The History of Gaming Cartoons

1up.com has a feature up delving into the History of Video Game Cartoons, from the quirky Q-Bert to the much maligned Captain N. From the article: "Memories, however, can be problematic. Even when they're good, they can still suck pretty bad. Take, for example, your first ride on a two-wheeler bike. You experienced a short thrill of speed and independence, and then took a nasty spill, tore the seat of your pants to reveal your underwear to your childhood crush, and then likely started crying like a little girl." So true, so true.

Saturday "Starcade" bah.

[GTarrant]

Perhaps it shows my age, but if I recall, it was the Saturday Supercade. I even have the theme music somewhere. (Yes it's supercade time, let's have some supercade fun fun fun!)

Starcade was a completely different show, which if I recall was more a game-show type.

T.

Re:What was the Nick show?

[bmorton]

That was Nick Arcade, and if you look hard enough, you'll find that they still air the reruns.

-B

They forgot...

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember Video Power, the proto-G4 video games show? In their first season they had a cartoon called "Power Team", which was a Captain N knockoff starring Acclaim characters. A cop from NARC, the dude from Wizards & Warriors, Kwirk (a tomato), a basketball player from Arch-Rivals, and Bigfoot (yes, the truck) would team up to fight Mr. Big, also from NARC.

It was fucked up.

They also forgot about Dragon Warrior, the briefly translated RPG cartoon that, because of Akira Toriyama, looked a lot like Dragon Ball. I remember seeing it once or twice, and I remember it being pretty freaking cool.

Missing series

[Anonymous Coward]

Capcom: MegaMan NT Warrior: Axess, Street Fighter II/II V/Alpha/Alpha 2 (the Japanese versions, not the cheapo DIC hack), Power Stone, Vampire Hunter/Darkstalkers (Geneon version), Viewtiful Joe
Sega: Sakura Wars, Sakura Wars 2, Panzer Dragoon
Square Enix: Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals, Final Fantasy: Advent Children, Final
Sony: Parapper the Rapper, PoPoLoCrois, Wild Arms
Fantasy: Unlimited, Dragon Quest/Warrior, Chrono Trigger
Namco: Tekken: The Motion Picture, Xenosaga: The Animation
Others: Pia Carrot 1/2/2 DX, Psychic Force, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown, Power Dolls