There’s really not too much to say here. This from an actual Nintendo Power (remember that magazine?) that this cool guy with the sweet mustache wrote into in the 1980’s. I snagged it from the amazing SeanBaby website. You can read more of his mustachioed misadventures here where the webmaster of SeanBaby found his address and began corresponding with him…
Thank you to “Crazy” Tom for showing me this gem way back in the 90’s
It’s back. What every 50-year old fat woman and Captain Flintheart dream about, Tom Selleck, flowing waterfalls, and classic sandwiches. Honestly, can you ever really have enough of that brilliant trifecta?
and…
and of course…
I have no clue why there is a site built for this purpose, but somewhere someone is rejoicing right now (and it’s definitely someone who loves mustaches, food, and long walks on the beach).
That is all. Tom Selleck, a waterfall and a sandwich. That is all this site has to offer. You have a problem with that…go take it up with Magnum PI.
O yea, this site has a pretty dope theme song as well. Check that shit out.
TCM reader, Ben did a great write up over at www.dudusports.com about the top 5 hitters from the Nintendo game, Little League Baseball: Championship Series. The game didn’t make TCM’s Top Ten Nintendo list, but it just narrowly missed. If you’ve never played it, it’s worth tracking down. I’d consider it one of the better sports games released on the console.
You can read his article by clicking here
When I was a youth, I was all about Voltron. I wasn’t lucky enough to catch it’s initial run, but I became aware of it through reruns in the late 1980’s. Basically, it was a Japanese cartoon where 5 people piloted these robotic lions who could form into one giant humanoid robot named, Voltron and than fucked some shit up. This is was the climax of every episode.
A few years later, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers somehow became all the rage. Even as a kid I knew they were shamelessly ripping off Voltron. 5 people (pre, “Green Ranger”) wearing costumes that share more than a passing resemblance to Voltron, pilot 5 robotic animals that form a giant robot named Megazord and subsequently fuck shit up. This was the climax of every episode…with catchier music.
See for yourself
Voltron Transformation scene
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Transformation Scene
Authors Note: The robotic lions from Voltron also emerge from scattered land masses when summoned before they form Voltron.
I’m obessed with Cinemassacre run by James Rolfe. He reviews terrible 8-bit Nintendo games under the alias, The Angry Video Game Nerd, he reviews movies for Spike TV, retro board games and anything else that tickles his fancy. This is our Christmas gift to you…from him.
This is Cinemassacre’s Top 20 Urkel Moments.
For our last Captain to highlight of 2009 we are using a long forgotten but Flintheart favorite, Captain N. Captain N was from a late 80’s/early 90’s cartoon called Captain N: The Game Master. One of the most creative TV show names in the history of the medium (The “N” stood for Nintendo).
If your not familiar with the show, the concept follows a 16 year old kid who was playing Mike Tyson’s Punch Out! on his Nintendo and gets sucked into the TV. He finds himself now living in the sweet, sweet land of Nintendo. Their is a hot princess in turmoil and he agrees to join her squad of mythic status Nintendo characters to defend the realm. We’re talking Megaman, Kid Icarus (which is strange since he comes from Greek mythology) and Simon Belmont from Castlevania, who for some reason they make into an ego inflated pretty boy. These form the core of the N-Team which also stood for Nintendo. Very, very clever.
It turns out villains from various Nintendo games have linked up to terrorize (and possibly rape) the princess. Fronted by the absurd, Mother Brain from the game, Metroid who is just a huge weird ass looking head in a jar…Krang eat your heart out.
Basically this show was my 7 year old self’s wet dream. This guy gets to hang out with Nintendo characters, use the N.E.S. gun and control pad to fight Nintendo villains and bang a hot princess at the end of the day. It’s kinda like Mario but without being fat, having a mustache and not being a Nazi sympathizer. Instead you get a varsity letter jacket.
TCM salutes you Captain N. When I was a kid you were the coolest 16 year old I could imagine. When I was 16 you were still cooler than I would ever be. We only hope you got a chance to give the power pad a work out with the Princess.
This youtube montage covers some of the better cartoon intro’s from the late 80’s/early 90’s including, Transformers, Thundercats, He-Man, Voltron etc. These all seem to be a bit more “action” (aka badass) oriented, so if you are looking for Ducktales or Tale Spin you are sorely out of luck.
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