Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future Bio Dread Strike Mission Skill Level 2

[@TC-ic1ic]

Good memories. As a kid I must have played this at least 100 times. Awesome nostalgia.

[@phrozac]

Oh, the memories...I remember being so impressed by the 2d animation. Has a similar style to other popular cartoons from the day like Visionaries, Bionic 6, and the intro to Thundercats. Fun fact, "Tank" here is a friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger and had roles in many of his movies including Thorgrim in Conan the Barbarian. He was also Tigris of Gaul in Gladiator.

[@EternalRoman]

No wonder he was so familiar to me. I never could imagine Thorgrim without a long wig and a beard, but that face was always so familiar in this show LOL. Also, the animation was American funded 80s Anime, the same used as you said in the shows you mentioned, including the pilot of the TMNTs.

[@mikemo87]

This late 80s futuristic animation was awesome. You don’t get the detail anymore. Everything is so flash based it looks cheap.

[@mdo7]

I'm not sure if you're an anime aka Japanese animation fan. But were you aware the animation was done by 2 well-known Japanese studio?

[@ColonelStarfire]

Also the music was done by Kenji Kawai. Quite well known for the OST's for Patlabor, Ranma 1/2, Ghost in the Shell, and Fate: Stay/Night (original movie AND UBW series). Being an late 80's release, this was a little before he really started making a name for himself.

[@nabahmadi5012]

The animation is actually top notch!!!

[@axelord1942]

Sound editing is on point, too. Some of those backing tracks are stellar. The Striker Air Assault and the Carrier in particular.

[@hellsunicorn]

In many ways, these animated expansions on the series have held up better than the original show, the limitations of CGI during the late 80s is pretty blatant, but the old hand-drawn animation of these VHS tapes continues to tower above what passes for animation today.

[@mrda2611]

That outsourcing to Japan paid off, as it did with many cartoons of that era.

[@em23]

Animation by artmic

[@andrewng7198]

Oh my, it took more than 20 years for me to rediscover this. I watched this as a kid but too young to realize the title.

[@teodorzlatev7393]

same to me my frd

[@omarleerojas]

Andrew Ng same

[@braveladder1682]

Young me thought this was the coolest thing ever. I never saw the actual show, just these VHS tapes. It is still really fucking cool, both the animation and some of the music.

[@RedSiegfried]

I still pull out my video tapes and play this even today, 40 years later, not to mention the DVD versions I found that still work with the ships, which save wear and tear on the tapes. If you find some of the tapes, make sure you use an SD television - then the refresh rate will be right to work with the toys. In theory, newer displays could be used too, but you have to be able to set the refresh rate correctly. I've seen some tutorials on how to do this with certain monitors but never done it myself. One other thing - the official DVD release of the TV show does NOT have working battle sequences, at least not the version I have. But it has some great interviews with the cast and crew!

[@dr5911]

This video gave me flashbacks from 33 years ago, that I didn't remember till I saw the animation,thank you

[@ThundarrTBarbarian]

You're welcome. Glad to be of service.

[@Thedudeabides803]

Man does this bring back great memories. There was a flashing round red light you would slick on the television and it made a weird rainbow on the screen when the TV was shut off. So my mom threw it away. I was devastated haha. There were laser tag belts you could wear, I had the black enemy ship and my brother had the white one. I must have been 6/8 years old. That was such a fun time.

[@RedSiegfried]

I know this is a few years later, but if you're thinking of a flashing red light you stick on the screen, that was Action Max, not Captain Power.

[@skynetprime82]

I haven't seen this since I was 10 years old and I'm 40 now, I can't believe how long it's been

[@ghostrider-5058]

Wow!! This takes my way way back! This was way ahead of its time. I remember meeting Captain Power and the rest of the team at Universal Studios back in the late 80's. Too bad it didn't last long. Im sure Hollywood could relaunch this series to try to give it one more squeeze.

