED] 

>>5366854
What? I know we hate Doug Tennappel, but that doesn't mean I want to kill him.

>> No.5366868

I love the butthurt that Earthworm Jim causes.

>> No.5366869

Monster In My Pocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEsPEdQvMI

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>>5366861
>"I know we hate Doug Tennappel"
>"we"
Unironically go fuck yourself.

>> No.5366923 [DELETED] 

>>5366917
Go read Heather Alexandra's article on Kotaku about Earthworm Jim.

>> No.5366926 [DELETED] 

>>5366923
I don't read blogs, Doug's a great guy.

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5366932

>>5366923
>Actually believing Kotaku of all websites

>> No.5366937 [DELETED] 

>>5366923
>Go read Kotaku
Why would you subject anyone to that garbage?

>> No.5367015

>>5364685
It's so stereotypically '80s that it almost looks fake.

>> No.5367018

>>5365245
The juxtaposition of horrible primitive CGI with professional voice acting is really weird to me. Pamtri and AndyWilson trained me to associate primitive computer graphics with text-to-speech or autistic screeching.

>> No.5367076 [DELETED] 

>>5366917
>hahaha liberals are so easily offended
>oh god you don't like shitty 90's mascot platformer made by a conservative? KILL yourself

lol

>> No.5367082 [DELETED] 

>>5367076
>EWJ is shitty
KYS bitch

>> No.5367115 [DELETED] 

>>5367076
Having shit taste is one thing, pushing your views as if everyone agrees with you with your "we"s, specially in a place like 4chan is a whole other can of worms.

>> No.5367159 [DELETED] 

>>5366923
>Go read Heather Alexandra's article on Kotaku

> dyes her hair green

No thanks.

To be honest, Doug doesn't really have much to do with the EWJ cartoon series. It's not like he wrote any of the episodes or anything. Dour is really just a character designer and animator on Earthworm Jim. Sure it was also his idea to come up with 'wacky' designs too. But he was still employed by Shiny and making their characters and not his own.

>> No.5367161 [DELETED] 

>>5367159
>Dour

*Doug

>> No.5367290

>>5364235
post it

>> No.5367316

>>5367015
>It's so stereotypically '80s that it almost looks fake.

It's one of those 80's cartoons where the intro sucks you in, but the cartoon itself kinda sucks.

>> No.5367345

>>5364192
Earthworm Jim has always been a strong part of my identity and my family. When it first was first released in 1994 it was an obsession. Everything in the house hold was "Groovy" this and "Aaayow!" that. We even named our cat "Evil" like the cat from the game. Then in 1995, you can imagine that we were blown away when there was a TELEVISION series. "Earth Worm Jim! Through soil he did crawl!" we would all sing in unison. My aunt even started calling Homer from the Simpsons "Yellow Worm" because they had the same voice actor. All my Earth Worm Jim memorabilia has been building up over the years and with the advent of the internet I was able to connect to other fans of the franchise. I love everything about his cool, collected personality but also quite erratic (lol, it wouldn't be a funny show without it!) and his suit and laser gun really are the ticket! I wonder what would happen if he wasn't a worm? Haha, I don't want to imagine!

>> No.5367352

>>5366869
The reason why the Pokemon franchise got named "Pokemon" in America, I believe.

>> No.5367362

>>5367345
Ever read any of TenNapel's comics? I'm quite found of a few of them myself.

>> No.5367383

>>5366869
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEsPEdQvMI [Embed]

Instantaneously recognizable Hanna-Barbera character designs and animation. I liked the style in their Pac-Man cartoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Ex3Ce1KNU

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5367402

>>5364192
what could pawsibly go wrong?

>> No.5367415

>>5364192
Saw this recently, seems like a bootleg Freakazoid, but still good in it's own right.

>> No.5367476

>>5367415
Funny, because both shows ran at the same time, on the same network, and for the same length of two seasons.

>> No.5367745
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5367745

>>5364192
Anyone see the Sam 'n Max cartoon?
Was it any good?

