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Captain N: The Game Master

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Kevin Keene, a teen residing in Northridge, California, gets pulled into a television vortex called the Ultimate Warp Zone and ends up in Videoland.[1] During its second season, the show was paired with The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. for a full hour, and in season three it occupied a half-hour slot alongside Super Mario World.[2]

Making and release

Randy Studdard, a Nintendo staffer and magazine editor, first brought the Captain N character to life in Nintendo Power magazine.[3] The initial idea featured Captain Nintendo, a company employee who could briefly make Nintendo game characters and objects appear in the real world.[3] Because the Children's Television Act of 1990 aimed to prohibit program-length commercials, the show avoided using the name Captain Nintendo for legal reasons.[4] Early development considered making the Paperboy character the lead, with the series tentatively called Buddy Boy.[5]

DIC Entertainment was brought in as the animation studio; it altered many details of the original concept while preserving the core storyline.[6] Nintendo of America chose to produce a cartoon based on Studdard's ideas, but gave him no credit or payment.[6] DIC Animation City produced the series, which drew on video game elements from Nintendo, a Japanese company.[7] On July 22, 2008, NCircle Entertainment issued a single-disc set called "Adventures in Videoland" that held four episodes.[8]

What the cited sources add

According to "The Untold Truth of Captain N: The Game Master", the character made his first appearance in Nintendo Power magazine before the cartoon.[9] Studdard's original Captain Nintendo worked at Nintendo as a technician and got super powers after his crush spilled coffee on microchips, inadvertently bringing Mother Brain to life.[9] The first Captain Nintendo story was published in two parts in the November/December 1988 and January/February 1989 issues of Nintendo Power.[9] DiC artist Fil Barlow provided character designs for the proposed Paperboy-based series, which included future Captain N cast members like Kid Icarus' Pit and Eggplant Wizard.[9]

According to Barlow, the characters would have crossed between worlds via a portal in Buddy Boy's closet.[9] Series writer Jeffrey Scott only played a tiny bit of each game before penning an episode.[9] Matt Hill, who voiced Captain N, told Rolling Stone that he hasn't played a video game since Pong.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Captain N: The Game Master" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "10 Strangest Moments in Captain N: The Game Master", Nintendo Life, 21 September 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Captain N: The Game Master" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Erickson, "Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003", McFarland & Company, 2005, p. 178–179 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Captain N: The Game Master" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Untold Truth of Captain N: The Game Master", 8 February 2018; Erickson, "Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003", McFarland & Company, 2005, p. 178–179 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Captain N: The Game Master" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "10 Strangest Moments in Captain N: The Game Master", Nintendo Life, 21 September 2019; "The Untold Truth of Captain N: The Game Master", 8 February 2018; "The Untold Truth of Captain N: The Game Master", 8 February 2018 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Captain N: The Game Master" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Captain N concept art reveals Paperboy as the main hero", Destructoid, 24 June 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Captain N: The Game Master" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Man Behind Captain Nintendo", Nintendo Player (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Captain N: The Game Master" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Perlmutter, "The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows", Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, p. 109–110 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Captain N: The Game Master" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Amazon.com: Captain N: The Game Master - Adventures in Videoland: Movies & TV", www.amazon.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "The Untold Truth of Captain N: The Game Master", 8 February 2018. facts only, no text reused. svg.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Captain N: The Game Master (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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