Thanks to how far video games have come since Captain N: The Game Master ended, a lot about it has become Hilarious in Hindsight.
- In the first episode, Kevin says "I've played Donkey Kong enough to know what I'm doing" while climbing a volcano. The actual arcade game has no such level, but the 1994 Game Boy "remake" does, as does Donkey Kong Country Returns.
- After climbing the volcano, Kevin uses his power pad to freeze time and use a boulder to ride it high out of the area. The stasis rune ability in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild pretty much allows the same thing to happen, although some force will be needed to have it accelerate as high and fast.
- From the first episode, Kevin's TV is a Sony model. A couple years later, Nintendo and Sony were very nearly working together on a console... which would end up becoming Nintendo's competitor, the PlayStation.
- Ian James Corlett voiced arch-enemy Dr. Wily - only to voice Mega Man himself some years later.
- If that weren't enough, in the episode "Once Upon a Time Machine", Corlett used a voice similar to that version of Mega Man to portray Pero, who's loosely based on the mascot for Toei Animation. He would later use a similar voice to become the first English voice of the adult version of Goku, arguably Toei's most famous character.
- In his one appearance in the series, Dracula's son Alucard was shown with light yellow, almost white hair. Several years later, when Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was made, Alucard was redesigned from his Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse appearance and given his now-iconic white hair.
- Reinhardt Schneider, one of the protagonists in Castlevania 64 and Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, bears some resemblance to the Captain N version of Simon Belmont. Both have blond hair and wear blue coats with fuzzy collars.
- Simon's voice actor would later go on to play a prominent vampire character in the Underworld film series.
- Donkey Kong is played by Gary Chalk. It wouldn't be the last time he'd play a famous gorilla.
- Speaking of Garry Chalk, he also voices King Hippo. A few years after this show ended, he would voice another dim-witted, bulgy, green minion of the main villain in a different series based off of a video game.
- Mega Man in this show doesn't look like Mega Man so much as he does Quint, who was Mega Man kidnapped from the future.
- Mother Brain voiced by the same man who voiced Audrey II? Consider that Super Metroid had the Spore Spawn, a giant alien plant monster...
- Mother Brain's face being a stretched piece of skin connected to a brain bears more than a passing resemblance to Doctor Who villain Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17.
- As a Massive Multiplayer Crossover between Castlevania, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Kid Icarus, The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man, Metroid, Punch-Out!!, and Tetris, it's safe to say that Super Smash Bros. (especially Ultimate) has basically become the Spiritual Successor to Captain N:
- Mega Man, Pit, and Simon Belmont are reunited as playable characters, bringing the Captain N cast back together for the first time in decades. This
hasn't gone unnoticed by the fans. The Captain N comic books also had Samus Aran and Pit costarring together long before the release of Brawl. - Princess Lana is also likely based upon Palutena, another playable character in the Smash series. This also makes the Palutena's Guidance entry on Mega Man (where Pit, Palutena, and Viridi all fanboy over him) seem pretty surreal.
- Mother Brain is a recurring assist trophy in the Smash series. She is also one of the few assist trophies that could be fought and defeated, meaning Mega Man, Pit, and Simon Belmont can team up to battle Mother Brain for the first time in an actual video game!
- King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard finally appear together as support spirits in Ultimate. King Hippo can even be equipped to support Mother Brain (who is also available as a primary spirit), although unfortunately Eggplant Wizard requires too many slots to equip him as well.
- The Zapper user in the Duck Hunt team also brings to mind Kevin's own iconic weapon, especially considering the 80's trappings of the user's room in their debut trailer. Even better when you realize that they've technically got an adventuring dog (hello, Duke), and the Zapper user is an outside influence (mirroring Kevin's own real-world origins).
- In the "Breakout" comic, when Samus comes face-to-face with the convicts that she caught in her bounty hunts, she DESTROYS them in hand-to-hand combat◊. Nine years before Samus would actually start punching and kicking people for real in Super Smash Bros. 64 and even longer before Samus would do so outside her Power Suit in Brawl.
- There are also many other classic characters who appeared in Captain N (including Donkey Kong, Link, Zelda, Ganon, Ridley, Kraid, Dr. Wily, Dracula, and Alucard) who have also made appearances in the Smash series.
- Kid Icarus being a situational weakling becomes all the more funny when you look at Super Smash Bros. Brawl onward and see how much Pit Took a Level in Badass. Taken up to eleven with Kid Icarus: Uprising where his job consists of being a One-Man Army and involves him dealing with gods, aliens, and a chaos-bringing parasite. Pit's come quite a long way from shooting multi-purpose arrows at everything. Though it also becomes hilarious in the opposite way; Kid Icarus can fly without needing an Angel's Feather, the Wings of Pegasus, or Palutena/Viridi's Power of Flight, unlike Pit whose inability to do so is a massive sore spot.
- Mega Man, Pit, and Simon Belmont are reunited as playable characters, bringing the Captain N cast back together for the first time in decades. This
- As we know now, Final Fantasy was far from the last game in its series. But it was used for the last-ever episode of ''Captain N".
- There was an episode involving mirror clones of the characters, including one of Kid Icarus/Pit. Kid Icarus: Uprising gives us just that in the form of Dark Pit.
- A gag has Simon claim that his whip has a mind of its own. Cue Lament of Innocence, in which the Vampire Killer whip is empowered by Sara's soul.
- In "Three Men and a Dragon," based on Dragon Quest, Dragonlord actually looks quite a bit like Baramos from Dragon Quest III, which had not yet been released in the US at the time.
- A series about a brunette boy with a white/red color scheme who goes in a crossover adventure throughout worlds based on various pre-existing fictional settings and is accompanied by other heroes to fight villains, both from said settings too? And features a crossover with Final Fantasy? Are we talking about Captain N or Kingdom Hearts? Made even funnier since the game worlds◊ in the show are represented in a way similar to those of the Disney worlds◊.Speaking of which...
- Even if both shows were produced by DiC around the same time, it's very suspicious that Princess Lana has the exact same hairstyle as Vanessa from Camp Candy.
