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[Saber]

That thread is a museum that belongs to a museum.

Yeah, I remember this cartoon pretty much like I remember Swatcatz. Has a kinda of darky episode, the one they showed when they lost their limbs.

 

[DonMigs85]

This, Swat Kats and Street Sharks were great

 

[nkarafo]

In my country we were fed with whatever US cartoons were succesful. This one i didn't even know existed.

 

[lock2k]

In my country we were fed with whatever US cartoons were succesful. This one i didn't even know existed.

Here in Brazil all of the cartoons mentioned in the thread were broadcasted

 

[Fake]

I love watching this cartoon as kid. This and Cowboys of Moo.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Loved it. It was one of my favorite shows back then. Never tried the SNES game, though. With that being said, someone should make a "good" game based on that franchise. But what genre would it be? Some kind of Brawler x Road Rash hybrid?

The SNES game was outstanding. That may have been my first exposure, I remember playing it at my cousins house as a youngin'. More fun than a solid 70% of games today.

I watched it because it was on tv. It was not a fun/good show though.

We got to work on getting actual hate speech banned around here.

How did you grow up without ending up being Furries?

I had a father.

Also my mom wasn't some feminist hippy and would have rightfully judged me.

In my country we were fed with whatever US cartoons were succesful. This one i didn't even know existed.

It was successful. 3 seasons, a reboot in 06 (never watched this), toys, a SNES game AND a ps2 game (that nobody has mentioned so far, but I own). Your country lied to you.

 

[GymWolf]

As a motorcycle lovers i loved this shit when i was young, my favourite was the guy with the metal arm and the eyepatch.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

How did you grow up without ending up being Furries?

Novel concept: kids from that time were able to distinguish between reality and fiction.

 

[Thing on a Spring]

BMFM was okay but It was no 'Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.'

 

[Kev Kev]

i do not rememeber these mars mice

i am however quite familiar with ah one motorcycle ralph!

 

[Porcile]

I had the set of Street Sharks toys. Those were dope.

 

[RokkanStoned]

I watched most of the 90s cartoons, so yeah, remember Biker Mice from Mars as well.

How about James Bond Jr?

 

[MMaRsu]

Hell yeah

 

[iPaul93]

I do.I even had a few action figures.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Novel concept: kids from that time were able to distinguish between reality and fiction.

It's a novel concept, for sure.

Kids from the following gen never actually realized you could reach adulthood.

i do not rememeber these mars mice

i am however quite familiar with ah one motorcycle ralph!

I feel like this was the crossover that NEEDED to happen, but didn't.

I had the set of Street Sharks toys. Those were dope.

Street Shark toys are another wonderful example of how much more awesome our action figures were. Like $10, and insane amounts of detail combined with not being pathetic and microscopic. Those Street Shark toys were so dang detailed and so cool. I still have mine... somewhere.

I watched most of the 90s cartoons, so yeah, remember Biker Mice from Mars as well.

How about James Bond Jr?

Ok. As an AVID Bond fan, who is a fan of the books (actually in the long process of reading through every single Bond book ever, currently), and has seen every movie and played most of the games....


How did I never know this was a thing?!

 

[Alex Anderson]

I'd jam out to the James Bond Jr. theme then change the channel. Never saw an ep. Was it any good?

 

[gow3isben]

Lol those jacked up gym deadlifter anthro cartoons always made me laugh when i was a kid

Bikers Mice
Thundercatz
Street Sharks
Battletoads
TMNT

Hell yeah dude.

Also Swat Katz baby!

 

[UnNamed]

Biker Mice, Street Shark, Mighty Max and NOT Gargoyles?

The greatest cartoon ever.

Spoiler

I loved Mighty Max though

 

[lock2k]

Biker Mice, Street Shark, Mighty Max and NOT Gargoyles?

The greatest cartoon ever.

Spoiler

I loved Mighty Max though

Gargoyles was awesome

 

[MetalAlien]

So I was watching Freddy's Dead a sequel to Nightmare on Elm St yesterday and after the movie I always like to run to imdb to see what other movies the cast has done and looky what the star of the movie has done. She did voice work on Biker Mice From Mars...

Stay out of my head GAF!

Lisa Zane.

