It's difficult to properly explain. But this intro holds a somewhat 'mystic' quality to it that really stood out in the 80s. And it still has that very same pull to this day. The exotic music, the atmosphere it conjures up, the visuals, and even the narrator's voice. All come together to transport you to another time and place. No cynicism, just pure escapist adventure.
I'm with you on this one. I remember this coming on when I was like 5 or 6 years old very early in the morning before school and it just seemed so...mystical. Weird how it imprints on your mind and it's there forever.
1975 here, loved the 80's cartoons. This and Ulysses 31 rocked. The French stuff was awesome, and the American stuff was a half hour toy advert with adverts in, Some (Transformers) was still great though
The 1980s was probably the best time to be a child in human history, the FREEDOM, the toys, bikes were cheep enough for the working classes, there was the promise of future technology (now concord and the space shuttle are museum pieces) and kids tv, and the Goonies.
I was born on 7 June 1979 and used to watch this as a kid in South Africa. Now I am a Russian citizen and this song rang in my head which found me here in 2024. Anyone else listening in 2024?
I'm not of your age group but i gotta agree. i used to watch it as a kid in the early 2000's its so nostalgic (my dad watched it when he was a kid and had us watch it too; same as a show he watched when he was a teenager called evangelion)
It’s soooo strange how theme songs from your childhood stays in our minds no matter how much time has passed by. I’m 46 now, but I remember being 10 and watching this on the Cartoon Network with my siblings. I don’t know what specifically it is that captures of memories. Is it the people from that time, the era, the mentality we had where a child is worry free or perhaps all the above. What a blessing. If I had a Time Machine, I’d go back to 10😊
It's not really that strange. They are filled with the creative vibration, created with passion and love. These days everything is created purely for money. We can't explain it but we can surely feel it
I got so emotional when I went to Peru a few years ago. Lake Titicaca moved my heart, but I was in tears when reaching Machu Picchu at the end of 1:47 the Inca trail. I loved that anime so much that, as tired as I was on the last 2km of the trail, I put that opening (in French though..) on repeat and gave all that I left in my body. I rushed to make sure that I reached the nice viewpoint at the end of the commentary. People thought I was crying because of the effort, then never understood how much it meant for me to be there with that song in my heart for 35years of my life..
I found it the other day. It's now known as Strensham services on the southbound M5. There's a vending machine that dispenses chewable toothbrushes and they put scented things called "P-Waves" in the mens pissers.
I'm 46 and I remember watching this show religiously. I was only interested because my name is Esteban. There wasn't anyone named that growing up in the 80's in Las Vegas. But I stayed for the content and the history of Spanish conquest in the America's. I always sided with the Natives.
Maaaaaann, this was my favorite cartoon in the 80s. I would get home from school and run 2 jump on the couch 2 watch this. I was 10 when this was on Nick. Little did I know how much historically accuracy this cartoon had til I was a grown up. That makes it even More phenomenal.
This played at 530 am before kindergarten. I devoured every episode, and I loved the little history bits at the end. I credit this show 100 percent for my love of history
47yr old checking-in. Was doing some thoughtless work around the house and this song randomly came into my mind. I didn't quite remember where 'cities of gold' came from but did a youtube search and bam! Thank you very much for uploading this theme song!
When I was a boy in the 80s I wrote to whoever was in The Broom Cupboard at the BBC (Andy Crane I think) to ask them what the words were. They replied with a handwritten letter of the lyrics. Makes me really emotional listening to this and thinking of myself as that young boy. Mum would e posted that letter for me. She died in April. Lots of feelings of love and loss watching this.
my mom told me how she used to watch this as a child. this intro has always had a mystic fascination to me. i'm glad that this show holds a special place in my heart.
I didn't realise there was one guy called Shuki Levy responsible for so many absolute classic anthems. I suppose most people think the era they grew up in was the best but trying to be as unbiased as possible I think my 80s/90s era of kids TV was the golden age.
