yep, the 80s were the peak of culture. best cartoons, best comedies, best music, best action movies. it was the decade when puritanism died and people were free to express themselves.
I practically watched every single one of these cartoon series when they came out back in the 1980s. Man, I missed that time and all those cartoons on. What a decade.
I was born in the most magical era .... born on 76 I grown up watching all of those cartoons and they are still guarded inside my heart and helped to shape who I am today ❤️
It shaped who I am too. I’m 54 and a registered nurse. The other day, I tore my shirt off at the hospital at3am an yelled “I HAVE THE POWER”. Im suspended for two weeks without pay
He-Man, Thundercats, Voltron, G.I. Joe, Transformers, and the Ninja Turtles have all had comebacks. Some sucked, some didn't. Some had several comebacks, some only had one. But, they all had them.
I think Thundercats still belong. They only had one comeback and it was a good show that wasn't given a fair shake. Roar clearly doesn't count. Ninja Turtles has had constant adaptations over the years.
@@wantutosigh1117 Roar definitely doesn't count and I agree with you about the reboot. The Transformers have also had constant adaptations over the years.
Two most notable topics that Bravestarr addressed were drug use and how to cope with the feeling of betrayal when someone you look up to does something bad.
I may need to revisit this cartoon. I was way too young to get all the messages it had. My fondest memory of Bravestarr was me and my brother fighting over the cruddy toys we got of them. They were the taller figures that only had rotating arms and bending waste. We were spoiled by HeMan and GI joes by that point. Oh and we got the ugly bad guy instead bullseye.
I remember being hyped to take my bravestar figure to show and tell in kindergarden because it was so much bigger than other action figures at the time i thought that ment it was the strongest in a fight and could Defeat any challanger heman transformer gijoe ninja turtle etc
I practically watched every single one of these cartoon series when they came out back in the 1980s. Man, I missed that time and all those cartoons on. What a decade.
Also loved visionaries, starcom, teknoman, galaxy rangers. They don't make them like they used to. And theme songs were never better. Also not a cartoon, but captain power let you play against the tv show with light guns.
Loved Galaxy Rangers and Mighty Orbots….they actually did an awesome job with the new Thundercats a few years back before contract negotiations with the animation studio tanked the series
I was 10 in 1983 and really miss the Saturday morning cartoons there were the super friends, the Smurfs, snorks , Amazing Spiderman, gummy bears , Fragle Rock on HBO, Tarzan, not to mention all rerun cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Flintstone, Jabber Jaws,Magila the gorilla,Johnny Quest,the wacky races, Scooby Doo,so on and so on. kids now a days don't even get the super sugar filled cereals we had.
As a father of three I understand the harmful affects of sugar but by substituting sugar with other far more harmful sweeteners to comply with the government and to save a buck . Coincidentally all the childhood diseases have risen ever since just a coincidence isn't it.
@@davidfuertes1973 fair enough, you make a better point than mine. I'm sorry for having inconvenienced you with my self-righteousness. I'll try to think before I comment in the future. Thank you for your input
G.I. Joe originally came on in 1983 and 1984 as a miniseries before becoming a full syndicated series in 1985. Toei in Japan did the animation for the United States market. As for Transformers, Toei did the animation as well for our market. But it was so popular over here they brought the series to Japan and didn't even change the background music! It remained that way until we ended Transformers with the abridged Headmasters we did and the Japanese market went into a totally different direction with Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, and so many others. Inhumaniods! I loved that series! Gave me nightmares as a kid and I had to watch more of the series! I bought it on DVD many moons ago and still have it.
Most of these cartoons were created to support toy lines just like todays cartoons. Except then, we had the coolest most badass cartoons ever, and today kids... watch Peppa Pig.
And Spongebob.... Sorry future generations, don't blame the lack of badassery in current era cartoons on us, we didn't create them, we grew up back when Saturday mornings had kickass cartoons.
The snorks, the smurfs, jem and the holograms, rainbow Brite and the care bears were some of my favorites along with some on the ones in this list. Honestly, some of these cartoons I don't even remember! But, the ones I do remember, make me realize just how freaking awesome my childhood was!
@@rhinodonkey7339 I've seen all of them! And I was a little girl at the time. Sorry I didn't put down the ones you thought were the best! Stop being a damn idiot and judging people!
Even as a kid born in 89 I love a few of these shows as well as others from the 90s like X-Men and spiderman. Speed racer still holds a special place in my 💜❤️
Several of the ones you mentioned have already been re-booted/made several times for some of them: He Man and the Masters of the Universe, Voltron, Thundercats(although was mad it was only one season, it was great.), G.I. Joe, Transformers. Although, you mentioned several of the ones I would like, as well: The Centurions, Inhumanoids, Silverhawks, Defenders of the Earth, and D & D. I think some others deserve some love, like: Visionaries, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Captain N: the Game Master, The Power Team, Gravedale High, Kidd Video, Ronin Warriors(know it's anime.), Jem and the Holograms, The Legend of Zelda, The Go-Bots, and Beetlejuice lol.
Hopefully, if Warner Bros. does reboot Silverhawks, they have the right mind not to make it like Thundercats Roar). I like your ideas, however, I doubt we will see The Power Team rebooted due to using various video game characters from various arcade games that at the time were licensed to Acclaim to make NES ports, and Captain N would be cool, but chances are it would be mostly Nintendo characters if the company doing the reboot does not want to bother negotiating with Konami and Capcom to bring in Simon Belmont and Mega Man.
My favorite '80s cartoons were... Thunder the barbarian GI Joe He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Voltron Transformers Transzor Z Spider-Man and his amazing Friends ThunderCats Silverhawks
The MASK toys were my favorite, though I thought the BraveStar figures that could have lasertag gunfights were pretty neat too. The sidecar mini-sub from MASK was constantly skittering across the the kitchen floor as I had previously decided that the living room carpet was land and the kitchen linolium was an inland sea of some sort. Kid logic.
Growing up I didn't have much so I could only afford Piranha and Condor. I would look at the catalog and dreaming owning all of them since they were so cool.
