Wishful Thinking
- Studio
- DiC Entertainment, Nintendo of America, Saban Entertainment
- Animation studio
- Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd
Synopsis
Kid Icarus is upset because he's too short. When Duke finds a magic lamp with a genie inside, Kid Icarus wishes himself big. He grows into a giant!!! When King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard steal the lamp, they make Mother Brain their servant! The N Team, sans Kid Icarus, goes to Metroid to retrieve the lamp. When Kid Icarus comes to their rescue, he's shrunken. He uses his extremely small size to get into the lamp and wish everything back to normal. He then sets the genie free from the lamp, and the two of them become very good friends.
Characters
King Hippo, Eggplant Wizard, Kevin "Captain N" Keene, Kid Icarus, Simon Belmont, Megaman, Princess Lana, Duke, Mother Brain
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Michael Maliani
- Live-Action Title Sequence Directed By
- Kit Hudson
Producing
- Producer
- Michael Maliani
- Executive Producer
- Andy Heyward
- Supervising Associate Producer
- John O'Sullivan Francis, Jr.
- Live-Action Sequence Produced By
- Jamie Edlin
- Coordinating Producer
- Robby London
Writing
- Writer
- Jeffrey Scott
- Story Editor
- Jeffrey Scott, Jeffrey Scott
- Script Supervisor
- Lori Crawford
Voices
- Voice
- Garry Chalk (as Gary Chalk) (King Hippo), Ian James Corlett (Dr. Wily [credit only]), Michael Donovan (as Mike Donovan) (Eggplant Wizard), Matt Hill (Kevin "Captain N" Keene), Alessandro Juliani (Kid Icarus), Andrew Kavadas (Simon Belmont), Doug Parker (Megaman), Venus Terzo (Princess Lana), Tomm Wright (Duke), Levi Stubbs (as Levi Stubbs Jr.) (Mother Brain), Doc Harris (Narrator), Long John Baldry, Don Brown, Tony Dakota, Angela Gann, Antony Holland, Campbell Lane, Lelani Marrell, Pauline Newstone, Mark Weatherly
- Additional Voices
- Long John Baldry, Don Brown, Tony Dakota, Angela Gann, Antony Holland, Campbell Lane, Lelani Marrell, Pauline Newstone, Mark Weatherly
- Cast
- Gary Chalk, Ian James Corlett, Mike Donovan, Doc Harris, Matt Hill, Alessandro Juliani, Andrew Kavadas, Doug Parker, Venus Terzo, Tomm Wright, Levi Stubbs, Jr.
Music
- Music
- Haim Saban, Shuki Levy
- Music by
- Haim Saban, Shuki Levy
Art Department
- Storyboards
- Ryan A. Anthony, Tim Burgard, Armando Carrillo, Romero Francisco, Adrian G. Gonzales, Tom Nesbitt, Brad Rader, Michael Swanigan, Glen Hill, Robert Souza, Budd Lewis
- Character Design
- Marcelo Vignali, Edward D. Lee, Fil Barlow, Michael D. Diederich, Michael Goguen
- Storyboard Supervisor
- Kurt Conner
- Background Design
- "Fingers" Felix, C. G. Chavez, Ray Shenusay, Steve Olds, Gary Montalbano, Sean Platter, Russell Chong, Alex Stevens
- Prop Design
- Steve Swaja
- Color Backgrounds
- Ann Guenther, Hector Martinez-Yelsa, Richard Martin
- Color Design
- Allyn Conley, Derdad Aghamalian, Sharon Huth
Editing
- Assistant Editors
- Donald P. Zappala, Karen Rosenbloom
- Format Editors
- Lars Floden, William P. Magee
Sound
- Recording Assistants
- Anne Mathisen, Don Parker, Daniela Spiwak, Mark McCorkle, Gary K. Ushino, Robert Schooley, John Tirpak, Peter Harvey, Victor Villegas
- Dialogue Editors
- Richard Bruce Elliott, Gregory K. Bowron, Elvida Abella, Michelle Rochester, Richard S. Gannon, Theresa M. Gilroy, Robert T. Gillis, Heather Elliott, Ron Fedele
- Track Reader
- Mark A. McNally
- Supervising Sound Engineer
- Michael J. Cowan
- Sound Effects by
- Zound FX
- Re-Recording Engineer
- Jim Hodson
Music Department
- Music Supervisor
- Andrew Dimitroff
- Music Editor
- Stuart Goetz
- Orchestration and Arrangement
- Michael Tavera
Casting
- Voice Directors
- Marsha Goodman, Greg Morton, Stu Rosen
Production Management
- Production Coordinator
- Kenneth T. Ito
- Production Executive
- Winnie Chaffee
- Production Assistants
- Steve Gold, Jose Gonzalez, Irene Toporzysek
- Talent Coordinators
- Josanne Lovick, Doug Parker
- Executive in Charge of Post Production