That intro has a tone and melody that cuts right through my heart and brings the 7 year old out....geezuz. 😭🥰 I had tears....there is such a genuine innocence and childlike love in it....I can't explain unless you were a child and experienced it in the early 80s. It's a masterpiece of an intro.
I watched this as a kid back in the early 80's because it had such a mystical calming effect on me. Here I am today, and the intro has that same effect. No other cartoon has ever done this to me.
This show will always be very special to me. I watched it as a child; I wanted to be in it; I wanted to fly the Golden Condor; I wanted to be Esteban! Oh, how I longed to be Esteban. I've now got the DVDs, and I've found that everything I felt as a child never left me. That theme tune still evokes the same feelings even now. Never before nor since has TV had such a profound effect on me. Happy days. 😃
42 year old Bermudian...I have a core memory of wanting to stay at home and watch cartoons when I was about 7-9, but we had to go somewhere and my mom was rushing us out the door. All I remembered was that the cartoon had something to do with El-Dorado but I could never remember the name of the cartoon until now! Feels like I've come full circle, thank you!
Loved the show. You can find episodes to purchase and these days you can buy all-region DVD. Most DVD players in PC can switch standards up to five times
I've been searching for this for over 30 years... I had no idea what it was called. I just had this image in my mind of a boy in a boat. I tried to explain to anyone that would listen about this "boy in a boat" but no-one had the slightest clue! Then today... I randomly found it. I FINALLY FOUND IT! You read these comments on videos and you think it'll never happen to you... but it happened to me! Seeing these images again throw me back to my childhood instantly. What an incredible feeling!
I had the same experience years back. I was fortunate enough to remember the boys name was Esteban though. I asked a few people at work if they knew the show and one hit it right away! I went to his place and we stayed up all night watching episodes on TH-cam (back when they were all on here). It was an amazing night of nostalgia.
This was my childhood passion. I’m 37 but still cant get over with this cartoon. It was aired on Saturdays in my country I still remember. I was so nervous when I was watching it. I miss those feelings.😢
I randomly remembered this show and wanted to look it up. Finding this intro just now gave me life!!! I am 43 now, crazy finding the show/song of my childhood.
I absolutely LOVED this cartoon as a child in the 80s. 🪙😃❤️🪙 The theme tune takes me right back to how gripped I was from the start of each episode, eyes glued to the TV (usually sitting far too close to the screen). 😂 I can't quite put my finger on what exactly it was about it, but it just felt magical to me as an 8 year old.
Watching this helped my find my inner kid again... I'm 40 this year and watched this in the early 90s in South Africa. Amazing to see how far it reached, and the different the generations it touched. I loved trying to create that transforming boat/condor in lego. What a magical cartoon!
I'd be surprised if many people who grew up watching this show hadn't travelled abroad, one or more times if possible, owing to brilliant shows like this!
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to spend 3 weeks in Peru. Visiting many of the Inca sites, traveling trails and experiencing the culture. I owe that spark to the flame of passion to this series in helping guide me to explore the setting sun... Thank you
Timeless classic, this theme kept popping up in my head over the years but I was looking for the wrong title. I thought it was "Seven Cities of Gold" at first but later on I searched again and "Mysterious Cities of Gold" popped up. Found a fan site dedicated to the series and all the memories came rushing back. Hearing this is like comfort food to the max. What a show it was and is, it holds up extremely well today too.
Fun fact this was one of Eichiro Oda's favorite shows and you can see the inspiration behind One Piece. The protagonist is referred to as the child son of the Sun God, one of his companions can read ancient texts and they have to discover 4 mysterious locations that lead you to the city of gold.
I'm 16 and my dad made me watch this cartoon as a kid. Sometimes "it's the 16th century, from all over Europe great ships sail west to conquer the new world, the Americas" still pops in my head.
Funny you should mention those two shows in particular, Ulysses 31 and Mysterious Cities of Gold were both French/Japanese co-productions, DIC/TMS Entertainment and DIC/Studio Pierrot respectively
This song just came to me while reading about ancient pyramids. It brought a lot of fond memories. The song still feels magical; I remember how I enjoyed watching the series. One of the best cartoon series of the 80's. Wonder if one can get the full episodes.
Holy crap I’ve been searching for this show for years and could never remember what it was! I remember as a kid looking so forward to the beginning theme song and the adventures!! This just brought me back 35 years!!
I'm at the last hour of my night shift, and suddenly had this theme song pop in my head while I was charting. Had to look it up to make sure it was just something I had conjured up myself during my Acid days as a teenager. I remember this cartoon on Nick when I was a kid in the 80's..lol
the effort and imagination they put into 80s cartoons is simply remarkable, even the theme tune is sung with such passion … they really appreciated there craft back then… I’m sooooo glad I grew up with all this magic.. my children will watch these cartoons
The cartoons from the 80-90s had amazing music in their intro. Like this one, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Ulysses, Robotech, He-Man, Gummi Bears, Transformers and many many more. I'm so glad a was a kid back then so I had the privilege to experience all of them. 😍🎵
bruhhh, I remember, 2011, being sent to bed by my mum and dad at three years old, getting to watch this. It's a major stamp in my childhood, and I will never forget it ❤
How surprise I was when I saw 0:46 La Puerta del Sol! The protagonist seems to have traveled all the way to Tiahuanaco, here in Bolivia! I don't know if we missed this show with my brother when we were kids or it never made it to South America.. This is the first time I've heard about it. 😮
My dad watched this show with me this as a kid. Im 17 now and i dont talk to him anymore but i still remember staying up late for just one more episode each night
@@leetrolling2911 i dont talk to him anymore because he was abusive. As many good memories as i have as him, i will never go back to someone who treated me that way. I know hes my dad and thats why i wish him the very best and i hope he can live a long life without me
Call me a boomer (born 1985) but I think 80's and 90's had the best cartoons. Not just the animation stlye was better, but the storyline as well. This show was aired in Hungary in the early 90's - right when I was a little kid. How I loved this cartoon on Friday afternoons... man, I miss those years.
I used to watch it religiously in the early 00's in Bulgaria. As a kid from a small rural town who never really went anywhere, it was one of the things that sparked my interest for both history and travelling.
What a quality show, things were done with way more effort back in the day... I too remember racing home as fast as I could to watch this after school in the 80's.
Let's not fap ourselves to death about those decades and their shows - I couldn't love this show more for all it meant and still does, but this and all other shows from the 80s were rampant, violently sexist and racist garbage 80% (when not 95%) of the time. Today's kidsTV may be brutally dumb and commercial garbage (save for a handful genuine storytelling artworks), but our beloved childhood shows had entire plot lines that could only function as long as girls were feeble, dim crybabies prone to puppy love, and "natives" were cooky, demasculined goofballs who heartily gave away their cultural riches.
It has no reason to be this good as an intro for a cartoon. But the 80s was filled with gems like this one. Whilst typing this, I have put the video on repeat, never gets old.
I Watched this show ,MASK, and robotech everyday when I was a kid. When everyday was a magical adventure and the world still seemed like a friendly place. That theme song will forever be hardwired in my brain and soul.
I cannot underestimate how much I wanted to be able to fly off in the golden condor. My childhood was terrible but cartoons like this made it bearable. The condor is the ultimate expression of freedom.
That "do-do-do-do-do, cities of gooollldd" has been burned into my mind for like 35 years, and I didn't even watch the show very often 😅 Crazy what a role music plays in triggering the nostalgia part of your brain.
Every single time this came on in my house me and my three brothers would sing the entire song. It was almost impossible to watch an episode without singing the song first
It's difficult to properly explain. But this intro holds a somewhat 'mystic' quality to it that really stood out in the 80s.
And it still has that very same pull to this day.
The exotic music, the atmosphere it conjures up, the visuals, and even the narrator's voice. All come together to transport you to another time and place. No cynicism, just pure escapist adventure.
I think it's French
I agree, but the original French version gives even more profound feelings. 👌
Made in Japan, theme tune wasn't
I agree. I used to love the intro.
