Last week we asked you, what the best video game based cartoon was? And the winner of round 1 (out of 3) was…

“Super Mario Bros. Super Show”!

That means the brothers will advance to the final round where they’ll face off against the winners of the next two rounds in a cartoon death match! It’s gonna get bloody and probably go a little something like this…

(Poor little shoe)

So lets get on with it and announce the contenders for round 2 of who’s the “Best Video Game Based Cartoon?”

Ding ding ding ding…round 2!

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Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country was one of the earliest television series to be computer-animated to match an artistic style and garnered critical acclaim in France and Japan but only marginal success elsewhere. Several elements of the series appeared in later Donkey Kong Country video games such as Donkey Kong 64, which was released a year after the show began airing on Fox.

Dragon’s Lair

The series chronicles the adventures of Dirk the Daring, who is best knight in King Ethelred’s kingdom. Dirk performs all sorts of great deeds while protecting the kingdom and his love, Princess Daphne.

The show was great and boasted an unusual feature: to keep the show in the spirit of the game, before each commercial break the storyteller would ask what the viewer would do to solve the problem facing Dirk the Daring. After the commercial break, the outcomes of the various choices were shown before Dirk acts on the correct idea (with the occasional exception) to save the day.

Mega Man

Dr. Light and Dr. Wily were brilliant scientists in the field of robotics, who worked together in a laboratory trying to advance the science. One day, they finished an extremely advanced prototype, but shortly after being activated, it started destroying the laboratory. Dr. Light immediately believed that the prototype’s guidance system, which Dr. Wily had personally programmed, was the source of the problem and concluded they would start over again. Angered, Dr. Wily attempted to steal the plans later that night, but Dr. Light catches him. Wily is able to steal the plans after knocking Dr. Light down, and goes off to what is apparently an abandoned area, and modifies the old robot prototype into Proto Man.

Later, Dr. Light builds Rock and Roll, advanced robots with personalities, along with Ice Man, Guts Man, and Cut Man. Dr. Wily and Proto Man go and steal the robots, reprogramming the latter three robots as henchmen. Dr. Wily attempts to reprogram Rock and Roll at his lab later, but Rock decides to trick Dr. Wily. He tells Dr. Wily that Dr. Light also built “super warrior robots”, and that if Rock and Roll are let go, he’ll tell him how to defeat the robots. Rock uses this lie (Dr. Wily believing robots can’t lie) to cause a distraction and escape with Roll. Dr. Light decides to reprogram and reoutfit Rock into Mega Man, who from then on keeps the world safe. This tale is told in Episode 1, “The Beginning”.

Pac-Man

The show follows the adventures of the title character, Pac-Man, his wife Pepper, their child Pac-Baby, their dog Chomp-Chomp and their cat Sour Puss. The family lives in Pac-Land, a place in which the geography and architecture seem to revolve primarily around spheres and sphere-like shapes. Most episodes of the show center around the ongoing battle between the Pac family and their only known enemies, the Ghost Monsters: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, Clyde, and Sue. They work for Mezmaron, (a mysterious figure who resembles Darth Vader and acts similarly to Gargamel), whose sole mission is to locate and control the source of “Power Pellets”, which serve as the primary food and power source for the city, and also as the deus ex machina in virtually every episode.

Wing Commander Academy

The series featured many ships introduced in the Wing Commander video games. The Scimitar and Broadsword were the primary fighters and bombers flown by the main characters, with the Dralthi and Grikath fulfilling those roles for the Kilrathi. As in Wing Commander I, the TCS Tiger’s Claw was a Bengal class strike carrier. Individual episodes also featured cameo appearances from ships introduced in later games such as Wing Commander III’s Arrow, Hellcat and Longbow and Wing Commander IV’s Avenger. None of these ships are mentioned by name. A number of new capital ships were introduced by the series including the Achilles class destroyer and the Agan Ra Sivar class dreadnaught.

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Alright people, make your choice in the poll below!

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