>> No.5367794

>>5367745
>Anyone see the Sam 'n Max cartoon?
>Was it any good?

Oddly I have this on DVD, which came with the Sam and Max Telltale games, but I have never watched them. From what I have seen of it, the animation looked good.

>> No.5367910
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5367910

Best Street Fighter movie from the '90s

>> No.5367924

>>5365114
There was a youtube channel a while back that had mashups of all those terrible video game cartoons. It was deleted a long time ago along with all of the content. But that was where I learned about the Darkstalkers cartoon. By god it was the worst thing I ever saw.

>> No.5367932

>>5367924
>It was deleted a long time ago along with all of the content. But that was where I learned about the Darkstalkers cartoon. By god it was the worst thing I ever saw.

I think you are talking about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiHRLUIZzs4

>> No.5367941

>>5364317
>Captain N was painfully bad

The first season of Captain N was mildly tolerable. It is no where near as bad as "Johnny Arcade & The Power Team"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDbD0216NaU

This show was made up of characters from Acclaim licensed games. It has the barbarian guy from Wizards and Warriors, Kwirk from the game Kwirk, some basketball player from the game Arch Rivals, the cop guy from NARC, and BigFoot the monster truck from some BigFoot video game.

>> No.5367970

>>5367910

I used to rent this constantly from blockbuster

>> No.5368135

>>5367745
Yes, very.

>> No.5369204

>>5364192
I miss kidsWB 90s cartoons were rad
https://twitter.com/VGArtAndTidbits/status/1086667273518096386

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>>5367910
god bless chun li

>> No.5369543

>>5367941
Dear god, even the intro makes it look like some Joseph Lai-tier shit.

>> No.5369548

>>5369543
>>5367941
probably best not to discuss the live action game show part huh

>> No.5369567

>>5369548
>probably best not to discuss the live action game show part huh

The Video Power portion was basically like a continuation of GamePro TV. Johnny Arcade was '90's radical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USL2Dhebktg

>> No.5369705

>>5366792
Was this before or after they were exposed for being the front for some other singers? Man these /vr/ shows are real time capsules.

>> No.5369708

EWJ cartoon is the best video game cartoon I've ever seen.
Which is a shame cuz TenNapel's a douchecunt IRL.

I also enjoyed the Maniac Mansion series even though it was only tangentially related to the game.

>> No.5369712

>>5369705
Considering the episode lampooned the whole fake singer thing, I'd guess the latter. Unlike the other poster, I doubt that Milli Vanilli had anything to do with the episode beyond being both its inspiration and the object of its ridicule.

>> No.5369714

>>5364685
I was gonna ask if this was one of those rare 80's cartoons like Inspector Gadget that was animated by the Japanese, based on the viewing angles, action sequences, and character design, then I saw a bunch of Japanese names. It's amazing how you could spot a Japanese animation relative to typical western animations.

>> No.5369716

>>5369705

I'm thinking the cartoon was put into development before the controversy. But it came out maybe a week or so before the whole 'lip syncing' thing happened.

>> No.5369740

>>5369712
>Considering the episode lampooned the whole fake singer thing, I'd guess the latter. Unlike the other poster, I doubt that Milli Vanilli had anything to do with the episode beyond being both its inspiration and the object of its ridicule.

They did actually record their own voices for the cartoon. But they only recorded a couple lines of dialog, so it was probably like an hour worth of time in a studio.

>> No.5369747

>>5369740
Prolly the only time they recorded their own voices, eh?

>> No.5369756

>>5369714
I used to know some anime fags back in school. I told them Rainbow Bright is technically anime and watched their heads implode as googling confirmed it.

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>>5369747
>Prolly the only time they recorded their own voices, eh?

maybe so!

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>>5369756
I have a hard time believing that, it looks extremely western.

>> No.5369793

>>5369768
>I have a hard time believing that, it looks extremely western.