I'm with you on this one. I remember this coming on when I was like 5 or 6 years old very early in the morning before school and it just seemed so...mystical. Weird how it imprints on your mind and it's there forever.
I was born in 1977 and loved this cartoon as kid. The 1980s were a great time as a kid.
1975 here, loved the 80's cartoons. This and Ulysses 31 rocked. The French stuff was awesome, and the American stuff was a half hour toy advert with adverts in, Some (Transformers) was still great though
Me too 1977
@@Abo-jawad539 same..
The 1980s was probably the best time to be a child in human history, the FREEDOM, the toys, bikes were cheep enough for the working classes, there was the promise of future technology (now concord and the space shuttle are museum pieces) and kids tv, and the Goonies.
I was born on 7 June 1979 and used to watch this as a kid in South Africa. Now I am a Russian citizen and this song rang in my head which found me here in 2024. Anyone else listening in 2024?
This used to give me chills 35 years ago, still does now. What a killa theme song.
Yeah it did that to me too as a young kid
Same here dude same here
And me!
Same here with me as well!
I'm not of your age group but i gotta agree. i used to watch it as a kid in the early 2000's its so nostalgic (my dad watched it when he was a kid and had us watch it too; same as a show he watched when he was a teenager called evangelion)
It’s soooo strange how theme songs from your childhood stays in our minds no matter how much time has passed by. I’m 46 now, but I remember being 10 and watching this on the Cartoon Network with my siblings. I don’t know what specifically it is that captures of memories. Is it the people from that time, the era, the mentality we had where a child is worry free or perhaps all the above. What a blessing. If I had a Time Machine, I’d go back to 10😊
I remember watching this back in the 80s when I was 10 or so and something about this song is definitely pure magic.
Cartoon Network didn’t come around til the 90s. :-) I think this was on Nickelodeon.
It's not really that strange. They are filled with the creative vibration, created with passion and love. These days everything is created purely for money. We can't explain it but we can surely feel it
Hi Nkza Nkza, try to watch One Piece, there is a theory where the creator got inspired by the Mysterious Cities of Gold
@@natureofnow You're absolutely correct.
45 year old UK. Aaaaa aaaaa aaa a a aaaahhhh cities of gold 🎵❤️
Y'all don't understand how determined I was almost 40 years ago to find this place when I grew up.
I think I do. I lived for this show; I wanted to be in it; I wanted to be Esteban - how I longed to be Esteban! Happy days.
@@labradormcgraw me too!
Lol it's not to late we can still go on an expedition.
I got so emotional when I went to Peru a few years ago. Lake Titicaca moved my heart, but I was in tears when reaching Machu Picchu at the end of 1:47 the Inca trail.
I loved that anime so much that, as tired as I was on the last 2km of the trail, I put that opening (in French though..) on repeat and gave all that I left in my body. I rushed to make sure that I reached the nice viewpoint at the end of the commentary.
People thought I was crying because of the effort, then never understood how much it meant for me to be there with that song in my heart for 35years of my life..
I found it the other day. It's now known as Strensham services on the southbound M5. There's a vending machine that dispenses chewable toothbrushes and they put scented things called "P-Waves" in the mens pissers.
I'm 46 and I remember watching this show religiously. I was only interested because my name is Esteban. There wasn't anyone named that growing up in the 80's in Las Vegas. But I stayed for the content and the history of Spanish conquest in the America's. I always sided with the Natives.
80's and 90's kids had the best cartoon intros
We had the best cartoons
@@southlondonlad9144 definitely Thundercats,Visionaries,Transformers,He-man etc
What about the rest of those decades? You're saying there were only good intros in 1980 and 1990?
@pryingeyes1551 I'm sure they're memorable cartoon intros in the early 2000's but I can't of any them at the moment except Pokémon
.....and Monkey Magic!
39 years and I still get goosebumps from listening to this masterspiece. Man I miss my childhood.😢😢😢❤❤❤
the tune is better them caetoon
This definitely has a special place in my heart from my childhood! I think I was 6 or 7 years old when I first saw this cartoon.
