Defenders of Dynatron City is a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo Entertainment System

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 by JVC

JVC

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 and LucasArts

LucasArts

LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...

 in August 1992.

Videogame

The game centers on a team of superhero

Superhero

A superhero is a type of stock character, possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers", dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas —...

es who protect a futuristic metropolis from Dr. Mayhem and his robotic henchmen. The Defenders are:

• Ms. Megawatt (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg
  Whoopi Goldberg
  Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...
  
   in the animated series), who can shoot electric bolts
• Jet Headstrong, who can fire his head like a rocket
• Buzzsaw Girl, who has a buzzsaw blade instead of legs
• Toolbox, a robot with a smashing hammer head
• Monkey Kid, a blue monkey armed with exploding bananas
• Radium Dog, who can fly and has jaws strong enough to pick up cars with his mouth

Critical response

The game won praise in its preproduction by many video game magazines for the creation of an original superhero team. However, when the game was released it was widely panned by video game critics for, among other things, having a notoriously poor hit detection that required extremely precise aim for attacks to hit enemies.

TV show

The game was adapted into an animated pilot by DiC Entertainment

DiC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...

. It failed to be picked up and was released on VHS. It featured the voice of Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...

, Tim Curry

Tim Curry

Timothy James "Tim" Curry is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California....

, and almost Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken is an American stage and screen actor. He has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, including Joe Dirt, Annie Hall, The Deer Hunter, The Prophecy trilogy, The Dogs of War, Sleepy Hollow, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New...

. Fox Kids

Fox Kids

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 aired this pilot as a special on February 22, 1992.

Comics

Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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 released six issues of a comic book

Comic book

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 adaptation, written by Steve Purcell

Steve Purcell

Steve Ross Purcell is an American cartoonist, animator and game designer. He is most widely known as the creator of Sam & Max, an independent comic book series about a pair of anthropomorphic animal vigilantes and private investigators, for which Purcell received an Eisner Award in 2007...

. The first issue was released in February 1992.