/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.625797]

Are old cartoons based on classic games welcome here? If so, let's talk about this show.

Does anyone else find it interesting that Luigi's characterization of the cowardly and somewhat weird guy that didn't manifest in games until Luigi's Mansion showed up in these cartoons for the first time?

Also why was Luigi the straight man and Mario the stooge in the live-action segments when their roles were the opposite in the cartoon segments?

[Anonymous No.625829]

The Mario show should have been just the live action segments. The cartoon was so bad it's funny for some wrong reasons, mostly for bad animation, but I would seriously watch the live segments alone as a series.

Adventures of Sonic is pretty much the only one I actually like though.

[Anonymous No.625848]

The Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon wasn't bad, outside of a few select episodes (the Lionmen one comes to mind), and I actually like the theme song.

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

[Anonymous No.625859]

It's weird how this show took what little was in the game and made it fantastic, while anyone else who tried it just sucked at it.

[Anonymous No.625882]

>>625848
How do you like the "arranged" version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA-NRCAW90o

[Anonymous No.625886]

>>625797

animation is awful
voicing is shit
plots are lame
the overuse of the games music drives me fuckin' nuts everytime

What else can I say? I hate this show...

[Anonymous No.625904]

It's a stone, Luigi. You didn't make it!

[Anonymous No.625910]

>>625882
It's ok imo

[Anonymous No.625925]

>>625848

I actually loooooved the Ruby Spears Megaman cartoon. It's still my favourite one to date. I remember getting up at 6 AM to watch it on Fox Kids on Saturday mornings. Well, I'd watch Iron Man at 6 AM and some sort of live-action show where actors would fight each other and had like, 3 power medallions on the side of the screen to represent how many hits they could take? I totally have no idea what this show is called but it was so awesome. Then Megaman was on at 7 AM, I still find some of the segments to be pretty funny to this day. That theme song is great too. I really don't get why people give this show so much grief, it was pretty damn great. That Megaman X episode is GODLY!

>>625829
>>625859

Like these guys said, I also enjoyed SatAM and Earthworm Jim, but I only ever saw like 4 episodes of Earthworm Jim before it got cancelled. What a waste.

[Anonymous No.625989]

I fucking hated how they used the full P-bar noise every time someone ran in the Mario cartoons

[Anonymous No.625995]

>>625829
I love AoStH. Funny thing is, back when I was a kid, I absolutely hated it. I hated how it was goofy and cartoony and thought SatAM with it's dark and edgy atmosphere was infinitely better.

After going back and looking at both now, though, I feel it's the other way around. AoStH is actually pretty funny; many of the gags are actually pretty smart and the animation's well done. That version of Robotnik is defiantly my favorite iteration. Meanwhile SatAM just seems kind of cheesy in the way of a scifi channel movie. It's not necessarily bad, but it's just too corny to take it as seriously as they try to present it.

And to think I wouldn't have even given AoStH a second chance were it not for youtube poop

[Anonymous No.626002]

>>625904
I chiseled it! It's a football!

[Anonymous No.626016]

>>625829
High five. Everyone says I'm trolling when I say AoSTH is better than SatAM
I hated the atmosphere and plot of SatAM so much but watched out out of a weird sense of obligation because I was a Sonic fan.

[Anonymous No.626034]

[Anonymous No.626038]

>>625995
>>626016
Yeah, AoSTH doesn't take itself seriously, which is what makes it so good. SatAM I feel tried way too hard. And it spawned a big portion of the fanbase clusterfuck.

I love the Ruby Spears Megaman cartoon. It's stupid as hell and really corny, but it's fun if nothing else. Plus, it is pretty cool to see all the robot masters save a few showing up now and then.

[Anonymous No.626042]

>>626038

The episode with Pharaohman is just great. He wrecks Megaman's shit so hardcore in the beginning, it's not even funny.

[Anonymous No.626040]

>>625995
HA!
Me too. OH ITS FROM THE SHOW!
So then I went back and watched it and I noticed how the attitude and even the setting is closer to the games. Weird trees and flowers, zig-zaggy hills and actual BADNIKS instead of lame-ass Swatbots everywhere.

[Anonymous No.626043]

>>625995
Yeah that's one problem with SatAM, I can't take anything seriously in it for being an edgy series and the only thing I liked about it is Jim Cunnings voiced Robotnik in that one.

And same to you, YTPer

[Anonymous No.626056]

>>626042
I always thought Gravity Man looked strange in the cartoon. Then I realized he's basically on-model from his official artwork, which doesn't fit the western art style as well.

[Anonymous No.626063]

I think we can safely say this is the worst.