When France and Japan decide to make an animated series together you know it’s going to be a banger
Maaaaaann, this was my favorite cartoon in the 80s. I would get home from school and run 2 jump on the couch 2 watch this. I was 10 when this was on Nick. Little did I know how much historically accuracy this cartoon had til I was a grown up. That makes it even More phenomenal.
me too, i really loved it
This played at 530 am before kindergarten. I devoured every episode, and I loved the little history bits at the end. I credit this show 100 percent for my love of history
Are u japanese?
Bruh how old are yall now
@@david9531 lol 40
47yr old checking-in. Was doing some thoughtless work around the house and this song randomly came into my mind. I didn't quite remember where 'cities of gold' came from but did a youtube search and bam! Thank you very much for uploading this theme song!
YEP!
This Is But The Beginning To A Quest Of MANY Memories To Be Unlocked
When I was a boy in the 80s I wrote to whoever was in The Broom Cupboard at the BBC (Andy Crane I think) to ask them what the words were. They replied with a handwritten letter of the lyrics. Makes me really emotional listening to this and thinking of myself as that young boy. Mum would e posted that letter for me. She died in April. Lots of feelings of love and loss watching this.
Oh wow! that's so awesome! Great memories.
my mom told me how she used to watch this as a child. this intro has always had a mystic fascination to me. i'm glad that this show holds a special place in my heart.
The greatest cartoon ever created. A genuine masterpiece.
I didn't realise there was one guy called Shuki Levy responsible for so many absolute classic anthems. I suppose most people think the era they grew up in was the best but trying to be as unbiased as possible I think my 80s/90s era of kids TV was the golden age.
That intro has a tone and melody that cuts right through my heart and brings the 7 year old out....geezuz. 😭🥰 I had tears....there is such a genuine innocence and childlike love in it....I can't explain unless you were a child and experienced it in the early 80s. It's a masterpiece of an intro.
So it's not just me
@@Montreal83NYIt's all of us together, loving this theme tune 💛
Masterpiece +1
I watched this in England as a child. I’d forgotten what it was called but never forgot the music or characters in it. Loved this so much!
@Christopher P. Braxton I'm s.e London grew up with it too
I learnt from this cartoon that a lot of Southern and Central American countries were colonized by Spain during the 16th century.
I remember it as 'Cities of Gold'
@@GrahamPearson-oo4uyno you didn’t. When you were a child, you wouldn’t have even known what the word colonisation was or meant 🤦♂️
I remember it as Elderado
I'm 42. This title sequence is pretty much my earliest memory
I watched this as a kid back in the early 80's because it had such a mystical calming effect on me. Here I am today, and the intro has that same effect. No other cartoon has ever done this to me.
Same. You just can't explain it to anyone who doesn't get it. It's truly unique.
Close my eyes and I can see myself sitting in front of the TV as a kid
Such amazing show
Cartoons of this era had memorable theme songs, this, Duck Tales, Raggy Dolls, Thundercats etc.
Trap Door 😊
I am 14 and I watched this with my parents when I was little. I was so obsessed I love it so much.
This show will always be very special to me. I watched it as a child; I wanted to be in it; I wanted to fly the Golden Condor; I wanted to be Esteban! Oh, how I longed to be Esteban.
I've now got the DVDs, and I've found that everything I felt as a child never left me. That theme tune still evokes the same feelings even now. Never before nor since has TV had such a profound effect on me. Happy days.
😃
... the great Golden Condor and the mighty ship Solaris, the ancient technologies of the Lost Empire of the Hiva!
Sorry mate, but it was the “Golden Condor”...
Total banger theme. I hadn't heard it in over 30 years and still remembered it.
Let’s get it straight…this is the greatest animated show of all time.
Second only to thundercats 😊
@@bigmatt1994 well yeah, if there’s any other show in the argument it’s that.
Nope, that would be Ghost in the Shell but this one has a killer theme :D
YES❤and the best opening ever😍
Agrred
42 year old Bermudian...I have a core memory of wanting to stay at home and watch cartoons when I was about 7-9, but we had to go somewhere and my mom was rushing us out the door. All I remembered was that the cartoon had something to do with El-Dorado but I could never remember the name of the cartoon until now!