The MASK stuff was so cool but did you ever see Sectaurs? That was pretty nuts too. 30 or so years have gone by I still vividly remember those cartoons and action figures.
I was born on 1985 where the age of pinnacle of these cartoons were there. Almost all of the lists i had watched during my childhood. Good ol’ Saturday mornings😂
"Bullets replaced with lasers because it was a kids' show". That made me giggle since I was 12 (1984). They aren't really lasers, they are more like a form of Star Trek's magical stun phasers. I was introduced to what lasers did, what they would do when I was 10. If a small portable weapon could fire an actual laser, it would burn right through the flesh, flame it out, and once it hit the liquid inside the body, that would instantly evaporate... cause that part to explode. Lasers would not be like a Star Wars lightsaber, like a super-hot knife that sears the wound from bleeding while cutting it. It would be like hitting you with an extremely explosive round that penetrates until it hits something that can boil then it goes BOOM. Those "lasers" were magical G-rated weapon fire, not lasers. Guns firing bullets would be far more kid-friendly than actual laser guns. Galaxy Rangers was one of my favorite cartoons at the time. It just eventually got too cheesed before it stopped being produced, probably why it died. So I guess why that cartoon didn't make this list. Defenders of the Earth, they upgraded Phantom from his canon, reduced Mandrake, simplified Ming and Flash's canon (omitted most of it), and for some reason made Flash respectable for that alliance as if the Defenders were an Avengers knock-off with Flash being Captain America. Aside from that, the writing was brilliant and totally made their own top-tier interesting canon... and it was an 80s cartoon, 80s cartoons really crapped on the source material by being too kiddy-kiddy for the most part. They totally need a comeback... NEED A COMEBACK! Well, and make Phantom their Black Panther/Batman type while removing the rich-and-powerful thing. Phantom had nothing but his brilliance, his total physical fitness, and his reputation of being unkillable because his role always has a prodigy, an understudy of sorts. He was the original Dread Pirate Roberts, metaphorically speaking. Transformers was a great cartoon and did the lovers of the toys justice... except how the cartoon painted the red van character and the white ambulance character, they looked like actual robots while the toys looked like abstract sculptures in robot form. They were the same basic structure but painted differently. So, when the movie came out, killing those characters was just a cleanup. Also, that movie made Megatron go from being a late WWII gun transformation to being Galvatron who just transforms into a cannon... the characters grew with the original fans. Too bad the modern Transformer movies murdered the original concept. The TMNT cartoon was great. However, the source material was far more adult and far darker... and it was originally a parody of comic book reality. It got popular fast and was highjacked by kid cartoon writers. Fortunately, Paladinium Books had a great original canon pen-and-paper tabletop role-playing game related to the original work. The TMNT cartoon was equal to the original TMNT canon as the Superfriends cartoon was to the Justice League comics. Also, they were "ninjas" who abided by the Bushido (way of the warrior) code and not Inindo (way of the ninja). My Karate teacher was red-faced enraged by any talk about the blurring between those lines. The Ninja/Shinobi and Bushi are not at all the same kind of people. The Ninja/Shinobi is more trixter and assassin than any kind of fighter if they can fight at all. Their code is more mercenary pragmatic as honor than "real honor", more "face" and what we consider something like legal privilege like that between attorney and his evil dastard of a client. Bushi fight and do so with honor, clear, and without ambiguity. They are actual warriors, honorable fighting people, those who wish to follow a more "heroic" path. Nobody abiding by Bushido *can* be a ninja by ethical fabric alone. But, I digress. It was a kids' show and I had space alien knowledge for my age, relatively speaking. I loved Voltron as a kid and that made me later hate Power Rangers. The Voltron stories were far more interesting and the Power Rangers always kept being like the "I'm a special wonderful kid" fantasy fulfillment that pansy kids ate up. When I learned that Voltron was a Power Rangers knock-off, I hated Power Rangers more... their mutant inbred kid was and is far better as a story core base. Voltron kept the door to adult things open and invited darker things, something that we could have grown with if Power Rangers didn't highjack the multiple-pilots giga-mech thing. It looked like the Pacific Rim movie, the first one, experimented with that. As for G.I.Joe, from the big "for boys" doll I got in the 70s as a kid to the 80s toys I collected as an older kid because of the cartoon, I was, am, and always will be a fan. I giggle at the "laser bullets" and how the bad guys always screamed "Cobra!" to this day. Cartoons at the time still needed it to be black hats and white hats when fighting, kids were still considered clever animals in the care of their parents at the time... sarcastically speaking. I mean, I learned the alphabet and how to spell before I even started school because of "clever" adults spelling out things they don't want us to hear... as if it was some kind of unbreakable code for kids who regularly watched Sesame Street and the Electric Company along with a lot of other things on PBS. But, I digress... the 90s Cobra movie with Cobralah (if that's how you spell it) giving some reasons for the GI Joe canon to make sense, that was awesome. When the recent movies came out, I was all for it... at first. Bruce Willis being the OG GI Joe, the original "for boys" doll, a soldier, totally cool. Most of the movie scripts, totally GI Joe cartoon upgraded to a movie. However, dusting Destro... not cool at all. The nano-machines that rebuilt his face helping him survive to future movies (or future cartoons) would be totally cool and make sense of his "chrome dome". As for He-Man, I think the original live-action flick decades ago killed that. He-Man's canon had many stories since then but, probably because of that movie, it never got popular enough for more than a few feature animated stories. As for Bravestar, a great cartoon. However, his horse that can turn into his humanoid partner probably killed the idea. I mean, think of you and who you are... but you can transform into what your partner can ride as a mount. Would you normally be in your partner's riding animal form until he needs you in your natural form? Nope. Bravestar was a minority human in a position of power not normally afforded to him with his "free" mount behaving like one who thinks he's equal... but behaving like a slave in the end. As kids, we always saw his horse as "When he does not need his horse to ride, his horse can just transform into his perfect partner! That 'Indian' is the perfect cowboy!" When you look at cartoons and kid sh^t as an adult, you see them far differently than you did as a kid. Pepe LePew is a sexually harassing guy who keeps attempting rape, a rapist type. Wile E Coyote is a stalker, the murderous type,, and a comically failed one... the comically failed thing on the regular makes it kid-friendly. Yosemite Sam is an over-the-top violent gun-nut. Oscar the Grouch is a homeless guy... before the new incarnation of the Sesame Street's homeless guy by this current generation... dipsh^ts. Big Bird's imaginary friend (Snuffy) was totally real when no one else was around. His character was the only one who helped kids break their delusions by such episodes painting both sides right. The only great Scooby-Doo cartoons were the pre-Scrappy-Doo cartoons where all the monsters were actually people. Once Scrappy-Doo came in, OG Scooby-Doo died and was replaced by its cancer clone. Mr. Roger's Neighborhood... we all learned tons of stuff from him... but, looking back, we can all also see he used his demons to his advantage in helping to teach us. He made his alt-world one of wonder that was kid-friendly, he conquered his disquiet place to be one of tranquility. To me, he's a legendary hero. Meh... too many things to refer to, and this is merely a comments TH-cam section. So, I digress. Centurions need both a reboot in toys and the cartoon. Transhumanism is the next issue and science fiction's job is to be head of that curve.
