When gamers aren't – well – gaming, they are usually looking for other game-related activities to fill up their lives. Outside of video game music, related comics and gaming news, kids could always look forward to quality programming on the television. Whether you stayed home from school because you were ill or you raced home early in time to flip on the TV, your youth was probably peppered with the following shows.
Since games in the early '90s didn't always take too long to complete, we had to extend the lifetime of the characters we loved so much through syndicated television. If you haven't heard of any of these game shows, cartoons or sitcoms, be sure to try and find them on YouTube or through another – completely legal – venue. Prepare yourself, though, the clothes, phrases and general idea of what was "cool" and "acceptable" is totally warped, just like the '90s. I love that decade, but a duck is still a duck.
Captain N: The Game Master
What do you get when you stuff Simon Belmont, Pit, Link, and Mega Man into a show together? Honestly, I still don't really know what happened during Captain N: The Game Master. It was a beautiful half-hour mess, populated with every well-known video game character at the time. The team fought Mother Brain, King Hippo, the Eggplant Wizard, Doctor Wily and more, with each show featuring new cartoon versions of our favorite games.