[@MILITARYSIXX]

dude you are a god among men. childhood win!!!

[@ThundarrTBarbarian]

Thank you, sir. Hopefully there will be more to come as I locate them.

[@alxxz]

So this is basically an analog FMV rail-shooter like After Burner video game on VHS! It's incredible what they achieved here!

[@Eric_Malbos]

This is very impressive considering this is 2D animation, meaning that the Japanese and/or the Korean animators had to draw by hand each frame of buildings, machines, perspective changes, this seems to be a considerable work. Congratulations and hats off to them ^_^

[@Tuxedoian]

It was done by Artmic and AIC. They also did some big name anime like (AIC) Tenchi Muyo, Battle Athletes, El-Hazard, and (Artmic) Gall Force, Mospeda, Bubblegum Crisis, and Megazone 23. Which makes all the technical detail and post-apoc look to things make a lot of sense, since Power's future isn't that different from Bubblegum Crisis, just with Bio-Dreads instead of Boomers...

[@pchien31707]

Thanks for putting this up! I was just talking with some friends about the show, but I remembered the most how awesome the animation was with the VHS missions.

[@Periodik]

Thank you for this. I've been searching for this video for 30 years. I watched the whole thing with a nostalgic smile ear to ear.

[@sneakytingvega5638]

This is totally anime. Gotta love the 1980’s Japanese hand drawn animation and sound effects during the flight missions. Give me Southern Cross Vibes. Then again it had Japanese animation staff team to animate hired by Captain Powers’ creator to make these.

[@anthonyleongwannlih6378]

Japanime is the best to pay awesome tribute to gems of television. This is awesome!

[@AaronRosier]

i recall every second, every sound effect. wow!

[@zaphodthenth]

I was a fan of this series. TODAY 7/26/2019 I bought an XP7 Powerjet that still works. And I have a Phantom Striker that is missing parts.

[@mikedski9698]

It's POWERJET XT-7.

[@zaphodthenth]

@@RedskyCoffee I'll see what I have and get back to you.

[@zaphodthenth]

@@RedskyCoffee I'll see what I have available. I'll get back to you later.

[@zaphodthenth]

I'll see if I still have any parts. I'll let you know in a few days.

[@HotaruZoku]

I'm waiting for someone to declare they're doing a Captain Power Trilogy speedrun and just play the tapes in fast forward.

[@alfe1402]

This series, and the concept behind, should be remade. That was great at the time, with that old technology. It would be amazing if it was done today, with our current technology. This series was ahead of the time.

[@WilliamVosseler]

Love the Imperial Speeder Bike SFX @ 5:58

[@camcordernonsense5264]

one of these was replayed over and over in our house in 87 and 88. this is fun to watch even not playing it as a target game.

[@MrUniq]

I never saw the show but I owned this VHs and I played it like crazy with my toys.

[@dagripper77]

So this is technically the first anime I owned

[@hellsunicorn]

Same here, actually saw these about a year before seeing reruns of the old Voltron series.

[@Ifalvarado]

I remember this! The flashes on those fire shots in the animation is what triggers the toys to tell if you got hit or rack up points with the flash color code on the enemies kind of like the NES zapper on hitting target points... very imaginative technology to use for toys and fun!

[@georgeshelton6281]

I was definitely ready for this one. I know just where I was back in 1987. It's all about future force training missions. It came out first place. Lord Dread's laser throne never flew up in the air. I thought it would have Lord Dread go from himan to robot in an instant.

[@IMDRanged]

I like the idea because of the wars, records were lost or misunderstood and old familiar cities and structures are given new names. For instance the Sears Tower became "The Tower of the Seer"

[@SNARC15]

Raid of Volcania did the same thing, referring to Washington as "Washton Province" and New York as "Nu'Ork"

[@ColonelStarfire]

It's a very real phenomenon for long lived languages. Known as "Lingual Shift". A good example is how Latin slowly became the "romantic" languages (Spanish, English, Italian, ect.), or how we speak differently now, than in say 1800...