The character designs are westren and most of the storyboards too, but back in the 1980's it wasn't uncommon for animation studios to farm out their animation to Japanese studios. Real Ghostbusters, Thundercats, the first season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, even many episodes of Batman: The Animated Series were animated in japan. Though it wasn't uncommon for western animation studios open up animation houses in countries like South Korea or Singapore, just for the cheap labour. So some cartoons would outsource some episodes to japan, some to South Korea and so forth and just juggle between studios.

>> No.5369796

>>5369768
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Japanese_fantasy_television_series
Ctrl+f rainbow brite

>> No.5369801

>>5367345
Whoa Edgar, forget your nametag there buddy?

>> No.5369803

>>5369714
It's easy to tell if you know what to look for. No matter what they're animating they always make things like ocean waves, light reflections, and fires look the same as they would in an anime.
>>5369793
It was more like there was a tiers of quality. Japan was where you went for the intros and the important episodes (e.g. Christmas specials,) South Korea was where the bulk of the work went because they were good bang for your buck, and then the Philippines and Mainland China was where you restored to when you blew the budget and needed every corner cut.

>> No.5369806

>>5369803
>It was more like there was a tiers of quality. Japan was where you went for the intros and the important episodes (e.g. Christmas specials,) South Korea was where the bulk of the work went because they were good bang for your buck, and then the Philippines and Mainland China was where you restored to when you blew the budget and needed every corner cut.

Yeah, that's right.

>> No.5369808

>>5364192
i had an episode on vhs for a longass time, might still have it somewhere. i member

>> No.5369814

>>5369793
>real ghostbusters
I can't remember which was the good cartoon, GB or RGB. Any help?

>> No.5369827

>>5369814
Real Ghostbusters was the one based on the movie. The other Ghostbusters was based on that show with the F-Troop actors and the man in the gorilla suit.

>> No.5369834

>>5369814
>I can't remember which was the good cartoon, GB or RGB. Any help?

Ghost Busters was made by Filmation, based on a kids TV show from the 1970's. Filmation realized that they had their own "Ghost Busters" property and rushed out this series to cash in on the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsuTccKKGjo

And then there's The Real Ghostbusters by Sony/ Columbia based on the first movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7VS-ZoeMqs

>> No.5370000

>>5364192
Oh shit, I remember. I had a promo VHS that had 2-3 episodes on it. They fucked the tone up big time, but I enjoyed any video game media on TV when I was a kid. It was in a relatively short supply at the time.

>> No.5370007

>>5367745
More than it should've.

>> No.5370010

>>5367941
Imagine being so desperately in need of characters that you have pick a random generic basketball player from fucking Arch Rivals and A CAR to make a cartoon of videogames.

>> No.5370157
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>>5370010
>Imagine being so desperately in need of characters that you have pick a random generic basketball player from fucking Arch Rivals and A CAR to make a cartoon of videogames.

BigFoot was literally there to advertise this game.

The SWAT guy is Max Force from Williams Electronics NARC. The arcade game is an awesome late 80's run and gun game, that kinda like Double Dragon with machine guns with Eugene Jarvis paced gameplay style (Like Robotron 2084 or Smash TV). I always thought it was that quintessential "late 80's/ early 90's arcade game" you saw in movies and TV shows and stuff. Rare ported the NES version for Acclaim in 1990. Acclaim puts 'Max Force' into their Captain N knockoff to advertise the NES game. Which is kinda awesome and weird. Also he looks a bit like Peter Venkman from the Real Ghostbusters cartoon.

And then there us Kuros from Wizards & Warriors. I've never played that game, but I use to see that cartridge in rental stores everywhere and in a few bargain bins.

Kwirk is a character from a GameBoy game made by Atlus and published by Acclaim. It's this weird puzzle game where you turn blocks. It is also on the PCEngine.

The Basketball guy is named Tyrone and he is an actual playable character from the game Arch Rivals. Which is an arcade game that was developed by early Midway and the game was basically the prototype to NBA Jam. Acclaim ported the game to the NES in 1990.

