Don't miss the Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

[@welovettrpgs]

I wanted there to be a Galaxy Ranger video on KZbin made by an actual fan of the show, covering details that interested me. I couldn't find one so I made this. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks! - Aten EDIT: I plan on reuploading this video in a few months. I want that video to be THE definitive (evergreen) Galaxy Rangers video on KZbin. There's three things in it I need to correct so it holds up. (I blame being overworked in the process of making it. I put more work hours into that than any other video.) 1. Official lore says Mogul has six arms. Images show four. It was stupid of me not to have caught that and address it. 2. Wiki says Star Blazers was the first .... etc. It (and thus I) should say, "was one of the first" since (for example, Speed Racer was from the late 60s) . It was stupid of me not to have caught that and address it. 3) I misspoke and said Fritz Lieber when I meant Fritz Lang. It was stupid of me not to have caught that.

[@Jamie_E_Pritchard]

The 80's and early 90's had the BEST serialized cartoons. Another sci-fi western show that came out around the same time was BraveStarr which was also thoroughly enjoyable.

[@welovettrpgs]

For sure. And Bravestarr was commonly mentioned when I was reading about this show. My StarLaw video research brought me to early Isaac Asimov sci fi (under a different name) writing about intergalactic space cowboys.

[@Jamie_E_Pritchard]

@@welovettrpgs It's interesting that the two apparently disparate genres work so well together. So much so it's practically it's own genre.

[@Cominius]

I continuously conflate this and Bravestarr in my head.

[@draconicLatte]

Converting people into batteries to power robot warriors is similar to what the Ssi-ruuk were doing in Star Wars: Truce at Bakura, which wasn't published until 1993.

[@welovettrpgs]

And one of the episodes has a hallowed out planet gun just like that recent star wars movie.

[@GKahla]

This show, and the Mighty Orbots were both gamer-fuel incarnate. Loving your trip through our shared history! Star Rangers... I must find where I can rewatch these days. Cheers! 🍪☕

[@earthenkindquests]

So many fun scifi and fantasy TV shows in the 1980s! I remember that "Galaxy Rangers" made a good effort with the worldbuilding to be detailed, relevant to the story, and consistent.

[@thethan302]

Man the 80s/90s had some of the most creative shows. Adventures of the Galaxy rangers is just one of the many shows that came out during those decades that are just amazing to go back and experience. The 1980s and 90s were a great time to grow up.

[@EteraRPG]

I appreciate old show's lack of cynicism and bitter snarkiness.

[@larrylambert1220]

The fact that there is no are no additional seasons of the Galaxy Rangers and a TTRPG means that we live in an unjust universe.

[@welovettrpgs]

Star Law was from the original Star Frontiers and brought back in D20 Future. It's sort of close. I recently spoke with the CEO of Evil Genius Games (Everyday Heroes). I mentioned this show and how their upcoming Intergalactic Heroes needs a Galaxy Rangers supplement.

[@macoppy6571]

​@welovettrpgs and here I was speculating that it was derived from a Classic Traveller. Rules for generating story, Tables for setting. Guess I need to look at Star Frontiers a bit closer. Thanks, Aten 👍

[@almitrahopkins1873]

It depresses me that you don’t have a game system you have on your shelf that you can adapt to it. I have six, although three of them are less than complete enough to do it justice. GURPS, Traveller: The New Era, Renegade Legion, Mechwarrior II, Shadowrun or one of the Star Wars editions could work. I don’t have Rifts, but that could work as well. The expanded universe of Star Wars even includes something roughly similar in the Aquilonian Rangers, who were supposed to be failed Jedi Knights who served the Jedi Knights before the clone wars were firmly established by the prequel films. That was when the assumption was that the Jedi fought against the clones, rather than alongside them. That came out of the Marvel Comics Star Wars series and was based on the original draft of the script when Luke Starkiller was an Aquilonian (a subtle homage to Howard’s Conan).

[@welovettrpgs]

@@almitrahopkins1873 Star Law. And the upcoming Intergalactic heroes.

[@johnmagowan6393]

For years I thought I had dreamed that show! Once of the absolute best and it holds up!