COPS is great...i have full series on official dvd release. Also M.A.S.K, SILVER HAWKS, SHE-RA, HE Man, BraveStarr, Galaxy Rangers, GI Joe all versions, Voltron, Tranformers all versions, Thundercats, Swat Kats, Mummies Alive, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Centurions, Jonny Quest all versions, Dungeons and Dragons, TMNT, and many more...still a kid at heart 😎
@@CrimsonThorns me too! I also have Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, Damger Mouse, Avatar and Legend of Kora, Batman: The Animated Series, plus many of the ones you said! Cartoons today are not the same nor as good.
@@americansuperdad5769 ..🤘.. i have all the Looney Tunes...Tom and Jerry...lots of Hanna Barbera complete sets..and yes, every Scooby animated series and full length animated and live action movies...Scooby Rocks!!
Kids of the 70s and '80s had it good! We had cartoons every morning before we went to school and in the afternoon when we got home and Saturdays 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
And of course nobody is going to talk about the never ending hypnotizing strobing blinking flashing lights during the action scenes in ALL those cartoons...
12-11-1983... EPIC!!... Only two on the list I never heard of & one that I veugely remember seeing commercials & toy shelves... But the rest... HELL YEAH AT 38 & a fistbump to those who made those cartoons & toys durring my physically abusive childhood. Good memories thanks to them making things that I could escape from an abusive father and grandmother growing up in Elementary school. Knowing is half the battle❤:)
Great video! So many memories... there were only a few on your list that I didn't watch/know about. However, you missed Robotech! That was the first cartoon that I remember watching where people actually died. Unlike GI Joe, where they fire thousands of rounds of ammo and blow tanks/planes up and no one ever dies. But again, great video. Thank you!
Loved damn near everyone of these and watched them religiously. Just show these to my kids they’re jealous they didn’t have cartoons like this when they were growing up.
I was born in the 90s and I loved every single one of these cartoons, my mom and I used to watch Silver Hawks, Centurions and Thundercats together. They do all deserve a comeback but the whole Masters of the Universe fiasco was more than enough to make me thing I'd rather they didn't.
I loved that time cartoons were so good I wish my kids had cartoons to watch like the ones I had . They taught great life lessons like things like good and evil and we had actual heroes to look up to . I miss those times .
Awesome.Though I did not watch any of these shows since I wasn't born by then,I absolutely enjoyed this video of their analysis.Huge Phantom and Flash Gordon fan by the way and have always followed their strips of the King features Syndicate.
They brought back Johnny Quest in the 80's "the new adventures of Johnny Quest." They used to play the old 60s Johnny Quest episodes on Sunday mornings in the 80s. I also remember they played Robotech in the afternoon. One of my favorites were probably Spider Man and his amazing friends and also Thundarr the Barbarian.
I'm 42. I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons with my 3 siblings and my Mom and Dad. And we ALWAYS had our toys with us for each show be it G.I. Joe, Gem, Transformers or My Little Pony. Lol
I ❤️'d All the cartoons You mentioned here because I watched them All religiously on Saturday! I also watched I wish were included Jayce and Wheeled Warriors, The Go-Bots, and Jem and the Holograms. I know I'm missing some unfortunately I like watching Your videos.. Thank You
30-30 always stood as a weird name for the character, until I grew up and learned: it's a common, high-power caliber for rifle bullets, fitting his gun and that he "hits like a horse"
Thing about Transformers is there used to be two sets of vehicular robots, Transformers and Go-Bots, each with their own models and shows. Years later, while working for Hasbro, I remember an announcement that they were bringing out "Transformer Go-Bots". As always thank you so very much for the video. Wanna do a spot on '70's Saturday Morning Cartoons? Skyhawks? Hot Wheels? Scooby-Doo? Sealab? Johnny Quest?
@@mippim8765 YES! I have often looked for more of the Thundarr story! I always felt that it must have been based on a Fantasy series, which I wanted to read, but never found. (It wasn't.) And oh what a voice cast! (1980-81) Story by Steve Gerber, and art design by Jack Kirby. (Nice pull mip pim. Ty)
I still own a bootleg VHS with the title She-Man. But it was the correct tape though. I think its a mid season episode because it doesn't say on the menu or box. But its still in good state. Must i mention that im a 2002 human.
Its funny i have actually been watching a lot of these cartoons the past few months been taking a trip down memory lane when almost every cartoon in this video had a learning point throughout the episode wishing kids shows these days had that same moral compass
My favorite cartoons were transformers , Voltron , robotech , GI Joe , thundar the barbarian , masters of the universe , Spider-Man and his amazing friends , thunder cats , super friends , Inhumanoids , go bots , tranzor z and battle of the planets. Honorable mention teknoman batman the animated series , superman , justice league , X-Men , spiderman , and hulk. I got many of them on DVD so I'm happy.