Acclaim were advertising their 1990 game line-up with PowerTeam. It's like they handed the producers a bunch of their properties at random, and just said "oh do something with these!".

>> No.5372005
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5372005

Speaking of the USA Network, I also remember Wing Commander Academy, which aired in 95 or 96 or something, and I actually kinda liked it.

>> No.5372151

>>5370010
Who even greenlit this shit, as if any of these games were even popular to begin with.

>> No.5372206
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>>5372151
>>>5370010
>Who even greenlit this shit, as if any of these games were even popular to begin with.

Definitively Acclaim. They literally looked at Captain N and the Game Masters and said "we should do that with our games". This kind of thing was the norm for cartoons in the late 80's and early 90's.(Image related) Ironically Valiant Comics was owned by Acclaim between 1994 to 2004.

>> No.5372214
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>>5364260
>Sam and Max: Freelance Police series based on the Lucas Arts game
>based on the Lucas Arts game

>> No.5372241

>>5369793
I remember watching the Dennis the Menace cartoon and noting a lot of Japanese names in the credits.

>> No.5372247

>>5364389
I had some of those toys, they were pretty nice.

>> No.5372263

>>5372214
>>based on the Lucas Arts game

Steve Purcell,created Sam & Max as a comic series before he was hired with LucasArts. he was an animator/artist at Lucas Arts and they decided to turn his Sam and Max characters into a game. The cartoon probably wouldn't exist without the popularity of the first game. So there is that.

The cartoon was made by Nelvava studios in Canada, but it is a good adaption of his characters. Has good animation. Steve Percell even wrote some of the episodes.

>> No.5372298

Anyone remember the fatal fury ovas?
Fatal fury 2 had a goat end theme
>KEEP ON CALLING! KEEP ON CALLING!

>> No.5372367

>>5369747
They actually tried again later calling themselves 'The real Milli Vanilli'

As of anyone would care

>> No.5373914

Doug (The great worm spirit) Tennaple is actually active on Twitter. Nice guy. Still makes comics and album art.

>> No.5374056

>>5372005
You weren't the only one who liked it. It's kind of a shame that only WCA showed alien pilots in the Confederation(AFAIK), but it was also fun seeing the rivalry/hatred build between Thrakhath and Tolwyn, along with Tolwyn/Blair and Blair/Maniac(he really WAS that unhinged from the beginning!).

>> No.5376028

>>5369834
damn

>> No.5376032

>>5364192
I always remember this from Channel 4 in the UK when they actually showed cartoons.

>> No.5376086
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5376086

>>5373914
He can come up with some good posts as well once in a while.

>> No.5376123

>>5369714
>I was gonna ask if this was one of those rare 80's cartoons like Inspector Gadget that was animated by the Japanese
partially only, heck, most episodes were animated in france, taiwan or korea, i belliebe only a few episodes were done in japan, until S2 which was all japanese.

>> No.5376129

>>5369834
Funny how Filmation brag about their properties being ALL MADE IN THE US!, and yet the last cartoon they did was outsourced to to the japanese

>> No.5376154

>>5364192
Wow, I actually remember this. I wanted to watch more of it but it was only on at like 7 or 8 in the morning.

>> No.5376290

>>5376129
>Funny how Filmation brag about their properties being ALL MADE IN THE US!, and yet the last cartoon they did was outsourced to to the japanese

I actually like the animation in that Filmation Ghostbusters cartoon intro. The artwork looks great and the animation is 'clean'. I like the background art too. But it not a great cartoon though. It is weird.

>> No.5376310

>>5373914
>>5376086
I never expected him to be so massively redpilled

>> No.5376993

>>5369708
>Which is a shame cuz TenNapel's a douchecunt IRL.

is your penis butchered

>> No.5377017

>>5372367
Didn't the Real Milli Vanilli feature the actual singers behind Milli Vanilli recordings and not the dancing hacks?

