Top 10 Most Embarassing Video Game Cartoons of All Time Posted by Joseph DeLia & Sinan Kubba, 267 days ago
#6: Donkey Kong Country
Joe: I have to say that I now hope to never see Donkey Kong used in anything ever again.
Sinan: I cannot believe this was made. I understand most of these cartoons, but why did this one get the green light? Who honestly looked at its visuals, its production values, its voice cast, and thought, “This will do well, let’s broadcast this shit!”
Joe: I simply can’t get past the voice acting; whoever decided that Donkey Kong should sound like a sass-talkin’ Spaniard should be whipped with a cane.
Sinan: Exactly. Also, anthropomorphic monkey babes? Not cool…don’t ever do that.
Joe: That sums it up perfectly.
#5: Pokémon
Sinan: When we were preparing this list, we got a backlash from our colleagues for this choice.
Joe: Understandable, the series and the games were bigger than Jesus. I was never able to get into the show because every clip I saw from it was batshit crazy.
Sinan: Haha, well that’s the thing with Pokémon. It’s the only cartoon on this list designed with selling the games in mind, so it was very authentic. My problem with the cartoons was very specific: the visual design was a butchery of traditional animé to make it more appealing to the Western audience. That feels like a pretentious thing to say, but I think -- regardless of how it wasn’t a true animé -- it looked ugly.
Joe: Of course, that’s probably why I never bothered to watch the show. It looked like it was animated in Mario Paint.
Sinan: Maybe it was. My other major problem with this series was its characters. Instead of bringing over what’s great about Japanese animation – the look– the makers went with the other mainstay of anime: dodgy characters. We’ve got a 12-year-old girl who wears barely anything and a 14-year-old guy who is as horny as hell going after all those babe clones in every single episode. This is a damn kids show!
Joe: The above all sounds fantastic to me. The fact that it’s still running today shows just how far you can get with a catchy theme song and a lot of marketing money.
Sinan: You know what? I bought the latest Pokémon game and loved it, so more fool me.
Joe: Then you, sir, are part of the problem. You should probably seek professional help. I can’t excuuuuuuuuuuse such behavior.
yeah so thanks for ruining my youth... i used to think this **** was awesome. and for the record. i watched pokemon into my 20s..... eh... mid to late 20s maybe... Brock is the freakin man!!
Is it just me, or does the phrase "Do The Mario" have creepy connotations when said by someone named Mario? As for anyone thinking it was "a good idea," I don’t know that they were that deluded. They just thought it "good enough" to fill the dead air between daytime soap operas and early evening game shows. (Wait, did I just admit to knowing when it came on?)
Another bad videogame-based cartoon? Q-Bert. I don’t even remember what their premise was any more, just that it was awful, awful, awful.
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yeah so thanks for ruining my youth... i used to think this **** was awesome. and for the record. i watched pokemon into my 20s..... eh... mid to late 20s maybe... Brock is the freakin man!!