Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Captain N, the Game Master

He-man and the Masters of the Universe

The Legend of Zelda

The Super Mario Brothers Super Show

Transformers

Hulk Hogan’s Rockin’ Wrestling

Earthworm Jim

Inspector Gadget

Beatlejuice

Why don’t they make cartoons like this anymore?  Maybe they hold a special spot with me for nostalgia reasons alone.  I would dare to say though that this list would stand up to any list of new cartoons out there, any day of the week… even Saturday morning!

Here is a pretty good summary of the plot of the show:

The premise of the show concerns average California teen and Nintendo fan Kevin Keene and his faithful dog Lucky, who are both pulled into their game system to Videoland, an animated world populated by heroes and villains from various Nintendo games. There, Kevin must assist the N Team–a group formed by Princess Lana, Icarus (from “Kid Icarus”), Simon Belmont (from “Castlevania”) and Mega Man (from the game of the same name)–in defeating Mother Brain (from “Metroid”) and her henchmen from conquering Videoland.

Still doesn’t sound familiar?  Here’s the intro (the music still gets stuck in my head to this day) to the show:

If you can put aside all the storylines that don’t exactly match up with video game history, it is still a fun show to look back on.  I also stick by the same thing that I thought way back in 1989 – Mother Brain sounds like a drag queen.