Hit By Nostalgia part 2: The cartoons of 1990 era

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Hey.. i am back with remaining list of cartoons that dominated my childhood years. Click on like or digg if you like my list.. have fun :)

6.Pokemon:

In the late 1990's, the craze of pokemon spread throughout the country like a viral fever. On top of it, It dominated all entertainment medium. The TV show ruled the television, pokemon gameboy game was on a rampage, there was even a card game on pokemons. In every fair i visit, I would find at least one shop selling pokemon cards, still to this day. The basic

necessity of every kid(who had access to cable) during that period was food, shelter,clothing and POKEMON!!!. I was infected by pokemon fever too. I created an MS excel file which has names of all 151 pokemons back then. The file is password protected to open and modify. It was damn crazy. The first few seasons of pokemon was too good, I'd say addictive. You asked action, You got action. But after a few seasons, they started airing same seasons over and over and OVER again. This made me really mad. You are dying to see what happens to ash next and your stupid cable operator airs the show right from the very first episode of season 1. You will feel like smashing the TV on your cable operator's skull. I all the reruns except one, rerun of orange islands. Here, Ash battles a guy with a superstrong poliwrath. In course of duel, ash's pokemons suffers defeat in hands of poliwrath. Finally Ash chooses his disobedient charizard. Initially it did not listen to ash, and went on fighting with its own will. Charizard's spree stopped when it was frozen solid by poliwrath. Any pokemon fan knows that ash tended charizard day and night, gained its obedience, and defeated poliwrath. But i only saw the episodes where charizard was frozen. After that episode Cartoon network india aired reruns of orange league beginning, and couple more reruns right from first episode of first season.. WTH??!! i used to count number of episodes that were left before the charizard episode. And now, there are freaking 650+ pokemons.. how are you supposed to remmber them all, or to be very accurate, catch them all if they keep on adding pokemons. To sum it up, i loved pokemon only till orange league, and only watched(no love) till hoenn league. After that i stopped watching it.

5.Tom & Jerry:

"What happens after lion roars?"Well, Tom and jerry starts :D. I have been watching the shows when i was as young as 3. we did not have cable connection back then, but had Video cassettes of almost all episodes of Tom and jerry. I was like a family cartoon to us.My mom, dad,sis and i used to sit and watch it together. It was fun to see tom getting burnt, squashed, smashed, blown,pierced and all without actual harm ;). Probably this is the only cartoon where even the new episodes are good. I just love Tom & Jerry .

4.The centurions:

I used to rush home from school, just to see this cartoon. I used to run around screaming "POWER XTREME" much to the disgust of my parents. Centurions was among my first action cartoons. Many of my friends were fans of this cartoon and we used to discuss about the show in middle of classes. the gadgets, robots and everything sci-fi fiction need to have.The intro music still hums in my head. I still watch reruns of the show. Hats off centurions. Hope there would be new episodes in future.

3.The Flintstones:

Meet the stone-age family!!.. Flinstones was way too funny to watch with straight face and even more funnier was the prehistoric technology. I was mad about flintstones. As soon as the show starts, i forget everything and glue myself to the TV. All the characters are totally awesome and each episode is as enjoyable as ever. It is similar to the jetsons in terms of the story. The Flintstones was pre-historic whereas The Jetsons was set in future. Both shows rocked and had decent comedy, not like the lousy,stupid ones they have these days.

2.Thundercats:

Another action packed cartoon of my childhood. These deadly fighting felines can satisfy your need for raw and pure action. The action stunts and cats kicking butts is everything one can ask for. I admired the sword in the cartoon the most. I used to draw it many times and feel like proud owner of it. The next cartoon in the list is also related to felines, it is none other than

1.Swat kats:

The cartoon which made me dream of constructing a 3-engine jet fighter and go on a killing spree. I'm proud to say that i am still a huge fan of swat kat. The intro music, the story, the characters everything is flawless. From city super heroes swat kats,their baby the Turbokat, "Get me a chopper back up" Feral, mayor manx, dark kat, everything and i mean EVERYTHING on the show is superb. The names of the character are usually the pun on names of actual breed of cat (read in wikipedia ^_^ ). Truly, When it comes to action cartoon, There is no match for swat kats. Swat kats rule Mega kat city as well as our minds :)..

Bonus: The Looney tunes:

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Behold!, The show which featured Bugs bunny, daffy duck, coyote, road runner, sylvester, tweety and other memorable characters. It's like watching all your favourite cartoon shows on one go without spending an extra hour in front of TV. How cool is that?. I still have doubt whether it's "Looney Tunes" or "Looney Toons".But what's in the name when the show is so amazing and brilliant. I loved all the characters in the show especially bugs bunny. Each character have their own unique signature to make people die laughing. Whether it is coyote, who follows "Try and try again" a little too far, Bugs Bunny and his signature line "eh..what's up doc?" while munching carrots, sylvester on his never ending quest to digest tweety everything was unique with no similar plot, jokes. Warner Bro's gave Disney a really tough competition. The Looney Tunes is as old as 1930's . I still have some of their black and white classics. Surprisingly, i find them more enjoyable then post 2000 cartoons. I don't miss any chance to watch the Looney tunes. Keep up the tunes Warner Bro's .!!