Feels like I've come full circle, thank you!
My Dad showed me this, definitely a child of the 80s... still brings back the bittersweet memories of him and watching this ❤️
Magical times...dont need the cities of gold, just this song..
Esterban and Zia..hw I loved this cartoon...it was so majestic and alluring❤...
This fills me with so much warmth! So many great childhood memories when life was less complicated
im still in trauma from missing parts of this show from childhood..
om 43 now and i was 12, im closing in..
There is a DVD set out there but most of them are region 2 and won't play on a US DVD player.
@@onebladeprop i have the complete set
@@onebladeprop there are region 1 copies out there but they are not cheap
Loved the show. You can find episodes to purchase and these days you can buy all-region DVD. Most DVD players in PC can switch standards up to five times
I missed the very last episode because I had to go to the dentist...
I've been searching for this for over 30 years... I had no idea what it was called. I just had this image in my mind of a boy in a boat.
I tried to explain to anyone that would listen about this "boy in a boat" but no-one had the slightest clue!
Then today... I randomly found it. I FINALLY FOUND IT!
You read these comments on videos and you think it'll never happen to you... but it happened to me!
Seeing these images again throw me back to my childhood instantly. What an incredible feeling!
I had the same experience years back. I was fortunate enough to remember the boys name was Esteban though. I asked a few people at work if they knew the show and one hit it right away!
I went to his place and we stayed up all night watching episodes on TH-cam (back when they were all on here). It was an amazing night of nostalgia.
I also searched for it a lot and I don't know what it was called wonderful memories ❤
something like that anyway the sites were called 80s cartoons and 90s catoons.
Glad you found it mate. The nostalgia is real. 🥰👍
This was my childhood passion. I’m 37 but still cant get over with this cartoon. It was aired on Saturdays in my country I still remember. I was so nervous when I was watching it. I miss those feelings.😢
Just took me back to better days 😊 the 80s were awesome 👌
This intro song has always been a banger. I loved watching this on Nick way back in the day.
Also spartacus and the sun beneath the sea
I just recently purchased the full series and could not be happier. This was one of my fave cartoons growing up.
I randomly remembered this show and wanted to look it up. Finding this intro just now gave me life!!! I am 43 now, crazy finding the show/song of my childhood.
I absolutely LOVED this cartoon as a child in the 80s. 🪙😃❤️🪙 The theme tune takes me right back to how gripped I was from the start of each episode, eyes glued to the TV (usually sitting far too close to the screen). 😂 I can't quite put my finger on what exactly it was about it, but it just felt magical to me as an 8 year old.
I didn't grow up with this show and have never seen it, but this theme song goes so hard.
Same here
Yep 😅
It's a sublime show. Starts off quite slow but gets great and stays great.
Never too late to watch it. Teaches plenty about the Incas too
@@tiffanyeyoung1800 Honestly, I'm totally interested in giving it a try
Watching this helped my find my inner kid again... I'm 40 this year and watched this in the early 90s in South Africa. Amazing to see how far it reached, and the different the generations it touched. I loved trying to create that transforming boat/condor in lego. What a magical cartoon!
My childhood was beautiful. I remember this cartoon fondly.
I'd be surprised if many people who grew up watching this show hadn't travelled abroad, one or more times if possible, owing to brilliant shows like this!
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to spend 3 weeks in Peru. Visiting many of the Inca sites, traveling trails and experiencing the culture. I owe that spark to the flame of passion to this series in helping guide me to explore the setting sun... Thank you
Timeless classic, this theme kept popping up in my head over the years but I was looking for the wrong title. I thought it was "Seven Cities of Gold" at first but later on I searched again and "Mysterious Cities of Gold" popped up. Found a fan site dedicated to the series and all the memories came rushing back. Hearing this is like comfort food to the max. What a show it was and is, it holds up extremely well today too.
