In het algemeen is de regel dat films die gebaseerd zijn op video games (met uitzonderingen) heel erg slecht zijn. Maar weinig mensen staan er bij stil dat in de jaren 80 en 90 er een aantal TV shows te zien waren die gebaseerd op video games waren. Je raar het al, die waren ook verdomd slecht, en daarom heeft de website Dorkly.com nu deze lijst gemaakt met de acht slechtste shows ooit. Mijn keuze is geworden:

5. Captain N: The Game Master

During the 90's, Mario couldn't have been in higher demand if his game cartridges were everlasting syringes full of wish-granting heroin, and so his show was appropriately successful. Nintendo loved TV money, but feared that their other properties lacked individual draw. Their solution? Captain N!

Because artistic integrity aint nothin but a thing, the show took place in the cut and paste setting of Videoland. It was composed of entire worlds excised from video games like tumors and stapled together into a pulsating, horrible pastiche. Not content to feed the nightmare with their own franchises, Nintendo obtained the rights to use Mega Man and Castlevania as additional fodder.

Our young hero (Kevin Keene) was sucked into his television one day, and found himself at the beck and call of Princess Lana, Videoland's ruler. He and his fellow product placements, including a giant anthropomorphized Game Boy, spent two seasons on schizophrenic adventures through bastardized settings. Mother Brain, the primary antagonist, was given massive red lips and human features, and Mega Man was eventually reduced to a chubby, human boy in a green costume.

The budget was severely cut in the third season, leading to adventures in public domain settings like Robin Hood. The show's rapid failure ultimately proves that "The Expendables but with video games" isn't a viable premise for a TV show.