Top 10 Most Embarassing Video Game Cartoons of All Time Posted by Joseph DeLia & Sinan Kubba, 267 days ago
#2: The Legend of Zelda
Joe: I’m going to say this right away, and everyone will hate me for it: I am not a huge fan of the last decade of the Zelda series. I loved the 2D stuff but the N64 completely broke it for me. It took me four separate attempts to make it through Ocarina of Time.
Sinan: Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, Joe!
Joe: Ha-ha, see, that’s why The Legend of Zelda is the single greatest video game cartoon.
Sinan: Oh come on, now you’re spouting crazy left, right, and center.
Joe: Zelda was cool because every element of it was taken directly from the game, namely the enemies, music, and sound effects. It was a fantastic translation that was brutalized as soon as a line of dialogue was uttered.
Sinan: So, I get where you’re coming from by bringing up recent Zelda games -- because they’ve invalidated the look of the Zelda cartoon -- but the series invalidated itself by how it portrayed Link. God, I hated him... he was such a douche. The guy was perving all over Zelda in the very first episode, and then they gave him the worst catchphrase ever.
Joe: They took gaming’s purest character and hit him on the head with the puberty stick.
#1: The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Sinan: When I think of the Super Mario cartoons, my first thought goes to Super Mario Bros 3 ‘cos it was actually pretty good – relatively speaking. It kept true to the game and had lots of fan service. I could probably say the same for Super Mario World as well, but the Super Mario Bros. Super Show....
Joe: While I love the opening credits — mainly because Captain Lou and Slim are blue-screened so poorly into the cartoon — my favourite aspect of the series is the ending credits. “Do The Mario” was possibly the best and worst thing ever filmed. The song is my frickin’ ringtone! The part that makes me fall down laughing every time is at the end where he ducks to get into position, the camera view switches, and then he ducks again.
Sinan: The live action stuff is just surreal, so badly acted, and so unrelated to what Mario’s about. Somehow they were able to get special guests to come on it -- it’s actually a little disturbing that someone thought it was a good idea at the time.
Joe: Agreed, and the guests they got on.... Super Mario Bros. and Ghostbusters are two of my favorite things ever, but when Ernie Hudson -- a Ghostbuster -- showed up on Super Mario Bros,it left me with nightmares unrelated to any paranormal activity.
Sinan: I just wish the guys making the live action movie had watched this abomination. They could have prevented so much hurt.
Have any memories from video game cartoons that didn’t make the list? Leave them in the comments below!
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!!