Bet the excuse was something like "gamer gets sucked into the game so he gets Samus' suit!"
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Behold, DiC's concept art for a Metroid cartoon (+ Castlevania and others)
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Bet the excuse was something like "gamer gets sucked into the game so he gets Samus' suit!"
Honestly, the dumbest thing about most of these is that DiC didn't need to spend the money on a license to make those shows because (based on that image) NONE OF THEM HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SOURCE MATERIAL. LOL I mean, California Games is I guess recognizable as California Games but it's such a generic thing to begin with so who cares.
Double Dragon is really the only game represented there that is recognizable as the thing it's supposed to be.
Double Dragon is really the only game represented there that is recognizable as the thing it's supposed to be.
I still maintain that the Legend of Zelda show was good. It's entertaining and has some great music. Watching it now I feel like modern Zelda game elements, settings, etc. mirror it in a lot of ways.
I'm going to take a guess and say this anywhere between 1988 - 1990 at the least. It looks like the same concept artist that did the "Buddy Boy" concept art , which became the basis for Captain N: The Game Master. It was also produced by DiC.
The concept artist probably had no idea that Metroid is a gurl. Just like how he had little to no knowledge on what the rest of the Captain N characters were suppose to look like. The Double Dragon and California games concepts look pretty cool, though.
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It's a revenge cartoon about seagulls attacking humans that have been killing their kind with hacky sacks.
Wait, how?
The one black kid doesn't seem to be stylized any differently than everyone else on that concept art.
I mean...
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A LOT of people on ERA seem to hate that show but I thought it was fantastic!
I like the style, if only they got Samus right.
The Netflix show's art looks too clean. And I wish the background style matched the characters.
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The Netflix show's art looks too clean. And I wish the background style matched the characters.
Say what? The show is universally acclaimed, don't tell me ERA hates it? haha oh wow
This is amazing. It highlights how little integrity there was in cartoon adaptations of popular properties back then. They'd take an IP, run it through a boardroom table stacked with people completely unfamiliar with it, and on the other side would be something that barely resembled the original licence.
They'd have run into the problem of having so little Tuxedo Mask footage to recycle endlessly in their edits.
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Both look bad. Ayami Kojima's designs are the best.
I'm going to take a guess and say this anywhere between 1988 - 1990 at the least. It looks like the same concept artist that did the "Buddy Boy" concept art , which became the basis for Captain N: The Game Master. It was also produced by DiC.
The concept artist probably had no idea that Metroid is a gurl. Just like how he had little to no knowledge on what the rest of the Captain N characters were suppose to look like. The Double Dragon and California games concepts look pretty cool, though.
I remember when these first leaked, i actually liked the Concept of MegaDad and MegaMom and the idea that for videogame characters mundane real life chores were what gaming is to IRL kids.
Also that image of the boy literally praying and an "angel" appearing out of nowhere is hilarious.
I'm not going to say it's a perfect show with no flaws or something, but straight up hate it? Geez.
Do you know how many glorious gifs and videos we'd have at this point? It would have all been worth it.
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WHere did you read that? That's fascinating!
And what do you mean by shitty tv? They couldn't give the designer a decent late 80s tv? Still, shitty tv or not there's no excuse for making him green instead of blue. You could tell the color from the terrible box arts!
Seriously, read this it's a amazing tale:
https://kotaku.com/we-tried-to-uncover-the-long-lost-american-sailor-moon-1827695456
Mega Man is green in Captain N because the designer's TV was either broken or not set up correctly, so Mega Man appeared green on his screen.
lol this.
Or the dude lived in denial and kept his misogynistic vision of Samus real through his work.
Honestly, compared to the other DIC abominations they did with videogame properties that Metroid art, had it not been for the white guy, is actually not bad at all! It's the most authentic game-to-Cartoon I've seen from them. The proportions and colors are all there, Samus is shooting an armcanon to an anlien monster in space. It's all there. Just the one glaring problem with male Samus, lol. You can tell they read the instruction manual and that's it (Samus was a "he" in the manual).
Nah. He just didn't finish it. Anyone who didn't finish the game but took a quick look at the game's manual would be forgiven to think Samus was a man since the damn intruction booklet called Samus a "he/him" many times.
I'm too lazy to find the DeviantArt explaining it all but Captain D's weirdness is basically this
Plus him only having the carts
It looks like Paper Boy was getting chased by a rabid dog (which is an enemy in the game), which causes him to pray for a miracle, which causes Kid Icarus to appear. I do like that the concept art shows a mix between a video game world (everything is 2D with platforms in one shot) and everyday life. I think the concept artist said somewhere, that he had very little to go on when creating these characters and didn't play games. So he had to base everything on scree shots and a limited amount of concept art. Mega Man looks awful, but he still looks more accurate than the Mega Man that was depicted on the Mega Man 1 and 2 NES boxes.
That Metroid concept, looks like it could have been part of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. As it has a "Super Mario Bros Power Hour" logo on it. But I guess, they chose to make shorts out of Zelda instead for the show that went to air.
Yeah. That's why the end of Metroid is such a twist. The player was conditioned (probably without intent) to think that Samus was a guy because of the English text of the instruction manual.
Oh my lord, this is wild.
DiC, what the heck were you smoking back then?
That's INSANE! The damn character designer couldn't even be bothered to check the box sets and manuals? Still with just the carts you could tell how Simon Belmont and Megaman looked right? Except for Megaman 1 but even then he was blue and yellow not green. That should've been a clue that his colors were fucked up.
This is amazing. I can't believe we were stuck with a green Megaman because the designer had a shitty ass tv with the colors wrong, he didn't bother to check the cover arts for any other Megaman games, and nobody cared to correct him!
The late 80s were such a weird time.
Yep, it's why I like the Zelda cartoon and think the flak it gets is a little unfair. I think it's solid all things considered. Plus Zelda's way more active in this series than most games.
Nah, it was deliberate. The Japanese manual had it too when it would have been very easy to avoid referencing gender entirely.
Clyde Mandelin at Legends of Localization has done a few comparisons of manual text on Nintendo games, and they were actually very close to the Japanese text overall.
The Zelda cartoon was Shakespeare compared to what they did to Simon Belmont or Megaman. You didn't need a deep story explained in the manuals to know Megaman wasn't green or that Simon didn't look like that!
I agree that the Zelda show gets unfairly bashed. And it's depressing that that incarnation of Zelda still is the most feminist and positive depiction of the character still in 2019.
Gotta love how the paraplegic kid gets the one bot that has no legs.
this screams for a 'shop-contest. why don't we have 'shop-contests anymore?
This was Alucard in the original manual.
Yes information was limited back then but it's still obvious they just didn't give a shit.
Yes information was limited back then but it's still obvious they just didn't give a shit.