Fun fact this was one of Eichiro Oda's favorite shows and you can see the inspiration behind One Piece. The protagonist is referred to as the child son of the Sun God, one of his companions can read ancient texts and they have to discover 4 mysterious locations that lead you to the city of gold.
Don't forget the Ponyglyph in this show with the Sun pirates symbol on it!
This is bringing me back to my childhood!!! Once that music started to play I instantly remembered how it goes 35ish years later
I'm 16 and my dad made me watch this cartoon as a kid. Sometimes "it's the 16th century, from all over Europe great ships sail west to conquer the new world, the Americas" still pops in my head.
Funny because I was born recently but my parents had me watch this all the time. It holds nostalgia for us young people too!
1982, I was 5 years old when I saw this.. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The 80’s had the best cartoons this and Ulysses 31 were amazing 😻
Yeah Ulysses 31 had a great theme song
Oh I loved both!
@@kirstymacfarlane3815 I think Ulysses was slightly better imo
Funny you should mention those two shows in particular, Ulysses 31 and Mysterious Cities of Gold were both French/Japanese co-productions, DIC/TMS Entertainment and DIC/Studio Pierrot respectively
This song just came to me while reading about ancient pyramids. It brought a lot of fond memories. The song still feels magical; I remember how I enjoyed watching the series. One of the best cartoon series of the 80's. Wonder if one can get the full episodes.
Holy crap I’ve been searching for this show for years and could never remember what it was! I remember as a kid looking so forward to the beginning theme song and the adventures!! This just brought me back 35 years!!
Najpierw puszczają nam takie bajki a potem się dziwią, że oglądamy zielona poświatę :)))) ♥️
So happy that i could see all episodes but sad that they are gone. This song makes me cry everytime
I'm at the last hour of my night shift, and suddenly had this theme song pop in my head while I was charting. Had to look it up to make sure it was just something I had conjured up myself during my Acid days as a teenager.
I remember this cartoon on Nick when I was a kid in the 80's..lol
the effort and imagination they put into 80s cartoons is simply remarkable, even the theme tune is sung with such passion … they really appreciated there craft back then… I’m sooooo glad I grew up with all this magic.. my children will watch these cartoons
This intro! All these years later , still gets me, so magical , so powerful!
The cartoons from the 80-90s had amazing music in their intro. Like this one, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Ulysses, Robotech, He-Man, Gummi Bears, Transformers and many many more.
I'm so glad a was a kid back then so I had the privilege to experience all of them. 😍🎵
That’s amazing!!🤙🤟🤘👍😎
Dogtanian and 80 days around the world
bruhhh, I remember, 2011, being sent to bed by my mum and dad at three years old, getting to watch this. It's a major stamp in my childhood, and I will never forget it ❤
How surprise I was when I saw 0:46 La Puerta del Sol! The protagonist seems to have traveled all the way to Tiahuanaco, here in Bolivia! I don't know if we missed this show with my brother when we were kids or it never made it to South America.. This is the first time I've heard about it. 😮
This and Ulysses 31 were just in a league of their own
My dad watched this show with me this as a kid. Im 17 now and i dont talk to him anymore but i still remember staying up late for just one more episode each night
Why do u not talk to him anymore I mean is your dad 😢
@@leetrolling2911 i dont talk to him anymore because he was abusive. As many good memories as i have as him, i will never go back to someone who treated me that way. I know hes my dad and thats why i wish him the very best and i hope he can live a long life without me
Call me a boomer (born 1985) but I think 80's and 90's had the best cartoons. Not just the animation stlye was better, but the storyline as well.
This show was aired in Hungary in the early 90's - right when I was a little kid. How I loved this cartoon on Friday afternoons... man, I miss those years.
I used to watch it religiously in the early 00's in Bulgaria. As a kid from a small rural town who never really went anywhere, it was one of the things that sparked my interest for both history and travelling.
What a quality show, things were done with way more effort back in the day... I too remember racing home as fast as I could to watch this after school in the 80's.