[@TheSoling27]

Wonder if Josh Whedon was inspired when he created Firefly -- insomuchas cowboys in space

[@erikbuchanan4648]

Ive been running a Galaxy Ranger rpg for almost a year. I use Savage Worlds and their Super Companion. Its been a blast, even if most of the players aren't familiar with the source material.

[@Terragen]

I would love to play in this campaign. I was trying to develop one for this universe a couple years ago.

[@SabbothArt]

I'm too young for this show but I gotta say, the animation for its time is crazy good.

[@Cynidecia]

cowboys in SPACE with robot horses. I'm sold.

[@konsumterra1]

music very top gun synth wave we didn't get this but had bravestar

[@hungryewok1684]

All time greatest TV opening themes 1. Magmun P.I. 2. Galaxy Rangers 3. (It really doesn't matter at this point)

[@PaulGualtieri-m6v]

I watched this show when it first aired. My friends and I would have watch parties and we were in COLLEGE.

[@welovettrpgs]

Yes, I was absolutely too old to be excited about it when it first aired! Yet here we are! :)

[@dantherpghero2885]

I think the Goose character was influenced by the Manga/Anime MD Geist.

[@wynfrithnichtwo8423]

I loved these shows growing up and your video hit right when i got a bowl of vanilla ice cream with caramel!!! That shows soundtrack music and ice cream was like being back in the day again.

[@welovettrpgs]

So cool!

[@DungeonMasterQuest]

Hey Aten, keep the videos coming! It has been a while, you're the man!

[@Rengis33]

I had never realized it until now, this series was anime. It was the more realistic artwork that caught my attention when I was 13, and I stuck around for the story. I enjoyed this video, well done sir!

[@Giantstomp]

Thanks Aten. This was a fun video and urges me to run something similar to it :)

[@welovettrpgs]

My pleasure!

[@Archon1995]

We had a homebrew Galaxy Rangers campaign using the Champions system (what would later become the Hero System). The PCs had Series Four implants, less powerful predecessors to the Series Five. Good times.

[@welovettrpgs]

That's cool!

[@sw33n3yto00]

I actually have No Guts No Glory in my playlist that constantly loops through 90 hours of 70s through 90s cartoon themes and music. My two sons both sing along with that one only.

[@AxelDominatoR]

My favourite ranger was Doc: I loved seeing him fix and hack stuff, plus the tweakers were really cool! I also found Mogul and Scarecrow very interesting, especially Scarecrow. This must be your best video so far: you've managed to create a full summary and keep it interesting all the way through. I would certainly not mind more videos on the subject in the future!

[@matthewconstantine5015]

Growing up in the semi-rural Northeast, without cable, I feel like I really missed out. Boston was the closest major market, and we were far enough away that we didn't get any broadcast channels out of Boston. There were cartoons I got a chance to see an episode or two of when visiting friends, like He-Man or The Thundercats, which I didn't really like. But most of the cartoons my friends would talk about, I never got a chance to see. If it wasn't on ABC or NBC on Saturday morning, I probably didn't see it. CBS was iffy. It was technically a broadcast channel in our area, but because of some geographic/atmospheric/physics quirks, it rarely worked on our TVs. I have always confused this show with SilverHawks, which I believe also had a "space Western" vibe. While I had a couple SiverHawks toys (thanks to bargain bins), I never saw it or Galaxy Rangers. One I did see from around the same time, and have raided for ideas frequently, was Visionaries. It too mixed magic and science in weird ways, and had lots of creativity, even if it was clearly in service of selling toys.

[@kuraishinobi]

Thank you making this video. I love this show and I'm happy that you made this 😁

[@sarsattacks5760]

Thanks for this video, i have really fond memories of galaxy rangers, especially the scarecrow episodes.

[@josephmoon6261]

I LOVED this show! So few of my friends have seen it.

[@thebolas000]

I thought this was going to be about a new TTRPG or how you hacked rules together to run a game based on the show. Turns out its just something you're passionate about and I really respect that.

[@welovettrpgs]

Thanks! And I think the younger generations need to know about it so they can enjoy it too.

[@mgav1547]

I got one,just one, of those toys and I remember it was HUGE compare to others.That intro song was a blast for me, even I didn't know a single word in english back then.