Lisa Zane | Actress, Writer, Music Department

Known for: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, The Nurse, Monkeybone

www.imdb.com

Also Billy Zane's older sister.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Biker Mice, Street Shark, Mighty Max and NOT Gargoyles?

The greatest cartoon ever.

Spoiler

I loved Mighty Max though

I liked Gargoyles. About a year ago, found a sealed VHS for it I had that came with a toy. I was a spoiled kid. I had no idea it was a Disney show as a kid, so when I found that VHS and it said "Disney's Gargoyles" I was sort of caught off guard.

You can watch complete episodes on youtube for Gargoyles as well!

 

[rorepmE]

What about Mutant League? It was badass.

use to come on right after biker mice.

for me it was exosquad, biker nice then mutant league in the weekday mornings.

 

[teezzy]

Sorry dude, I was too busy watching Mummies Alive

 

[rorepmE]

Preferred Swat cats

How did you grow up without ending up being Furries?

Good question...

 

[bronk]

How did you grow up without ending up being Furries?

Easy! I didn't want to fuck the Biker Mice.

 

[RokkanStoned]

I feel like the topic is on this page edging in on "Would you fuck an anthro if they existed?".

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Another awesome 80s/90s cartoon nobody talks about...

Voltron!

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Bumping, but since it was also mentioned in this thread - Street Sharks is currently on Tubi for free:

Street Sharks

After the devious Dr. Paradigm transforms a group of brothers into mutant sharks, the teens use their new powers to go up against the mad scientist.

tubitv.com

Enjoy your nostalgia!

 

[DKPOWPOW]

Also had a surprisingly good SNES game

I remember playing this game as a kid, it kicked ass.

I barely remember the show, though I know I liked it as a kid. Loved the game, even my Dad played it with me! Good memories.

 

[ShirAhava]

Everyday before school Biker Mice from Mars, mighty max and two shows most people forgot but were the shit

Highlander


King Arthur

 

[TGO]

 

[Artoris]

I remember watching it not one of my favorites though

 

[Paasei]

I remember the title very well. Also the intro song. Can’t really remember myself watching it fully. I was into TMNT and Street Sharks.

Watching TV was never a big thing for me in my childhood. Most of indoor activities consisted of playing with toys like Lego and cars (siku brand) and playing (board)games. For the remainder we played outside.

In that sense I missed a lot of great TV cartoons.

Question to those who remember: There was a cartoon I do not remember the name of. The intro of the show was some sort of tunnel with a camera navigating through it. The walls were black with green lit edges and once in a while some would turn into a screen showing scenes. Anyone knows what I’m talking about and knows the name?

 

[AyraSutoraifu]

I watched it because it was on tv. It was not a fun/good show though.

Hated it... stupid mice riding stupidly on buildings...

 

[DKehoe]

Question to those who remember: There was a cartoon I do not remember the name of. The intro of the show was some sort of tunnel with a camera navigating through it. The walls were black with green lit edges and once in a while some would turn into a screen showing scenes. Anyone knows what I’m talking about and knows the name?

The Real Adventures Of Johnny Quest

 

[0neAnd0nly]

I remember the title very well. Also the intro song. Can’t really remember myself watching it fully. I was into TMNT and Street Sharks.

Watching TV was never a big thing for me in my childhood. Most of indoor activities consisted of playing with toys like Lego and cars (siku brand) and playing (board)games. For the remainder we played outside.

In that sense I missed a lot of great TV cartoons.

Question to those who remember: There was a cartoon I do not remember the name of. The intro of the show was some sort of tunnel with a camera navigating through it. The walls were black with green lit edges and once in a while some would turn into a screen showing scenes. Anyone knows what I’m talking about and knows the name?

The Real Adventures Of Johnny Quest

Beat me to it! One of my absolute all time FAVORITE cartoons as a kid, the original JQ too.

Somewhere I have all the little Pizza Hut toys from the 90s for the RAoJQ… man those were the days… poor kids today. Absolute garbage they are left with.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I liked these two and mighty max

 

[Hawking Radiation]

I liked these two and mighty max

Fucking Conan was the shit. I never missed an episode lol

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Awww... She was my first crush in Kindergarden

And Gadget from Chip & Dale.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

With cartoons being so lame today, and having even lamer titles (Adventure Time! How not generic!), who remembers one of the most BA cartoons of the 90s, Biker Mice from Mars?

if you didn’t experience this absolute joy, it is about Mice. From Mars. Who ride alpha motorcycles. And they have robotic arms / weapons that shoot stuff. Need I say more?