I loved watching all of these series as a kid. The 80s was the greatest time for animated series and there was so much variety. I approve of this list, but, like Tyler Mumford, I'd add one more show to it: _Thundarr the Barbarian,_ which premiered in 1980.
Inhumaniods & Defenders of the earth were the only cartoons I really didn't recognized. My favorites gotta be , TMNT , MASK , and Thundercats. Growing up in 80's was awesome . Kids today have no idea what they are missing.
Jeebus, I was such a privileged kid. Although poor, I had the toys from every cartoon except defenders of the earth!!! My brother and I even had the extendable Lionel sword with glow lights!!! The 80s and early 90s were the business!! Thanks mum and dad for the toys and cable.
I was born 87 in the UK so i grew up in the 90s era of cartoons but id love to see a reboot of star street.. moomins.. the dreamstone.. jayce n the wheeled warriors.. visionaries!!
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Awesome list of cartoons. I loved all of them as a kid. I was a bit disappointed that Slimer and The Real Ghostbusters, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Robotech, and Galaxy Rangers didn't make the list though. But all in all ot was a pretty good list.
I used to wake up earlier on saturdays in the 80s. 3 to 4 hours and 4 channels basic free tv. After that we would be outside being adventurous . non stop fun outside all day till it start to get dark. Stay young people its all in hearts of our past
There are two animated masters of the Universe cartoons on Netflix now; there is one aimed at adults called: Masters of the Universe: REVELATION, and another one aimed at kids too.
I loved almost all of these cartoons as a kid and still love them to this day. We were SO lucky to be kids growing up in the awesome 80s🔥
So true.Kids today are missing out.
Yes, it was mostly great as a kid, but I'm glad I wasn't an adult then :D!
yep, the 80s were the peak of culture. best cartoons, best comedies, best music, best action movies. it was the decade when puritanism died and people were free to express themselves.
@@jpteknoman Don't forget the best Fantasy movies too😉
Yes we were
All those cartoons from the '80s were fantastic I am glad I grew up in that time Saturday morning cartoons were the best.
I'm glad I was born during the 80's.
I agree , I almost wish we could go back to the 80’s
@@i2308Matt Me too.
@@i2308Matt So do I! What a wonderful time to grow up in!
Especially with a big bowl of cereal
I practically watched every single one of these cartoon series when they came out back in the 1980s. Man, I missed that time and all those cartoons on. What a decade.
Best. Decade. EVER!!!
Loved all these shows. But missing Spider-Man and his amazing friends.
It's on Disney+ but hasn't aged that well so rewatching as an adult isn't recommended.
I love so many of these classics! My only addition to the list would be Thundarr The Barbarian. Man, I would love to see a reboot of that series.
I was wondering how he left out Thundarr.
They’d just mess it up and give the female princess Ariel the sun sword , muscles , and a gay female ookla the Mok
He probably figured it was too similar to He-Man. That would be like putting the Smurfs and the Snorks on the same list.
Yes, I agree Thundarr the Barbarian, and also Johnny Quest.
He can on right after Thundarr..1980.
There was also Zorro, and Pole position in 1984.
Didn't they make a movie out of that
For a 90's kid. Love watching some of the reruns 80's cartoons every Saturday.
I've seen most of these. But when I was a kid, I'd race home after school just in time to catch Battle of the Planets and Starblazers... my favorites.
Battle of the planets damn! Thats a classic.
I was born in the most magical era .... born on 76 I grown up watching all of those cartoons and they are still guarded inside my heart and helped to shape who I am today ❤️
Born in 83. Grew up watching some of these because they stayed in syndication for years.
It shaped who I am too. I’m 54 and a registered nurse. The other day, I tore my shirt off at the hospital at3am an yelled “I HAVE THE POWER”. Im suspended for two weeks without pay
@@JohnnyFontane528 😂😂
Said this before I’ll say it again the 80s will never die.
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Transformers🤟
@@ComicBookGuy420 Awesome!😎🤘🤘
You ain't never lied. Long live the 80's.
it will if they try to remake these.
As a 80's kid, this has to be one of the greatest videos ever....
I like them all and they all take me back to the '80s!
He-Man, Thundercats, Voltron, G.I. Joe, Transformers, and the Ninja Turtles have all had comebacks. Some sucked, some didn't. Some had several comebacks, some only had one. But, they all had them.
Yeah, He-Man and Ninja Turtles latest reboots are still ongoing series, the people on this channel need to do a little more research.
IM 40 y.o.
I hope Hollywood would make a real life action galaxy rangers.
None of those should have been included on this list.
I think Thundercats still belong. They only had one comeback and it was a good show that wasn't given a fair shake. Roar clearly doesn't count.
Ninja Turtles has had constant adaptations over the years.
@@wantutosigh1117 Roar definitely doesn't count and I agree with you about the reboot. The Transformers have also had constant adaptations over the years.
I was a huge Silverhawks fan. Still wonder how it could look as a live action centered on the knowledge that the original audience is grown up now.
They'd change everything and ruin it, forgetting all about its original fans, I mean you saw what they did to He Man
@@ComicBookGuy420 Can't say I disagree. Guess I should specify that I'd love to see how it would look if done right....
@@NordicDan hey if they actually did it right I would love it
I also would love to see that and hope someone puts it together some day.
My favorite and bionic 6 and dinosaurs
Two most notable topics that Bravestarr addressed were drug use and how to cope with the feeling of betrayal when someone you look up to does something bad.
I may need to revisit this cartoon. I was way too young to get all the messages it had.
My fondest memory of Bravestarr was me and my brother fighting over the cruddy toys we got of them. They were the taller figures that only had rotating arms and bending waste. We were spoiled by HeMan and GI joes by that point. Oh and we got the ugly bad guy instead bullseye.
@@justjunk7474 Did they have the "laser tag" backpacks as well?
@@williamcrowe2576 Not that I remember. That sounds like it would have been a lot cooler and memorable.
