Video Game All-Stars to the Rescue

Video Game All-Stars to the Rescue is an American live-action animated drug-abuse prevention television special starring many characters from American animated video game television series at the time of its release.

Plot:
In Corey's room, an unseen person steals his piggy bank off his dresser. The theft is witnessed by Pikachu, who emerges from a Pokemon comic book with the other Pokemon and alerts the other video game characters in the room (Kevin "Captain N" Keene, Princess Lana, Duke, Simon Belmont, Pit and Nate Adams from a framed pictures, Link, Earthworm Jim, Peter Puppy and Snott from the action figured, Battletoads from a video game box, Jibanyan, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails the Fox, Knuckles the Echidna, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Q*bert, and Kirby, from a stuffed animals, Pit Harry from a lamp, Frogger from an alarm clock, and Whisper who passes through a wall).

Kevin, Lana, Duke, Simon, Pit, Nate, Link, Jim, Peter, Snott, Rash, Zit and Pimple track down the thief and discover that it is Michael. Simon opens a box under his bed and identifies its contents as marijuana. Meanwhile, Corey expresses her concerns about his change in behavior, causing him to storm out of the house. The video game characters quickly realize that something must be done about his addiction and they set off after him, leaving Jibanyan behind to look after Corey.

At the arcade, Michael smokes pot with his old "friends" and "Smoke", an anthropomorphic cloud of smoke. They run out and are chased into an alley by a police officer, who is then revealed to be Spyro the Dragon wearing a police officer's hat. He traps Smoke in a garbage can, grabbing Michael and flies to his Michael' past  to see when and how Michael's addiction started. It turns out that it did so through peer pressure by some older high school kids. After he has returned to the present, he meets up with his "friends" and they decide they want to do some crack. He is hesitant until one of them steals his wallet. He and Smoke chase after her, until they fall down a manhole and meet up with Mega Man, Ryu, Billy Lee, Jimmy Lee, and Captain Falcon who tells them that the drugs are messing up his brain. Soon after, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails the Fox, Princess Sally Acorn, and Rotor Walrus take him on a tour of the human brain. There Red, Chuck, Bomb, Hovernyan, Usapyon, Komasan, Robonyan, Komajiro, Koalanyan, Shogunyan, Komami, Sailornyan, Bunnie Rabbot, Sonia the Hedgehog, Manic the Hedgehog, Princess Toadstool, Toad, Stanley the Bugman, "K.O." Kathy Kangaroon, Joey Kangaroo and Pac-Man join the rest of the video game characters in trying to teach him the many "Wonderful Ways to Say No."

Michael wakes up in his room, believing the whole thing to be nothing but a nightmare. Corey walks in and tries to talk to him, but he loses his temper and angrily yells at him, nearly breaking his arm and hurling her to a wall. He comes to his senses and tries to apologize to him, but he runs out frightened. Smoke appears and tells him he did the right thing, but he's not sure. Saddened, he looks at himself in a small mirror and is shocked to see Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong looking at him. Donkey Kong grabs him and pulls him into the mirror. Inside a Hall of Mirrors, D.K. and Diddy shows him his reflection of how he is today, then the one if he does not stop taking drugs: an aged, corpse-like version of himself. When he insists that he could quit if he wants to and that he is in charge of his own life, D.K. and Diddy takes him to see the "man in charge". He is horrified to see that it's Smoke.

Later, Corey and Jibanyan go back into Michael's room and find his box of marijuana. Smoke appears, throws Jibanyan into a cabinet, and starts tempting Corey into trying it. He believes that if she does so, then maybe he and Michael could have fun together like they used to before he started doing drugs.

Meanwhile, the drug-induced carnival in Michael's mind and Mewtwo leads him to Crash Bandicoot who reads his future in his crystal ball - and it's an even sicklier version of himself than before. After one last warning from Antoine D'Coolette, Meta Knight and the video game characters, he, now extremely ashamed of himself and his drug addiction, comes back into his room just in time to stop Corey from using the drugs herself. He tells her that he never wants to see him end up like him, and admits he was wrong for using them in the first place, though he is unsure if he can change despite his obvious desire to do so. He advises him to talk about his problems with his and their parents. Smoke tries to persuade him otherwise, but he grabs him and throws him out the window, as he feels that he has "listened to him long enough." After falling in a garbage truck, Smoke vows to return, but all of the video game characters appear on a poster on Michael's wall as a reminder to always say no when confronted by drugs. He releases Jibanyan from the cabinet and smiles down at Corey as they go talk to their parents about his drug addiction.

The Characters
The characters, from 20 different franchises, are:


 * Pokémon (TV series): Pikachu, Pichu, Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Butterfree, Jigglypuff, Eevee, Mew, Dragonite, Togepi, Mewtwo
 * Captain N: The Game Master: Kevin "Captain N" Keene, Princess Lana, Duke, Simon Belmont, Pit
 * The Legend of Zelda (TV series): Link
 * Earthworm Jim (TV series): Earthworm Jim, Peter Puppy, Snott
 * Battletoads (TV series): Rash, Zit, Pimple
 * Super Mario World (TV series): Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Toadstool
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series): Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Princess Sally Acorn, Rotor Walrus, Bunnie Rabbot, Antoine D'Coolette
 * Sonic Underground: Knuckles the Echidna, Sonia the Hedgehog, Manic the Hedgehog
 * Yo-Kai Watch (TV series): Nate Adams, Jibanyan, Whisper, Hovernyan, Usapyon, Komasan, Robonyan, Komajiro, Koalanyan, Shogunyan, Komami, Sailornyan
 * Saturday Supercade: Frogger, Pitfall Harry, Q*bert, Stanley the Bugman, "K.O." Kathy Kangaroon, Joey Kangaroo (Although They appears in the special, they are not shown on the poster or DVD and Blu-Ray covers.)
 * Kirby: Right Back at Ya!: Kirby, Meta Knight
 * Skylanders Academy: Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot
 * Mega Man (1994 TV series): Mega Man
 * Street Fighter (TV series): Ryu
 * Double Dragon (TV series): Billy Lee, Jimmy Lee
 * F-Zero: GP Legend: Captain Falcon
 * Angry Birds Toons: Red, Chuck, Bomb
 * The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: Toad
 * Pac-Man (TV series): Pac-Man
 * Donkey Kong Country (TV series): Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong