A retrospective look on the time since Kevin Keene arrived in Videoland.

When Mother Brain Rules

Matt Hill

Venus Terzo

Andrew Kavadas

Alessandro Juliani

Levi Stubbs

Frank Welker

Garry Chalk

Michael Donovan

Ian James Corlett

Shane Meier

Alvin Sanders

Long John Baldry

Doc Harris

Season 3

Germ Wars

King Charles is about to come home through a warp zone that only opens every 1000 video years. But he decides to send a supercomputer called Game Boy in his place. Game Boy turns out to be nothing but trouble for the N-Team. Mother Brain gets Game Boy, and Dr. Wily turns him into Game Brain. When the N Team comes to Metroid to rescue Game Boy, Game Brain sends monsters after them. Duke comes to the rescue, pulling the cords out of Game Boy with his teeth! The monsters disappear. Back at the Palace, the gang officially welcomes Game Boy to the N-Team.

Gameboy

The N-Team is invited to Kongoland by Prince Plenty. Dr. Wily invents a brain swapper so Mother Brain can get a body. She chooses Princess Lana as the donor. However, when they go to Kongoland, Donkey Kong kidnaps Mother Brain and Game Boy. The brain swapper is accidentally attached and activated. Donkey Kong gets Game Boy's body, Game Boy gets Mother Brain's body, and Mother Brain get Donkey Kong's body. Simon and Kevin go to find ""Gape Boy"", Kid Icarus and Mega Man search for Game Boy's ""brain-in-a-bottle"", and Lana decides to give ""Mother Kong"" a makeover. Donkey Kong's family elect Simon their new leader! Everyone's brain is swapped back to the right place, and the Kong family carries Simon off.

Queen of the Apes

Across the vastness of Videoland, on the magical world of Hyrule, years have past since the fall of the evil wizard Gannon, and peace reigned throughout the land. Until one dark day, rumor spread that the evil Gannon would rise again. That becomes true. Kevin and the N Team head to Hyrule to meet Kevin's favorite game hero Link and Princess Zelda. Mother Brain gives the Potion of Power to Gannon that restores the evil wizard to his rightful form. Mother Brain tries to get Gannon to serve her, but he refuses and sends Mother Brain, Eggplant Wizard, and King Hippo through the ceiling. Can the N Team and Link stop Gannon and his minions?

Quest for the Potion of Power

The N-Team is playing a shooting game, while Mother Brain, King Hippo, and Eggplant Wizard watch on Metroid. The game ends, and they're about to go back to the Palace, when the Warp Wagon is pulled down to the world of Tetris by a powerful force. Mother Brain sends Hippo and Eggy to Tetris to find the source of that power, so she can get it for herself. It turns out that on Tetris, everything is square- and cubed-shaped. The N-Team is greeted by Mayor Squaresly, who declares today ""Her Royal Roundness Day"". The people of Tetris love holidays! The mayor takes the N-Team to CUBIES, ""home of the best square meal in town"", where they meet Lyle, Lana's clumsy older brother. The two siblings hadn't seen each other for two years. Lyle's been on Tetris all this time, and doesn't even know that his father is missing. He's a Keeper of the Sacred Square (the powerful force that pulled down the Warp Wagon). According to legend, the Square is so powerful that it built the entire world of Tetris. Ly

The Trouble With Tetris

Dr. Wily discovers competition energy. He creates a power vacuum to collect it. After running a test, he plans to use it to power his Warp Zone Shifter and send the N Team into the Earthquake Warp Zone. At the Palace of Power, Kevin is homesick. Mega Man builds a skateboard for Kevin to cheer him up. Dr. Wily lures the N Team to California Games by letting Kevin think he won a contest. Dr. Wily and his robots go to California Games and set up base in a hot dog stand. As the N Team has fun competing in the games, Dr. Wily collects competition energy to power his Warp Zone Shifter. However, Dr. Wily is impatient and sends his robots to increase the competition. The N Team discovers Wily's presence on California Games, and the games lose their fun. In order to collect more competition energy, Dr. Wily puts his Warp Zone Shifter through a test run. In Northridge, California, Rick Walker, a football player named Romeo, yet another football player, and a cheerleader named Stacey, along with

The Big Game

The Lost City of Kongoland rises after a thousand years. Along with it comes a treasure belonging to Konga, the leader of the Ancient Konkas, who had a magical power over plants. Meanwhile, at the Palace of Power, Lana fears she's not forceful enough to be Ruler of VideoLand. Prince Plenty (from ""Queen of the Apes"") informs the N-Team of the treasure, and Lana vows to destroy it. Mother Brain also learns of the treasure and plans to steal it after the N-Team finds it. The treasure turns out to be Konga's hat, and when it falls on Lana's head, the Princess becomes possessed by Konga's spirit. She (he?) kidnaps Simon. Mother Brain tells the Eggplant Wizard to volunteer to join Konga in conquering Kongoland, so Mother Brain can get the hat later on. Donkey Kong helps the N-Team fight Konga's forces. The N-Team is about to be destroyed, when Lana, with encouragement from Kevin, takes off the hat. Donkey Kong destroys it, and the Lost City of Kongoland sinks again, this time forever. Lana d

The Lost City of Kongoland

While on a picnic on Hyrule, Kevin's Power Pad and Zapper are stolen. Kevin and Link follow the thieves through a warp zone. They end up going through time with a cat named Pero. He's trying to get back to his own time. The thieves are using Kevin's weapons to power their time machine. Kevin eventually gets them back. He and Link return to Hyrule, leaving Pero to get back to his own time on his own.