This ends my list. Finally, if you look on all the cartoons of 1980,1990 era, you can notice that cartoons at those times had PLOT. and they don't tend to drag it like chewing gum making the series boring. Even though graphics may not be as top notch like recent times. A mind-blowing story and characters beyond our imagination was much more than enough to perform a miracle. What is the use of latest graphics and star studded cast if you don't have nice plot?. Thanks friends :)

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Hit by nostalgia part 1:Cartoons of 1990 era

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Today i will be talk about the cartoons i used to watch between 1992-2000. Those years can be rightly called the golden years of my life. I still remember few moments of cartoons when i was that young. For the people enjoying the 80's i have no idea how the entertainment media was back then. But i do believe that most of the cartoons i watched were repeat telecast of the 80's shows. This list is more focused on the cartoons i used to watch when i was young, not necessarily cartoons made in that decade. I apologize if any readers( i hope there are ) feel that the list is biased. I wrote what i felt about the shows. so here they are. Enjoy :)

10.Dexter's Laboratory:

This cartoon is the one and only cartoon that my sister and myself used to watch together. Co-incidentally she used to be as annoying as deedee :p. i just hope she won't read this post as i don't want this to be my last post. Dexter's laboratory never bored me, each episode was unique. From aliens, conflicts between dexter and deedee, rivalry between mandark, out of the world technology, weird machines and gizmos and what not. The man behind the nine year old genius, Genndy Tartakovsky is truly a remarkable genius. It is sad that there is no more productions of this series and it is currently being rerun on boomerang. I especially live the show because my sister somehow will eventually get hold of my secrets no matter how much precaution i take just like deedee miraculously enters dexter's lab evading all security and whatever he throws at her. This cartoon will always have a special place in my life.

9. Popeye:

"I'm popeye the sailor man, I'm popeye the sailor man" remember the song? remember its tune?. One of the cartoons that boosted the sale of spinach in US. Maybe they could have introduced similar cartoons to make kids finish their vegetables. Popeye is as old as 1920's ( could have tried asking grandpa, which is not possible, even if he was alive, it would be futile effort). I'm sure most of you remember him, or is still favourite among. The story is kind of monotonous, all episode may look similar. Usually first part involves popeye with his girlfriend olive oyl, next part involves Bluto interfering between them, or kidnapping her. Next, popeye gets mercilessly beaten upby Bluto and his goons. Before delivering final blow, popeye pulls our spinach from his shirt( or being fed by some friend), he starts up like a machine( probably a steam engine running in his biceps, or similar) , beats up the goons into leather bags, tin cans, portraits etc, delivers final blow to Bluto and then they happily live ever after. Most episodes are similar except few where other character eats spinach and kick butts. Overall all episodes are very enjoyable. If you ever watched popeye in your childhood, i bet you still remember it.

8.He Man and the masters of the universe:

This show was aired on India's public broadcaster DoorDarshan. I used to watch it during my summer vacations as it was shown at around 3'o clock or 4'o clock in the afternoon. But the intro song used to play in my head, even after couple of years i stopped watching it. I did not have internet access too. So you can imagine how crazy it made me during those days. I assume no one needs introduction to He-man, the most powerful man in the universe, defender of Eternia and the secrets of castle grayskull from skeletor and his minions. Woah, the description is enough to make you curious and excited about the show. I loved cringer, Prince Adam's( alter ego of He-Man) pet er..cat, tiger (because he looks like a tiger but behaves like a cat). But his true potential comes out when, yeah you got it right. He Man sometimes transforms cringer into a mighty battlecat. I used to wait for these scenes and would literally scream when it does. Those days... sniff.. :'(

7.Captain planet:

"GO PLANET!!!" yup, you can say this is one of the cartoons which highlights the dangers of pollution to the nature and promotes importance of environmental protection in form of cartoon. It covers serious topics like poaching, deforestation, dumping wastes in water sources, nuclear waste and other threats.The plot revolves around 5 teenagers, who obtained 5 different rings from Gaia , spirit of earth to protect earth from pollution. Individual Rings have power of 5 elements, earth, fire,wind,water,heart( you cant do anything with sky right? just joking, Love binds people together :) ) respectively. and the 5 teenagers( consisting of mixed racial ethnicities, pointing out earth belongs to all and its our responsibility to protect it) called "planeteers". The Epic moment arrives when the problem of antagonists( maniacs who seems to enjoy polluting environment for profit) goes beyond control of the planeteers and they decide to combine their powers together, creating one of the most "EPIC" moments in cartoon history. Behold, Superhero of mother earth, Captain planet, ready to dispose the trash and eco-villains "safely". At the end of each episode, planeteers and captain planet( sometimes with Gaia) share steps on how we can preserve our environment.Sad that nowadays nobody makes such cartoons.

REST OF THE CARTOONS WILL BE DISCUSSED TOMORROW.I know the image pretty much explains which all cartoons ill be talking about. But i have "ONE BONUS CARTOON" that ruled my childhood. So stay tuned. HAVE FUN FOLKS :)

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