Captain N News

08/11/07

Captain N Is On DVD!

It has been confirmed by Shout! Factory: "Captain N: The Game Master" - a 4-DVD set that includes seasons 1 & 2 - is scheduled to be released on February 27, 2007. This site will, of course, keep all fans updated on the details as they become available. Here is what is known so far: Version 1 of "How's Bayou" and any version of "When Mother Brain Rules" will not be included, due to DiC apparently not having the master tapes. The episode teasers that aired only on NBC were apparently created by NBC, not DiC, and they were not part of Shout! Factory's all-around deal. Sadly, only the teaser for "Kevin In Videoland" will be included. The songs were replaced with "similar-sounding music" to avoid copyright and licensing issues. The Mario segments in the opening and closing Season 2 themes are not included. DiC created two opening and closing title sequences for both halves of the series on the chance of a break-out. The Captain N masters have the opening and closing for Captain N only. The tapes that DiC is lending Shout! Factory to make the DVD set are clones of NBC broadcast masters (thus explaining the presence of NBC's episode teasers on the tapes), which apparently don't lose quality from copy to copy. The DVD set will be packaged in 2 double-disc thinpaks. An 8-page booklet, which was announced earlier, had been cut, due to time and budget constraints. Other special features include Character Video Bios including narration taken directly from the text of the Captain N bible; Exploring Videoland: Concept art for the worlds and locations of Captain N: The Game Master; and "Captain Nintendo" - the Nintendo Power short story that started it all! The retail price will be $34.98. Read an article about the DVD release here. Amazon now has a page for the DVD set, listing a list price of $24.98 and their price of $22.49. Order your copy today! The final DVD cover art has been approved. Go here to see it! You can read reviews of the DVD set at Movieweb.com and IGN!

This Site is the Target of Hackers

This website has been under two different user names on Tripod since 1998 (captain_n and ucnhp). Both of these accounts were hacked into. In the first case, everything except for the first page was deleted, and a link was set up to Webster Sterling Swenson's site, The Captain N Network. The second time, the site was left untouched and sat at the ucnhp location, not updated since 01/03/03. I finally got Tripod to delete that account in early 2006. Unfortunately, there are quite a few psychotic, sick, twisted, obsessive Captain N fans that hate me, and they're making it their mission to take down or otherwise disrupt my site. Think of them as the Captain N version of Al-Queda - only not as friendly. So, I'm telling you here and now that this site can be hacked into at anytime. I will never go for more than one month without updating this site unless otherwise noted. So, if this site is suddenly linking to another site, if weird updates start appearing, if this site completely disappears, or if a long period of time goes by with no updates, then this site has been hacked into. In that event, I will do my best to inform sites such as The Mega Man Home Page and The CastleVania Dungeon of the most current URL for this site, and I will also submit it to search engines such as Yahoo! and AltaVista. Keep checking, and you should eventually find my site again.

Metroid Movie

This article was posted to alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, rec.games.video.nintendo, alt.games.video.nintendo.gameboy.advance, and uk.games.video.gamecube on Wednesday, April 7, 2004.

Also, check out this article at Yahoo! News.

Cool! It looks like Samus Aran will be on the big screen next year! Of course, this site will provide coverage of the developments of this movie, so keep checking for more details!

SMB3 on DVD!

6 episodes of "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3" have been released on a DVD called Super Mario Brothers: King Koopa!

Updates

08/11/07 - 3:39 PM

The Captain N animated series review is up! At last, the quest that I had undertaken over 5 years ago is at an end! This review has been a long time in coming, and it's very long. Enjoy!

I realize there are issues with the Captain N DVD set. I'll address those in a later review. I just wanted to get the series review up today.

02/27/07 - 11:07 PM

"Captain N: The Game Master" is on DVD today! If you haven't already done so, go out and pick up your copy!