@@justjunk7474 the ugly bad guy from Bravestarr. Do you mean Thunderstick, Buzz or Sandstorm? 😅
I remember being hyped to take my bravestar figure to show and tell in kindergarden because it was so much bigger than other action figures at the time i thought that ment it was the strongest in a fight and could Defeat any challanger heman transformer gijoe ninja turtle etc
These Cartoons kept my youngest brother entertained at all times. He even received all these toys for birthdays and Christmas
Thank you for bringing back these good memories
Yes, Thank you.
Most of these shows loved them as a kid , thanks for this 💯
I watched all those nostalgia gems.. Great memories of being a kid!📺😥
I practically watched every single one of these cartoon series when they came out back in the 1980s. Man, I missed that time and all those cartoons on. What a decade.
Also loved visionaries, starcom, teknoman, galaxy rangers.
They don't make them like they used to. And theme songs were never better.
Also not a cartoon, but captain power let you play against the tv show with light guns.
The Visionaries was great. Loved the theme.
Yep, I was wondering about Galaxy Rangers!
Great list. Captain Power was amazing!
Loved Galaxy Rangers and Mighty Orbots….they actually did an awesome job with the new Thundercats a few years back before contract negotiations with the animation studio tanked the series
Dungeons and Dragons, yay !
I watched them in early 2000s here in India 🇮🇳
I wish we have some producer who brings it back for us.
.....the DVD collection has a special missing last episode, where they actually go home.
Critical Role is doing an animated show based on D&D, should be fun
This hits much better now Honour Amongst Thieves was released!
I was 10 in 1983 and really miss the Saturday morning cartoons there were the super friends, the Smurfs, snorks , Amazing Spiderman, gummy bears , Fragle Rock on HBO, Tarzan, not to mention all rerun cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Flintstone, Jabber Jaws,Magila the gorilla,Johnny Quest,the wacky races, Scooby Doo,so on and so on.
kids now a days don't even get the super sugar filled cereals we had.
Some would suggest that in the age of obesity, cutting out super sugar filled cereals is a good idea
As a father of three I understand the harmful affects of sugar but by substituting sugar with other far more harmful sweeteners to comply with the government and to save a buck . Coincidentally all the childhood diseases have risen ever since just a coincidence isn't it.
....land of the lost was awesome too.
@@davidfuertes1973 fair enough, you make a better point than mine. I'm sorry for having inconvenienced you with my self-righteousness. I'll try to think before I comment in the future. Thank you for your input
@@davidfuertes1973 Touché
Loved bravestar when I was a kid, had the action figure with his robot horse and everything 😁
Bravestar was one of my favs, deff would love to see it comeback.
G.I. Joe originally came on in 1983 and 1984 as a miniseries before becoming a full syndicated series in 1985. Toei in Japan did the animation for the United States market.
As for Transformers, Toei did the animation as well for our market. But it was so popular over here they brought the series to Japan and didn't even change the background music! It remained that way until we ended Transformers with the abridged Headmasters we did and the Japanese market went into a totally different direction with Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, and so many others.
Inhumaniods! I loved that series! Gave me nightmares as a kid and I had to watch more of the series! I bought it on DVD many moons ago and still have it.
Most of these cartoons were created to support toy lines just like todays cartoons. Except then, we had the coolest most badass cartoons ever, and today kids... watch Peppa Pig.
And Spongebob....
Sorry future generations, don't blame the lack of badassery in current era cartoons on us, we didn't create them, we grew up back when Saturday mornings had kickass cartoons.
And Uncle Grandpa.🙄
And teen Titans go
Bionic six and galaxy rangers was my shit
The snorks, the smurfs, jem and the holograms, rainbow Brite and the care bears were some of my favorites along with some on the ones in this list. Honestly, some of these cartoons I don't even remember! But, the ones I do remember, make me realize just how freaking awesome my childhood was!
The gayest ones then? If you liked them you should have seen some of the good stuff they would have blown your mind lol
@@rhinodonkey7339 I've seen all of them! And I was a little girl at the time. Sorry I didn't put down the ones you thought were the best! Stop being a damn idiot and judging people!
Even as a kid born in 89 I love a few of these shows as well as others from the 90s like X-Men and spiderman. Speed racer still holds a special place in my 💜❤️
I would love to see Dino-Riders revived, I always enjoyed collecting their toys as a kid.
Several of the ones you mentioned have already been re-booted/made several times for some of them: He Man and the Masters of the Universe, Voltron, Thundercats(although was mad it was only one season, it was great.), G.I. Joe, Transformers. Although, you mentioned several of the ones I would like, as well: The Centurions, Inhumanoids, Silverhawks, Defenders of the Earth, and D & D. I think some others deserve some love, like: Visionaries, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Captain N: the Game Master, The Power Team, Gravedale High, Kidd Video, Ronin Warriors(know it's anime.), Jem and the Holograms, The Legend of Zelda, The Go-Bots, and Beetlejuice lol.
Hopefully, if Warner Bros. does reboot Silverhawks, they have the right mind not to make it like Thundercats Roar).
I like your ideas, however, I doubt we will see The Power Team rebooted due to using various video game characters from various arcade games that at the time were licensed to Acclaim to make NES ports, and Captain N would be cool, but chances are it would be mostly Nintendo characters if the company doing the reboot does not want to bother negotiating with Konami and Capcom to bring in Simon Belmont and Mega Man.
My favorite '80s cartoons were...
Thunder the barbarian
GI Joe
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Voltron
Transformers
Transzor Z
Spider-Man and his amazing Friends
ThunderCats
Silverhawks
Man do you remember Grandizer Go?
Thundarr actually, not Thunder. Still an awesome show too.
My favorites were Thundercats, Transformers, Dino-Riders, and Bravestarr.
@@kevinstull8552 Yes!!! Definitely the best sci-fi/swords and sorcery hybrid ever. Easily my favorite cartoon followed closely by Bravestarr.
All of those on your list were my favorites too. Plus Visionaries.
The MASK toys were my favorite, though I thought the BraveStar figures that could have lasertag gunfights were pretty neat too. The sidecar mini-sub from MASK was constantly skittering across the the kitchen floor as I had previously decided that the living room carpet was land and the kitchen linolium was an inland sea of some sort. Kid logic.
