The Power Team (TV series)

The Power Team
Created by	Bohbot Entertainment
Starring	Michael Donovan Lee Jeffrey Terry Klassen Jason Michas Richard Newman John Novak Dale Wilson
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	55
Production
Running time	15 minutes
Release
Original release	1990 – 1992

The Power Team is an animated series that aired along with the video game reviewing show Video Power. Steven Martiniere was the director and Jack Olesker was the developer and story editor. The cartoon series was produced by Bohbot Entertainment. The show reran on USA Network as Acclaim Masters.

The cartoon show featured characters from Acclaim video games, although Acclaim never actually created these games, but merely published the home console versions. They included Max Force from NARC (originally an arcade game by Williams, ported to the NES by Rare), Kuros from The Wizards and Warriors series (originally created by Rare), Kwirk from the game of the same name (originally by Atlus), Tyrone from Arch Rivals (originally by Midway) and BigFoot from the game of the same name (developed by Beam Software, and based on the famous monster truck). The cartoon show also featured a cartoon version of the host of Video Power, Johnny Arcade, as they fought against villains from the Acclaim lineup, mainly Mr. Big from NARC, although Malkil from Wizards and Warriors or Kwirk's enemies from his own game occasionally appeared as well.

The show seemed intended to capitalize on the audience of Captain N: The Game Master, another DIC series by having a real-world teenager lead a team of video game heroes, but took the opposite tack by having the game characters come to the real world. A common device on the show was the characters trying to recover the “game paks” from Mr. Big which would send them home. Mr. Big would actually use the Game Paks to try to blast the characters back home during their battles. While this is what the heroes wanted, had Mr. Big sent them home, they'd leave Mr. Big in the real world to cause havoc without any competition. He has Joe Rockhead and Spike working for him, 2 other NARC boss characters, as well as a counter to Big Foot, a living monster truck named Burnt Rubber. During battles, Johnny would use a special communication device that looked like an NES Advantage controller to direct the Power Team members from his room.

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