>> No.5377118

>>5369204
>all those responses butthurt that TenNapel called some clickbait journalist out
Mein sides.

>> No.5377121

>>5369708
>TenNapel's a douchecunt IRL.
Literally the only people pissy over him are aids-ridden LGBT*ids.

>> No.5377135

>>5376310
Well he's a conservative Christian and always has been (Neverhood's entire rooms of text refs the Bible like crazy) and he's faced targeted witch-hunts because he said such horrifying things like stating that wouldn't go to a gay wedding because it's against his religious beliefs.
Since then he's become more outspoken in responding to online jackoffs, mostly because they can't seem to lay off him.

>> No.5377417

>>5376290
>The artwork looks great and the animation is 'clean'.
The execs were really autistic about making sure everything is on-model, and keeping work local really helped with the supervision. Just read some of John K's stories from when he worked there.

>> No.5377665
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>>5364192
You could say I'm a fan...

>> No.5377886
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>>5364308
>Sonic Underground
The musical sequences forced into every episode are incredibly painful.

I watched a lot of Nick Arcade. Nickelodeon used to run hours of game shows in its after school block but Nick Arcade was always my favorite. The Video Challenge was always the highlight in my book.

>25 rings in 30 seconds
https://youtu.be/icNTouhKqO8?t=776

>> No.5377915

>>5377135
with sockbaby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKMw2dIjyqc

>> No.5378861

>>5377915
What's that

>> No.5379324

>>5369293
IT BURNS LIKE FIRE
GIVE IT TO ME
BUT I DON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE
YOU CANNOT HURT ME ANYMORE

>> No.5379339
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5379339

>>5364317
>captain n
when they made the gameboy a character

>> No.5379476

>>5364192
I had a tape with the Book of Doom episode on it and another one. I watched the Book of Doom episode hundreds of times.. some great gags in it.

>> No.5379986
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does Doug TenNapel disdain anime?

>> No.5380001

>>5378861
sockbaby

>> No.5380007

That sock baby is a sockbaby Jesus, sock savior to the sock people. And I have come to TAKE HIM

>> No.5380023

>>5379986
DOES IT HE HATE IT OR NOT

>> No.5380053

>>5380023
why

>> No.5380234

sockbaybeh

>> No.5380272

>>5379324
90's KMFDM was so good, they were on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack too.

>BE MYYYYY SISTER SALVATION
>JUKE JOINT JEZEBEL'S COMING FOR MY CREMATION
>BE MYYYYY SISTER SALVATION
>CLOSER NOW, SEE THE REVELATION

>> No.5380447

>>5380272
Juke Joint Jezebel shows up in Bad Boys too. After En Esch left they took a dip in quality but picked up PIG and Tim Skold for awhile. Saw a show once where Ohgre from Skinny Puppy was playing with them as well. Now they just suck :/

>> No.5380517

>>5379986
im not sure

>> No.5380945

>>5380447
Pig (a.k.a. Raymond Watts) was there from the very beginning, wasn't he? He was the vocalist on What Do You Know Deutschland iirc

but Angst/Nihil/Xtort/Symbols was truly the golden age of KMFDM.

>> No.5381072

>>5379986
I seriously doubt he likes it, but he doesn't seem to be any kind of anti-weeb.

>> No.5381082

>>5381072
>I seriously doubt he likes it,
Any proof?

>> No.5381084

>>5379986
Every western animator has some sort of disdain for it.

>> No.5382059

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_4YclrGqM
Technically they're unused cutscenes before Sony told ND to have in-game rendered cutscenes, but it still makes me wonder how it could've turned out if it was an actual show aired in the 90s.
Personally believe it could've been like Tazmania with the gags (and the animation is even similar to it).

>> No.5382070

>>5382059
And Jim Cummings sang it.

>> No.5384205

>>5382070
yeah

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>>5379986
>>5381072
>>5381082

>> No.5384220

>>5379986
Good.

