Super Mario 2 is actually a prodigy of another series, and so forth. We even had a "Barney/Big Bird variant of Koopa. I remember their was a rap cat show as well, that came on before this and Zelda.
I had the whole collection at one point but I forget what happen to it. I also had the Lunch Box, and of course the
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The west sucks so hard in the creativity department. We have ( or at least had creativity ). The problem I think was that people hated non-white people*. Around the time of the 1980's the crackdown on bad drugs ( and civil rights ) took it's tool on the nations spirit. AIDS was 1960's also.
I am watching Channel101.com right now for TV. The Creator of Scud ( along with his shiney new stag ) and Earth Worm Jim ( who nobody loves for the destruction of Jim ) runs the website.
* Seriously why M&M is known to be the greatest rapper alongside that other rapper? Because he is light skinned. No that is not why, because his music is great and he is has blonde hair, and skin that most likely belongs to a european person. That is how hatefilled the west is. I just have to mention this, because I keep watching tv from the youtube and keep asking myself. ( what the hell happen to all the fun stuff??? Why can't tv be like this again??? ).
Brand new people in todays world don't know jack about great animation, videogames, or even comics. All they know is what they show them first. I don't even know if they even know how to search with the internet properly.