As a fellow GenX'er, I remember "He-man", "She-Ra", "ThunderCats" and "SilverHawks" upon which most of the character designs in this game appear to be inspired from, were all Filmation (Sadly, now a defunct animation studio) animated series that were aired on weekday afternoons around after 3:00PM when schools had ended for the day (By no coincidence), Monday to Friday rather than on Saturday Mornings. This game's style is better described as more like a "pseudo '80s action, RPG game".
Either the dev wasn't alive as a kid back in the eighties and thus didn't know about the broadcast schedules of those animated series or he caved into marketing (i.e - "Saturday Morning cartoons" sound better from a marketing perspective than "Weekday Afternoon Cartoons")~! That was a trip back through "Memory Lane" for me. LOL! 😉 😀
BTW , I remember "Kidd Video" being aired on NBC on Saturday Mornings! It had a short run - I think that it only lasted for a year or two. 🙂
Ah. I remember "Rubick: The Amazing Cube" when it was on NBC on Saturday mornings. I think it aired before the timeslot that was set for "Alvin and The Chipmunks" which was another one of my favorites. Of course, there have been tons of games based off of the Bagdasarian/Ruby-Spears animated series. 😎👍
It's too bad that the Chipettes didn't have their own spin-off series. IMHO, some of the Chipmunks episodes featuring the Chipettes as the lead characters, like in the one with the chipettes' origin story, had good stories in them. 😉
Agreed. Bagdasarian could've cashed in on a spin-off. Either he wasn't confident that a spin-off series would be successful enough to stand on its own or perhaps he was afraid that it would be too much of a success and overshadow the original series, cannibalizing the original one by taking away some of the original's viewers in cases where new episodes of the spin-off would air simultaneously against episodes from the original series that are re-reun on another channel in syndication. 😎👍
I was able to find a wiki page that says that in 1990, The Chippettes kind of got their own spin-off animated series. I say "kind of" because they did return but were re-imaged in human form instead of their original form. The show was called "The Singstars Girls" (See here). It's no wonder we missed it. The characters looked nothing like the familiar Chippettes of the '80s. It only lasted one season (No surprise). So, technically there was a spin-off but to die-hard fans, it's not really a spin-off. 😉
Really confused at what your saying here. He-man, Gi-Joe, Transformers, She-Ra, The Raccoon's were all my Saturday Mornings growing up. Like, this is peak Saturday morning cartoons. I honestly have no idea what Silver Hawks is though, dont think ive ever seen that.
Yt : https://youtu.be/-sgPgqph3SM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQS1cgsEdU
Either the dev wasn't alive as a kid back in the eighties and thus didn't know about the broadcast schedules of those animated series or he caved into marketing (i.e - "Saturday Morning cartoons" sound better from a marketing perspective than "Weekday Afternoon Cartoons")~! That was a trip back through "Memory Lane" for me. LOL!
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BTW , I remember "Kidd Video" being aired on NBC on Saturday Mornings! It had a short run - I think that it only lasted for a year or two.
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I was able to find a wiki page that says that in 1990, The Chippettes kind of got their own spin-off animated series. I say "kind of" because they did return but were re-imaged in human form instead of their original form. The show was called "The Singstars Girls" (See here). It's no wonder we missed it. The characters looked nothing like the familiar Chippettes of the '80s. It only lasted one season (No surprise). So, technically there was a spin-off but to die-hard fans, it's not really a spin-off.
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I honestly have no idea what Silver Hawks is though, dont think ive ever seen that.