Growing up I didn't have much so I could only afford Piranha and Condor. I would look at the catalog and dreaming owning all of them since they were so cool.
The MASK stuff was so cool but did you ever see Sectaurs? That was pretty nuts too. 30 or so years have gone by I still vividly remember those cartoons and action figures.
Great list, I'd just add: Jayce and the Wheeler Warriors, Ghost Busters, Ulises 31, Robotech, Duck Tales, Captain Harlock, Battle of the Planets...
Silver hawks does not get enough love
I liked almost all these cartoons and I used to watch almost all of them.
I was born on 1985 where the age of pinnacle of these cartoons were there. Almost all of the lists i had watched during my childhood. Good ol’ Saturday mornings😂
This bring's back many of my childhood memories
I was born in 92 and this has made me cry and nostalgia just hit me too hard
Awesome 😎 Thundercats!!!!!🦁🤘
They were truly awesome.
@@dreamguardian8320 Every time the music theme kicked in it was so absolutely outstanding !!!😃👍👍
@@soulreaver1983 Agreed.
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats Ho!!!!👍🏾
@@kenb2671 🦁🤘
"Bullets replaced with lasers because it was a kids' show". That made me giggle since I was 12 (1984). They aren't really lasers, they are more like a form of Star Trek's magical stun phasers. I was introduced to what lasers did, what they would do when I was 10. If a small portable weapon could fire an actual laser, it would burn right through the flesh, flame it out, and once it hit the liquid inside the body, that would instantly evaporate... cause that part to explode. Lasers would not be like a Star Wars lightsaber, like a super-hot knife that sears the wound from bleeding while cutting it. It would be like hitting you with an extremely explosive round that penetrates until it hits something that can boil then it goes BOOM. Those "lasers" were magical G-rated weapon fire, not lasers. Guns firing bullets would be far more kid-friendly than actual laser guns.
Galaxy Rangers was one of my favorite cartoons at the time. It just eventually got too cheesed before it stopped being produced, probably why it died. So I guess why that cartoon didn't make this list.
Defenders of the Earth, they upgraded Phantom from his canon, reduced Mandrake, simplified Ming and Flash's canon (omitted most of it), and for some reason made Flash respectable for that alliance as if the Defenders were an Avengers knock-off with Flash being Captain America. Aside from that, the writing was brilliant and totally made their own top-tier interesting canon... and it was an 80s cartoon, 80s cartoons really crapped on the source material by being too kiddy-kiddy for the most part. They totally need a comeback... NEED A COMEBACK! Well, and make Phantom their Black Panther/Batman type while removing the rich-and-powerful thing. Phantom had nothing but his brilliance, his total physical fitness, and his reputation of being unkillable because his role always has a prodigy, an understudy of sorts. He was the original Dread Pirate Roberts, metaphorically speaking.
Transformers was a great cartoon and did the lovers of the toys justice... except how the cartoon painted the red van character and the white ambulance character, they looked like actual robots while the toys looked like abstract sculptures in robot form. They were the same basic structure but painted differently. So, when the movie came out, killing those characters was just a cleanup. Also, that movie made Megatron go from being a late WWII gun transformation to being Galvatron who just transforms into a cannon... the characters grew with the original fans. Too bad the modern Transformer movies murdered the original concept.
The TMNT cartoon was great. However, the source material was far more adult and far darker... and it was originally a parody of comic book reality. It got popular fast and was highjacked by kid cartoon writers. Fortunately, Paladinium Books had a great original canon pen-and-paper tabletop role-playing game related to the original work. The TMNT cartoon was equal to the original TMNT canon as the Superfriends cartoon was to the Justice League comics. Also, they were "ninjas" who abided by the Bushido (way of the warrior) code and not Inindo (way of the ninja). My Karate teacher was red-faced enraged by any talk about the blurring between those lines. The Ninja/Shinobi and Bushi are not at all the same kind of people. The Ninja/Shinobi is more trixter and assassin than any kind of fighter if they can fight at all. Their code is more mercenary pragmatic as honor than "real honor", more "face" and what we consider something like legal privilege like that between attorney and his evil dastard of a client. Bushi fight and do so with honor, clear, and without ambiguity. They are actual warriors, honorable fighting people, those who wish to follow a more "heroic" path. Nobody abiding by Bushido *can* be a ninja by ethical fabric alone. But, I digress. It was a kids' show and I had space alien knowledge for my age, relatively speaking.
I loved Voltron as a kid and that made me later hate Power Rangers. The Voltron stories were far more interesting and the Power Rangers always kept being like the "I'm a special wonderful kid" fantasy fulfillment that pansy kids ate up. When I learned that Voltron was a Power Rangers knock-off, I hated Power Rangers more... their mutant inbred kid was and is far better as a story core base. Voltron kept the door to adult things open and invited darker things, something that we could have grown with if Power Rangers didn't highjack the multiple-pilots giga-mech thing. It looked like the Pacific Rim movie, the first one, experimented with that.
As for G.I.Joe, from the big "for boys" doll I got in the 70s as a kid to the 80s toys I collected as an older kid because of the cartoon, I was, am, and always will be a fan. I giggle at the "laser bullets" and how the bad guys always screamed "Cobra!" to this day. Cartoons at the time still needed it to be black hats and white hats when fighting, kids were still considered clever animals in the care of their parents at the time... sarcastically speaking. I mean, I learned the alphabet and how to spell before I even started school because of "clever" adults spelling out things they don't want us to hear... as if it was some kind of unbreakable code for kids who regularly watched Sesame Street and the Electric Company along with a lot of other things on PBS. But, I digress... the 90s Cobra movie with Cobralah (if that's how you spell it) giving some reasons for the GI Joe canon to make sense, that was awesome. When the recent movies came out, I was all for it... at first. Bruce Willis being the OG GI Joe, the original "for boys" doll, a soldier, totally cool. Most of the movie scripts, totally GI Joe cartoon upgraded to a movie. However, dusting Destro... not cool at all. The nano-machines that rebuilt his face helping him survive to future movies (or future cartoons) would be totally cool and make sense of his "chrome dome".
