Ridiculous Stuff You'd Watch As a Kid

[Menegrothx]

I agree that there is good deep anime, but I hate how its fanbase never looks for deeper American animation, and doesn't even TOUCH European animation.

I want all amazing forms of art to get exposure.

You hit the nail on the head. I hate it how some people are all over Marvel/DC comics and super hero movies but wont give Don Rosa's Donald Duck comics, Sam and Max, Bone, European classics (Lucky Luke etc), manga, or anything else than those super hero comics a chance. Not to mention people who will play a seemingly endless amount of different yet mostly similiar JRPGs but wont ever touch a classic WRPG like Planescape: Torment, no matter how intelligent, mature, artful and flawless those games are. It basically boils down to the fact that people dont want to go out from their comfort zone, it's easier to just do the same thing over and over (only watch certain type of anime, only read certain type of comics, only play certain type of games and so on).

[Luke]

I've seen way more Mr. Belvedere than a person should see in their lifetime.

Not possible.

[indecks]

I was born in 1977. I'm gonna be 35 this August, and I know people that were born not long after me, like 81, 82, etc that look back on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers 'fondly.'

Now, I don't remember how old I was when Power Rangers premiered.... scratch that, Wikipedia'ed that and it says 1993 is when the US version of the show appeared and rocketed into superpopularity. So I was about 14. Even at 14, I remember seeing promos for the show, and they used to show it after school. I always thought to myself "wow, that looks like crap."

I know guys that are about 30 and remember the show like I remember Transformers and Robotech. It just makes no sense to me. It was awful. I remember seeing all of the knockoffs like BeetleBorgs and VR Rangers or whatever. It was just so terrible.

Anyway, back OT, I think the worst thing I watched as a kid was probably JEM and the Holograms. My sister loved it, and for some reason, where I lived, Jem only came on TV on sunday mornings like at 6AM. Same thing with Robotech. I remember getting up early every Sunday to watch Robotech, but I had to sit through JEM with my sister until I could see what kind of shit Rick was gonna get into in Robotech.

[AppleQueso]

You see? The over fanboyism and "saint" status of anime in the eyes of the internet has turned me a bit against it.

Yeah, but you can say that about an awful lot of stuff out there. Pretty much all fanbases are bad about that.

I want all amazing forms of art to get exposure.

Mmhmm.

I get just as annoyed seeing anime fans dismiss all western animation as I do when I see comic book fans dismiss all manga. You're the ones missing out, folks. Good stuff is good stuff.

[flojocabron]

I was born in 1977. I'm gonna be 35 this August, and I know people that were born not long after me, like 81, 82, etc that look back on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers 'fondly.'

Now, I don't remember how old I was when Power Rangers premiered.... scratch that, Wikipedia'ed that and it says 1993 is when the US version of the show appeared and rocketed into superpopularity. So I was about 14. Even at 14, I remember seeing promos for the show, and they used to show it after school. I always thought to myself "wow, that looks like crap."

I know guys that are about 30 and remember the show like I remember Transformers and Robotech. It just makes no sense to me. It was awful. I remember seeing all of the knockoffs like BeetleBorgs and VR Rangers or whatever. It was just so terrible.

Anyway, back OT, I think the worst thing I watched as a kid was probably JEM and the Holograms. My sister loved it, and for some reason, where I lived, Jem only came on TV on sunday mornings like at 6AM. Same thing with Robotech. I remember getting up early every Sunday to watch Robotech, but I had to sit through JEM with my sister until I could see what kind of shit Rick was gonna get into in Robotech.

yeah, i used to wake up on 4:30/5:00AM to watch whatever cartoon was on.

Was really into this one



And the short lived Highlander cartoon



And since I really liked sci-fi stuff this series I liked as well, if short lived



flash gordon 90's cartoon

[indecks]

Never knew there was a Darkstalkers cartoon. Weird. And there was a Highlander cartoon? how did they explain beheadings?

[dsheinem]

I was born in 1977. I'm gonna be 35 this August, and I know people that were born not long after me, like 81, 82, etc that look back on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers 'fondly.'.... I always thought to myself "wow, that looks like crap."

I know guys that are about 30 and remember the show like I remember Transformers and Robotech. It just makes no sense to me. It was awful. I remember seeing all of the knockoffs like BeetleBorgs and VR Rangers or whatever. It was just so terrible.

Yes! Thank you! I don't get the love for that show by anyone who wasn't like 7 or younger at the time.

[MyNameIsVince]

This:



I win

[AppleQueso]

I was born in 1977. I'm gonna be 35 this August, and I know people that were born not long after me, like 81, 82, etc that look back on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers 'fondly.'.... I always thought to myself "wow, that looks like crap."

I know guys that are about 30 and remember the show like I remember Transformers and Robotech. It just makes no sense to me. It was awful. I remember seeing all of the knockoffs like BeetleBorgs and VR Rangers or whatever. It was just so terrible.

Yes! Thank you! I don't get the love for that show by anyone who wasn't like 7 or younger at the time.

I was 7 or younger at that time.

I can't watch it now.

[Luke]

I was born in 1977. I'm gonna be 35 this August, and I know people that were born not long after me, like 81, 82, etc that look back on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers 'fondly.'.... I always thought to myself "wow, that looks like crap."

I know guys that are about 30 and remember the show like I remember Transformers and Robotech. It just makes no sense to me. It was awful. I remember seeing all of the knockoffs like BeetleBorgs and VR Rangers or whatever. It was just so terrible.

Yes! Thank you! I don't get the love for that show by anyone who wasn't like 7 or younger at the time.

Agreed. Whenever I see a rerun of Voltron or He-Man I think, "Well, I was six when I liked this".