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All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Kevin in Videoland

    • September 9, 1989
    • NBC

    Mother Brain has been laying siege to the Palace of Power for seven years. When it seems like all is lost, the Ancient Prophecy declares a young warrior (Captain N: The Game Master), who would lead them to victory. The Ultimate Warp Zone opens in the room of Kevin Keene, who is playing video games when he's supposed to be cleaning his room. The warp zone pulls Kevin in through his TV and his dog, Duke, jumps in after him. Kevin arrives in Video Land, at the feet of several Nintendo game heroes (Mega Man, Kid Icarus and Simon Belmont). Princess Lana tries to give Kevin his mission, but he would prefer to leave. Meanwhile, Mother Brain sends two of her incompetent goons, Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo, to kidnap Lana. After failing to stop them, Kevin tries to get the N-Team to come up with a plan. Can they save Lana in time and stop Mother Brain's forces.

  • S01E02 How's Bayou

    • September 16, 1989
    • NBC

    Mother Brain finds out that Kevin stinks at The Adventures of Bayou Billy. She has Dr. Wily make a robo-cat for her that she can control. It is sent to the Palace of Power. Meanwhile, Kevin is giving Lana dance lessons. Kevin suggests they go to Earth to impress Kevin's friends. Lana says some other time. Duke chases the robo-cat through the warp to Bayouland. Kevin goes after him. King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard go to Bayouland to make sure Kevin doesn't leave. After a few hours, the robo-cat sneaks back into the Palace. Mega Man catches it and shows it to Lana. Lana decides to go to Bayouland and warn Kevin that something's up, but she has to agree to a candlelight dinner with Simon in order to get him to come along. After falling through some quicksand, Kevin lands in a cave. An alligator is there, but Bayou Billy prevents it from eating Kevin. Billy agrees to help Kevin look for Duke, but first he teaches Kevin how to survive in the bayou. Kevin learns to use a whip. Billy goes to r

  • S01E03 The Most Dangerous Game Master

    • September 23, 1989
    • NBC

    Dr. Wily creates an android of Mike Vincent, a bully that used to beat Kevin up on Earth, programmed from Kevin's memories. Kevin and the android become friends, and ""Mike"" is destroyed saving Kevin's life.

  • S01E04 Videolympics

    • September 30, 1989
    • NBC

    Mother Brain and her minions challenge the N Team to an athletic event. Whoever wins gets the Throne to Videoland. But Mother Brain's real intention is to steal the Three Sacred Treasures from Mount Icarus. She uses them to send the N Team into the Warp Zone to Oblivion.

  • S01E05 Mega Trouble for Megaland

    • October 7, 1989
    • NBC

    The N Team travels through a Warp Zone and ends up a week in the future. Mother Brain has already begun to conquer most of Videoland. The N Team goes to Dr. Wily's base to destroy the Three Sacred Treasures.

  • S01E06 Wishful Thinking

    • October 14, 1989
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E07 Three Men and a Dragon

    • October 21, 1989
    • NBC

    Dragon Lord, with the help of Mother Brain, tries to turn all the dragons on Dragon's Den evil. The N Team arrives and rescues Puff, the last good baby dragon. Using magic lightning, the spell on the dragons is removed, and Dragon's Den is saved.

  • S01E08 Mr. and Mrs. Mother Brain

    • October 28, 1989
    • NBC

    Lana invites Mother Brain over to sign a peace treaty. Kevin and Mega Man are pretty eager about this, but Kid Icarus isn't taking any chances. Simon gets ahold of Kid Icarus's love-at-first-sight arrow and decides to use it on Lana. But when Mother Brain arrives, Simon mis-aims, and it winds up hitting him. He takes a look at Mother Brain and falls in love with her. Mother Brain, confused, attacks and her team imprisons Simon. This love spell will be permanent unless they shoot Simon with an antidote soon. Therefore, Kid Icarus and Mega Man have to go to Mt. Icarus to get it. So while they're doing that, Kevin and Lana head for CastleVania to find Simon. Meanwhile, over at Metroid, Dr. Wily suggests that Mother Brain have Simon prove his love to her by helping her capture CastleVania. Kevin and Lana arrive at CastleVania just in time to see that it's being attacked, and have an encounter with, making his Captain N debut, Count Dracula! Simon appears and whips Drac good, but then drops

  • S01E09 Nightmare on Mother Brain's Street

    • November 4, 1989
    • NBC

    In her secret lair within the frightful world of Metroid, Mother Brain asks a question to her all-knowing Computer Mind Mirror...who's the most fairest of them all? The Computer Mind Mirror says that Princess Lana is the most beautiful of them all and she has Eggplant Wizard to make a poison apple that'll make Princess Lana fall asleep. When this works, Princess Lana is warped to Excalibur, the land of Wizards and Warriors. Kevin, Simon, and Duke head there to rescue her. They're told that they can rescue Lana if they fall asleep, so they each take a bite of the apple. Meanwhile, back at the palace, Kid Icarus and Mega Man are also given apples and are warped to Excalibur. In their dreams, which are actually their nightmares come true, Kevin suggests that they fall asleep to wake up in their own world. It works. The N Team goes back to the Palace and they put Mother Brain and her servents to sleep.