[@JoshuanKnode]

The hulk German guy was a real powerlifting champion. Probably helped move all that armor lol

[@ThundarrTBarbarian]

Yeah, he was (is?) good buddies with Ahnuld. He was in both Conan flicks, and if you look quickly you can spot him as the guy who faught Maximus with the Tiger in Gladiator.

[@bigdrew565]

That was Sven Ole Thorsen.

[@Tuxedoian]

@@ThundarrTBarbarian Also the bodyguard in Running Man. "I'm gonna go do some steroids."

[@ArmyGuyDan]

80s Japanese anime at its finest

[@interwebpsychiosis]

Are you out of your mind. Sure Japanese people were probably payed to animate this, but this is far from the best 80's Japanese Anime. This wouldn't even make a top 50 list.

[@ViewpointProd]

@@interwebpsychiosis IT'S EXTREMELY FLUENT & EXPENSIVE ANIMATION, IT'S GORGEOUS

[@bigdrew565]

@@ViewpointProd calm down there, bud. It's good, but It's not Akira.

[@mdo7]

That's what I thought when I saw the animation and being a long-time anime fan today, that makes me wonder what anime studio did the animation? I snoop around on Google and ended up on Facebook and found some interesting but shocking information and answer to that. It turns out 2 very well-known anime studio of the 80's did the animation for Captain Power's animation for this video. AIC & Artmic. AIC is the studio responsible for Tenchi Muyo! series, Bubblegum Crisis OVA series, Blue Gender, & Oreimo. Artmic is the anime studio responsible for Genesis Climber Mosapeada (the third anime used for Robotech), Casshan: Robot Hunter OVA, Megazone 23. With further information, I found out several high-profile anime animators lend their talent for this one and they were uncredited. You got Masami Obari (he was the mecha designer and character designer for several anime titles like Dangaioh , Obari directed several anime like Gravion and Gravion Zwei). Shinji Aramaki (yes that Aramaki) also was involved in this one too,!!! He was the mechanical design guy for this one and uncredited too. So this is an anime fan/western otaku wet dream. This is kinda like finding out that Hayao Miyazaki and the people of Studio Ghibli worked on Little Nemo (pre-production, not the final film). So the company that created Captain Power video got some very well-known anime studio for doing the animation and got some high-profile animators (well when this was made, anime was still niche and unknown in the US at that time) involved in this. This is amazing from a anime fan POV if they saw this today and found out that high-profile anime studio worked on this, and had Shinji Aramaki involved with Captain Power's mech design.

[@Tuxedoian]

@@mdo7 Not to mention they had Kenji Kawai of all people doing the music. His style is pretty iconic and very recognizable. It truly is a shame that the awesome music in these videos isn't available outside of them, it's so stylish and would make for great workout tunes.

[@janocronismo]

Great animation, majestic soundtrack.

[@kizunadragon9]

fun fact the term "Tank" in RPG's (the guy who soaks up damage) came from Captain Power.

[@ThundarrTBarbarian]

Cool. I did not know that. Thanks.

[@WilliamVosseler]

Renaissance Nerd Wait, really? Is there a source for this? I love a solid CP reference...

[@CptJistuce]

I don't think that's actually- you know what? Headcanon accepted. That is 117% true.

[@Kenshiro3rd]

No it didn’t. It came from tanks’ usage in WW1 and other wars… where they were basically used to draw fire & soak up damage to protect the troops behind them.

[@mikedski9698]

Great Animation!

[@RedSiegfried]

What's pretty cool is that with the monitor I'm watching this on, the flashing seems to be the right frequency to activate the toys but I don't know for sure until I try it out. Marking this for later!

[@KamenKami]

With the success of Cuphead, one day more animated games like this will come back. Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, Time Gal, Road Blaster.

