Captain N: The Game Master
| Captain N: The Game Master | |
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| Genre |
Action Adventure Comedy |
| Directed by | Michael Maliani (Season 1) Chuck Patton (Season 2) John Grusd (Season 3) Kit Hudson (live-action sequences) |
| Voices of |
Garry Chalk Ian James Corlett Scott McNeil Michael Donovan Matt Hill Alessandro Juliani Andrew Kavadas Doug Parker Levi Stubbs Venus Terzo Frank Welker David Kaye Tomm Wright |
| Composer(s) |
Haim Saban (Season 1) Shuki Levy (Season 1) Michael Tavera (Season 2–3) |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 34 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Andy Heyward |
| Producer(s) | Michael Maliani (Season 1; supervising producer, Season 2) John Grusd (Season 3) Jamie Edlin (live-action sequences) |
| Editor(s) | Lars Floden (Season 1) William P. Magee (Season 1) Warren Taylor (Season 2) Mark A. McNally (Season 2–3) Susan Odjakjian (Season 2–3) Mel Ashkenas (Season 3) Jill Goularte (Season 3) |
| Running time | 22 minutes (Season 1–2) 11 minutes (Season 3) |
| Production company(s) |
DIC Entertainment Saban Productions (Season 1 only) Nintendo of America, Inc. |
| Distributor | DIC Entertainment Shout! Factory (North America DVD) |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 9, 1989 – October 26, 1991 |
Captain N: The Game Master is an American–Canadian animated television series that aired on television from 1989 to 1991 as part of the Saturday morning cartoon lineup on NBC. The show is produced by DIC Entertainment and incorporated elements from many of the most popular video games of the time from the Japanese company Nintendo. There was also a comic book version by Valiant Comics, despite only featuring characters from games produced by Nintendo. The show is also part of an hour-long block in Season 2 with The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and with Super Mario World in Season 3 in a half-hour block.
The character Captain N first appeared in Nintendo Power magazine, created by a Nintendo staff member and magazine editor named Randy Studdard (who presented Nintendo with a formal proposal that included the character as a company spokes-character, the origin and premise, and the Saturday morning cartoon as part of the entire marketing campaign). The original concept involved Captain N (originally known as "Captain Nintendo") as a Nintendo employee and the Mother Brain as piece of programming from a Nintendo game pak (that was infused in an explosion with experimental "organic" ROMs) that went rogue. Captain N had the power to temporarily give life to characters and items from Nintendo games. The story left a door open for a sequel (Mother Brain is temporarily defeated but her return was said to be inevitable, and Captain N vows to stop her when the time comes). Nintendo of America, Inc. later decided to follow Studdard's ideas and create a cartoon series, opting neither to credit nor to compensate its creator. DIC Entertainment was shopped as the animation studio, and changed various aspects of the original idea while keeping the main premise of the Captain opposing Mother Brain as he interacted with a number of video game characters.
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