This is a blast from the past. The 1980s, a time of spandex, big hair, keytars, and toy advertisements disguised as kids cartoons. If there is one way to sum it up, it’s theme songs- epic, memorable, and sometimes outrageous theme songs.
80s cartoons took up the topic of good versus evil. It taught kids essential ethics and life lessons that we still remember today. In a time where Nintendo was king, and synth pop ruled the airwaves, we give you the top 10 cartoon theme songs where action and sci-fi cartoons turned us into tiny consumers driven with the desire to want anything that’s injection-molded plastic or die-cast metal.
1. Transformers
1984 intro and outro
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3. Thundercats
Intro
4. He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
He-Man intro and outro
5. She-Ra
She-Ra opening theme
6. Voltron: Defender of the Universe
7. M.A.S.K.
8. Robotech
9. G.I.Joe
Intros 1983-1987
10. Spider-man
1981 TV show intro