Question on toons based on video games

The cartoon always had one chase scene where the characters did just that---jumping on *anything* stacked vaguely cube-like (rocks to cross a river, etc.---even IIRC a bunch of moon rocks in an episode where they went to the moon). :-p

But yes, pre-Super Mario Bros. video games didn't have much in the way of plots, thus for the cartoons they had to create a lot of stuff wholesale... in Pac-Man's case, playing up the world he lived in (Pac-Land, full of various pac-pun-names), along with the ghost monsters working for a Darth Vader-ish figure out how to find the source of the Pac-people's power-pellets so he could conquer their world...

-B.
 
The Pac Man cartoon had one of my favorite lines from any cartoon.

It was when one of the ghosts was chasing a character, and he said "I'LL CRUNCH ON YOUR BONES!!"
 
No-I'm pointing out attention to detail.

In Super Mario Bros. 3, the Mario Bros. got power-ups and got the respective powers of that power-up item.
 
I think that Radical-X just likes showing people that he knows things.

Getting back to the original topic, no cartoon based on a video game is going to follow the details of the game to the letter. This is especially true in the cases of the games that don't have a comprehensible story such as Pac Man or Q*bert. If anyone wants to see a straight adaptation of a video game, they can just play the game.

Consider also that the video games of the 1980s weren't as detailed and elaborately scripted as the video games of today. Most of the early video games told a very simple story against a stylized background and would have a very simple objective (eat the dots, get out of the maze, climb to the top of the maze and save the lady, etc.)
 
In the Q-bert cartoon, what was the reason for hopping on cubes, or any other object to change it's color? What was supposed to happen when they finished? That part of the show I don't remember.
 
Wha? Are you kidding? The Super Mario cartoon was really faithful to the games. It had the leaf/raccoon Mario, the Koopa Kids, sound effects ripped straight from the game.

the Sonic cartoons on the other hand..
 
The post-Super Mario Bros. Super Show cartoons were faithful to the games.

The original Super Mario Bros. cartoons weren't-they tried to combine elements of SMB 1 and 2, since those two games were popular at the time. They just took elements from both games and loosely based the cartoon on both games.
1988-1989 was the height of SMB popularity.



Space Ace and Dragon's Lair were pretty faithful to the games they were based on.
 
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