[@welovettrpgs]

Super rare too!

[@yvindheilo229]

Never heard about this before. Very inspirational. This show seems great!

[@Balzaimon]

Fantastic video! Loved this show and man did I love d20 Modern/Future, ran some amazing sci-fantasy games back in the day.

[@KabukiKid]

Gotta fully admit... I barely knew of this show and never saw an episode. Fun episode covering it and I am sort of sorry that I never watched it.

[@bigtastyben5119]

I never grew up with Galaxy Rangers, it was long out of circulation when I was old enough to watch Toonami. But I am working on a Space Western Traveller one shot being inspired by the Original Trigun anime. I might give this a watch sometime.

[@Zr0din]

I made a campaign in Star Frontiers on a couple of these episodes. So fun. They should have been more seasons. This and Bionic 6!

[@wolfleclair1399]

That was awesome, great job Aten. I loved how you broke down the information for each of the characters and gave us a real good look at them. And of course the animation of the show is really cool, it deserves a second season even if just to wrap up the loose ends and grant clarity to the mysteries. =^_^=

[@welovettrpgs]

Thanks a ton!

[@ToesToJesus]

Aten, I love your mixing of genres for TTRPG! Even though it was only one episode, Red Dwarf had a GREAT mixture episode, Gunmen of the Apocalypse ! I've definitely always thought that Red Dwarf would make a great TTRPG. Not with those characters, of course, but Sci FI set in that universe!

[@welovettrpgs]

Thanks a ton!

[@christopherlee622]

I love your passion share videos, they are informative and help me find bits and pieces to chase after. Also, and I mean this with the utmost respect, you have possibly the best surprise villain voice of a scholar/mentor to the protagonist I have ever heard

[@welovettrpgs]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@autokymatic]

I LOVED THIS CARTOON!!

[@mightyeroc7284]

Good one, really loved this show when it originally aired. It heavily influenced our Star Frontiers games.

[@JohnHall-po6ts]

I have no idea how I missed this one. Maybe it never got picked up for syndication in my region of the USA. (Not uncommon for Appalachia). I sincerely feel like I missed out on something cool. Thanks, Aten!

[@welovettrpgs]

Thanks! There's a KZbin channel called "Rangers Ho" that (I think) has all of the episodes.

[@DiscoBarbarian]

this would make a great game campaign.

[@dane3038]

I've been going about it all wrong for almost 40 years! To get back on track, I've starting work on a new BBG Generator that is going to be made up of columns that include things like, Carol Bernette, Giant Space Chicken and Jabba the Hut.

[@Zanji1234]

i loved this series and Bravestarr as a kid. It was dubbed in German (though the intro song was unchanged the other stuff was translated)

[@KimKhan]

Shitposting aside, these kind of settings would honestly make for a fantastic RPG premise. Heroes of various backgrounds and expertise, planet-hopping fighting crime and evil villains, having whatever proportions of rayguns or space magic? It begs for further development.

[@welovettrpgs]

100%

[@ricardojuanlopeznaranjo6651]

Wow wow. Great great cartoon, with one of the best musical intros ever. Ranger´s are forever is also a great track. I really support this selection and, overall, good taste for RPG´s and clothes (I´m not a gothic but looks good on you as a paranormal investigator).

[@welovettrpgs]

Thanks! (I wouldn't really call myself a goth either except in jest. No true goth would. Goth died when Manson and Hot Topic commercialized and mainstreamed it. Just like WotC has tried to do with D&D.)

[@SHONNER]

Mighty Orbots was my thing.

[@Killraven.]

If ever there was a series that should have been licensed by Palladium...

[@billroswold3696]

I love this cartoon !!!!

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Wasn’t there a live-action show in the early ‘80s with the same name? I can vaguely remember it being on SEB (Southern European Broadcasting) in the hour before I went to school every weekday. That would have been between ‘83-‘86, probably ‘85 or so. Watching it was like watching a hybrid of Blake’s 7 and Doctor Who, rather than something good like Battlestar Galactica or Buck Rodgers. The quality of it was akin to some of the Ultraman movies. The cartoon had a good premise. It’s one that I’ve used in games in the past, with just a little tweak here or there. It works really well in the post-empire era for Star Wars.