I can understand basing Mega Man out of the Game Boy games, but Simon has no excuse.

[Anonymous No.626065]

>>626034

[Anonymous No.626073]

>>626063
Totally the same guy.

Megaman also had no excuse, since I think Captain N debuted before Rock got a Gameboy game. Even then, all you gotta do is glance at the cover to see he's blue.

[Anonymous No.626076]

>>626056
They should've used all the Japanese designs. I really liked how the Megaman: Upon A Star movie/3 part series looked. Of course, it was quite shit, but it looked nice.

That Megaman X short film in the PSP remake was quite nice, too.

[Anonymous No.626081]

>>626076
Originally, it was going to use a Japanese art style.

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

[Anonymous No.626082]

>>626076
I hear they were originally going to use the official anime-esque designs, but test audiences didn't react as positively.

[Anonymous No.626094]

>>626081
That looks awesome, I've never seen it before.

>>626082
Kind of a shame. The writing would've still been bad probably, but at least the art could have looked nice.

[Anonymous No.626112]

>>625859
Earthworm Jim felt a lot like Freakazoid to me. I think they actually started the same year.

[Anonymous No.626113]

>>625904
Has someone made a Youtube poop combining that scene and Obama's whole infamous "you didn't make it" line? Seems like an obvious joke to me.

[Anonymous No.626115]

>>626043
I always felt like the people who want Sonic to be "dark" grew up with SatAM. If you look at it Robotnik's AoSTH incarnation is a lot closer to the "Eggman" of today.

And I think the NC really overrated it. Looking at some episodes today it doesn't feel that "dark" compared to say...Batman the Animated series

[Anonymous No.626118]

>>626113
Probably not since the exact words were "you didn't build that."

[Anonymous No.626123]

Spark Mandrill and Vile don't look too bad, but wow X looks retarded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUlyaQwF7w

[Anonymous No.626124]

[Anonymous No.626135]

>>626123
I love how X's character is the total opposite of his game counterpart. But damn, VIle's voice was cool. And the intro to X4 I believe even did that thing where his eye flashes red under his helmet. Wonder if that's where they got it from.

[Anonymous No.626136]

>>626129
No matter how bad the adaptation M. Bison is still awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8FC-1vzdrc

[Anonymous No.626129]

>>626124

Ahhhh I forgot about you!

[Gray Blob !1fuckupmdM No.626138]

>>626081
>>626082
fucking baka gaijin test audiences dumbing down muh rockman cartoons

srsly though the R-S toon didn't turn out awful in the end, but it had its dumb (but still memorable) moments

[Anonymous No.626140]

>>626124
Never caught this but Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realms seemed kind of stupid to me.

[Anonymous No.626148]

>>626136
Guess who that Bison was in another popular game?

[Anonymous No.626152]

>>626124
HONEST MAN

[Anonymous No.626154]

>>626148

That's Richard Newman. Many times you hear him as villains, but in Beast Wars, he also played Rhinox.

Who...then became a villain.

So yeah.

[Anonymous No.626156]

>>626148
It was David Kaye wasn't it?

[Anonymous No.626160]

>>626156
Woops, wrong guy from Beast Wars

[Anonymous No.626171]

>>626135
That would be the Mega Man X3 intro in the Playstation version. Vile only shows up in X1, X3, and X8, and he's in a quick slide of the X5 intro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKM6wVUQsmE

[Anonymous No.626174]

Has anyone else watched this thing?

[Anonymous No.626179]

>>626171
Oh man, that song.

[Anonymous No.626184]

A lot of the old videogame cartoons are delightfully cheesy, and I particularly enjoy watching the annotated versions.

[Anonymous No.626186]

>>626174
Yep. It's a fun way to waste an hour. Also Bowser is voiced by a woman.

[Anonymous No.626191]

>>626184

The annotated versions are the only way to enjoy those cartoons.

[Anonymous No.626195]

mortal kombat: defenders of the realm
>all those moves straight out of the video game
>all those MK movie/game references
>all those cheesy puns and taunts

[Anonymous No.626210]

>>626195
>Jax being called 'bubblebutt'

[Anonymous No.626207]

[Buzzclaw No.626215]

>>626154
He also voiced Pyron in the cartoon.

[Anonymous No.626217]

>>626207
Lord Raptor was god-tier on that show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdO-yO-bfrU

HE MADE A SHARK DANCE FOR HIS GLORY

[Anonymous No.626220]

>>626207
Lord Raptor blowing up a robot dinosaur by playing a guitar to save a woman who fell in a pit.

[Anonymous No.626226]

>>626207
Oh god, that Morrigan. Can't unsee.

Good thing this cartoon didn't have Lilith, my favorite.

[Anonymous No.626229]

>>626215

Man, what a letdown that show was. Pyron was fucking awesome in the OVA. I'm really hoping they annotate this cartoon down the line.

[Anonymous No.626243]

>>626124
WOULD YOU LIKE... SOME CORN FLAKES?

[Anonymous No.626248]

>>626229
The Darkstalkers OVA was really great artwork-wise (so much stuff replicated perfectly from the game), but the story kind of fell flat, particularly toward the end.
>>626186
>Also Bowser is voiced by a woman.
A famous singer, no less.

[Anonymous No.626279]

>>626248

Agreed. But at least it has good presentation compared to that cartoon.

[Anonymous No.626315]

>>626207
that ins't even her worst face in that show.

[Anonymous No.626326]

Part of me wonders how Zelda would have continued. Would they have used the same models they used in Captain N?

And of course, the everlasting mystery of how DiC would have continued Mario and Zelda in the 64 years.

[Anonymous No.626334]

>>626326
>Mario and Luigi enter Peach's castle
>Evil Laugh
>"Oh Mario, I don't think that's the welcome committee."

[Anonymous No.626340]

>>626334
I shouldn't laugh.

But I did.

[Anonymous No.626347]

[Anonymous No.626361]

>>626347
Why can't people make tough female characters without making them act like total dykes?

[Anonymous No.626371]

One episode.

I feel there should have been more, but I think one episode was just enough.

[Anonymous No.626404]

>>626371
I saw the pilot for the Bubsy cartoon after watching this the other day.

Like everything else relating to Bubsy, it was horrible. They used the same 4 or 5 jokes over and over again to fill 25 minutes. If I didn't know better, I'd almost say it was written by Seth McFarlane

[Anonymous No.626413]

>>626371
It was terrible when they had humans transform into the toads.

[Anonymous No.626415]

>>626404
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG??!!!

[Anonymous No.626465]

I remember there was a Pac-Man show back then that had a Christmas special playing on Boomerang. I found it weird that everything on that show became canon in Pac-World 2, or at least the villain from the show was in the game.

Same thing happened to Donkey Kong 64 where they had the Crystal Coconuts where it was in the animated series. Never seen a game basing off a show based on the game doing something like that other than those two examples.

[Anonymous No.626476]

>>626415
>mfw that was the fucking TITLE OF THE EPISODE[\spoiler]

[Anonymous No.626523]

>>626465
If you remember anything about the Worlds of Power books, the one for Blaster Master is made partially cannon by Blaster Master: Blasting Again on the Playstation.

[Anonymous No.626531]

>>626465
>Looking up information about the Pac-Man show
>It played side with a show about the Rubix Cube
>Show about the Rubix Cube

[Anonymous No.626543]

>>626523
Oh yeah those things. I remembered the one about Bionic Commando and Spencer said his arm was his love.

And then the 2009 game came out.

[Anonymous No.626549]

>>626415
The Bubsy pilot made me intensely dislike those words... every time someone writes that phrase, I can't help reading it in Bubsy's voice. I just want to get his annoying voice out of my head.

[Anonymous No.626569]

>>626465

I love Christmas Comes to Pac-Land. It's so dumb, but I can't help but love it for its dumbness.

[Anonymous No.626610]

>>626569
I love it too,

[Anonymous No.626628]

The Mario cartoons are why I still don't really like Mario's voice in the 64 an on games.
I've made my peace with it, but I don't like it.

"It'sa me, Mario!!"
No, No, it's not
Mario is not a castrato
Mario is a plumber from brooklyn New York
He sounds like a fat middle-aged New-Yorker, Not Mickey Mouse

[Anonymous No.626707]

>>625925
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJogTTLN3PI

[Anonymous No.626724]

>>626628
Go to bed, Dobson.

[Anonymous No.626737]

>>626531
What's that? A link to Rubik's opening? COMIN' UP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk

[Anonymous No.626791]

>>626724
He's not exactly the only person who likes the old portrayals of Mario, you know.

[Anonymous No.626798]

>tfw you wait patiently for Zelda episode of Super Mario Bros. Super Show
>the day is come
>fucking mario

[Anonymous No.626830]

>>626465
That cartoon was loosely based on the designs from Pac-Land. Pac-Man 2 SNES is also more or less the cartoon in video game form. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKoOQtCJyu4

[Anonymous No.626841]

>>626404
>>626549
Oh my god, I started watching it, and couldn't get past 10 minutes.
It's just pure slapstick. And not the good kind. It's slapshit. It's like mixing Sponge Bob and Tom & Jerry and multiplying by 1000. It's not fun anymore. It's horrible. It's loud and obnoxious.
And when It's not that it's just lame and unispired.
Bubsy confirmed for least likeable main character ever created.