[@disthunder]

My buddy and me would sit on the couch with every controller and pad we could find, and run this thing like an imaginary flight sim. I would kill to have just a little of that imagination still.

[@altcoinpeer2peer694]

I'm coming back to watch these, after finishing the tv series. So many differences, aside from the episodes being more live, and the tapes being animated. It would be an entirely different series, if it was a more like the tapes. Maybe it would have been cheaper to animate, instead of live-cgi? Still, a personal fave!

[@HollmanOrtizBuitrago]

Awesome animation sequence.

[@mdo7]

That's because this was done by 2 famous Japanese anime studios. That's why the animation reminded me of 1980's anime. Disclaimer: I'm a long time anime fan.

[@truemperahzentertainment6133]

damn Captain Power is 30 Years old

[@hoffenwurdig1356]

“Skee Ka” can be hypothesized to be what was once Chicago, Illinois, in which case the Tower of the Seer could be what was once Sears Tower.

[@KmT81]

Film series and also video game training!And when you see Jonathan and Jennifer, both names are in in Hart to Hart !I only had Power as a figure, I also wanted to have the material plane to play on TV but was expensive !

[@Hicks-g1m]

I remember this power training simulation it was way head of it's time but really fun

[@derrickseeto9698]

Cripes! How big is that Dread Assault Carrier!? 7 miles? 15 miles? It took nearly a minute for fighter jets to fly through it! It must be like a flying city!

[@michaelbhatti506]

MFW I find this childhood video 1:59

[@mrtrin]

HOW does the yellow flash but the red flash doesnt blink anymore? That’s so interesting

[@Mrbandit81]

Had the hero an villain jets plus the 3 vhs tapes, not sure what happen to the 2 jets but i still have the tapes on the shelf. If this show was to make a come back, could see it as a cartoon or as a live action show hopefully with the comeback of the toy line.

[@ZZtheDark]

In 2016,Gary Goddard announced a sequel called Phoenix Rising set 25 years after the first Season. I'm awaiting for the day,man.

[@castorjones2455]

This takes me back to age 7

[@michaellove447]

Took me forever.... I use to ask my friends if they ever had a VHS game that came with a jet. They would always look at me crazy, like what u talking about!?? Never knew the name I was only 4 playing it I was lucky because my dad worked at KB toy store so he would get pretty good discounts when I was a kid. Those dudes that were flying around scared the shit out of me If it was dark outside and I was playing it in my room while ppl were sleep

[@andreacrippa7220]

Played as a kid! When i found out while playing that there weren't real interaction with the video i was very sad!

[@MBarcus927]

Like the Assault Carrier music. What is the title of the song? Gotta find it.

[@TeKnoVKNG23]

Wish you could find the soundtrack from this separate from the game, amazing stuff.

[@ZZtheDark]

Speaking of which,kzbin.info/aero/PLymS7Wr2it3tj1vvwcCOUGBeU377P2zqV

[@krisjonson9193]

This should have been a full anime series just like this

[@neogzus]

This was the catalyst to my NOW @spiritual cyberetics warfare

[@mikemo87]

Man this is nostalgic

[@robertkenny1201]

If they ever decide to give this show a continuation of some kind, maybe they show go animation or comic book series.

[@adriandelagarza9388]

Shoot the red, avoid the yellow and give yourself space to jump around

[@mauromesa78]

this is not in the complete series dvd set as a bones feature

[@Big-Rig-Energy]

Had a captain power quilt as a kid.

[@jerryhenson3916]

I'm eight years old all over again.

[@jrreedve2825]

POWER ON!

[@Peterkrack]

Just move the jet away from the screen and he never gets shot except by the lamp . Seeing this again years later it’s like a side battle in the autobot city fight and would have made an ok transformers movie vhs toy game about the same anime quality for action scenes not starring Optimus and megatron final battle

[@turbohusque]

Whose idea was it to give Arnold Schwarzenegger's personal trainer Sven Thorsen speaking lines?

