Kidnapping was, of course, the method of choice for magical kingdoms to solve all their problems in the 80’s (See also, Little Nemo: Dream Master and Monster Party). Originally lifted from a comic by Randy Studdard, an employee of Nintendo Power who Nintendo didn’t bother to, y’know, credit for his creation, Captain N is the story of Kevin Keene, who is abducted from his bedroom and dragged into the land of Video Games, Video Land. Just a warning: This show is very late-80’s. I’ve already gone over the diversions taken by the Legend of Zelda animated series, but the liberties it took are tame compared to the ones in Captain N: The Game Master. That left a lot of license for creators of cartoons based on video games. Video games were for kids in the 80’s, and kids are stupid, so they won’t realize that their IronSword: Wizards and Warriors II doesn’t actually star shirtless Fabio. ![]() Mega Man’s North American box seemed to imply that the title character was a helmeted, middle-aged man in the midst of being liquefied from the inside out. ![]() Back in the 8-bit era of video games, a lot of imagination was required to fill the gaps between a game’s box art, and the low-detail, pixelated mess that was on screen.
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