Captain N: The Game Master is an American-Canadian animated television
series that aired on television from 1989 to 1991 as part of the
Saturday morning cartoon lineup on NBC. The show was produced by DIC
Animation City and incorporated elements from many of the most popular
video games of the time from the Japanese company Nintendo. There was
also a comic book version by Valiant Comics, despite only featuring
characters from games produced by Nintendo. The show is also part of
an hour-long block in Season 2 with The Adventures of Super Mario
Bros. 3 and with Super Mario World in Season 3 in a half-hour
block.The character Captain N first appeared in Nintendo Power
magazine, created by a Nintendo staff member and magazine editor named
Randy Studdard (who presented Nintendo with a formal proposal that
included the character as a company spokes-character, the origin and
premise, and the Saturday morning cartoon as part of the entire
marketing campaign). The original concept involved Captain N
(originally known as "Captain Nintendo") as a Nintendo employee and
the Mother Brain as a piece of programming from a Nintendo game pak
(that was infused in an explosion with experimental "organic" ROMs)
that went rogue. Captain N had the power to temporarily give life to
characters and items from Nintendo games.The story left a door open
for a sequel (Mother Brain is temporarily defeated but her return was
said to be inevitable, and Captain N vows to stop her when the time
comes). Nintendo of America, Inc. later decided to follow Studdard's
ideas and create a cartoon series, opting neither to credit nor to
compensate its creator. DIC Entertainment was shopped as the animation
studio, and changed various aspects of the original idea while keeping
the main premise of the Captain opposing Mother Brain as he interacted
with a number of video game characters.At the outset of the first
episode the hero of the series, Kevin Keene, a teenager from
Northridge, Los Angeles, California, and his dog Duke are taken to
another universe known as Videoland when they are sucked into a vortex
called the Ultimate Warp Zone that formed in his television.
series that aired on television from 1989 to 1991 as part of the
Saturday morning cartoon lineup on NBC. The show was produced by DIC
Animation City and incorporated elements from many of the most popular
video games of the time from the Japanese company Nintendo. There was
also a comic book version by Valiant Comics, despite only featuring
characters from games produced by Nintendo. The show is also part of
an hour-long block in Season 2 with The Adventures of Super Mario
Bros. 3 and with Super Mario World in Season 3 in a half-hour
block.The character Captain N first appeared in Nintendo Power
magazine, created by a Nintendo staff member and magazine editor named
Randy Studdard (who presented Nintendo with a formal proposal that
included the character as a company spokes-character, the origin and
premise, and the Saturday morning cartoon as part of the entire
marketing campaign). The original concept involved Captain N
(originally known as "Captain Nintendo") as a Nintendo employee and
the Mother Brain as a piece of programming from a Nintendo game pak
(that was infused in an explosion with experimental "organic" ROMs)
that went rogue. Captain N had the power to temporarily give life to
characters and items from Nintendo games.The story left a door open
for a sequel (Mother Brain is temporarily defeated but her return was
said to be inevitable, and Captain N vows to stop her when the time
comes). Nintendo of America, Inc. later decided to follow Studdard's
ideas and create a cartoon series, opting neither to credit nor to
compensate its creator. DIC Entertainment was shopped as the animation
studio, and changed various aspects of the original idea while keeping
the main premise of the Captain opposing Mother Brain as he interacted
with a number of video game characters.At the outset of the first
episode the hero of the series, Kevin Keene, a teenager from
Northridge, Los Angeles, California, and his dog Duke are taken to
another universe known as Videoland when they are sucked into a vortex
called the Ultimate Warp Zone that formed in his television.
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