As for He-Man, I think the original live-action flick decades ago killed that. He-Man's canon had many stories since then but, probably because of that movie, it never got popular enough for more than a few feature animated stories.
As for Bravestar, a great cartoon. However, his horse that can turn into his humanoid partner probably killed the idea. I mean, think of you and who you are... but you can transform into what your partner can ride as a mount. Would you normally be in your partner's riding animal form until he needs you in your natural form? Nope. Bravestar was a minority human in a position of power not normally afforded to him with his "free" mount behaving like one who thinks he's equal... but behaving like a slave in the end. As kids, we always saw his horse as "When he does not need his horse to ride, his horse can just transform into his perfect partner! That 'Indian' is the perfect cowboy!"
When you look at cartoons and kid sh^t as an adult, you see them far differently than you did as a kid. Pepe LePew is a sexually harassing guy who keeps attempting rape, a rapist type. Wile E Coyote is a stalker, the murderous type,, and a comically failed one... the comically failed thing on the regular makes it kid-friendly. Yosemite Sam is an over-the-top violent gun-nut. Oscar the Grouch is a homeless guy... before the new incarnation of the Sesame Street's homeless guy by this current generation... dipsh^ts. Big Bird's imaginary friend (Snuffy) was totally real when no one else was around. His character was the only one who helped kids break their delusions by such episodes painting both sides right. The only great Scooby-Doo cartoons were the pre-Scrappy-Doo cartoons where all the monsters were actually people. Once Scrappy-Doo came in, OG Scooby-Doo died and was replaced by its cancer clone. Mr. Roger's Neighborhood... we all learned tons of stuff from him... but, looking back, we can all also see he used his demons to his advantage in helping to teach us. He made his alt-world one of wonder that was kid-friendly, he conquered his disquiet place to be one of tranquility. To me, he's a legendary hero. Meh... too many things to refer to, and this is merely a comments TH-cam section. So, I digress.
Centurions need both a reboot in toys and the cartoon. Transhumanism is the next issue and science fiction's job is to be head of that curve.
Rebooting any of these is like burying your dead dog in the pet cemetary to bring it back to life. What you get back just isnt the same.
Hot damn! So true!
brought back so many memories. thanks
Nice Video brought back some good memories. The List is good but I miss Galaxy Rangers, Starcom, Bionic Six and Saber Rider.
I'm watching Thundercats with my boy now! Best cartoon ever!
C.O.P.S. was another GREAT cartoon from 1988! Loved it!!
COPS is great...i have full series on official dvd release. Also M.A.S.K, SILVER HAWKS, SHE-RA, HE Man, BraveStarr, Galaxy Rangers, GI Joe all versions, Voltron, Tranformers all versions, Thundercats, Swat Kats, Mummies Alive, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Centurions, Jonny Quest all versions, Dungeons and Dragons, TMNT, and many more...still a kid at heart 😎
@@CrimsonThorns me too! I also have Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, Damger Mouse, Avatar and Legend of Kora, Batman: The Animated Series, plus many of the ones you said! Cartoons today are not the same nor as good.
@@americansuperdad5769 ..🤘.. i have all the Looney Tunes...Tom and Jerry...lots of Hanna Barbera complete sets..and yes, every Scooby animated
series and full length animated and live action movies...Scooby Rocks!!
@@CrimsonThorns nice!
@@americansuperdad5769 - dude ...good that you are introducing your boy to the best decades [80s 90s] of cartoons and hopefully music, too. 👍
One of many reasons the 80’s ruled !!!!!
Some classics. Most of them I was familiar with.
It was out of the time range but Exosquad was another great series with that same vibe
That was 90s
Kids of the 70s and '80s had it good! We had cartoons every morning before we went to school and in the afternoon when we got home and Saturdays 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Brilliant walk down memory lane, would add battle of the planets and mysterious cities of gold👍🏻
And of course nobody is going to talk about the never ending hypnotizing strobing blinking flashing lights during the action scenes in ALL those cartoons...
My daughter LOVES the Transformers (gen 1). We always watch them whenever possible. However, she definitely doesn't like Inhumanoids ...
12-11-1983...
EPIC!!...
Only two on the list I never heard of & one that I veugely remember seeing commercials & toy shelves...
But the rest...
HELL YEAH AT 38 & a fistbump to those who made those cartoons & toys durring my physically abusive childhood. Good memories thanks to them making things that I could escape from an abusive father and grandmother growing up in Elementary school.
Knowing is half the battle❤:)
Brings back memories good times good times
Agreed.
Great video! So many memories... there were only a few on your list that I didn't watch/know about. However, you missed Robotech! That was the first cartoon that I remember watching where people actually died. Unlike GI Joe, where they fire thousands of rounds of ammo and blow tanks/planes up and no one ever dies. But again, great video. Thank you!
Loved damn near everyone of these and watched them religiously. Just show these to my kids they’re jealous they didn’t have cartoons like this when they were growing up.
When you watch these videos and get shivers down your spine and goosebumps... it's time for rewatching and rebingeing those shows!
I was born in the 90s and I loved every single one of these cartoons, my mom and I used to watch Silver Hawks, Centurions and Thundercats together.
They do all deserve a comeback but the whole Masters of the Universe fiasco was more than enough to make me thing I'd rather they didn't.
I used to watch thundercats back 97 when it came on toonami
That brings back memories
I love all these cartoons thank you for bringing me back to my childhood memories Simple times nothing but laughs and fun
There will never be a time like the 80's or 90's😢. Those were the days!
I loved that time cartoons were so good I wish my kids had cartoons to watch like the ones I had . They taught great life lessons like things like good and evil and we had actual heroes to look up to . I miss those times .
Good memories thank you ❤️
What with all that's going on in the world right now, this is exactly what I need: a shot of 80's nostalgia. Ah.......😊
I had forgotten about silverhawks. Man, such nostalgia
Awesome.Though I did not watch any of these shows since I wasn't born by then,I absolutely enjoyed this video of their analysis.Huge Phantom and Flash Gordon fan by the way and have always followed their strips of the King features Syndicate.