[@testtest648]

This sounds awesome. I'll check it out! Have you seen oirates of dark water? That's an unwatched gem.

[@welovettrpgs]

No but I'll check it out! Thanks!

[@SergioLeRoux]

The Galaxy Strangers

[@russellharrell2747]

What do you get when you cross The Bionic Six, Bravestar and the animation of the Mighty Orbots? Apparently the best 80s cartoon no one watched. But if it improves sci fi TTRPGs I’ll give anything a try.

[@welovettrpgs]

100%!

[@gracekinsley3142]

what a fun video

[@dane3038]

Someone needs to make a setting guide. I would particularly like a GURPS or Savage Worlds setting guide. But any will do. *Maybe even Cyber-Punk?

[@welovettrpgs]

With any luck I'm going to see that it happens!

[@mykediemart]

I had never heard of this show. It seems to have good characters and a lot of back lore, so, of course, it was canceled

[@mythadology]

I see your Galaxy Rangers and raise you a Thundarr The barbarian. The universe is great, but I have more fun in the land at the end of time.

[@welovettrpgs]

Thundarr is great. I mention that in one of my Gamma World videos. I'll likely do a full Thundarr video like this one eventually.

[@Trencher1375]

Great retrospective. Remakes only are only made of the same most popular things over and over again. Nobody remakes things with unfulfilled potential anymore. Also while I would hope for the oposite the fact remains that most players especally here on youtube wants to play some sort of evil character and not ones dedicated to justice.

[@welovettrpgs]

During y time on KZbin I've learned there are very few actual roleplayers playing any roleplaying games these days.

[@swordsnstones]

why do older anime always look angry lol... never did watch this but i will now

[@nabra97]

I have never heard of it other than from you, and I'm not sure if I will like it (though considering that I'm a fan of one supposedly-German excessively edgy space pirate in a cloak from the same age anime, it's not impossible). But it's nice to know about, at the very least. I'm not really interested in referring to XIX-century US history in my games, to be honest, but... Heck, there's a whole bunch of stuff from my country's history that I can do "now *in space*", and as long as I don't publish it, I only need to worry about my players being OK with it, not the general public

[@welovettrpgs]

In my "How to build better towns" video I point out that D&D is really much closer to the American Old West than Feudal Europe.

[@nabra97]

@@welovettrpgs I saw it more like the pre-industrial modern era or age of exploration, but I see your point. It's very different from Medieval Europe for sure

[@welovettrpgs]

@@nabra97 Youre not wrong. I read an old Dragon article making that old west analogy and it just kinda stuck with me but I don't think we can narrow it down to one monolithic thing. Plus every table and game world is different.

[@IsiahTomas]

...... isn't this the same narrator for the intro to Thunderbirds 2086?

[@welovettrpgs]

I looked for you. It says, "Robert Mandell narrates the opening of the 1986 TV series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. " I looked up Thunderbirds 2086 and it says Robert Mandell was also behind that show but I didnt see his name as a narrator but I bet youre right since he made both shows. good catch!

[@IsiahTomas]

@@welovettrpgs No bigs. I knew there was something about this intro that felt too familiar, even the sound FX choices.

[@draconicLatte]

So, the S-5 is an anxiety-fart energy projection weapon?!

[@welovettrpgs]

Always. 100%

[@otaku-sempai2197]

I've got a bone to pick with you in regards to Star Blazers. Space Battleship Yamato was NOT "the very first popular English-translated anime to air in the United States. I grew up in the 1960s and '70s and I remember a few other popular localizations of anime: Astro Boy; Prince Planet; Marine Boy; Speed Racer. And that list isn't even complete.

[@welovettrpgs]

I'm sure there were others. I remember Speed Racer. "It was the first popular English-translated anime that had an overarching plot and storyline that required the episodes to be viewed in order, which paved the way for future arc-based, plot-driven anime translations" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers

[@NerdyLiches]

Comments for the algorithm.

[@welovettrpgs]

Thanks!

[@TakaD20]

Meh... I was raised a Captain Future anime guy and I'll die a Captain Future anime guy.