Do it for them.

Oh yeah, and two days until Video Games Live. WOOT!

So I'll leave you with my little tribute to one of my favorite TV shows.

Note that I did not do the screenshot from The Secret of NIMH 2. I did the seats and my character Steven Fox watching the movie and flipping it off. The reason why I chose to bash this movie again was that I despise it so damn much (you know that), that Ijust had to make a tribute to Mystery Science Theater 3000 with it,because MST3Kkept the tradition of the characters sitting in a theater watching horrible movies. Oh MGM, how you've disappointed me.

Sorry for the bad quality, as I took the picture with my cellphone, but here he is. He's a young kitten named Runey, named after a whiny football player that I have no idea who the hell that is, nor bothering to find out, so ha.

Look at him. LOOK AT HIM DAMN YOU!!!

If there are two things I love in life besides music, it's video games and animated cartoons. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Saturday mornings kicked ass, as some of the shows that aired on those mornings are based on various video games from Mario to Sonic. Now a days, you can pretty much find them on a crappy TV line-up known as 4Kids, who have huge problems with censorship issues and feels like the people at 4Kids don't have any respect for entertainment from Japan or any other country except for the U.S., but that's a rant for a different day. The two that mostly come to mind that still air are re-runs of Sonic X and the continuing (and sucking) series known as Pokemon (games still rock, though). But what about the shows that we know ever since we were children? I decided to talk about some. See if they bring any nostalgia to any gamer who watched cartoons back then, such as myself.

First, let's start with a show that started the video game cartoon trend that no one probably has heard of.

Saturday Supercade. Now if you don't know what the hell this show is, I can tell you some things from the best of my knowledge and with the magic of Wikipedia. Saturday Supercade was a compilation TV show that aired on CBS in the 1980s that featured cartoon adaptations of various arcade games that were popular at the time, such as Nintendo's Donkey Kong, Gottlieb's Q*Bert, Don Bluth's Space Ace (he didn't do the animation for this show, btw), and Atari's Kangaroo. Every saturday morning, this show would air so that every arcade junkie can tune in and see what games are featured on the 30 minute program. The show only ran for two seasons, and wasn't well known. However, it did start the cartoon adaptations of video games that later came as time went by.

Next we have...

I think every one knows about this show. This show ran for only 1 season, containing 52 episodes. It is the first cartoon show to be based on the ever so popular Super Mario Bros. video game on the NES. Every episode featured a live-action segment at the beginning and the end of a show with wrestlerCapt. Lou Albano (R.I.P.) as Mario, who would "Do the Mario" during the end credits. Every Friday, however, they would air a Legend of Zelda episode instead of Mario, which coined the phrase "EXCCCCCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME, PRINCESS!" The animation for this show is questionable, but in my opinion, it could've done a hell of a lot better. This show later spawned the The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 (based on the NES game of the same name), and Super Mario World (based on the SNES game of the same name) cartoons.

I think you know what comes next.

If this looks familiar, you know what the hell this show is. Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Now this show I have a LOT to talk about, because this was the show I grew upon while tuning into the DisneyChannel.This turns out to be based on "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" on the Sega Genesis. How? Tails is in it, andKnuckles and Amy aren't. I'm sure every single game player should know that by now. The Nostalgia Critic may have hated this show because of the animation $tyle and wacky storylines, but in this case, I have to go against that, because that's what makes this show great. This show still entertains me today, because I love it when Dr. Robotnik (aka Dr. Eggman) and his nincombots make total asses of themselves as they try to capture Sonic and hisyoung fox companion, Tails, which turn out to fail every...single...time. If I had to choose my favorite episode of all time, it would have to be "Sonic's Song", because I like the Sonic games, or video games in general, and I love music.That's just me. Plus the fact that at one point,Sonic references one of the members of Van Halen, calling the guitarest "Eddie Van Hedgehog". Don't ask why I like it, I just love Van Halen. They did Running with the Devil for crying out loud. Anyway,this show later spawned Sonic SatAM, which was more darker than this one, and Sonic Underground, which added music to the story but was executed poorly, probably for this reason: IT SUCKED!!! You may think otherwise, but I hated Sonic Underground. Lastly, it spawned Sonic X which was released by 4Kids. They didn't do a bad job at first, but itshould've been a hell of a lot better. In fact, the voice actors have gotten better in my opinion, especially Jason Griffith as Sonic. If Sega ever made a game outof the Meterex saga from Season 3, I bet it would kick ass...just aslong as they check for bugs and not let it become the new Sonic '06.Anyway, back to the cartoon,AoSTH has to be my favorite video game based TV show, because it is pure nostalgia to any video game player who watched the show and/or played the games on the Genesis, and I live for that crap.

There are other video game shows I can cover, but I'll stop it here. If I didn't get your favorite and you feel depressed because of it, don't be. You're just being difficult. This is just one of the reasons why I want a career in animation. It's because cartoons like these take me back to the great moments of my childhood, especially with the films I never seen nor watched when I was a kid. You can tell that video game based cartoons definitely had an impact on me as a fellow gamer. With that said, peace out.