Plus the character design(s) were amazing. Such a great show, with even greater toys. These kids today don’t know how awesome action figures of the 90s were.



Here is episode 1, for the uninitiated:

Plot twist.


I always thought Vinnie was the main protagonist of the series...

By the way, I always hated Street Sharks.

And I hated that series where a young drove vehicles.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

This series for me was a festival of sleepiness.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Look, if we're going back to talk about the awesome but forgotten toons of the 90s, we HAVE to bring up the darkest of early 90s children animation (in America), Mighty Max

Of the 52 episodes the show had, about 70% of them began with someone out right dying. Not hinted at dying, not assumed dead. The show made sure you knew this person was dead.



In the first minute a man is murdered by a three headed werewolf and we are shown, as kids no less, the blood stains and chalked outline of the body.

And the entirety of "Bring me the head of Mighty Max" gave me nightmares as a kid, fucking relentless horror



Outside of it's dark nature, the show still holds up. There are a few things dating it, mainly Max's clothes and hair, but he rarely uses 90's lingo, rarely in take in 90s pass times and most of the show focuses on situations outside of anything that could really date it. Whats more the animation holds up way too well for a show based on a toy (that failed no less). Even shows like transformers and TMNT had tons of animation errors, repeated animations and blatant shortcuts, but Might Max looked to have a budget that allowed it to have nearly Disney (TV) animation. The heavy shadow artwork screams 90's edgy comic books, but really works for the tone the show is aiming for and works masterfully as tones and colors change.

And the voice talent, my god, both Tony Ja AND Tim Curry, how can you go wrong with that combination (the first person to say Mighty Ducks is getting punched).

The show was overall great but the short run, failed toy and lack of syndication caused it to fall by the wayside, and that is just terrible.

I never knew why Mighty Max never had a TV series release in Mexico, not even the Snes video game... We only had the small figures.

 

[Outlier]

Awww... She was my first crush in Kindergarden

And Gadget from Chip & Dale.

SPC was my favorite 90s cartoon (next to Sonic SatAM). I re-watched all the episodes on YT years ago and... Ooof. A childs mind doesn't experience things like an adults. Not as good as I remember.

 

[GymWolf]

I do.

They were not as cool as the street sharks vut they were aight.

 

[GymWolf]

Also had a surprisingly good SNES game

There was another snes game based on a furry cartoon with masked cats but i can't fucking remember the name...

 

[TintoConCasera]

I remember it existed and might have watched a few episodes but, being born in '91, I think I was more into CN stuff like Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Lab.

There were some comic-based cartoons which where pretty cool too, specially the Batman one imo, although Spider-Man and Iron Man were cool too. Oh and the X-men! Pretty cool shows.



This one was kino too:

 

[Big Baller]

There was another snes game based on a furry cartoon with masked cats but i can't fucking remember the name...

Thundercats? Samurai Pizza cats? Swat Kats?

 

[GymWolf]

Thundercats? Samurai Pizza cats? Swat Kats?

Swat kats yes, i loved the snes game.

The main theme was a banger.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

I remember it existed and might have watched a few episodes but, being born in '91, I think I was more into CN stuff like Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Lab.

There were some comic-based cartoons which where pretty cool too, specially the Batman one imo, although Spider-Man and Iron Man were cool too. Oh and the X-men! Pretty cool shows.



This one was kino too:

I think a lot of us were born in that general time, and yes - those shows too. The reason I created the thread and singled out BMFM and other ones like Street Sharks have been posted is because they were a little less mainstream than BTAS and the like, had awesome toys, and were just insanely unique ideas that we just don't see today.

But the thread has totally become just a great resource for past cartoons, so there is absolutely nothing wrong with posting anything else either! All the stuff you posted is cool, BTAS and original X-MEN are absolutely gems, well don't and transcend time. Relevant and great for all generations.

 

[The Fartist]

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