Once Upon a Time Machine

While playing football, the N Team warps to Faxanadu, which is the home of two races: the Elves and the Dwarves. While trying to get back home, Kevin and Simon decide it would be more fun to see who gets back home faster, so they divide into teams. Each team is led to believe that the Elves or the Dwarves stole a powerful crystal from the other race. Only Lana has enough sense to know that the others are behaving like little kids. Then, a being known as The Evil One gets the crystal. With it, he plans to destroy Faxanadu. Only when everyone works together are they able to overcome the power of the crystal. The crystal is destroyed, and The Evil One vows to return.

The Feud of Faxanadu

King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard go through a warp zone and eventually, after an unliked stop and realized that they were on the warp to oblivion, arrive in Hyrule. It is midnight in Hyrule and, in the throne room, the two idiots arrive. King Hippo falls onto the ground and Eggplant Wizard onto him. King Hippo tries to find the paper with the spell to release the Triforce but is unable to. He tries to recite it from memory, but is unable to. He triggers the Triforce's defense systems and they run off and back into the warp. Link runs in, ready to do battle, right after Zelda turns off the alarm. She complains of the alarm's â€˜malfunctioning' and tells Link to organize the sentries to guard the Triforce after turning off the alrm. Mother Brain kicks out King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard. The two idiots pack up their items and ponder over what they'll do. Eggplant Wizard suggests joining the N-Team. Returning from a trip to Kongoland, Simon reminices about the good old days and the parties and

Having a Ball

Dragons have stolen the Palace's Sun Stone to hatch the legendary Golden Dragon, which will become a mighty warrior. While Gameboy keeps the Palace's systems running, the rest of the N Team head to Dragon's Den. In order to sneak in, they construct a giant wooden dragon with the help of Link and Princess Zelda. When Dragon Lord discovers them, he places the Cursed Necklace on Simon which will draw the Golden Dragon to him when it hatches. Lana uses magic fairy water to remove it and Simon places the Cursed Necklace on Dragon Lord. Dragon Lord removes the necklace with the fairy water and throws it at the Golden Dragon, destroying it. Simon catches the Sun Stone and the N Team take it back to the Palace.

The Trojan Dragon

Kid Icarus is a big fan of Wombatman, VideoLand's version of Batman. When they see the TV studio under attack by a giant robot, the N Team warps to the TV studio's video world and defeats the robot. One woman, who looks like a squid, develops a crush on Simon, but he feels very uneasy around her! When Kid Icarus meets Wombatman and gets his autograph, he's crushed to learn that Wombatman doesn't do his own stunts anymore. Wombatman sends the N Team on a tour of the studio. It turns out Mother Brain is behind the attack on the studio. She kidnapped Nikki, Wombatman's co-star and girlfriend, and used her to get Wombatman to lure the N-Team here. After he does this, she refuses to let Nikki go. She sends King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard to sabotage the studio tour and kill the N Team. The N Team escapes, however, so Mother Brain decides that the best way to defeat the N Team is on the show. During the filming of the episode, in which the N Team guest-stars as themselves, King Hippo and Eggp

I Wish I Was a Wombatman

Dr. Wily goes to Kongoland to extract sap from trees. He uses it to make special hypnotic ink. Whoever read anything printed with the ink would be turned into a zombie whenever the words ""MOTHER BRAIN IS YOUR MASTER"" appeared in the text, and would have to obey Mother Brain's every command. Dr. Wily began taking over everyone on News World. A week later, the Paperboy, Julio, summons the N-Team to investigate. At first they're skeptical, but when Julio's mom gets turned into a zombie and tries to kill Kevin, they believe the story. Mother Brain finds out the hypnotic ink will also let her control machines. The N-Team finds King Hippo and the Eggplant Wizard at the Daily Sun. Kid Icarus shoots them with love arrows, and the two servants spill the beans on Mother Brain's plan: to take over VideoLand using the ink. Eggy also tells them the antidote: the sap of another tree on Kongoland. It turns out Julio hasn't turned into a zombie because he can't read. He's been skipping school to earn

The Invasion of the Paper Pedalers

Kevin returns from Kongoland with a strange rock. Simon starts twirling it like a basketball, and it gives off a bright flash. Kevin ends up with blue strips on his face, and he swallowed his gum. Dr. Light is called to the Palace, and he says that Kevin has been bitten by a video virus. Kevin falls asleep, and inside Kevin's body, his life force does battle with Viroid. Because Kevin isn't from VideoLand, his body doesn't know how to fight off the video virus. Lana sends out a message to all of VideoLand begging people to contact her if they can help. Lana decides, from a statement made by Simon, to fight the virus from inside Kevin's body. Dr. Light gives Lana a map of Kevin's body and a videocom to contact him. Kid Icarus uses his special shrinking arrow to make Lana, Simon, Mega Man, and himself small enough. They enter Kevin's body through his right ear, but miss the shortest route to his heart, which is where Viroid has established his stronghold. They end up in the stomach, and

A teenager from Earth, is brought to another universe known as Videoland to defeat the evil villainess, Mother Brain, as foretold in an Ancient Prophecy.

When Mother Brain Rules

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