Introduction to Video Game Cartoon Reviews

Alright ladies and gentlemen before we get into

pixels in the animation Just want to let everyone

know I am pulling a WWE move and we are releasing

episode zero here one year before the podcast

starts so June 21st 2013 as I say in the show

upcoming is When the actual podcast will start.

I don't know I plan ahead and I like to release

episode zeros early so there you go now on with

the show hey paisanos it's the super mario brothers

super show left the Mushroom Kingdom, and then

his Doomship attacked. King Koopa was back with

the greatest danger ever known, his Koopa Kits.

Using their new superpowers, the Super Mario

Brothers rescued Princess Toadstool and beat

back the evil Koopa family. Super Mario Super

Mario World Super Mario World Hello and welcome

to episode 0 of Pixels in the Animation. I am

one of your hosts, DODO and Mike, and joining

me for the first, well not the first time, but

it's the first time that he essentially has his

own show on the Geekcast Radio Network is...

TV's Mr. Neil. That's right. TV's Mr. Neil is

now... You know, joined up with GCRN as far as

doing this show. And what this show is is the

next review series podcast for the Geekcast Radio

Network. We're going to be reviewing every episode

of tons of video game based cartoons. What have

I gotten myself into? essentially I came up with

the idea for this show because it actually it

all goes back to tooncast episode tooncast classic

episode 1 when we did an all -around mashup discussion

of all of the Nintendo cartoons Super Mario Brothers

Super Show Zelda Captain and Super Mario 3 Super

Mario World all that stuff and since then, oh

god, that was three years ago now. Three years

later, I was looking at a person's web show online,

Pixel Dan. I usually watch his Masters of the

Universe classics toy reviews, seeing as how

he's pretty much the only one that does them.

But he has a show called From Pixels to Plastic,

where he essentially reviews or takes a look

at any you know Mario based merchandise or Mega

Man based merchandise or any kind of video game

toy essentially you know action figure whatever

and I looked at the title from pixels to plastic

and I'm thinking okay obviously I'm not gonna

steal the guy's title but I need to figure out

something that is unique something that is you

know gonna grab a listener's attention and There's

pixels in the animation. Sadly, the acronym for

it is PETA, which we have nothing to do. Oh,

no. Well, I promised to eat a burger on each

episode. Oh, that's funny. That is so funny.

So yeah, I brought this idea up to Neil because

I know Neil loves classic games. i know he dreads

horrible horrible animation it is what my skating

humorous commentary it's better than all what

i love is but all that animation sucks and all

there's too much red in that spider -man it's

bleeding through a bubble anyways Let's not go

there. So in this introduction, episode zero,

what we're gonna go through is we're gonna explain

to you, fun people, the listeners, of what the

podcast won't be, what it will be, and then how

you can send in your feedback, and essentially

what we're gonna be covering. I managed to find

nine video game cartoons. That will span us from

episode 1 to episode 99 Episode 0 obviously here

is the introduction of an episode 100 will be

the grand finale of the podcast Yes, I am a big

thinker. Oh Boy So what the podcast won't be

we will not be covering Every single video game

cartoon that was ever made There's I think I

would hang myself we did the Street Fighter cartoon

That's so funny Neil was here Was forced to watch

Darkstalkers Was forced to watch Mortal Kombat

defend realm I don't know how Clancy Brown attached

himself to that project. Go from playing a really

shitty Raiden to one of the best Luthor voices

ever. He tries to keep it under wraps. Yes, exactly.

So yeah, so that's what the podcast won't be.

What it will be is it will be a in -depth analytical

look. at every single episode of nine different

video game cartoons. The whole point of us reviewing

stuff here at Geekcast Review Network is that

even though we love, well, some of us might love

the stuff as far as nostalgia, as far as growing

up with it, as far as liking what we saw as kids,

this is going to be a look at, in my case, because

I have no idea how old you are, I'm 32 years

old. So this is going to be from a 32 -year -old's

perspective. and just see if any of these shows

stack up. Do you have any thoughts on what the

show will, what the podcast will be? Well, we

keep saying nine cartoons, but three of them

are Mario. Yeah, but it's still separate. I know.

And oh my God. See, my sister's youngest child

recently discovered the Super Mario Super Show.

And she can't stand it. She's like, how many

episodes of this are there? I'm like, oh, 52.

And then I was like, oh, wait, there's more.

There's a Super Mario 3 cartoon and Super Mario

World. Well, I think that they get better with

me. Well, OK, well, from Super Show to Super

Mario 3, for me, it got a little bit better.

I suppose it did. Because Super Mario 3 is easily

one of the best, if not the best, Super Nintendo,

or not, Nintendo classic cartridges ever. I love

that game. That game is so awesome. That is a

fantastic game. Yes. So, the nine cartoons that

we will be covering, as Neil said earlier, in

this order, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, The

Legend of Zelda, God, kill me now. Megahe! Captain

and the Game Master. God, kill me now. The Adventures

of Super Mario Bros. 3. The New Super Mario World.

Mega Man. The 1995 Mega Man series. Donkey Kong

Country, which... I don't even know if there

are torrents of that, because a lot of people

didn't even... I mentioned to one of my buddies

that loves classic cartoons. He's like, they

never made a Donkey Kong Country cartoon. I said,

dude, watch. I said, dude, watch. I went to YouTube.

The only thing I could find was the shittiest

quality. It was like the worst quality ever.

Like, even against YouTube standards, it was

the worst fucking quality ever of the Donkey

Kong Country intro. And I was like, here, look.

He's like, Oh my God, no, they didn't. It was

probably like a low bit rip off of someone's

extended play VHS. Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, Sonic

the Hedgehog sat AM whatever. I just call it

Sonic the Hedgehog. I don't do all that Canadian

sat AM bullshit. Cause that's where I always

hear sat AM from is from a lot of my Canadian

friends. And it's like, it's sonic the hedgehog

that's what it is who gives a shit if it air

on saturday mornings damage we also hear them

saying mario and mario mary daisy it and the

final one uh... which is the better of the two

sonics in my opinion is uh... adventures of something

that's hard uh... sold nine nine cartoons makes

up one podcast I guess you could kind of consider

it's kind of an insult to Donkey Kong but you

could kind of consider Donkey Kong Country to

be our Teen Titans because even though Teen Titans

actually has DVD releases I'm betting it's gonna

be damn hard for us to track down decent Donkey

Kong quality episodes because I don't think that

thing ever got released on DVD and I If I remember

correctly, that cartoon was a pile. Yeah. Oh,

yes. Yes, it was. So, yeah, I mean, it's going

to be a fun ride. It's going to be very interesting.

Neil and I are probably going to do a pre -recorded

schedule where we record maybe two or three episodes

of the podcast per night or per week. or however

we decide to do it but it will be a pre -recorded

show so say we release episode one and you send

in feedback the feedback might not get read on

air until episode four or five just depending

because that's that's just the way that i like

doing things at this point in time because i

like actually being ahead instead of having to

worry about oh i have to record this show this

show this show in the show this week you know

So so yeah as far as the listener feedback you

can Follow at geek cast radio on Twitter. You

can go over to our Facebook fan page Facebook

.com slash geek cast radio network That's how

you can interact with us and all that stuff and

I'll give more about that later Let's just give

some overall General memories or thoughts about

some of these cartoons Never really outside of

the Nicole Eggert and the sergeant slaughter

clips I hardly ever cared for the live -action

parts of SMB Super Show No, that was that was

clearly the part of the show where you're supposed

to get up and make some microwave pizza rolls

Yeah The cartoon itself When I went back and

I not not recently but I went back a few months

ago and I caught some of the episodes on Netflix

It's more Super Mario 2 the American version

Than anything else. Yeah, it is because Super

Mario 2 had just come out at that point. Yeah,

and They that was the one they wanted to push

but the villain from that game is nowhere in

this cartoon So, you will never see Wart in this

cartoon. It's always Bowser. Well, and I think

the reason why it's Bowser in the cartoon is

because what kid is gonna know who Wart is? Yeah,

and he kind of looked like Bowser anyway, a little

bit. So they kind of made an amalgam of the two.

I'm hoping one of the listeners will do this

once we start this part of the podcast But I'm

betting we're going to need an excuse me princess

count. Oh God, oh my god That just As much as

I could care less for kitty link nowadays in

some of the games where he looks super anime

ish and looks like a little kid The Excuse Me

Princess line got so old so fast. That's one

thing I like about these old cartoons is they

had such a weird interpretation of all these

shows. They had NES graphics to work with and

whatever off -the -boat translation they came

up with. They had to make stuff up on their own.

And that's why, you know, Link was... Link in

this cartoon is nothing like Link that you think

of today. No, not at all. He's quite gabby and

he's after some sweet sweet Zelda. And you can

blame him because this is one of my favorite

Zeldas in terms of character design. Yeah. I

mean, hell, doppelganger, he almost got some.

Oh, yeah, the doppelganger is even better. thigh

-high boots? Was like like Monday. I was really

Monday. I was ready for another episode as I'm

like where's Zelda what the hell? What's going

on? And then I you know I finally realized you

know TV listings and and everything else is that

oh crap you know oh Boy it just I don't know

What I do like about the Zelda cartoon And what

I like about all these cartoons is how the muse

well for part of we can't count Adventures of

Super Mario Bros. 3 as far as music because outside

of the classic effects the music for that at

least for DVD was changed and all that crap,

but What I love about all of these cartoons is

that for me, they bring the games to life, regardless

of how many cliched things are in them, how many,

you know, oh my god, we want to rip our hair

out. The sound effects and all that stuff just

brought the games to life for me. Like, you watch

the Zelda cartoon. You hear the sword effect

or the the enemy dying effect or or whatever

you? Immediately think of the games well those

sound effects were taken right off of the games

right They had that they had an NES plug right

into the mixer When it comes to captain in the

game master outside of the horrible incarnations

of megaman and kid echarus um... and look at

me i'm simon belmont i'm i'm such a challenged

i like simon belmont as a fop because of what?

as a fop he's kind of prissy and vain it's hilarious

The one thing I loved about Captain N is the

same thing as I just said I love about all these

cartoons is Captain N actually took a teenager

into the game like we always say that we want

to be in some of these video games that we love.

Like I know you would love to be a little animal

that was rescued by Knuckles. Oh yeah because

that's what I'm dreaming of. Well, but you know

what I mean is you know it's like we would always

love to be in these games And I think Captain

and did that with bringing in a teen from the

real world digitizing him essentially pixelating

him And you have all these different Nintendo

references. I love the fact that they reference

Tetris twice The mirror world episode was good

although the The Tetris references in this show

is not nearly as funny as the fake movie poster

that you can find online of the Tetris movie,

which is just blocks raining down from the sky

and people running in terror. Have you seen that

college humor video, Tetris God? No. You haven't?

No, I haven't. I need to. I'll have to get that

for you later. Oh my God. You'll have to remind

me. It's amazingly hilarious. What was the other

one? Oh, the Potion of Power. I love that episode

in that series because we really got no conclusion.

These shows were in the middle of cartoons in

the 80s going from being singular storylines

with very little continuity to stuff that came

later in the 90s and 2000s that is nothing but

continuity. So these... a lot of these cartoons

at least for the nintendo ones are you know kinda

like in the middle of the zelda cartoon we never

really got any continuity with it we never really

got it like a definitive ending we know ganon's

gonna get out eventually although they did kinda

give us an ending in captain at they kinda did

yeah and and and but but that's what i liked

about it was because it was like oh hey this

is kinda cool uh... Now moving on to Adventures

of Super Mario Brothers 3. Well, one last thing

is, what's neat about Captain N is that it's

this weird time capsule of what video games were

in 1990. And it's so weird to see an episode

based on Final Fantasy that was made before the

game really took off. It's just this weird throwaway

episode that would have gotten more attention

had they knew what they had. Right, yeah. Yeah,

they just didn't know what they had did they

oh boy But yeah, no, I mean it was just it was

just amazing and of course they're Sadly, there

are a lot of episodes of Captain N that suck.

I know that but just season 3 That's one thing

I never understood. Like, I love Shout Factory,

because Shout Factory did release all of the

Nintendo cartoon stuff on DVD. And I never really

asked Brian Ward about this, but like, Captain

and the Game Master, the DVD set, says the complete

series. And then later you get Captain N and

the Near Super Mario World. And I guess maybe

it was because that... Guess season three and

the Super Mario World show was aired back -to

-back. So maybe that's why they had to do it

that way, but Maybe yeah, I don't know Season

three of Captain and I'm gonna have to go back

and watch that eventually obviously for this

podcast But I mean we complain on animation fish

not as well shows take a dive in animation quality

You will notice immediately that something is

wrong. Yeah. But Adventures of Mario 3. It's

probably my favorite out of all the Nintendo

ones. It was interesting. It certainly had more

to deal with because you had the different worlds

in the game. So you weren't having to just make

stuff up like you didn't in the Super Show yet.

You had a desert world and a giant world and

all these different wacky worlds to deal with.

And the one episode that just sticks out of my

mind every time this show is brought up is the

Milly Vanilli episode. Oh my god. because they

had to change well they like when it aired it

was it was fine it was cool it was what was going

on at the time in 1991 and then as the DVD release

came out they had to change all the music to

the mega move because they couldn't get the rights

or they didn't want to you know spend the money

to buy the rights to get a million vanilla song

on the DVD set well that episode only aired properly

once because right after it released the scandal

broke the scandal broke about them yeah and and

the rerun of that was already screwed up yeah

um and this this show and news of mario world

have nearly a direct continuity link to each

other because obviously super mario world was

the next game After Mario 3 because that's when

they transitioned to Super Nintendo. I don't

remember because I haven't seen those episodes

in a while I don't remember. Did they really

ever say? Well, we left the Mushroom Kingdom

to find a new world I forget how I don't think

so. I I don't remember there being much continuity

at all. Yeah Super Mario world is alright I prefer

Yoshi in the games versus Yoshi in the cartoon

because Yoshi in the cartoon is just downright

annoying as hell. In the game he had a suction

sound to his voice but in the cartoon he has

kind of the baby voice. Yeah. And then the video

games adopted the baby voice later on. As Bob

Mackie pointed out. Oh god. Alright now on to

some really really awesome stuff. This is a car

that isn't the next one is a cartoon that really

For me made the games come to life. We've already

done a Tooncast beyond about it, which you were

on but the 95 Mega Man series This was awesome

Yeah, I don't know what else much else I could

say about it, but basically What I had said on

the other show was that it was pretty decently

animated. The only thing that kind of disappointed

me was that the whole concept of Mega Man was

like a rock, paper, scissors thing and they never

did that in the cartoon. And it was one of those

things, it was one of the rare times that converting

something like that to the cartoon would have

worked. Even when you say a rock -paper -scissors

you mean as far as the powers? Yeah, how each

power has each each boss has like a weakness

to a different power In fact, there's a hint

in in just the the first game with the the name

rock, you know rock man And there's a guy called

cut man. He's the scissors and you're the rock

I wonder if he's first you go beat him and then

yeah, and then from there you kind of figure

out who beats who? Yeah You know a lot of people

complain that oh This series is just Mega Man

touching their arm or touching their forehead

to get their powers Well, you know what I pointed

out in the other podcast was that in a cartoon

base? That's what it had to be Yeah, otherwise

you couldn't have Mega Man killing The bosses

you wouldn't have another episode like yeah,

you could keep introducing bosses as the episodes

go along But if you killed cutsman and gutsman

You wouldn't have... It would be the most homicidal

show ever. Yeah, exactly. Because I'm pretty

sure they were up to Mega Man 6 or 7 at that

point. So there was quite a roster already. Yeah,

I think they were up to 6. But yeah, I love Mega

Man and that theme song... Everybody has that

theme song stuck in their head at one point or

another. They just do if you don't there's something

wrong with you Donkey Kong Country, I barely

remember this show. I don't even know why they

adapted it from the game. I don't know it I It's

from the mid 90s, which was not a good time for

CG animation on TV You know, I mean a lot of

people love reboot Reboot was written pretty

well, but it the animation especially in the

early episodes are kind of Not so good and in

this show. I don't think it was much better But

it's not I don't think it's a mainframe Show,

I think it's actually Nelvana Mmm, which is weird.

I never would have thought Nelvana did CGI animation

Well somebody had to recreate those awesome backgrounds

from the game The plastic the plastic leaves

everywhere the plastic leaves and the and the

gray skies as the snow blows in and Donkey Kong

Country best Super Nintendo game ever not yeah

That game if you I don't I don't mean to digress

too much here, but that game had like a VHS promotional

thing come out that was sent to every subscriber

of Nintendo power and The people in this video

were like we had a special Supercomputer output

it specially to the Super Nintendo to make these

awesome graphics and I'm like, okay, it's 1995

I don't know the word rasterized, but I know

what it means and it's not that special Yoshi's

Island was much better than this game. Oh wow

And that's saying something cuz a lot of those

A lot of those later sequel games to the classic

Mario, like, okay, Super Mario Bros. 3 was kind

of it for the NES generation. Super Mario World

was amazing in an update to the Mario franchise.

But once you got to Yoshi's Island, I was like,

this is not Super Mario World 2. I don't care

what anyone says. This is not the sequel to that

game. It can't be. Well, it really wasn't supposed

to be. That was an American invention, was putting

that title on it. Okay. And the final two are

from a Sega franchise. Sonic the Hedgehog, which

is the darker series, and Adventures of Sonic

the Hedgehog, which is the comedic series. I've

not really seen either one of these. some episodes.

And I'm like, mmm. They're both on Netflix, so

you can watch at your leisure or not. Watch at

my horror. Yeah, yeah, yeah, watch at your horror.

I barely, like I remember watching Sonic the

Hedgehog as a kid, but I think I only remember

it for the fact that it's fucking Urkel as the

voice. Not that there's anything wrong with Julia

white, but I was like, hey, wait a second. It's

Urkel. What the hell? That's like everybody's

favorite trivia question outside of Captain the

whale ban. I was Mario. Yeah Yeah, um, I liked

adventures a lot better because it was comedic

You know you had oh god, I'm forgetting the two

names of the other robots The bird and the drill

thing god, I know I know somebody's screaming

at their iPod right now, but It's kind of like

snooper and blabber yeah types of Robotnik slash

Eggman slash milkman, whatever he's called this

this time around It's his henchmen and I liked

that they are Comedic and everything else and

and that cartoon adventures is is almost like

a Precursor to Beast Wars a little bit because

you have both Gary Chalk and I Think Scott McNeil

or so. I don't want any other Beast Wars voice

actors is in it. Oh That was the one of the greatest

things about Some trivia bits here some people

might not know I know I'm jumping ahead, but

I'm jumping back Super Mario Bros. 3, the cartoon.

It was Tara Strong as Hip and Hop. Oh yeah, that's

right. And then in Captain N it was Gary Chalk

as King Hippo. So yeah. Alright, I think we're

gonna take a quick break. You're gonna hear some

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we are back here on pixels in the animation and

for those of you wondering This is this will

actually air this episode episode zero will air

June 21st 2012 the actual podcast is I'm pulling

in WWE moment here ladies and gentlemen the actual

podcast will not start until June 21st 2013 Well

look at the bright side you'll have seen GI Joe

to by that The reason for this is is because

pixels in the animation is gonna be one of our

featured new podcasts in 2013 and I wanted to

you know to give Neil and myself enough time

to Track all this stuff down as I said earlier

I think the hardest one to track down at this

point the only one that we won't be able to track

down Unless you know by mysterious hand of God

is Donkey Kong Country We are still going to

review that series somehow Somehow somehow It's

magic But but yeah, it's it's gonna be an entire

year before the show starts Just to give Neil

and I some time and you know we can figure other

stuff out and whatever else the format Is honestly

thanks to optimus solo He came up with a new

format for us on Masked Mayhem, our mask review

podcast, where we discuss, we say the plot, discuss

it a little bit, we talk about what we like and

what we didn't like. So that's how the layout

of the show is gonna go. Do you have any parting

words before I go through the outro? Not really,

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it comes to Super Mario Brothers Super Show,

we were only going to talk about the cartoon

part of it. And then we said, screw it. We might

as well talk about the live action stuff as well.

However, in a what is it like 22 minutes? Are

they 20 like I know the cartoons are 11 minutes.

So is the other 11 minutes the live -action stuff?

Do we I thought the cartoons were a little longer

because it felt like the live -action segments

were really short I don't know. I'm not sure

but in any case The reviews for these episodes

for the super over the super show episodes will

be fairly short Like I said, it'll be short to

the point what we like what we didn't like so

Having said that I'm going to read the rest of

the outro We hope you enjoyed this episode of

pixels in the animation wish you'll join us in

One year's time as we start with the following

episodes of Super Mario Brothers Super Show The

bird the bird King Mario of Cramalot Butch Mario

of and Luigi kid Mario's magic carpet rolling

down the river and the great gladiator gig Yes,

that's right six episodes in one podcast. I promise

it will not go over an hour and twenty minutes.

I swear to God it won't, because if it does,

I'm going to kill myself. For now, I am TFG1Mike

with... With TVs, Mr. Neil. Thank you for listening.

Until next year, stay pixelated. Bye!