visceralgristle
06-01-2005, 10:19 AM
Here's a show you ain't gonna see anytime soon on DVD.
In fact, if anyone has tapes of this show you're sittin' on an ebay goldmine.
The show so good some slob named his band after it.
Anyway, did any of you forum folks watch this toon as a kid?
The show ran, I believe, from '82 to '84.
If you were a kid, and into games, in the early 80's, you probably parked your sorry videogame lovin' ass in front of the telescreen on Saturday morning and vegged out... letting the animated counterparts of your bizarre videogame heroes amuse you sufficiently until your brain overloaded on Sugarsmacks and chocolate milk.
It featured short cartoons of Frogger, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Dragons Lair, Q-Bert, Pitfall, ect. All lovingly crafted in state-of-the-art, 2-dollar limited animation. Each show had a gimmick (which you need when you're basing your character on a videogame that has a "plot" that can be summerized in a 4 word sentence fragment). Q-bert lived in a Cubist nightmare version of "Happy Days" inhabited with creatures that look like colorful scrotums... Frogger is a frog reporter for a swamp newspaper (probably the Weekly World News)... Donkey Kong is always on the verge of some sort of beastiality related criminal offence (and Mario I think is a zookeeper who seeps up his poo...). This show made He-Man look like Death of a Salesman.
Ruby Spears (the company who made the show) doesn't appear to be making cartoons anymore. That, coupled with the fact that the rights to the games are owned by several different companies, AND the fact that the original master tapes are most likely decomposing in a landfill somewhere in Yucca Flats... Odds ain't good that Suncoast is gonna have this in stock.
Despite the fact that this show was really craptacular, and the animation looks like it was drawn by beaten chimpanzees... it still holds a fond, if moldy, place in my memories of 80's Saturday morning cartoon watching.
In fact, if anyone has tapes of this show you're sittin' on an ebay goldmine.
The show so good some slob named his band after it.
Anyway, did any of you forum folks watch this toon as a kid?
The show ran, I believe, from '82 to '84.
If you were a kid, and into games, in the early 80's, you probably parked your sorry videogame lovin' ass in front of the telescreen on Saturday morning and vegged out... letting the animated counterparts of your bizarre videogame heroes amuse you sufficiently until your brain overloaded on Sugarsmacks and chocolate milk.
It featured short cartoons of Frogger, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Dragons Lair, Q-Bert, Pitfall, ect. All lovingly crafted in state-of-the-art, 2-dollar limited animation. Each show had a gimmick (which you need when you're basing your character on a videogame that has a "plot" that can be summerized in a 4 word sentence fragment). Q-bert lived in a Cubist nightmare version of "Happy Days" inhabited with creatures that look like colorful scrotums... Frogger is a frog reporter for a swamp newspaper (probably the Weekly World News)... Donkey Kong is always on the verge of some sort of beastiality related criminal offence (and Mario I think is a zookeeper who seeps up his poo...). This show made He-Man look like Death of a Salesman.
Ruby Spears (the company who made the show) doesn't appear to be making cartoons anymore. That, coupled with the fact that the rights to the games are owned by several different companies, AND the fact that the original master tapes are most likely decomposing in a landfill somewhere in Yucca Flats... Odds ain't good that Suncoast is gonna have this in stock.
Despite the fact that this show was really craptacular, and the animation looks like it was drawn by beaten chimpanzees... it still holds a fond, if moldy, place in my memories of 80's Saturday morning cartoon watching.