  • S01E10 Simon the Ape-Man

    • November 11, 1989
    • NBC

    Simon loses his memory while ironboarding. The N-Team tries to help him get his memory back. Mother Brain, meanwhile, gets King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard to brainwash him into thinking he's an N-Team hunter, Then he think he's Donkey Kong Jr. when he loses his memory again when Donkey Kong finds him. Finally, after being hit on the head with a coconut, Simon regains his memory.

  • S01E11 In Search of the King

    • November 18, 1989
    • NBC

    Kevin, Lana, Simon, and Duke go to the Mirror World to rescue Lana's father, King Charles. Meanwhile, their opposites travel to their world. Finally, Kid Icarus and Mega Man send the opposites (except Lana's opposite) through the Mirror Warp. Kevin, Simon, Duke, and King Charles go back to their world. King Charles takes Lana's opposite back to the Mirror Warp and Lana goes back to her world safely. With the opposites and King Charles in the Mirror World, the Mirror Warp is destroyed leaving King Charles is trapped in the Mirror World.

  • S01E12 Metroid Sweet Metroid

    • November 25, 1989
    • NBC

    Mother Brain tricks the N-Team into thinking she's been defeated. She then opens up a warp zone, with Kevin's neighborhood shown on the other side. Thinking it's the Ultimate Warp Zone, Kevin goes through. Mother Brain captures the remaining N-Team members and sentences them to banishment in the Black Hole Warp Zone. Kevin, who's really on Metroid, finally gets back to the Palace and rescues the N-Team. *Goofs* Kevin is seen wearing his Power Pad and Zapper on the (illusionary) Northridge streets, even though he left them in Videoland.

  • S01E13 Happy Birthday, Mega Man

    • December 2, 1989
    • NBC

    It's Mega Man's birthday, but he's upset because he's not human. Then he finds out about the Warp of Life. He must pass the Three Challenges. He, the N Team, and Dr. Light set off, accompanied by another Dr. Light creation, Mega Girl. Mega Man passes the Three Challenges, after numerous instances of the N Team insisting that they turn back. Mega Man goes through the Warp of Life and becomes human. He then finds out that the N Team was playing along with the Warp of Life all along. They wanted to see if Mega Man really had what it takes to pass the Three Challenges. Mega Man also finds out that Roll already passed the Three Challenges, and she's alive also. Before they leave, the Warp of Life wishes Mega Man a Happy Birthday!

Season 2

  • S02E01 Gameboy

    • September 8, 1990
    • NBC

    King Charles is about to come home through a warp zone that only opens every 1000 video years. But he decides to send a supercomputer called Game Boy in his place.

  • S02E02 Queen of the Apes

    • September 22, 1990
    • NBC

    Mother Brain plots to switch bodies with Lana – only to have Donkey Kong and Gameboy interfere.

  • S02E03 Quest for the Potion of Power

    • September 29, 1990
    • NBC

    Kevin sets out with Link and Princess Zelda on a journey through Hyrule to stop the evil wizard Ganon from being restored to his full power.

  • S02E04 The Trouble with Tetris

    • October 13, 1990
    • NBC

    Lana reunites with her long-lost brother Lyle on the distant video world of Tetris.

  • S02E05 The Big Game

    • October 20, 1990
    • NBC

    Some of Kevin's high school friends are warped to Videoland for a football game against Dr. Wily's robot masters – winner takes the throne of Videoland.

  • S02E06 The Lost City of Kongoland

    • November 10, 1990
    • NBC

    The N Team travels to Kongoland to stop Mother Brain from getting a priceless artifact. But when Lana crosses paths with the artifact, she becomes an even deadlier foe than Mother Brain.

  • S02E07 Once Upon a Time Machine

    • November 17, 1990
    • NBC

    Count Gruemon steals Kevin's Power Pad and Zapper in Hyrule, so he and Link set out into the world of Puss 'n Boots to get them back, along with the help of Pero the cat.

  • S02E08 The Feud of Faxanadu

    • November 24, 1990
    • NBC

    A power overload in the Palace of Power's football arena warps the N Team to Faxanadu – where they find themselves amidst a conflict between elves and dwarves – and an evil being bent on getting a powerful crystal that will let him conquer the video world.