Let's not fap ourselves to death about those decades and their shows - I couldn't love this show more for all it meant and still does, but this and all other shows from the 80s were rampant, violently sexist and racist garbage 80% (when not 95%) of the time. Today's kidsTV may be brutally dumb and commercial garbage (save for a handful genuine storytelling artworks), but our beloved childhood shows had entire plot lines that could only function as long as girls were feeble, dim crybabies prone to puppy love, and "natives" were cooky, demasculined goofballs who heartily gave away their cultural riches.
@@sodafeet Well, aren't you just a peach. 😂
@@sodafeet I take it you're a Bud Light kinda guy 🤣🤣🤣
I can't believe I used to watch this back in the early 80s, part of CBBC with Phil Schofield.
It has no reason to be this good as an intro for a cartoon. But the 80s was filled with gems like this one.
Whilst typing this, I have put the video on repeat, never gets old.
I'm physically incapable of watching this without bawling my eyes out. The power of music I guess, holy shit.
This song still making me extremely emotional.
It's one of my favourites cartoons I grew up with next to the Capitan Planet ❤
This cartoon reminds me my age of gold, my childhood. ❤❤❤
I remember this! I didn't didn't know it was an '80s cartoon. I watched it in the '90s. The opening is so nostalgic.
As it was produced in Japan, there is definitely an anime-esque nature to the characters. Ahead of its time in many ways.
Showed this cartoon to my 26yo girlfriend two years ago. Now it's her favorite childhood memory.
A major favorite of mine growing up. Especially since I love history like this. Much love Esteban, Zia, and Towl..
I Watched this show ,MASK, and robotech everyday when I was a kid. When everyday was a magical adventure and the world still seemed like a friendly place. That theme song will forever be hardwired in my brain and soul.
Still the best kid's show theme song.
TRUE!!!
this song definitely takes you back in a time warp, something spiritual about it.
I cannot underestimate how much I wanted to be able to fly off in the golden condor. My childhood was terrible but cartoons like this made it bearable. The condor is the ultimate expression of freedom.
Just dropped by for a hit of nostalgia
I was a kid back then and i didnt even knew my mother tongue but the music and the words cities of gold were written in my mind.
This was the best theme tune of my childhood ❤️🙏
The last 3 episodes of this cartoon are insanely good
I don’t know why but I loved this show when I was a kid growing up
Same here! Just listening to the theme again is very nostalgic
It still holds up. Go seek it out and watch it again.
I loved Esteban. I had the biggest crush on him when I was a kid
I had a crush on Zia. LoL
You too? I thought it was just me. Oh, how I used to dream about Esteban. ❤
Anyone 2024? I am 29 now, this was one of favorite...the early 2000s.
I have been searching high and low for my favorite children tv series. Kept typing children of the sun and come up empty. Finally here
That "do-do-do-do-do, cities of gooollldd" has been burned into my mind for like 35 years, and I didn't even watch the show very often 😅 Crazy what a role music plays in triggering the nostalgia part of your brain.
my faviorite show as a kid. hands down. thanks for the memories
This series is still good! I watched it again as a 40-something year old man 😅 No wonder it made such an impression on me as a kid.
This show bored the socks off me as a kid, and yet this song takes me back like you wouldn't believe.
Me to, more into thundercats and mask as a boy
I still loved the actual show
Every single time this came on in my house me and my three brothers would sing the entire song. It was almost impossible to watch an episode without singing the song first
damn this just brought back some great memories,they just dont make cartoons like they used to.
British, born 1978. Cities of Gold and Dogtanian are the two cartoons I remember most fondly and vividly from childhood.
When I was a little kid, I watched this at breakfast every morning before I went to school
Me too
Wooo my favorite cartoon ever
I’m from Iraq Baghdad ❤❤
The best goosebump creator there is.
I remember whenever this show was on TV I would watch the intro then change the channel as soon as the show itself started.
Thought I was the only one😂
It's crazy how almost every badass cartoon theme song of the 80s was composed by the same team of Shuki Levy & Noam Kaniel.
Before Maya and The Three, before The Emperor’s New Groove, and even before The Road to El Dorado, there was… The Mysterious Cities of Gold.