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I would love to get them! I collect cartoons, and the only ones I've found over the years were really bad quality, low resolution rips of bad video tape recordings.
How the heck does one make a cartoon out of Frogger of all things?
Simple, you just adhere to the #1 rule about producing a TV show or movie about a video game: make it have absolutely nothing to do with the video game.Originally Posted by Edmond Dantes
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Frogger is Konami-owned, but Sega had the U.S. trademark rights at the time.
As to Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior, it was initially syndicated by MCA-TV (today called NBC Universal Television) as part of Universal Studios' initial victory in its lawsuit against Nintendo regarding the conceptual rights to DK, owing to their view that Nintendo had ripped off the plot of Universal's 1933 film, King Kong. But when Nintendo finally triumphed over Universal in this suit in 1985, I'd guess the syndie rights to these segments are now controlled by Warner Bros. (via Turner Entertainment).
Kangaroo was originally released in Japan by Sun Electronics (later Sunsoft), but licensed to Atari in the U.S.
~Ben
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It's pretty surprising that the DK/DK jr portions never got some sort of home video release over the years. Maybe it's something between the rights holder of the toons and Nintendo making it unfeasible. Sort of like how for so long Fox and WB/DC disagreements (now resolved) kept the original Batman off DVD.
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I kind of liked the Space Ace cartoon. Dragon's Lair, not so much.
Between whoever owns Cinematronics' properties, Digital Leisure, Don Bluth studios, Hanna Barbara and so on, I imagine there's some licensing kerfuffle that prevents a Space Ace cartoon DVD release.
Rubik's Cube had a cartoon...
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