First I want to say that anyone can look this short cartoon up on youtube, as it was uploaded in late 2020 and is still up.
Also its weird that even though nobody else. Seems to have rated and/or left a review of this due it it once being considered "Lost Media", its been up on YT for a while. SO no excuses! Go watch it :p
I recall seeing this before the same named game and titular character would be used to excite kids and people for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. I recall this special when it was on tv back in the day on TNT's "TNT TOONS" block that aired at various times of the day and weekend. That truly was the last real age of western cartoons. This even played on a Sunday morning at one point. The details are in the youtube video..
I All the struggles, athleticism, coming of age, hopes, dreams...this cartoon was pretty nice tbh.
Tt was not only nice to be reminded of this, let alone find it, but the uploader on youtube also kept in all the 90's commercials. Pure nostalgia. And its funny seeing the ancient Greek motiffsused as little more than a background plot device for the lands the "Whatizits" live in. Lol
Now its not the best cartoon, but it sticks to its intended purpose of being about exercise, sportsmanship, and all the other goodly qualities associated with an Olympian athlete. So of course they used much of the plot, or ideas of the cartoon, for the sake of a video game about the same kinds of things.
And it was entertaining, even to rewatch it o many decades later. But it was tantamount to a pilot run. I feel like the character should have been given another shot, but people back in the 1990s were so negative towards the look of the character, they missed the whole point... IT WAS FOR KIDS and to ENCOURAGE KIDS TO BE ATHLETIC and SPORTING!
For all that I loved so much media from before hte year 2000, and the lives much of the western world lived back then, this cartoon was just a passing fancy, and you wont miss out terribly if you dont watch it. I give it 5.5 stars out of 10.
AS I said before, the commercials are a big reason why I watched it. But give it a chance, you might end up being very pleased. REACH FOR THEM STARS, YALL! PE@CE ^<^
