There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought:“What if we simply gave them everything?”Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs.

There were countless TV cartoons in the '80s, and Saturday mornings were filled with adaptations of popular toy lines, comic books, and movies, even if some of the properties weren't exactly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animation has been back in the news recently due to the king of all characters — Mickey Mouse (his Steamboat Willie incarnation, ...

The 1980s were a golden age for cartoons, which often featured some creatively creepy villains that linger in memory even all these decades later. The most famous and iconic cartoons of the 1980s ...

Holding Out for a Hero’ syncs with ThunderCats and 5 other ’80s cartoon intros—try it yourself Remember when Saturday mornings meant waking up before your parents, ...

In 1980, everything changed for animation in America. President Jimmy Carter signed the FTC Improvements Act of 1980, limiting the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to regulate children’s programming ...

The lesson of MythForce, if Beamdog’s zany roguelite has one, is that parody is easy; homage is hard. It’s simple enough to snicker at the 12-frames-per-second animation of the 1980s, and the cynical ...

Saturday morning cartoons were the only reason to wake up early in the ’80s. Growing up, we did not have a television so I would be at my best friend’s door (much to the disappointment of his dad) ...

Even among the select group of 40-something nerds who cherish even the awful content of our youths, there are not many who remember the short-lived cartoon Turbo Teen. This is a good thing. Its ...

The fan-favorite Rankin/Bass cartoon series ThunderCats made its television premiere in 1985 and ran for four seasons, totaling 130 episodes. Many years later, it was rebooted in 2011 for a ...