The Gaming Family

The Gaming Family is an 1990 animated comedy-adventure TV series produced by Nintendo, Pipeline Productions, Zodiac Entertainment, and DiC Entertainment and was distributed by Universal Television in the USA and Canada and Orbis Communications worldwide. It ran for 2 seasons of 13 episodes each from September 3, 1996 to December 7, 1996 on Syndication.

Plot
The series, set in a 8-bit world, follows the adventures of an 8-bit family, Dad, Mom, Carla (sister), and Tuck (brother). Carla and Tuck usually go on adventures together in different Nintendo video games while Dad and Mom stayed home.

Episodes
Each episode has 2 11-minute segments each, except for one episode which is an 22-minute Christmas special.

Season 1 Season 2
 * 1) The Lake Monster/Camp Out!
 * 2) Space Shooters/The Power of Glove
 * 3) Carla's Castle/Lost in Mario World
 * 4) Batter Up!/Adventure Island
 * 5) Bubble Trouble/Balloon Fighters
 * 6) Welcome to Clu Clu Land/It's On Like Donkey Kong
 * 7) Back to Mario World/Slay the Dragon
 * 8) A Hole in One/The Wild West
 * 9) Tetris Madness/Indiana Tuck
 * 10) Tuck Fu/Return to Carla's Castle
 * 11) Koopa Troopas/Space Shooters II
 * 12) The Perfect Picnic/The Mega Man Adventure
 * 13) Punch-Out!/Tuckered Out
 * 1) Pac-Man Fever/Goal!
 * 2) Ninja Masters/In the Legend of Zelda
 * 3) Mach Riders/The Great Excitebike Race
 * 4) Duck Hunting/Look Out for Ghosts n' Goblins
 * 5) The Mega Man Adventure II/Kid Tuckus
 * 6) Carnival Chaos/Rescue in Mario World
 * 7) Back at the Wild West/Space Shooters III
 * 8) The Pyramid Adventure/Paperboy Tuck
 * 9) Pinball Game Madness/Wrecking Kids
 * 10) The Q-bert Challenge/Punch-Out Two!
 * 11) Tetris Madness II/Best Twins Forever
 * 12) Soccer Tournament/Escape the Tower
 * 13) Gaming for the Holidays

Reception
The series received mixed reviews from critics and audiences.

Broadcast

 * Syndication (US)
 * Family Channel (Canada)
 * YTV (Canada)
 * Nine Network (Australia)
 * CITV (UK)
 * TV Globo (Brazil)
 * RTP (Portugal)
 * TVE2 (Spain)
 * TF1 (France)
 * Italia 1 (Italy)
 * Filmnet (Sweden)
 * RTL (Germany)
 * Super RTL (Germany)
 * ERT1 (Greece)
 * Canal A (Colombia)