There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought:“What if we simply gave them everything?”Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animation has been back in the news recently due to the king of all characters — Mickey Mouse (his Steamboat Willie incarnation, ...

There were countless TV cartoons in the '80s, and Saturday mornings were filled with adaptations of popular toy lines, comic books, and movies, even if some of the properties weren't exactly ...

The 1980s were a golden age for cartoons, which often featured some creatively creepy villains that linger in memory even all these decades later. The most famous and iconic cartoons of the 1980s ...

Ah, the 1980s, a time of spandex, synth guitars, and toy advertisements disguised as Saturday morning cartoons meant to entertain a generation of kids all over the world. It's impossible to sum up the ...

Did you grow up with 1980s cartoons? I'm talking about the ones that were basically created by toy companies as a cash grab with very little regard to story, art, or taste. Now, as someone who was not ...

’80s animation fans: your days of digging through YouTube to find clips of your favorite classic Hasbro cartoons are over. All that nostalgia comes at a price, though. Individual episodes of the shows ...

When we first ran a list of a dozen unmemorable ’80s cartoons back in November, we barely scratched the surface of the decade’s crappiest animated shows. Here are 12 more that deserve to be ...

Holding Out for a Hero’ syncs with ThunderCats and 5 other ’80s cartoon intros—try it yourself Remember when Saturday mornings meant waking up before your parents, ...

A Sunday story about hot trends of the ’80s inspired me to revisit some of the cartoons I watched as a kid. Awesome then, awesomely bad now. Check out the intros to: “G.I. Joe”: Because knowing is ...

The lesson of MythForce, if Beamdog’s zany roguelite has one, is that parody is easy; homage is hard. It’s simple enough to snicker at the 12-frames-per-second animation of the 1980s, and the cynical ...