Featured Characters
The debut characters included:
- Frogger (from the Frogger arcade game)
- Donkey Kong with Mario and Pauline (from the Donkey Kong game)
- Donkey Kong Jr. (from the Donkey Kong Jr. game)
- Q*bert with Coily, Ugg, Wrongway, Slick and Sam (from the Q*Bert arcade game)
- Pitfall Harry with his pet mountain lion Quickclaw and his niece Rhonda (unlike others, which are arcade games, this is from home console games, which are Pitfall! and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns) The cartoon was simply called Pitfall!.
Pitfall and Q-Bert rotated weekly while the other three were weekly.
During the second season, Q-Bert (now weekly) and Donkey Kong remained while the Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr. and Pitfall Harry segments were replaced by shorts featuring:
- Space Ace with Space Ace/Dexter (depending on his form), Kimberly, and Borf (from the Space Ace arcade game).
- Kangaroo with friends and the "Monkey Business Gang". (from the Kangaroo arcade game).
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“Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—
which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”
—Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)