Top 10 Most Embarassing Video Game Cartoons of All Time Posted by Joseph DeLia & Sinan Kubba, 267 days ago
#4: Captain N: The Game Master
Joe: OK, so Captain N: The Game Master was the embodiment of every 80s kid’s fantasy: getting sucked into your Nintendo.
Sinan: Hell yeah!
Joe: But -- like all fantasies -- it was never quite as cool as you’d envision it to be. So, where to begin? The hard-edge, vampire killing Simon Belmont becoming horny comic relief? Kid Icarus becoming America’s first “emo” kid? Mega Man becoming a chain-smoking midget with television’s most unbearable voice? The villains? A jive-talking Mother Brain, a walking Eggplant and -- for reasons unknown -- an undead King Hippo? And as if the entire show wasn’t enough of a Nintendo advertisement, Season 2 brought a walking, talking Game Boy as a new character.
Sinan: The funny thing being that the more you talk about how awful and off the mark it was, the more it makes me want to watch every single episode.
Joe: Same. We should move on.
#3: The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Joe: The only prominent memory I have of the Sonic cartoon is summed up by the phrase “chili dogs.” What the hell were they thinking?
Sinan: You can find so much YouTube poop about Sonic’s chili dogs, and rightly so. Wow, that’s a sentence I never thought I’d say.
Joe: While the cartoons are bad, I’d argue that the werehog and Biggs the Cat from recent Sonic games are far more offensive than Urkel and chili dogs.
Sinan: I’m playing Sonic Unleashed and it totally validates your statement, but still... Urkel? Getting Urkel to play the coolest video game character of that generation? Really?
Joe: Considering that Sonic was built as this badass game character that didn’t play by the rules and was surging with ‘tude, picking TV’s most beloved nerd to represent him vocally made no sense.
Sinan: And yet no game character has had more cartoons made about him than Sonic. I don’t understand that franchise at all.
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!!