Gee the new maximum overdrive look different than the remake called trucks going to bring those classic trucks

@Joseph Raszagal  
Truthfully, I never even saw the first movie as a kid. The Terminator 2 arcade game was also popular with kids apparently.
 
@Ardashir  
It was kinda before my time, but I saw it on Youtube, and it’s surprisingly well done for an ’80s cartoon, and one of the few to have continuity between episodes. It has classic corny humor, but was surprisingly dark/edgy regardless.

@Beau Skunky  
I agree that the TV edit for Terminator 2 is a travesty, but c’mon, it surprised literally no one that the movie scored well with kids xD .
 
“Hey, kids! Remember the really cool killer robot from the first movie? He goes on an adventure with a kid just like you! It’s totally awesome!”
 
=D

@Beau Skunky  
I remember the Inhumanoids. I loved that cartoon. It was so grisly! I always enjoyed seeing Decompose turn some hapless human into a giant skeletal monster.

@northern haste  
Yeah, even the movies were less violent then the games, I recall.
 
Apparently, they had a cartoon based on NARC, a rather violent/drug-filled game, (granted it was anti-drug) or at least featured the hero & villain from it with some other now obscure video game characters in it. I can’t remember what it’s called though.

@Beau Skunky  
Oh god tv edits.  
Also I believe most the stuff based on mortal Kombat was aimed more towards children

@northern haste  
Terminator 2 was surprisingly popular with kids. Granted, they probably saw the “edited for TV” version. (Heck, as a kid I never even knew Police Academy was a Rated R movie, because of that.)
 
There was also the Toxic Avenger, can’t believe I forgot him. He had a kid show, toys, and even video games.

@Ardashir  
@Beau Skunky  
I would imagine they would have done it outscreen or in shadows.  
Oh there were also toys based on Terminator

@Ardashir  
They probably would’ve left some of that out, or write around it.
 
Then again… “The Inhumanoids” actually featured a guy die in toxic acid, and get revived as an Inhumanoid a few episodes afterward, and the anime movie “Unico” had the villain get impaled on-screen, and such… ’80s cartoons were hardcore.

@northern haste  
I would have loved to see how they intended handling the chestbursters and other highly gory aspects of the Aliens in a children’s cartoon.

@Beau Skunky  
There was also one planned for alien it even had a toy line plan for the show. which they released anyway despite the show being cancelled

@northern haste  
Yeah, movies becoming animated cartoon shows was actually a thing sense the ’80s.  
Hilariously. even some Rated R movies became kid cartoons like Rambo, Robocop, and Police Academy.

@Beau Skunky  
Some of those sequels were just episodes from cancelled TV shows.  
Shows for Atlantis, Cinderella and beauty and the beast were planned and had some episodes produced and they were repurposed into sequels.  
Tarzan and Jane was also episode from the show however the episode would still play on TV

@lonewolf  
I heard that’s because Disney was upset that it didn’t do well in theaters.  
“The Fox & the Hound,” “The Great Mouse Detective,” & “The Black Cauldron” also took forever to be released. Disney was basically ashamed of their ’80s movies, (though I liked them personally) until “The Little Mermaid” became a huge hit.

There’s also movies that didn’t get released to video for ages after it appeared in theaters. Oliver and Company is an example. It was released in 1988, but didn’t appear on video until after it was re-released in 1996.

@Joseph Raszagal  
Some movies weren’t even movies to begin with.
 
Like the video movie “The Return of Jafar,” wasn’t originally a sequel movie. (Which oftentimes catches hell for basically starting the “cheap Disney video sequel” trend of the late ‘90s & early 2000s, but honestly wasn’t as bad as some say.)  
It was originally going to be the 3-part pilot of the Aladdin TV series. (Similar to the multi-parter pilots that DuckTales, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, and such had.)
 
In fact, when the Aladdin TV show aired on the Disney Channel before the Disney Afternoon & ABC syndication, (not many know it had an early airing) it originally had some footage from the “Return of Jafar” in it’s intro, oddly before that even came to video.

@Scp-3125  
Sure, in the past plenty of movies got rejected and never saw the light of day. They just never made it to advertising and basically sat on a shelf forever.
 
Sometimes, if the studio really thought they could squeeze at least one or two dimes out, just to recoup losses, they ended up going directly to VHS/DVD/Bluray. That’s rare though.

@Ardashir  
There’re movies that they actually reject?

@Joseph Raszagal  
Maybe he was frightened at how bad it was?
 
Just think of the bad movies you’ve seen, and then think of the ones so much worse that when the studio watched them, they tossed it and the movie never even made it to home video.

@Background Pony #6666  
Wait, no, Maximum Overdrive scared you? I’m pretty sure that’s impossible, BP.

This movie was very scary!

@Beau Skunky  
Keep in mind, while I do love the movie, Jack Nicholson’s performance is so very far from the way Jack was portrayed in the book. I can totally understand why King takes umbrage with it. Other nitpicks include the fact that Dick dies, Tony is basically completely removed, and the Overlook doesn’t explode. But those are just nitpicks =D .
 
I don’t know about any of his films that were out at the time, but I was always pretty proud of the fact that I started reading his stuff when I was 13. My mother’s a huge Stephen King nerd and she’s part of his book club, so every new release gets shipped to her. I asked her what she thought I should start with and, true to the heart of an ultimate King nerd, she hands me a revised and unedited copy of The Stand.
 
At 13-years-old that shit was terrifying xD .

@Joseph Raszagal  
Sad thing is, most people preferred the changed Kubrick version.
 
Another kinda goofy one I liked was “Cat’s Eye,” but it was still quite dark. As a kid, I considered it my first horror movie, and feeling proud I sat through it. Granted, the troll, that the cat battles is a bit corny looking, but when you’re a kid, he was quite creepy. (Especially, because he was trying to magically steal the li’l girl’s breathe.)  
That cat General was badass.

@Beau Skunky  
I haven’t heard whether or not King himself enjoyed it, but it wouldn’t surprise me. It sticks pretty close to the short story and still maintained the original bittersweet ending. More than anything, King seems to dislike it when something is drastically changed, like Jack’s character was in Kubrick’s take on The Shining.
 
And oh yeah, Maximum Overdrive, The Langoliers, The Tommyknockers, and Sleepwalkers are all great examples of King getting goofy. Scary? No, not at all, but still very entertaining regardless =D .
 
Glad you like the pic x3 . Skate or die, bro.

@Joseph Raszagal  
I hear “Stand by Me” is one of the few movie adaptations that Stephen King himself liked.
 
Stuff like Maximum Overdrive, and the Langoliers, (“SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!”) are rather corny, but still entertaining.
 
I must add, your cartoon Toad avatar, (“Adventures of Super Mario Brothers 3” episode: “Kootie Pie Rocks”) still amuses me.