80s Cartoons You Loved but Forgot About

These forgotten 80s cartoons deserve to be rediscovered. For this list, we’ll be ranking the most underseen, underrated or otherwise lesser-known examples of ‘80s animated awesomeness. Our countdown includes "Dungeons & Dragons," "Muppet Babies," "RoboCop," and more! What’s YOUR favorite dark horse cartoon from the ‘80s? Let us know in the comments!

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[WatchMojo]

What’s YOUR favorite dark horse cartoon from the ‘80s? Let us know in the comments!

[Goldtiger]

Centurions was AMAZING. Loved watching it every day. It had such an interesting premise, excellent characters, and great visuals. There were many shows from the era that were just as exciting, but Centurions was not given the same love. This show has lived rent free in my head ever since I was a child.

[alfredcordova]

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Lights was very memorable to me as a kid here in the Philippines. I got hooked with the opening theme, and the origins story of its pilot episode introduced me to how origins stories should be made.

[IAmMightyMike]

I'm a 90s kid but when you'd stay home sick they'd sometimes throw 80s cartoons in less favorable time slots. But to me, it was a gold mime of secret bonus cartoons.

[nicksullivan]

As a 90’s Kid, I Loved watching Muppet Babies on Nickelodeon!❤️📺🎶👍🏻

[saiberunato]

My faves are Galaxy Rangers, Bionic Six, Visionaries, Might Orbots, Silverhawks, and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. All lasted one season. And largely forgotten except by the devoted fans who are now all middle-aged 😢

[phillipshrader]

Inhumanoids, Rock Lords, Thundar the Barbarian, Space Ghost, Thunderhawks, Voltron Defender of the Universe, The Snorks, Danger Mouse, Transformers, and Secret Squirrel made up my childhood Saturday mornings.

[mikeburnette]

Fun fact, Jem and the Holograms was kind of instrumental for anime to start coming to America, since most of the characters had different colors for their hair.

[RespectTheLogos]

Many Brits remember Danger Mouse. It was one of the 80s most popular cartoons.

[Jessykosis]

Danger Mouse and Count Duckula are top tier

[Toledotourbillion]

Heaven is the joy of watching Saturday morning cartoons in your pyjamas, before responsibilities were a thing.

[monsoon]

Pirates of Darkwater could be on this list. I loved the treasure hunt for the 13 artifacts. Gave the show continuity and a story, as opposed to the typical cartoon trope where things just reset for the next episode.

[Shadowmyst]

Inhumanoids, Bionic Six, Cybersix, Double Dragon, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Visionaries, The Phantom are some other cartoons that could have been missed.

[Trialwolf]

Loved the Raccoons, honestly it did a great job at approaching subjects in a realistic manner and treated them with a decent level of respect (the episode involving adoption was really well done). Another surprising thing is that characters evolved during the series run, Cyril Sneer as the main villain softened as the show went on as he tried to understand his son and he even actually learned from mistakes stepped in to help at the end of the series.

[thebalderthor]

I remember most of these! What nostalgia!

[hdj]

As a kid, I had the Centurion and Mask action figure toys. I remember watching most of these cartoons as a kid.

[vivianne]

I LOVE Danger Mouse! I never missed an episode of that SHOW.
Oh, you missed so many. There were the crystal Warriors, I believe skeleton Warriors(?), Transformers Beast Wars (which was the only Transformers that I liked and I'm happy to have seen action figures from Beast Wars in Walmart the other day . I think it was called something a little different though but they were the same characters) and my all-time favorite that disappeared out of nowhere the Pirates of Dark Water. I kind of knew that one was going to go away because it was way too sophisticated and grown up for Saturday morning. I still use one of their swear words quite often LOL

[mikeburnette]

Most of these I remember watching when I was a kid in the 80s-90s, with quite a few of these entries getting more runs during later times, with Centurions and Ronin Warriors airing on Cartoon Network.

[kerrygligorovic]

I wished my favourites past Disney animated Series like The Gummie Bears, Darkwing Duck, Wuzzles, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, House of Mouse, Dave the Barbarian, Kim Possible and American Dragon Jake Long are finally released onto a complete Blu- Ray (the entire episodes) at last just like they did for Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.

[celticpoet]

The muppet babies animated series was one of my favorites as a kid!