[@BushidoDragonGaming]

I have never seen this before

[@plushcrochet8719]

You can tell Mattel did hire a Japanese anime studio to do this. But which one?

[@ovietnatarepletodeconteudo3694]

It's AIC.

[@autobotlaserbolt2128]

Did Toei do the animation for this? It looks like their style.

[@mdo7]

Good guess, but it's not Toei that did the animation. It was AIC and Artmic (the animation studio responsible for a lot of 80's mecha anime, several high profile anime OVAs of the mid-late 80's, and early 90's).

[@indigorager]

how i ended up on this? i do not know.

[@indigorager]

oh yeah. stoned.

[@BarryJowers]

damn me too

[@oinktheclown]

Wait, this is a game? How did you play this? I only knew the live action Captain Power series.

[@RhinForti]

You needed to own the Powerjet, Shadow Striker or Interlocker toys. They usually came along with one of these videos, but you could play during the weekly tv episodes or pvp with the toys as well, which is what all the flashing colors are for. You use the toys as a gun to shoot flashing red targets and 'dodge' the green/yellow targets. Every time they say "check your power points" you would hit a button on the back which would play a number of tones which were your hp. Get hit = lose 1 hp. Lose all hp = the toy plays a loud noise and vibrates, ejects the action figure you had as a pilot and shuts down.

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

Star wars sound effects

[@briancurry6602]

nice

[@JhonzCepeda]

La animacion de capitan power hubiera qedado excelente con un reinicio y varias temporadas

[@briancurry6602]

i love his suit

[@DAANNNN1]

My childhood 🥲🥲

[@danacarter9147]

LAZER TAG VIBES, GUYS 👍

[@briancurry6602]

LT MICHAEL IS VERY NICE GUY

[@williefreeman282]

Taco Bell seizure-inducing

[@obyrnedd]

You may have noticed, when Captain Power was transferred to DVD, the targets and threats won’t work with the toy XT-7 Jets on some new TVs. Well, I animated targets over some video game footage. It looks a little rough, but it’s possible to use a 31-year-old Captain Power XT-7 Jet with a modern TV. If you still have an XT-7 Jet or compatible please enjoy. Me playing the Captain Power / Star Fox Tech Demo kzbin.info/www/bejne/bILTk6aljMyWbdk Captain Power / Star Fox Tech Demo kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmipqHd_rK2af6M

[@Controversy1100]

This is my real heroes movie.

[@lostplanet1390]

They should be made at that time and animation TV show for kids in that way they can use much better the toys to interact with the TV and make another one for adults with real people TV show too. I think the TV shows got much better. it’s because the real people TV show Was more for adults they know how to go or blood of all their more adult rated was more serious and the way they trying to make kids use the toy to shoot to the screen was not too good. I think the animation to have more time for the kid interact with the toys, it was in animation format great with new technologies we have today kept power and the soldiers of the future written back to streaming or TV series. I think I streaming great with an app game you can interact using your phone or your tablet or some toys that’s gonna be very cool.

[@mrlyles2002able]

Back when toys were actually fun. Not the crap they sell now. If it's not a video game it's not worth buying.

[@briancurry6602]

i love her suit you know what i mean

[@highlander723]

I remember when I was a kid I was about 10 years old when she died on TV I remember I cried and she wasn't even my favorite character I didn't understand my emotions at the time but as an adult I know exactly what I was feeling I was too young to bang her I hadn't reached maturity yet and I knew I never get the chance!

[@sindobrandnew]

Is this some kind of arcade game?

[@ThundarrTBarbarian]

sindobrandnew No. It was a game that was played between the show/videotape and the specially licensed Captain Power toys.

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[@reubenguttenberg7405]

Toei animation

[@mdo7]

Nope, Toei didn't do this animation. It was AIC and Artmic (that anime studio was responsible for a lot 80's mecha & sci-fi anime, famous OVAs from the 80's and early 90's).

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