Back then I guess around 95, I would have never guessed anyone was recording the show just like me. I got every episode on VHS except Fall of the Neo Sapien Empire III. now over ten years later I was able to get the whole set off Ebay. I would have to say that anyone looking at Exosquad threads probably has a true appreciation for creative animation
shareI have three full VHS tapes worth of episodes I recorded when I was a kid. It would come on at 6am, I would get up at 5:45, watch & record the episode at 6, then bobby world came on after it (didnt record that) and went to school at 7am.
I loved the show so much that after the first 3 episodes or so I started recording the series. Only missed a handful of episodes total. I still have the VHS tapes and still watch them sometimes (even though they are old and starting to turn crappy lol)
Best cartoon ever.
It takes me a while but I watch the 2 laserdiscs first then it take's 3 day's to watch the rest on vhs cause almost every episode is out of order. I watch it like one time a year.
shareThe series would air at 2:30 on my local fox sation the summer before my 2nd grade year. Once school started I missed out on the series after that. Towards the end of that year, USA started airing the entire series on weekends (same showings on saturday morning repeated sunday morning).
If I saw an episode I liked on saturday morning, I'd tape it on sunday. Back then I, as probably everyone else did, had no inclination that the series would come and go so fast, so I didn't bother to make any real effort to capture all of the episodes. I only managed to tape a handful of showings that themselves were lost over the next few years. I did hold on to the last episode for awhile untill it was taped over too. I had no idea I'd have to wait another 10 years or so to see it again by downloading episodes on P2P programs.
Around 2003, my interest peaked again by downloaded episodes and nostalgia, and I found a site (www.exosquad.com) that sold a 4 vhs set of all the episodes (the first series is ripped from the offical vhs releases that are now long out of print while the 2nd series is from a variety of showings).
I pretty much shelled out $40 for all 52 episodes in pretty decent quality.
I'm watching Dark River right now as I type this, heh.
Good times, no?
youre not the only one, i used to watch this in the mornings before school, and wondered wtf when it just went away one day. This came on after robotech and mighty max. I loved this show, the VA, the music and the story are all top notch and way ahead of its time.
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