- Thierry P. Laurin
- Post Production Assistants
- Firooz Adelamini, Nye Tucker
Crew
- Assisted by
- Dawn Jackson, Stacey Gallishaw, Bill Ruiz, George Robinson, Kimberly R. Cronin
- Creative Consultant
- Ellen Levy
- Translation
- Minoru Terao, Noriko Norvell, Rumio Satoh, Kazuko Yamamoto
- Lip Assignment
- Sandi Hathcock, William Kent Holladay, Jeff Hall
- Engineered and Mixed by
- Barron Abramovitch
- Videotape Supervisors
- Phil R. Defibaugh, Elvida Abella
- Main Title Producer
- Jamie Edlin
- Main Title Director
- Kit Hudson
- Main Title Cast
- Dorian Barag as "Kevin"
Companies and other credits
- Live Action Main Title Designed and Produced by: I Square Communications
- Main Title Cast: Louie from Critters of the Cinema as "Duke-The-Dog"
- © 1989 Nintendo of America
- Inc
- This program utilizes characters created by Nintendo
- The trademark and all the rights therein are the property of Nintendo. All rights reserved
- Produced By DiC Enterprises
- Inc./DiC Animation City
- In Association With
- Saban Productions
Production notes
This 30 minute Saturday morning animated series chronicled the adventures of a young boy named Kevin who was sucked into his TV set and transformed into a video game superhero named Captain N (this was illustrated in the show's live action main title sequence).
Kevin (a.k.a. Captain N), his dog Duke, and his new friends?Mega Man the robot (from his own self-titled game), Princess Lana, Simon Belmont (from Castlevania), and Kid Icarus (also from a self-titled game) went on various Nintendo-inspired adventures in Videoland. Their primary nemesis was the evil Mother Brain, the chief baddie from Nintendo's Metroid. Using his Nintendo-styled control pad, Captain N was master of his video game world, altering the plot, pausing the action, and more.
In the fall of 1990, Mario and Luigi, the stars of the syndicated Super Mario Bros. Super Show (and the wildly popular Super Mario Bros. video game series), were added to the show. Re-titled Captain N and the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the series had a featured segment in which the Mario Bros. came to the aid of Princess Toadstool as they did battle with King Koopa and his seven kids.
In the fall of 1991 the series was re-titled again to Captain N and the New Super Mario World in an attempt to cross merchandise the show with Nintendo's latest Mario Bros. video game. The show ran on NBC until the network dropped nearly all of its cartoon slate in 1992. Re-titled Captain N and the Video Game Masters (and minus Mario and Luigi), the program then moved to syndication, where new episodes were mixed in with older ones.
Kevin (a.k.a. Captain N), his dog Duke, and his new friends?Mega Man the robot (from his own self-titled game), Princess Lana, Simon Belmont (from Castlevania), and Kid Icarus (also from a self-titled game) went on various Nintendo-inspired adventures in Videoland. Their primary nemesis was the evil Mother Brain, the chief baddie from Nintendo's Metroid. Using his Nintendo-styled control pad, Captain N was master of his video game world, altering the plot, pausing the action, and more.
In the fall of 1990, Mario and Luigi, the stars of the syndicated Super Mario Bros. Super Show (and the wildly popular Super Mario Bros. video game series), were added to the show. Re-titled Captain N and the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the series had a featured segment in which the Mario Bros. came to the aid of Princess Toadstool as they did battle with King Koopa and his seven kids.
In the fall of 1991 the series was re-titled again to Captain N and the New Super Mario World in an attempt to cross merchandise the show with Nintendo's latest Mario Bros. video game. The show ran on NBC until the network dropped nearly all of its cartoon slate in 1992. Re-titled Captain N and the Video Game Masters (and minus Mario and Luigi), the program then moved to syndication, where new episodes were mixed in with older ones.