The Contentious History of Captain N: The Show Nintendo Wishes You’d Forget

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   @lcceo22

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   I loved this show as a kid. Looking back, it didn’t hold up well at all.

   But I didn’t know any better back then.

   Hell, I didn’t have a Nintendo and had only played Mario and Duck Hunt at my cousin’s house at the time. So it gave me some sort of window into these games and characters at a time that I wasn’t able to experience the actual games.

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   @danielwilliamson6180

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   I remember Captain N. Tron meets The Wizard of Oz.

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   @marknelson4856

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   I absolutely loved this cartoon as a kid. also the Mario brothers show especially when the Zelda cartoon was on. good shit to remember 🫡

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   @jackthemagick

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   🥳🥳

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   @mittensfastpaw

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   I remember as a kid and fan of Metroid I did not like the show. I hated the way Mother Brain looked. So I ended up not liking it and turning away.

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   @CEOdawg

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   Am I the only person who, as a kid, wanted to have a side-scrolling game version of Captain N as a game for my Nintendo or SNES?

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   @roelbernal8471

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   The show is the first isekai to the videogame world trope?

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   @raptorkvn

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   I loved this show. His name was Kevin, my name is Kevin. He loved Nintendo, I loved Nintendo. I wanted to be him so bad!

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   @JohnsOverwatchVods

   January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

   Hello Bearded Mr Bean 😂

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    @cw4143

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Nintendo's first isekai.

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    @AfterX1

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    if this ever gets remade into Live Action, MatPat NEEDS to be Captain N…. but thats just a theory.

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    @latinelover24

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    i remember this old show called Video Power that had a cartoon segment with characters from Arch Rivals, Kwirk, Big Foot and N.A.R.C.

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    @blackhogarth4049

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    I was hyped for this show when it first came out. I loved Castlevania, so I was highly disappointed that Simon was made into the comic relief.

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    @magicpowers9240

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    I remember Simon Belmont pulling Donkey Kong's big toe nail off x.x that shit still makes me cringe to this day

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    @dominaxx

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Please, what specific newspaper article is depicted a 3:55 in the video? I'd very much like to read the original article.

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    @CoryWilson

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Loved this cartoon when I was a kid. Seeing it now though, pretty cringe lol. Some things aren't as good as you remember them

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    @Powherkrangunch

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    I'm glad to hear that this cartoon series is on YouTube. I'm going to look up Wildbrain very soon. Captain N was a fantastic icon! Wow, thank you for another great cartoon history lesson. I loved this cartoon, flaws and all, and Princess Lania was cute, too!

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    @christophernunn77

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    I loved it. Danger zone playing while chasing Dracula. Awesome.

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    @denimdan908

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Captain N was a quintessential part of my childhood

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    @dangerdan79

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Kid Icarus was GAETA?!?!

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    @FreakGeSt

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    If you thing about it, it was weird Samus never apeared in the show because Mother Brain was the main villian.

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    @JakeRockwell7

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    This sounds like a really inappropriate Superhero name.

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    @ZaireMafia

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    It seems the podcast link is dead, both in the description and the qr code

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    @ArmageddonFarts

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Ha! I'll never forget this show. It was the highlight of my Saturdays for a year.

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    @BonusEggs4Sale

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Never look up what happened to the writer of Valiant's Zelda and Captain N (and Mario, too, I think) comics unless you want to be super bummed out

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    @BonusEggs4Sale

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Love my 80s American isekais

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    @noway9081

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    I'll never forget the episode when Link and Zelda showed up. Every other one was trash 😂

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    @BrandonCarson-b3e

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Fun house put out good cartoons

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    @4ll4nb31l

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    where did you get that jacket?

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    @thyreapermc5948

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Have you seen many of the original cover art for these characters?

    Having a simple, cost effective art style to animate is how the stories were told.

    This and Mario Bros was stupid fun… Did you know live action Luigi gives the Italian neck flick during an argument? Can't remember the episode. But Cap Lou as Mario.. Or animated Link being so moxy…

    Ahhh good, bad memories.

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    @TheTrout9000

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    randomly clicked on this because of Captain N and was rewarded with an Answer for It shout out. If you're down with those clowns, I'm down with you.

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    @ShyGuy83

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    I have an old Polaroid picture showing a frame of one of the Season 2 episodes on my old TV in the living room of my old house that I took when I was 8 years old in 1991. In the foreground is both the Nintendo and Super Nintendo systems. At the time when I took it, it was just a regular photo, but now it's considered a rare piece of 90s history.

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    @JSchroederee

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Nintendo
    It's two cereals in one

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    @imwithGRAIG

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    This was the ish u a hatter danny

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    @JermineMaxwell-k5t

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    What's hilarious is if you had a power glove you know that shit was terrible

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    @ahuhahuhahuh0

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    N

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    @williamangeles9761

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    Imagine a video game made of Captain N starring all video game characters.

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    @flindude2681

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    For some reason captain N was being talked about on the kino casino, and they assumed the N was not for Nintendo.

    "wooooohoooooo buddy"

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    @Andres33AU

    January 23, 2026 at 12:52 am

    I remember watching the Super Mario Bros Supershow, but this one slipped me by (I was very young too) but I find it hilarious how Mega Man is not only green, but sounds like a pack-a-day chain smoker, lol.

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