Captain N: The Game Master
Captain N: The Game Master
Kevin, a teenage gamer and his friends fight to save Videoland from the evil Mother Brain.
RichyE reviewedOctober 18, 2025
This was the Saturday morning crossover fever dream, Nintendo characters, a teenage gamer sucked into Videoland and villains straight out of pixelated nightmares.
Captain N didn’t care about canon, it cared about chaos.
Simon Belmont became a vain goof, Mega Man sounded like a gravel truck and Kid Icarus added “-icus” to everything.
It was glorious nonsense.
The animation was clunky, the plots were thin, but the vibe? Pure joystick joy.
It felt like watching your NES come to life, even if the characters barely resembled their game counterparts.
Mother Brain was a diva, Game Boy was a sidekick and the show leaned hard into campy adventure with zero apologies.
Watching it on TV as a kid meant diving into a world where your favorite games collided in ways that made no sense, but felt right.
It wasn’t good by today’s standards, but it was good for the soul.