![Captain N The Game Master - The Complete Series [DVD]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41P-RAKAUcL._SX300_SY300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)
Kevin Keene was a teenaged video game fanatic with a messy bedroom. Countless hours of his mundane life were frittered away amid the clutter as he pounded relentlessly on the big red buttons of his NES Advantage, stubbornly ignoring his nagging mother's incessant demands that he put down the joystick and clean up his pigsty. Then, one fateful afternoon, Kevin's frivolous existence was instantly and radically changed, as the procrastinating gamer was suddenly pulled into the screen of his Sony television (along with his checkered curtains) in the middle of an epic Punch-Out fight. His loyal canine friend, Duke, quickly jumped into the TV portal after him, and the two friends--now inexplicably transformed into cartoon characters--soon found themselves in the digitized realm known as Videoland, home of the pantsless redheaded angel-boy, Kid Icarus (who is afflicted with a most unusual speech impediment); the robotic mega-dwarf, Mega Man (who sounds like a chain-smoking chipmunk); the narcissistic vampire-hunting oaf, Simon Belmont; and, of course, her Royal Highnicus, the beautiful and vivacious Princess Lana. Moments after Kevin's arrival, the bare-midriffed Princess presented the high school student with a Zapper gun and a Power Pad belt buckle and dubbed him Captain N, the Game Master. She called upon the young earthling to defend Videoland in the kingdom's eternal struggle against the fiendishly grotesque jar of gray matter, Mother Brain (voiced by Levi Stubbs, Jr.), and her bumbling minions: the morbidly obese and perpetually shirtless King Hippo and the purple-skinned cyclops known as Eggplant Wizard. Realizing that being the protector of a world populated by Nintendo characters would most assuredly free him forever of the daunting task of straightening up his room while simultaneously giving him an excuse to play video games 24-7, Kevinicus gladly accepted the jobicus. As he and his N-Team cohorts warp from zone to zone blasting moglins and other assorted beasties into pixels, they encounter a myriad of NES legends like Donkey Kong; Link and Zelda; Bayou Billy (the Crocodile Dundee clone); Julio (the Paper Boy); Tetris World's Mayor Squaresly; and the elfin king of Faxanadu, a blue-faced Elvis impersonator called Melvis.
Chronicled here on four fantasticus DVDs, are 26 of Captain N's marvelously entertaining 8-bit adventures. The discs come in two slim cases enveloped in a shiny black and red cardboard slipcover. Fans who are gifted with exceptional memories will notice that the popular songs played in the background of Season 1's episodes have all been replaced with an instrumental version of "Mega Move"--a ditty that can be heard during "The Feud of Faxanadu" on Disc 4. Be forewarned that this tune will be permanently stuck in your head by the time you've finished watching these DVDs. Aside from this baffling musical censorship, this is a mega nice seticus maximus. The audio/video quality is not too impressive, but I guess that's to be expected for a show that's nearly twenty years old. It should be noted that early copies of this collection lacked a few minutes of footage during "Queen of the Apes" on Disc 3, but my set, purchased in March of 2008, seems fine. In the immortal words of Kevin Keene, a.k.a. Captain N, "Call me corny, but man do I love this game!"
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