best animated series of the 80's

[qiangdade2]

I was having this discussion with a friend of mine about which was the best animated series of the 80s. I know there is tons of them but i included in the poll my 3 favorites (robotech, captain harlock and sagma) and another 11 which were selected in terms of the success they had.

 

[Phantim3dx2]

I was having this discussion with a friend of mine about which was the best animated series of the 80s. I know there is tons of them but i included in the poll my 3 favorites (robotech, captain harlock and sagma) and another 11 which were selected in terms of the success they had.

hey wanna add G.I. Joe on there please!

update:
since i didnt see G.I. Joe i added my 3 as Tranformers, Ghostbusters, and Ducktales

Seriously I was so fascinated with ducktales this was like my fantasy land..and know im in china having a massive want for eating ducks everyday. but G.I. Joe tops them all; my pre-dogma days of what to watch in future movies!


PS:
is MASK the vehicle that could fly it was like a Delorean or something car and had rockets and stuff on it... if so man i was so young then i think i only remember a few episodes of that show!

 

[qiangdade2]

hey wanna add G.I. Joe on there please!

update:
since i didnt see G.I. Joe i added my 3 as Tranformers, Ghostbusters, and Ducktales

Seriously I was so fascinated with ducktales this was like my fantasy land..and know im in china having a massive want for eating ducks everyday. but G.I. Joe tops them all; my pre-dogma days of what to watch in future movies!


PS:
is MASK the vehicle that could fly it was like a Delorean or something car and had rockets and stuff on it... if so man i was so young then i think i only remember a few episodes of that show!

I had to leave out so many series like getter robot or GI Joe cause there is a maximum of 15 options.

M.A.S.K is the one with this team that wore masks and drove cars. You can find them all at youtube. This thread probably translates only to the ones that were 6-12 years old in the 80s like me

 

[Phantim3dx2]

here to help you out man and everyone else out there around our age or older or into retro cartoons, take a tour down memory lane!!

These are all introductions to cartoons from the 80s, enjoy memory lane!!

PART I


PART 2

HOLY CRAP I FORGOT ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS! I didnt know in europe you called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into HERO instead of Ninja

PART 3


PART 4


PART 5

holy crap i havent heard of COPS since this came out what was i likesomewhere between 5-7 yrs old!?!

PART 6

didnt even know Chuck Norris even had his own cartoon!

PART 7

man kissyfurs song sounds so nostalgiac chinese revolution time songs!

ENJOY ALL!

 

[Phantim3dx2]

im not post whoring, qiangdade just gave me a trip down memory lane that I am so happy right now!

Life is like a hurricane
Here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes
It's a duck-blur
Might solve a mystery
Or rewrite history

CHORUS:
DuckTales (oooh ooooh)
Every day they're out there making
DuckTales (oooh ooooh)
Tales of daring do bad and good
LuckTales (oooh ooooh)

When it seems they're heading for the
Final curtain
Cool deduction never fails
That's for certain
The worst of messes
Become successes

CHORUS

D-D-D-Danger! Watch behind you
There's a stranger out to find you
What to do? Just grab on to some DuckTales

CHORUS

D-D-D-Danger! Watch behind you
There's a stranger out to find you
What to do? Just grab on to some ...

CHORUS (Twice)

Not pony tales or cotton tales, no
DuckTales (ooh ooooh)

 

[Jan van Grabski2]

wow, amazing...

the only "foreign" animated TV series i was able to see during 80's was Lolek and Bolek by Polska Telewizija LOL . sorry, can't vote or participate in the discussion. put keep on, interesting stuff

 

[rikhardur2]

Transformers by far I even had toys and stuff and taped many episodes when they were broadcasted later. No 1 fan!

I also voted for another cartoon which I don't know the name but which I absolutely loved when I was little. It was from an Eastern country, perhaps some might know the name of it? The stories were about a little boy who lived with his grandfather and both used to build gadgets and stuff when a problem would come up or so. When the boy had an idea a small ball would bounce on his head and then pop! Does anyone remember this cartoon and the name of it? If you do please tell me!

I also liked Bocas (Portuguese title) very much (an ox living in a farm with all sorts of adventures), Nils Holgersson, Tom Sawyer and so many more I miss those times...

 

[qiangdade2]

Robotech plot:

In the year 1999, an alien battle-fortress crashes on an island in the Pacific. Over the next ten years, mankind repairs and refits this fortress, using the advanced "robo-technology" found aboard it to create fighter planes that can transform into giant robots. As soon as the repaired fortress is ready for launch, the aliens to whom it belongs finally discover its location. Thus begins a series of wars that will devastate the planet earth.

