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It’s the early ’90s; you just had your bowl of cereal and watched your favorite Saturday morning cartoons. Now it is time to play some video games. You turn on your Sega Genesis, blow on your cartridge and begin to play the Golden Axe video game. The original Golden Axe was released in 1989 and featured unique storytelling of magic, dragons, and barbarians. You got to ride mythical creatures and fight skeletons with a sword. This was different than games kids were used to and

How do you turn a 1989 arcade game about warriors beating their way through a fantasy world into a 10-episode animated television series? For Golden Axe executive producers Mike McMahan and Joe Chandler, the answer started with taking the world seriously enough to expand it but never so seriously that they forgot to have fun. Speaking with The TV Cave ahead of the Paramount+ series premiere, McMahan and Chandler explained that their own history with Sega's Golden Axe made the

For longtime Golden Axe players, Ax Battler doesn't exactly come with decades of complicated character development. The barbarian warrior helped define Sega's original 1989 game, but Paramount+'s new animated series has the opportunity to turn that familiar collection of muscles, weapons and heroics into an actual character. For Liam McIntyre, finding Ax meant looking beyond the warrior exterior. Speaking with The TV Cave ahead of the series premiere, McIntyre revealed that s

Dust off the Sega Genesis, Golden Axe is officially making the jump from video game classic to animated television. More than three decades after players first picked up their swords and entered the fantasy world of Yuria, Golden Axe is getting a new life as an animated action-comedy on Paramount+. The series brings several familiar faces from the games along for the ride while introducing a brand-new hero who may be slightly less prepared for the assignment. Whether you spen