Anthony DeanThey Brought Back The Super Mario Bros. Cartoon And Sloppified It With AI
myrmepropagandistAre my memories faded and hazy or does the past decay? Mutilated memories.
I was not allowed to watch TV as a kid, but I found an old TV and fixed it and hid it in the attic.
I could watch TV for 30min when I was home alone before mom got home from work. In the attic hiding. The only cartoon I could find was this one. I didn't like it very much but I was determined to watch TV. LMAO. How could they make it worse? It was so bad...
Look what they did to my boy:
Nazo@futurebird @dtgeek It really was terrible. The only reason I watched any of that stuff was because it was themed after games, lol.
I recently tried to watch some of that stuff (without "AI" resizing or etc) and honestly just couldn't sit through it.
I'm sad I couldn't even sit through the Zelda one.
Even as a 8 year old I knew it was bad. But it was "cartoons" the most fun and forbidden kind of TV, so I endured it until I heard mom's car in the driveway and it was time to hide the old TV and run down the stairs.
"Why are you out of breath?"
"Mother my experience of easy commercial happiness has fallen far short of my expectations.*"
*I probably said something more like "I was doing very serious homework."
@futurebird @dtgeek Yeah, they can be fun when you go in with the right mindset really. I still enjoyed them a little back then. I just can't today.
It's sad you missed out on the experience of getting up early on a Saturday morning to watch everything that came on inside a quiet household while everyone else was asleep. It's hard to explain how that felt for me. It didn't even matter if the cartoons were good or not as I lay there on the couch wrapped in a blanket. IMO your parents robbed you of something there.
Oh I could watch 1 (one) cartoon on Saturday. And that was She-Ra ... obviously. Unless there was a cartoon movie on.
@futurebird I had the most amazing ability to just miss the movies. Usually the rare few anime movies allowed to be showed to a western audience because how dare something from outside the west exist or whatever. Like I caught the very tail end of a Dragon Quest movie one time (yeah, apparently that's a thing) and then another time the tail end of this really dark Sonic movie. I got up earlier and earlier and never once caught a full movie. 😆
I was very good at reading the TV guide and planning due to the "one show" rule.
@futurebird We had no such rule — but also no TV guide. And, of course, no Internet.
(I suppose it may have been possible to look things up on one of those intranet services. Compuserve or AOL or whatever we were on back then, but I wasn't allowed to use those because apparently they were very expensive — by the minute I think even...)
Oh I'd go and read the TV guide at the grocery and not buy it.
This sounds like something out of a Dickens tale. LMAO.
I remember hoping "Super Mario" would be anime since Nintendo was from Japan... noooope
That TV had a chunky dial and there were 3 channels that worked. But here was Mario on one of the channels that worked... and in the tiny window when I could watch...
I thought I was going to at last find out what the deal with anime was...
I was so excited the first time I tuned in.
The first time.
@futurebird Hah, I didn't know what anime was at the time shows like Mario came on, but yeah they... definitely weren't... I mean wow...
It always feels weird to me someone writing for another person's characters. Even if it's dully licensed and such, it's weird.