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Originally posted by: Dasmos
I could see a donkey kong cartoon working but i guess it's just hopeful thinking
Yeah, the DK Country cartoon wasn't the hottest. I guess at the time it was still groundbreaking to use CG in a TV show but nowadays CG animation is all over the place, and many major animated films are that way too. ReBoot was the biggest, though, where's my Season V? Or did Nintendo kick them in the crotch because they were using purple "Game Cubes"?
Several properties have been tried on the small screen...
-Captain N: The Game Master, featuring various NES heroes, including a few non-Nintendo ones, and later, the Game Boy was a character
-Super Mario Bros. Super Show, with The Legend Of Zelda on Fridays
--also followed up with Super Mario Bros. 3 and the probably short-lived Super Mario World cartoons
-Donkey Kong Country
-Pokémon, still going, enjoying the most sucess of all of these shows
-Kirby: Right Back At Ya!
-F-Zero: GP Legend
And then there's the craptacular Super Mario Bros. movie, seven or so Pokémon movies, and the oft-fuzzy Metroid movie possibility.
So several hundred hours on non-interactive Nintendo entertainment have been made already (a good deal of it being Pokémon). It might take a bit more effort to do it all on its own and a lot more marketing to get non-Pokémon type franchises to the big screen, but it doesn't seem like a HUGE stretch for Nintendo. And hey, I doubt Nintendo would anytime soon shift its focus so majorly, if whatever they put out bombs, they're not going to continue and stick with just the games.