[Anonymous No.626845]

>>626569
Only time I have seen someone animate what happens to Pac-Man when he gets bit by those ghosts, since they can't animate a video game death, they just had him act like he was raped or had an orgasm that left him without strength

[Anonymous No.626901]

>>626830
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKoOQtCJyu4

Genesis version has less chaotic and less scratchy music that sounds clearer, plus pac=man's voice is more adorable.

[Anonymous No.626909]

>>626901
Genesis' music really is way better. All of the instrument samples in the SNES version sound like they're coming from 10 feet down a metal pipe.

[Anonymous No.626985]

In my humble non Dobson-inspired opinion, I think Captain Lou was Mario's best voice.

[Anonymous No.627110]

>>626798
I never even knew there was a Zelda part until years later. I remember mario playing on the Family Channel, but for some reason they never played the Zelda cartoon.

>>626985
This. The voices from Super show were the best for both Mario and Luigi. and mouser.

[Anonymous No.627243]

>>626901
Yet another instance of the Genesis port being superior to the SNES version.

They really weren't kidding when they said "Genesis does" and "You can't do this on Nintendo".

[Anonymous No.627270]

Well, since we can talk about shows based on Retro games, maybe we can talk about a show in a retro PC

AKA Reboot was awesome

[Anonymous No.627280]

>Also why was Luigi the straight man and Mario the stooge in the live-action segments when their roles were the opposite in the cartoon segments?
I don't remember where I heard it, but I like this explanation: Luigi has got it together in the real world but as soon as the shit hits the fan in crazyland he just can't handle it, whereas Mario was a goofy fuckup in the real world but came into his own as a hero in crazyland.

[Anonymous No.627295]

>>627270
The PS1 game based on ReBoot was awful

[Anonymous No.627329]

>>626628
What's interesting is that even Martinet's original demo voices of Mario didn't have him that high pitched. He was a middle ground between the Mario 64 voice and some grizzly dude.

They even told him "do a voice like an Italian plumber from Brooklyn", so people like >>626724 are just morons anyway.

[Anonymous No.627342]

>>626985
You're not the only one. Besides, Captain Lou is the original. Only a pro wrestler could provide that kind of charisma and charm yet showing such goofyness at the same time.

[Anonymous No.627370]

>>627342
May he rest in pizza.

[Anonymous No.627423]

>>626707

WMAC Masters? Holy fucking shit, you just solved a question I've been trying to figure out for over a decade. Thanks so much. Now my friends will have to believe me this show exists

[Anonymous No.627426]

STRANGE, ISN'T IT

[Anonymous No.627432]

>>627423
Its good stuff. Very Mortal Kombat the movie type of action, in fact The Machine was in MK.

[Anonymous No.627434]

>>626207

[Anonymous No.627449]

>>627426
I have no idea why that line manages to crack me up every time

[Anonymous No.627467]

>>626841
But was it worse than Johnny Test?

[Anonymous No.627475]

>>627467
psst, your age is showing

[Anonymous No.627489]

I can't critically analyze the Super Mario Brothers Super Show.

The Nostalgia Goggles are too damn thick. It'd be like pointing out the flaws in the Muppet Show, they're there, it's just too hard to address them.

[Anonymous No.627498]

>>627432

Yeah I was just reading up about the show on Wiki. Looks like almost all the actors were real stuntpeople who worked in an assload of movies collectively. Talk about amazing.

The health bars were still the best part, they really helped sell the idea of "it's like a videogame for a TV show"

[Anonymous No.627759]

>>626830
>>626901
>>626909

Sorry, didn't put the right link i guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEYxgqnK27c

[Anonymous No.627782]

>>627759
By the way, the Genesis port was US exclusive, the genesis had more multi-plattaform ports in the US than in japan.

[Anonymous No.627803]

>>627475
no, my /co/ck is showing.

[Anonymous No.627954]

>>627329
He was gonna do a gravelly, almost Wario like voice with a brooklyn accent but changed his mind because he thought it would be to rough for a children's character.

Honestly, seeing him do the voice in person made me appreciate it a lot more. He's just so enthusiastic. I think the other voice might've worked for cartoons, but for the games I want a Mario who sounds ready to take on the world, not a middle aged brooklynite who sounds ready to take a nap.