Remembering Captain N: The Game Master, Gaming's First Multiverse
You folks remember the first time Simon Belmont, Mega Man, and Pit all fought together? Oh, it wasn’t Smash Bros. It was something far weirder and far worse.
Get into the time machine, losers, because we’re going back to an era when nobody gave a shit about any of this. An age before style guides and game bibles locked down the look and feel of every IP in video games. A time when Simon Belmont could be a fussy narcissist and Mega Man was both green and shouted the word “Mega” in every sentence. Also, they referred to Pit as “Kid Icarus” because - again - nobody gave a shit.
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Welcome to Captain N: The Game Master, a show that ran from 1989 to 1991 and maybe nobody but me remembers.
This was a real Saturday Morning Cartoon, folks. In fact, you can still watch almost all of it on YouTube because I’m certain nobody cares. Whoever owns the IP is either dead or too scared to bring this show back because it might be too good.
I’m also going to make an uneducated swing and say it’s also gaming’s first multiverse.
And by “multiverse,” I don’t just mean team-up. It was a multiverse creatively called Videoland, which sounds less like an interconnected hub of game universes and more like a place you used to rent VHS tapes before your grandmother died. Still, if you want the primordial version of the mandatory crossover hell we now live in, this is it.
The story goes like this: The main character is a teenager named Kevin who’s sucked into his television, I guess by way of his Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s never really clear. Also, his dog goes with him because why not. Kevin finds himself inside the games, where the beautiful Princess Toadstool Zelda Lana asks
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