>> No.5384309

>>5384218
I don't understand

>> No.5386110

>>5377886
couldn't get 25 rings

>> No.5388220

and ol mama luigi

>> No.5388246

>>5381084
Bakshi liked anime. At least the dirty stuff and lum from pre 1995

>> No.5388248

Does Bucky O'Hare count? The game has kind of lasted longer in the public memory than the cartoon and toys.

>> No.5388278

>>5366041
And now Bubsy's voiced by vic mignogna

>> No.5388321

>>5388248
The nes and arcade bucky are both great. Seems like they got the real voices for the arcade version too. While im here, how did cowboys of moo mesa get a game? Was it a big show in america?

>> No.5388350

>>5388278
Nice, i hope he wins againts the SJW excrement!

>> No.5388361

>>5388350
>Please stop oppressing these sexual predators!

>> No.5388432

>>5388321
Funny how the arcade game is possibly the closest thing to an ending that Bucky O'Hare ever got.

>> No.5389032

>>5388361
>Please stop oppressing your precious SJW Ideologs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkSQqUrmm9M

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

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

>INB4 WHAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHH E-CEWEEEEEEEEEEBBSSSS WAAAAAGGHHH!

>> No.5389052

>>5388350
>>5388361
>>5389032
I want both of you to go back to /pol/ or whatever shithole spawned you.

>> No.5389101
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>>5367290
Take it in anon

>> No.5389261

>>5364235
He was envisioned as "animation's sexiest fat man." It works when you consider his personality and that he probably thinks that he's supremely handsome.

>> No.5391413

>>5389261
which

>> No.5392831
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>>5364539
Sonic: the Movie is a fucking masterpiece of the 90s imo. It captures the original feel and attitude of Sonic, it's sad that we wont really be able to go back to this style of the Blue Blur ever again; it is pretty anime but it adds to the charm. The animation is stellar. Here is the entire movie on Youtube. Enjoy!x
https://youtu.be/OxhMYk_xljQ

>> No.5392880

>>5369708
>Which is a shame cuz TenNapel's a douchecunt IRL.
Why? Because he doesn't bend over backwards for self-aggrandizing "LGBT" freaks? His religious views are kooky, but those faggots deserve to be told off a lot harder.

>> No.5394119

>>5369708
Faggot tranny sperg detected

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>>5389261
There was also this reference sheet as well. Whoever designed this interpretation clearly had a lot of fun with him.

>> No.5394193

>>5367941
>the wacky adventures of /fit/, /sp/, /pol/, /ck/ and /o/

>> No.5394209

>>5376310
>>5377135
Apparently he also designed one of the bosses in earthworm jim, the scientist, with a monkey on his head as his response to the theory of evolution, which again goes against his religious beliefs.

>> No.5394301
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>>5392831
>Sonic: the Movie is a fucking masterpiece of the 90s imo. It captures the original feel and attitude of Sonic, it's sad that we wont really be able to go back to this style of the Blue Blur ever again; it is pretty anime but it adds to the charm. The animation is stellar. Here is the entire movie on Youtube. Enjoy!x

The Sonic OAV series was definitely inspired by Sonic CD the most. I could imagine that the animated sequences in the Sega CD game were what promoted Sega to make an anime. Sonic uses the super peelout from Sonic CD and Metal Sonic makes an appearance. But there are also some Sonic 3 tie-ins with Knuckles and his strange Australian accent. Also, the OAV has redesigned SWATbots which made their first appearance in the Sonic SATAM cartoon and Archie comics. This one draws a lot from the games.

And speaking of OVA,s there is also the Super Mario Bros OVA from 1986:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VMFFRSqTOc

>> No.5394853

>>5394209
Professor Monkey-For-A-Head

>> No.5394980

>>5394209
Wow, this is hilarious. Now I can't unsee this theory if I replay the game again.

>> No.5395195

>>5394209
The themesong of Doug Tennaple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPFfHOGdyM