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80s Cartoons
Xiaou2:
Every Sat morning was just about the time of my life back back when I was
a kid in the 80s.
There were so many fun cartoons to watch. A lot of them got born from
Video Games, which was kinda funny... And many were downright sad heh
Firstly, I wanted to Mention "Dungeons and Dragons". Was one of the better
cartoons, and the few that I really didnt want to miss. Always wondering if they
would find their way home...
Turns out, that there WAS in fact an ending to the series... However, it
never got produced in Cartoon format. I recently did a search... and amazingly,
I found the guy who wrote the script for the ending (among many other things).
Its actually quite an awesome ending, and a real shame it didnt get animated.
You can read about its creation, and download the actual script here:
http://www.michaelreaves.com/requiem_preface.htm
Xiaou2:
When searching Youtube for 80s cartoons, I came across so many strange
cartoons that I never recalled seeing... which leads me to believe that many
different areas saw very different cartoons when they grew up.
Some I remember:
- Dungeons and Dragons - One of my favs. Thou, a bit hokey, still was fun.
- The Little's - nicely animated cartoon. A bit boring tho.
- Gummi Bears - Always fun
- Pac Man - I believe I recall it being interesting
- Thunderbirds 2086 - A rare & cool Japanese cartoon series.A bit less childish
- The Real Ghostbusters - Good adaptation.Fun stories.Nice animation.
- Muppet Babies - Loved that cartoon series ;D
- Starwars? - Some starwars cartoon. Didnt last long. Cant remember much.
- Rubiks Cube - The worst idea for a cartoon ever. Barely made it thru 1 episode.
- Dragons Lair - Cant remember it. Think it was very bad.
Ohh man, youtube to the rescue:
- Space Ace?! - Wow. Ugg
- Frogger - How could they.. lol
- Qbert - *Facepalm*
- Non Cartoon Sat Goodness: StarCade! ;D
SavannahLion:
OK, you got me.
* D&D: I distinctly recall seeing this series as a kid. Even remember one episode where they got oh so close to going home, even popped up at the fair. I recently tried to find the entire series, but the seeds were so poor all I could get were about two English episodes and about a dozen crappy foreign dubbed episodes.
* The Littles: I loved The Littles. They used to have these paper doll cut-outs and I used to have entire books of them. You would cut and fold the pages and make the entire Littles house.
* Gummi Bears: Rocked. Period. Managed to snag two different collections of this series. One partial series derived from the DVD set another, lower quality but complete set derived from some streaming website.
* Pac-Man: I recall this series. It was OK.
* Thunderbirds 2086: Good one, I had to look this up. Released in 1982, it looks like it was never re-aired in most markets.
* The Real Ghostbusters: +1 Saw some of the old episodes just recently. The animation sucked royally. The New Ghostbusters is even worse.
* Muppet Babies: I actually hated this series. I grew up on Muppet Theater so watching a watered down cartoon kind of sucked when Animal destroyed anything or Beaker never blew ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up.
I never saw the rest of the cartoons you list. However, I can recall assloads of others. To name a few:
* Legend of Zelda: Speaking of Video games. I had to look this up to make sure it really was an 80's show (aired in 1989).
* Pole Position: I was actually looking up M.A.S.K. and came across a YouTube video. Strangely enough, the only thing I remember are the Modules. Absolutely nothing else about that show. Must've not been very good.
* Ducktales: To this day I would love to get the complete unsplit TV movie premier. It's never been released in its original format, on DVD it's split up as a series of four (or six?) episodes.
* G.I. Joe: You cannot ever call yourself a child of the 80's and not know of this show. :)
And finally, Robotech, Voltron, GoBots and Transformers. I was absolutely crazy about giant fighting robots. :)
jamesjones626:
there was one cartoon i use to watch but dont remmmeber the name when i was a kid. They were insect people and they rode huge bugs. I had some of the toys as a kid. There was one guy who looked like he was half man and half spider and he rode a giant tarantula. I remember there was another guy who had purple armor and he rode a giant fly. I asked a few friends of mine and they remember watching it in the 80's but no one can come up with a name, can anyone here?
SavannahLion:
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