Robotech is three Japanese Animation titles (Macross, Army of the Southern Cross, and Mospeda) that were put together and dubbed into English. The plot follow three generations of humans. A "war movie", Robotech starts with an alien starship landing on Earth. Humans rebuild the ship and learn parts of its technology. When a race of giants comes looking for the ship, the humans defeat them by using human emotions and music to off balance them. The 2nd Generation is about their children, while the parents have gone to find the homeworld of the giant soldiers' makers, the Robotech Masters. The Masters have come to Earth, however, and the Southern Cross must fight them off. The 3rd Generation is about the space-going humans coming back home to find out Earth has been taken over by yet another alien species. Throughout the series a mysterious power source, Protoculture, and its technological use, called Robotechnology, is paramount. A "serious" cartoon, Robotech deals with the causes and consequences of war on people.

These 20m aliens scared the shit out of me when i was 6-7 yo

 

[LuDux2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-Qfo_JNHY

 

[PRSURF2]

 

[MikeMaccabiFan2]

too bad you don't talking about 90s...
"Roughnecks - The Starship Troopers Chronicles" is the best in that case

 

[rind2]

This thread sure brings back some good old distant memories. One particular series that suddenly hit my mind after I scrolled down the poll is a sci-fi TV anime called “Space Adventure Cobra”. If I remember well, the series were televised on the Turkish TV in the first half of the nineties (93? 94? Couldn’t find it), but the original run of the TV anime in Japan was between 10/7/82 – 5/19/83, so it’s technically from the 80's and eligible for this thread.

“Cobra” has never been as popular as series like Transformers, Inspector Gadget, He-man or Voltron in Turkey nor any of my friends have seemed to remember anything about it in the 2000s. Though, I can now see after searching the web in Turkish that I was not alone and it has slowly gained a cult status through some Turks who had their teens in the 90’s.

From the Wikipedia article:

“The series features the infamous space-pirate Cobra who was once forced to hide from enemies by surgically altering his face and erasing his own memory. At the start of the story he is living an ordinary life but after going to a trip-parlor (where ordinary people live out their fantasies thanks to hypnotic suggestion - a similar concept is Philip Dick's Total Recall) he starts to regain his true memories. With his android partner Lady Armaroid (a female armored being) literally 'bursting' out of the bulky domestic robot she impersonated in his years of 'vacation', and his old ship Tortuga, he now faces foes both old and new.”

“Cobra's signature weapon is his Psycho-gun, a cybernetic arm-laser which is connected to his brain and capable of targeting enemies without needing a line-of-sight. This allows him to defeat most foes with ease but some are not so vulnerable to the laser itself, also the gun drains Cobras mental energies after extended use. For backup he carries an old-fashioned Magnum revolver.”

“Buichi Terasawa created the main character based on the famous French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. Cobra's facial features bear resemblance to Belmondo's, and the peculiar sense of humour Cobra exhibits throughout the story seems to have been inspired by the characters Belmondo played in films.”

Japanese opening and ending:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6spGmzjkA

Two clips from my favourite episode in which Cobra is forced to play some kind of a death game in some planet. The game is supposed to be called rugball (Yes, no brainer here. A hybrid of baseball and rugby) and our main guy Cobra is playing with his Team Z, a bunch of losers, against an elite team. (Guess who wins)

PARENTAL ADVISORY – These videos contain incredibly irritating and tasteless dubbing in French. Your child may be affected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlX4R_WvnDg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzNnTIiYmBE

 

[HABIBI2]

Do you remember this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvDBwkzJdRU&mode=related&search=

 

[Basketball GOD2]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles anyone?
It was the best for me in those days.. Heck I even knew who was Leonardo Da Vinci or Michelangelo.

 

[Levenspiel2]

What about Tsubasa?

 

[candyman2]

i voted on mask

 

[sinobball2]

im not post whoring, qiangdade just gave me a trip down memory lane that I am so happy right now!

When I was really young I was in West Germany (around time of unification) and I remember this series quite well. There was this Disney TV program on Sunday mornings and a couple of hours long. The other series I remembered from it include: Chip 'n Dale (called "Chip und Chap" in German) and Gummi Bears (Gummibärenbande). There was also a slightly different show (was it Muppet show? Sesame Street?) featuring a guy/character named Uli with a catchy song, all I remembered was the name, any German friend knows what I'm talking about?

Also around that time "The Simpsons" was popular in Germany as well.

 

[TrueBluePinoy2]

Transformers. Until they killed off Optimus Prime and almost the entire G1 guys in the movie.

 

[mvblair2]

Wow, I can't believe I missed this thread.

I was a big fan of "Ducktales." I still like it. I still sometimes read the "Uncle Scrooge" comics by Carl Barks that "Ducktales" is based on. It's a lot of fun to read. Pure entertainment.

"Batman: The Animated Series" came out a little later (sometime in the mid '90s), and I think that is better than any other cartoon I've ever seen. It was very atmospheric.

 

[Dtown2]

hmm lot of tough choices. I loved Transformers, and GI Joe when I was little but they don't hold up that well (still own Transformers the movie and all it's cheesy goodness).

Robotech actually holds up damn well, especially the more uncut original Macros. Still watch the sequels that come out.

While I love the 80s, the 90s were the real good stuff. Especially from the WB. Batman the animated series, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid. It was a great time to be a kid.