Defenders is on TH-cam for free gladly
Thank you
ThunderCats, Centurions and Silverhawks are older than me but I loved them because of the toys. And the all of my toys were given away.
This is a really Great list, But Where is Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors? It is a great show and deserves to be in this video :)
Probably the best intro music of all the 80's cartoons.
This was Saturday mornings when I was growing up. Would love to see Silverhawks make a comeback
SilverHawks was the shit 👌
The guy who started Super7 (retro toy company) has the rights to Silver Hawks and does plan on making a small line of figure... So that's something.
Marvelous Videos, you did a great job with this one. Actually, you are consistently putting out quality content. Cheers.
*A single tear falls from my eye*
Me: "Epic."
Three of my favorite 80s cartoons: "Starcom", "Spiral Zone" and "Saber rider and the star sheriffs"
I loved Jonny quest maybe you can talk about older cartoons next time. Thanks for the memories
They brought back Johnny Quest in the 80's "the new adventures of Johnny Quest." They used to play the old 60s Johnny Quest episodes on Sunday mornings in the 80s. I also remember they played Robotech in the afternoon. One of my favorites were probably Spider Man and his amazing friends and also Thundarr the Barbarian.
I remember all this old cartoons I still miss them all big part of my childhood I loved most of them ! 😁😍🥰❤💓💗💞💕
I'm 42. I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons with my 3 siblings and my Mom and Dad. And we ALWAYS had our toys with us for each show be it G.I. Joe, Gem, Transformers or My Little Pony. Lol
I ❤️'d All the cartoons You mentioned here because I watched them All religiously on Saturday!
I also watched I wish were included Jayce and Wheeled Warriors, The Go-Bots, and Jem and the Holograms. I know I'm missing some unfortunately I like watching Your videos.. Thank You
Best 80s animated theme song is Jayce and the Wheel Warriors PERIOD!
30-30 always stood as a weird name for the character, until I grew up and learned: it's a common, high-power caliber for rifle bullets, fitting his gun and that he "hits like a horse"
That’s one thing I’ll give the 80’s when it comes to kids, you want them to get up early for school put the best cartoons on early.
Thing about Transformers is there used to be two sets of vehicular robots, Transformers and Go-Bots, each with their own models and shows.
Years later, while working for Hasbro, I remember an announcement that they were bringing out "Transformer Go-Bots".
As always thank you so very much for the video.
Wanna do a spot on '70's Saturday Morning Cartoons? Skyhawks? Hot Wheels? Scooby-Doo? Sealab? Johnny Quest?
....they forgot Thundarr the Barbarian? .....it might of been a 70s toon though?
@@mippim8765 YES! I have often looked for more of the Thundarr story! I always felt that it must have been based on a Fantasy series, which I wanted to read, but never found. (It wasn't.) And oh what a voice cast! (1980-81) Story by Steve Gerber, and art design by Jack Kirby. (Nice pull mip pim. Ty)
Tarzan, Shazam the list goes on
MY FAVORITE 80s CARTOON SERIES IS DEFINITELY HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
I still own a bootleg VHS with the title She-Man. But it was the correct tape though. I think its a mid season episode because it doesn't say on the menu or box. But its still in good state. Must i mention that im a 2002 human.
“I HAVE THE POWER!!!!”👍🏾
Its funny i have actually been watching a lot of these cartoons the past few months been taking a trip down memory lane when almost every cartoon in this video had a learning point throughout the episode wishing kids shows these days had that same moral compass
Good voice, good details, great video!!!
My favorite cartoons were transformers , Voltron , robotech , GI Joe , thundar the barbarian , masters of the universe , Spider-Man and his amazing friends , thunder cats , super friends , Inhumanoids , go bots , tranzor z and battle of the planets. Honorable mention teknoman batman the animated series , superman , justice league , X-Men , spiderman , and hulk. I got many of them on DVD so I'm happy.
You got the ones I have in my list. I liked The Batman, Gargoyles and Godzilla.
Bravestar was so amazing! An indigenous lead hero, was something that really wasn't on TV. It and Blackstar need another chance
I loved watching all of these series as a kid. The 80s was the greatest time for animated series and there was so much variety. I approve of this list, but, like Tyler Mumford, I'd add one more show to it: _Thundarr the Barbarian,_ which premiered in 1980.
Inhumaniods & Defenders of the earth were the only cartoons I really didn't recognized. My favorites gotta be , TMNT , MASK , and Thundercats. Growing up in 80's was awesome . Kids today have no idea what they are missing.
Jeebus, I was such a privileged kid. Although poor, I had the toys from every cartoon except defenders of the earth!!! My brother and I even had the extendable Lionel sword with glow lights!!! The 80s and early 90s were the business!! Thanks mum and dad for the toys and cable.
I was born 87 in the UK so i grew up in the 90s era of cartoons but id love to see a reboot of star street.. moomins.. the dreamstone.. jayce n the wheeled warriors.. visionaries!!
Ulysses 31, visionaries, spiderman & his amazing friends, & jace & the wheeled warriers should have been added to this list as well! 🤩
You missed one of my personal favorites, "The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers".
All of these cartoons are my favorite
We have assembled a team of unique individuals to protect Earth and our allies. Courageous pioneers committed to the highest ideals of justice. And dedicated to preserving law and order throughout the New Frontier, these are the Adventures of the GALAXY RANGERS!
Awesome list of cartoons. I loved all of them as a kid. I was a bit disappointed that Slimer and The Real Ghostbusters, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Robotech, and Galaxy Rangers didn't make the list though. But all in all ot was a pretty good list.
I used to wake up earlier on saturdays in the 80s. 3 to 4 hours and 4 channels basic free tv. After that we would be outside being adventurous . non stop fun outside all day till it start to get dark. Stay young people its all in hearts of our past
Thank you for the nostalgia
I remember each one of those, good times.
There are two animated masters of the Universe cartoons on Netflix now; there is one aimed at adults called: Masters of the Universe: REVELATION, and another one aimed at kids too.
Eh.
Yes it did. I remember every toy at the toy store. Thank you from a Generation X'et