My Innocent Childhood

What started out as a lovely lunch get together for the Young Adults of Canaan Church soon turned ugly as names were hurled across the tables, which garnered lots and lots of responses from the people from the opposite sides of the tables with words and ideas being shot across as cannons being released from the broadside of a magnificent warship of old. (The author has gone a bit crazy here so excuse the language. -Ed)

So what was it about? Well, nothing much. It was just that we were reliving our childhood days. Remembering all the awesome and cool cartoons that used to fuel our imagination and our creativity. Not to mention our current state of almost-insanity. Seriously, I think all the people who were sitting around us were like wondering whether we were high on some drugs or something. We were THAT loud and obnoxious and noisy. It was THAT fun! Oh man some classics were brought back to life. Classics such as Cybercop, Ultraman, Power Rangers, Thundercats, Gummi Bears, Smurfs, Captain Planet and the list goes on. Each thought bringing a sense of nostalgia as we remembered the good times we used to have either watching the shows alone or together. Man those were good times. Simpler times. When all we worried about was how the villain would be defeated in the end. Reenacting our favourite scenes from the fresh episode, much to the chagrin of our elders as we proceeded to mess up the place. Pretending we were on distant worlds, or different and wonderful dimensions (There he goes again. -Ed)

Anyways, suddenly The Chay remembered one cartoon which we all used to enjoy. And as he was describing it, I instantly knew what he was talking about but even I could not remember the title of the show. Well Google is indeed man's best friend now. The only thing I could remember about the show is that whenever they transformed into their battle suit or whatever, they would always shout "Power Extreme~~~~" *(echoes) and that is the keyword I used.

Lo and behold, the name of the series is "The Centurions" and it was released in the year I was born, 1985. It ran on for 2 more years with about 65 episode's in total.

The Centurions with Crystal Kane.

Remember them now? That do anything to jog your memory? Well it is true as The Chay described them. They had an exoskeleton with holes in them for them to attach their weapon systems. And for old times sake, I'll list them out here.

Ace McCloud(Aerospace)

• Sky Knight - the basic air system; small, lightly armed jet pack like air assault system with arm missiles, a chest mounted bomb and lasers
• Orbital Interceptor - non-atmospheric craft and featured several missiles and gunsl usually used for space missions, but was used underwater on at least one episode
• Sky Bolt - a heavily armed fighter-jet, and carried missiles, bombs and guns.
• Strato Strike
• Air Assault

Max Ray (Sea)

• Cruiser - the basic sea system; a SCUBA system with a gun and missile.
• Tidal Blast - a larger undersea system with two large torpedoes and shoulder mounted grappling line
• Depth Charger - a self contained submersible with torpedoes, periscope and depth-charge/mine
• Sea Bat - a surface system with guns and missiles, similar to a manta ray in appearance.
• Aqua-Blazer
• Fathom Fan - Assault weapon system resembling an Air boat with missiles and a small laser in the chest 

Jake Rockwell (Land)

• Fireforce - the basic system; a gattling gun and shoulder-mounted bazooka
• Detonator - a larger walker, with freeze-rays and missiles
• Wild Weasel - a gun equipped human-mortocycle that could move in a prone or standing position
• Hornet - a helicopter with guns and missiles
• Swingshot - a tracked gun platform
• Awesome Auger - a rill like weapons system, rarely used.
• Land Laser

Rex Charger (Energy)

• ChargerPack - backpack system that can absorb energy from surveillance devices, has laser cannons and a missile that creates an electric vortex
• Gatling Guard - a very large weapon system that has the ability to nullify gravity and generate magnetic fields along with its own force field

John Thunder (Infiltration)

• Silent Arrow - Crossbow like weapon system that is worn on his back, has a large pursuit arrow with a net indies and a sonnic knife that can break through walls and doors.
• Thunder Knife - Tracked system that has wheels on his hands that fire lasers, a missile back pack, and the ability to turn into a spinning saw type weapon

[From the Wikipedia entry]

So there you have it. Man, makes me want to go find the DVD's or something or try finding torrents of it to watch again. Just for the fun of it. And to whet you appetite, I leave you with a treat. Enjoy. 

ZOMG lookie what I found. The opening credits!