The Unofficial Captain N Home Page is exactly 10 years old today! Here are the updates:

I went through almost every section of the site and cleaned it up. The exceptions are the Comics Books and Fandom areas (I'll deal with those later; I wanted to focus on the TV series today, since it came out on DVD today), the Videoland Guidebook (which I'll be splitting to cover the TV and comic book Videolands), ForeigN (I have to locate the original media files and re-upload them), the FAQ (which will be condensed in some areas and expanded in other areas), Stuff I Need (which will be renamed and expanded; just assume for now that I need whatever you have!), and Overview (I'll add a bit more site history).

The most noticable change is that I stopped the rather dumb convention, which I'd been using for years, of putting episode titles in all-caps. They stood out that way, and it looked rather ugly. Episode titles are now written normally throughout the site - with only a few exceptions in sections that haven't been updated yet and the Random Quote on the main page.

You'll also notice a date near the top of almost every page. This will indicate how long that it's been since that particular section was last updated. Currently, each date is 02/27/2007. Whenever you see a section falling behind in updates, e-mail me and give me a nudge!

Site-specific updates:

I updated the text on the main and main (frames) pages.

I added a new News Archive, which documents the site's progress as far back as August 25, 1999. That's still nearly 2.5 years after the site debuted. I got these updated by using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and this is as far back as they have, unfortunately. Then again, when I first started this site, I didn't keep the previous updates. I typed over them during every update. I don't recall when I started archiving them. Anyway, I moved the other archives here, here, and here. Enjoy!

I updated Mike's e-mail address in Disco Duck's Video Game Reviews. E-mail the great one about his reviews!

TV series updates:

I overhauled the Introduction To the TV Series.

I overhauled The Captain N Episode Guide.

All of the episodes remaining in the Episode Novelizations Project are up for grabs again, since I haven't gotten any from anyone. If you wanna novelize an episode, tell me or just go ahead and send it in!

I renamed Music Listing & Lyrics to Music Listing and brought it and Captain N and Zelda Song Lyrics into a new section, Audio Central. The biggest update here is an off-site warp to a Captain N station that I created on Yahoo! Music. Listen to it while browsing the site! Audio Central will also have the MP3s, which I plan to put up (as many as I still have after my 1999 hard drive crash, anyway) in the coming weeks.

I fixed some links in the Cast and Crew section and added links to the IMDb pages for SMBSS and CN&SMW.

I added the Captain N DVD set and SMBSS2 to the Home Video Releases section.

I added a Shopping Guide.

General updates:

I overhauled the Canon section.

Deletions:

I removed the TV Series Timeline and Comic Book Timeline. I realize they've been on this site for years, but I'll explain my reasoning. With the original air dates currently in dispute, the TV Series Timeline is dangerously misleading. As for the Comic Book Timeline, the events were listed by the months in the books. It would be more accurate that they occur on the dates of the books' releases, which isn't known. That's why I got rid of the timelines.

That's all for today's updates. I wanted to do more, but I had time constraints.

02/02/07 - 8:24 PM

I added more info on the upcoming DVD release. See above.

I added a new commentary, Confusion Over Captain N's Original Air Dates & Order. This commentary is relevant to the upcoming DVD release, so everone please read it!

The next update will be on February 27 as a 10 anniversary update! See ya then!

01/03/07 - 4:02 PM

Happy New Year!

Here's my summary of 2006.

Talk about a resurgence. 2006 was a very busy year for this site. I added 27 new episode reviews - 17 for Captain N and 10 for Zelda - as well as Season 2, Season 3, and Zelda series reviews, finishing up the Zelda animated series and Seasons 2 and 3 of Captain N, leaving only the overall series review (which I'm currently working on) left. In total, 364 KB of new information was added to this site. I also added 213 new pictures (49 animation cells and 164 screen captures) to The Picture Gallery.

I will continue to add more to this site in 2007. With the DVD release (and the site's 10th anniversary) fast approaching, 2007 is the Year of Captain N!

I made the 09/09/2001 - 2003 and 2004 News Archives more uniform and moved the 2005 - 2006 updates to its own new archive.