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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9560302" data-attributes="member: 4534">It's been so long since I've seen an episode that I only have a few fragmentary memories.  Other than Dungeon Master, Venger, Tiamat, and Uni, I can't think of the names of the main characters and had to look them up.  I was nine when D&D ended production in 1985, and while I remember enjoying the show, that doesn't mean it's good.  Most of the cartoons I watched when I was a kid aged terrible with only a few notable exceptions.  I can certainly see how someone older would have been unhappy with the show.  Just a bit of reading up on it, I didn't realize a lot of people considered in a particularly violent cartoon, but then by the time I saw the cartoon I had already seen Poltergeist and several other movies I wouldn't let any hypothetical children of mine watch.  Back then, a lot of cartoons were required to have some sort of educational or moral lesson, and I understand the character of Eric had a contrarian nature because the writer's were directed to send a message to kids that the group was always right.  In hindsight that seems like a terrible message.  Palladium came out with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness in 1985 about two years before the debut of the cartoon series.  The RPG was based on the rather gritty comic book and I know the folks at Palladium felt as though it pushed people away from their game.  I was losing interest in cartoons by the time TMNT came out and never really got into the series.</blockquote>

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