  • S02E09 Having a Ball

    • December 1, 1990
    • NBC

    Mother Brain fires Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo for failing to capture the Triforce – so they steal the Triforce pieces for themselves while Link and Zelda are away at Lana's royal ball.

  • S02E10 The Trojan Dragon

    • December 8, 1990
    • NBC

    Dragonlord is back – and his new plan for conquering Dragon's Den involves hatching a deadly golden dragon. Zelda and Link once again help the N Team by building a mechanical dragon to help sneak in and thwart Dragonlord's plan.

  • S02E11 I Wish I Was a Wombatman

    • December 15, 1990
    • NBC

    Pit must help his television hero deal with Mother Brain, but finds his TV hero may not be all he thought he was.

  • S02E12 The Invasion of the Paper Pedalers

    • December 22, 1990
    • NBC

    The N Team takes a trip to a world where Mother Brain is hypnotizing residents with a special kind of newspaper ink. They meet a paperboy named Julio who is trying to figure out the reason behind this, but they then discover why Julio is immune to the hypnotic ink - he is illiterate.

  • S02E13 Germ Wars

    • December 29, 1990
    • NBC

    Kevin contracts a video virus he has no immunity to – so the N Team shrinks themselves down and goes inside Kevin's body to battle the virus.

  • S02E14 When Mother Brain Rules

    • January 5, 1991
    • NBC

    A retrospective look on the time since Kevin Keene arrived in Videoland. Oddly, there were two versions...one with voices...and one (the first shown version) without. The entire tone of the episode makes it one of the most confusing episodes as it doesn't seem entirely restrospective in how it's done...thus making many wonder...with as many battles as we've won, did we lose the war?

Season 3

  • SPECIAL 0x1 When Mother Brain Rules (version 2)

    • January 5, 1991
    • NBC

    A retrospective look on the time since Kevin Keene arrived in Videoland. Oddly, there were two versions: one with voices and one (the first shown version) without. The entire tone of the episode makes it one of the most confusing episodes, as it doesn't seem entirely retrospective in how it's done. In the end, it seems to raise the question: with as many battles as we've won, did we lose the war?

  • S03E01 Misadventures in Robin Hood Woods

    • September 14, 1991
    • NBC

    A pitstop on the world of Nottingham to fix the warp wagon teams Kevin and Kid Icarus with Robin Hood and his Merry Men to halt the devilish deeds of the Sheriff. But when the revenge-hungry Sheriff plots to capture the outlaw of Sherwood Forest, its Kid Icarus who winds up arrow-to-arrow in a Tournament of Champions that could save Maid Marion from her doom.

  • S03E02 Pursuit of the Magic Hoop

    • September 21, 1991
    • NBC

    On the hoopy world of Hoopland, Kevin, Lana and Larry Bird find themselves in a race against a real-live Clockman. But sinking a basket into a Magic Hoop that grants wishes is the only way to save Hoopland from the rampaging destruction of a whopping, hopping giant robot.

  • S03E03 Return to Castlevania

    • September 28, 1991
    • NBC

    When the Poltergeist King accuses Simon's great grandfather of being a coward, it takes all the bite out of the egotistical vampire hunter. Unless Captain N can restore his faith, by unveiling the King for the disguised vampire Count he is, a humiliated Simon vows to give up heroing forever.

  • S03E04 Totally Tetrisized

    • October 5, 1991
    • NBC

    Responding to an SOS from the world of Tetris, Kevin, Lana and Simon must face off with an army of humanoid Tetris blocks, controlled by a nasty Puzzle Wizard with a cracked sense of humor. The only way to defeat this wacky wiseguy is for Captain N to beat him at his own game -- Tetris!

  • S03E05 A Tale of Two Dogs

    • October 12, 1991
    • NBC

    Mega rat Dr. Wiley pretends to reform his evil ways to steal Dr. Right's new peace-keeping robot. To distract Captain N and Megaman from his plot to takeover Megaland, the wily doc dog-naps Duke and Megaman's robot hound. Warping to the rescue, our two heroes land in turtle soup, and it's a dogfight getting out.

  • S03E06 Battle of the Baseball Know-It-Alls

    • October 19, 1991
    • NBC

    Mother Brain, Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo warp the N-Team and Bo Jackson inside Baseball World, then move into the palace with Princess Lana as their unwilling lady-in-waiting. Unless Kevin and Bo can put aside their differences, they just might lose the battle to get home against a team of rebellious baseball equipment. And if they strike out, Videoland could be lost forever.

  • S03E07 The Fractured Fantasy of Captain N

    • October 26, 1991
    • NBC

    His envy of the reigning Prince of Final Fantasyland makes Captain N susceptible to the spell of an elfin "fairy godfather" who promises to grant his every wish. The only hope of saving him is for Lana, Kid Icarus and Megaman to find the light crystal that will open Kevin's eyes to the evil elf's scheme to take over the land.