The 10 Worst Cartoons Spawned By Videogames

The 1980s was a golden age of videogames, with the advent of the video arcade, the rise (and fall, and subsequent rise again) of the home gaming market, and the beginnings of videogames being accepted into the popular culture. This was also the era of Star Wars, and its behemoth marketing campaign that essentially made it common and acceptable practice to sell absolutely anything to children. It wasn’t long before the videogame industry realized Lucas had the right idea.

It started off rather innocuously, with things like Pac-Man t-shirts, lunch boxes, plush toys and one-hit wonders. But in a time where arcades were often considered seedy dens of debauchery where delinquents hung out while ditching school; parents weren’t likely to allow their children to spend time in their local electric coliseum. With the home gaming market taking off in the early ’80s, it wasn’t long before the videogame industry targeted youth with what could be considered crack cocaine for ’80s kids: Cartoons.

With the large amount of cartoons that were produced in the ’80s both here and abroad, the quality of some of them was bound to be questionable — for every The Real Ghostbusters, Centurions or Robotech, you had a Turbo Teen. But when it came to cartoons based on arcade and console classics, it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of them were total crap. The following are some of the absolute worst cartoons that originated from videogames.

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