Captain N: The Game Master
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Captain N: The Game Master was a TV show from the late 80s and early 90s, where a teenage boy is named Kevin Keene transported into Videoland, a universe based around Videogames.
It featured Mother Brain (voiced by Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops) as the chief antagonist operating out of a fortified asteroid referred to as Metroid.
In the Captain N comic book series (part of the Nintendo Comics System), Samus Aran played a large role as a member of the N-team and a rival for Kevin Keene's affection. Her portrayal, appearance, and background story remain fairly accurate to the current image of Samus. Kraid and Ridley also make a few brief appearances, based on their concept art from Metroid. The series is significant for featuring one of the first appearances of one of Samus's Gunships. While much larger, it beared the name "Hunter IV". The name "Hunter" was picked up again for the Gunship in Metroid Prime, over a decade later. The comic also had stories which took place on planet Zebes, unlike the cartoon which only used a titular asteroid as a locale to represent the series. Samus herself never appeared in the cartoon the comics were based on, as the head writer for the first season "never heard of her."
The events of the Captain N series are not regarded as canon, and are more of a "What if?" story.
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The Captain N story was based on a short-lived Nintendo Power story called Captain Nintendo, which had an entirely different premise. The main character is a Nintendo employee named Brett Randalls, who is introduced as an R&D techhead that is finishing a game of Metroid with an NES Advantage. When a batch of Napaj Microchips explodes from exposure to coffee, they embed themselves into Brett's skin and the game. He gained abilities over light, electricity, and actualize game characters and objects. The group noticed that Mother Brain was missing from the game screen and another product of the explosion integrating with blank cartridges, EMERALD, explained that she had also come to life and could draw from games. The story only lasted two issues, before the concept was offered out to create the Captain N cartoon and comic series.
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A list of the Metroid specific issues.
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 Captain N: The Game Master Issue #2 cover. |
 Captain N: The Game Master Issue #3 cover. |
 Captain N: The Game Master Issue #5 cover. |
 Captain N: The Game Master Issue #6 preview (Unreleased). |
 Original Nintendo Power Captain Nintendo story. |
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 Second Captain Nintendo story. |
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