• Air date: 08 Sep '90 14 episodes
      Captain N: The Game Master is a joint-venture between American-Canadian animated television series that aired on television from 1989 to 1991 as part of the Saturday morning cartoon lineup on NBC. The show is produced by DIC Entertainment and incorporated elements from many of the most popular video games from the Japanese company, Nintendo of the time. There was also a comic book version by Valiant Comics, albeit only featuring characters from games produced by Nintendo. The show is also part of an hour-long block in Season 2 with The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and with Super Mario World in Season 3 in a half-hour block.
  • List of Episodes (14)
    • 1. Gameboy

      08 Sep '90
      King Charles is about to come home through a warp zone that only opens every 1000 video years. But he decides to send a supercomputer called Game Boy in his place. Game Boy turns out to be nothing but trouble for the N-Team. Mother Brain gets Game Boy, and Dr. Wily turns him into Game Brain. When the N Team comes to Metroid to rescue Game Boy, Game Brain sends monsters after them. Duke comes to the rescue, pulling the cords out of Game Boy with his teeth! The monsters disappear. Back at the
    • 2. Queen of the Apes

      22 Sep '90
      The N-Team is invited to Kongoland by Prince Plenty. Dr. Wily invents a brain swapper so Mother Brain can get a body. She chooses Princess Lana as the donor. However, when they go to Kongoland, Donkey Kong kidnaps Mother Brain and Game Boy. The brain swapper is accidentally attached and activated. Donkey Kong gets Game Boy's body, Game Boy gets Mother Brain's body, and Mother Brain get Donkey Kong's body. Simon and Kevin go to find ""Gape Boy"", Kid Icarus and Mega Man search for Game Boy's
    • 3. Quest for the Potion of Power

      29 Sep '90
      Across the vastness of Videoland, on the magical world of Hyrule, years have past since the fall of the evil wizard Gannon, and peace reigned throughout the land. Until one dark day, rumor spread that the evil Gannon would rise again. That becomes true. Kevin and the N Team head to Hyrule to meet Kevin's favorite game hero Link and Princess Zelda. Mother Brain gives the Potion of Power to Gannon that restores the evil wizard to his rightful form. Mother Brain tries to get Gannon to serve her,
    • 4. The Trouble With Tetris

      13 Oct '90
      The N-Team is playing a shooting game, while Mother Brain, King Hippo, and Eggplant Wizard watch on Metroid. The game ends, and they're about to go back to the Palace, when the Warp Wagon is pulled down to the world of Tetris by a powerful force. Mother Brain sends Hippo and Eggy to Tetris to find the source of that power, so she can get it for herself. It turns out that on Tetris, everything is square- and cubed-shaped. The N-Team is greeted by Mayor Squaresly, who declares today ""Her Royal
    • 5. The Big Game

      20 Oct '90
      Dr. Wily discovers competition energy. He creates a power vacuum to collect it. After running a test, he plans to use it to power his Warp Zone Shifter and send the N Team into the Earthquake Warp Zone. At the Palace of Power, Kevin is homesick. Mega Man builds a skateboard for Kevin to cheer him up. Dr. Wily lures the N Team to California Games by letting Kevin think he won a contest. Dr. Wily and his robots go to California Games and set up base in a hot dog stand. As the N Team has fun
    • 6. The Lost City of Kongoland

      10 Nov '90
      The Lost City of Kongoland rises after a thousand years. Along with it comes a treasure belonging to Konga, the leader of the Ancient Konkas, who had a magical power over plants. Meanwhile, at the Palace of Power, Lana fears she's not forceful enough to be Ruler of VideoLand. Prince Plenty (from ""Queen of the Apes"") informs the N-Team of the treasure, and Lana vows to destroy it. Mother Brain also learns of the treasure and plans to steal it after the N-Team finds it. The treasure turns out to
    • 7. Once Upon a Time Machine

      17 Nov '90
      While on a picnic on Hyrule, Kevin's Power Pad and Zapper are stolen. Kevin and Link follow the thieves through a warp zone. They end up going through time with a cat named Pero. He's trying to get back to his own time. The thieves are using Kevin's weapons to power their time machine. Kevin eventually gets them back. He and Link return to Hyrule, leaving Pero to get back to his own time on his own.
    • 8. The Feud of Faxanadu

      24 Nov '90
      While playing football, the N Team warps to Faxanadu, which is the home of two races: the Elves and the Dwarves. While trying to get back home, Kevin and Simon decide it would be more fun to see who gets back home faster, so they divide into teams. Each team is led to believe that the Elves or the Dwarves stole a powerful crystal from the other race. Only Lana has enough sense to know that the others are behaving like little kids. Then, a being known as The Evil One gets the crystal. With it, he
    • 9. Having a Ball

      01 Dec '90
      King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard go through a warp zone and eventually, after an unliked stop and realized that they were on the warp to oblivion, arrive in Hyrule. It is midnight in Hyrule and, in the throne room, the two idiots arrive. King Hippo falls onto the ground and Eggplant Wizard onto him. King Hippo tries to find the paper with the spell to release the Triforce but is unable to. He tries to recite it from memory, but is unable to. He triggers the Triforce's defense systems and they run
    • 10. The Trojan Dragon

      08 Dec '90
      Dragons have stolen the Palace's Sun Stone to hatch the legendary Golden Dragon, which will become a mighty warrior. While Gameboy keeps the Palace's systems running, the rest of the N Team head to Dragon's Den. In order to sneak in, they construct a giant wooden dragon with the help of Link and Princess Zelda. When Dragon Lord discovers them, he places the Cursed Necklace on Simon which will draw the Golden Dragon to him when it hatches. Lana uses magic fairy water to remove it and Simon places
    • 11. I Wish I Was a Wombatman

      15 Dec '90
      Kid Icarus is a big fan of Wombatman, VideoLand's version of Batman. When they see the TV studio under attack by a giant robot, the N Team warps to the TV studio's video world and defeats the robot. One woman, who looks like a squid, develops a crush on Simon, but he feels very uneasy around her! When Kid Icarus meets Wombatman and gets his autograph, he's crushed to learn that Wombatman doesn't do his own stunts anymore. Wombatman sends the N Team on a tour of the studio. It turns out Mother
    • 12. The Invasion of the Paper Pedalers

      22 Dec '90
      Dr. Wily goes to Kongoland to extract sap from trees. He uses it to make special hypnotic ink. Whoever read anything printed with the ink would be turned into a zombie whenever the words ""MOTHER BRAIN IS YOUR MASTER"" appeared in the text, and would have to obey Mother Brain's every command. Dr. Wily began taking over everyone on News World. A week later, the Paperboy, Julio, summons the N-Team to investigate. At first they're skeptical, but when Julio's mom gets turned into a zombie and tries
    • 13. Germ Wars

      29 Dec '90
      Kevin returns from Kongoland with a strange rock. Simon starts twirling it like a basketball, and it gives off a bright flash. Kevin ends up with blue strips on his face, and he swallowed his gum. Dr. Light is called to the Palace, and he says that Kevin has been bitten by a video virus. Kevin falls asleep, and inside Kevin's body, his life force does battle with Viroid. Because Kevin isn't from VideoLand, his body doesn't know how to fight off the video virus. Lana sends out a message to all of
    • 14. When Mother Brain Rules

      05 Jan '91
      A retrospective look on the time since Kevin Keene arrived in Videoland. Oddly, there were two versions...one with voices...and one (the first shown version) without. The entire tone of the episode makes it one of the most confusing episodes as it doesn't seem entirely restrospective in how it's done...thus making many wonder...with as many battles as we've won, did we lose the war?