GAMESTER
Real Name: Unrevealed
Identity/Class: Normal human (fringe character)
Occupation: Theme park operator
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: Briefly Care Bears (Cheer Bear,
Grumpy Bear, Tenderheart Bear)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Fun & Games Land
First Appearance: Care Bears#19/1
(November 1988)
Powers/Abilities: The Gamester is an old and
overweight man who excels in games and short bursts of sport (such as
bowling), but he only wishes to play against children. He feels a
strong need to have child friendships. He wears what appears to be a
levitating suit, and apparently has significant wealth and engineering
knowledge to construct a giant theme park filled with oversized games
of skill.
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 160 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White
History:
(Care Bears#19/1 (fb) - BTS) - The man who became the
Gamester hated being alone, so he created the large theme park of Fun
& Games Land filled with giant interactive games to lure children
inside where they hoped to win fun prizes, but the games were
unwinnable against a crafty opponent like the Gamester, ensuring the
children would stay a long time and he believed that they would be his
friends as a result.
(Care Bears#19/1) - The Gamester welcomed the next
batch of children that had made their way to Fun & Games Land,
including three Care Bears (Cheer Bear, Grumpy Bear, Tenderheart Bear),
who had followed a frustrated boy's cry as he scrambled along the
game-like path to the theme park. Floating in the air, the Gamester
offered the children as much candy and toys as they wanted if they
could defeat him in any game. The Care Bears watched as children were
beaten in giant coin flipper, ping-pong, checkers. Disappointed, the
children wanted to go home, but the Gamester refused until he had been
defeated. The Care Bears stepped in to help the children, but were
bested each time in basketball, tic-tac-toe and bowling. Frustrated,
the Care Bears wanted to walk out, so the Gamester duped them into a
seeming "maze" that instead led into a giant pinball table and the
Bears were knocked about. The gamester claimed he only wanted to play,
so the Care Bears challenged him to a game of hide-&-seek. Everyone
scattered and when the Gamester couldn't find anyone, he became very
upset. The Care Bears emerged and encouraged him to be kind. He changed
his behavior and the children stayed of their own accord.
Comments: Created by Angelo DeCesare, Howard Post, Roberta Edelman.
It would be amusing if he was the inspirational
grandfather to the
sociopath Arcade.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
:
Gamester has no known connections to:
Fun & Games Land was the giant theme park devised
and run by the devious Gamester to lure and keep children inside in a
misguided effort for friendship. The entrance was a boardgame-like path
that regularly told the walker to advance. The park had a mini train
that took excited children to the center of the park. There, they were
welcomed by the Gamester who challenged them to defeat him in any game
for rewards of toys and candy, but he was a master of all the games in
the park and told the children none could leave until they had beaten
him. Fun rides were there to distract the children as well. The games
were oversized and simple that children knew how to play and had
minimal danger. Games included a giant coin tosser, checkers,
ping-pong, basketball, oversized bowling, simple tic-tac-toe, but also
a giant pinball machine with a rolling pinball that scared children
from trying to leave. Ultimately, it was only the Gamester who denied
the children the ability to leave. Once he was nice to them, they chose
to come and go as they pleased, and were friendly to him.
--Care Bears#19/1
images:
(without ads)
Care Bears#19/1, p5, pan3 (main image)
p6, pan5 (headshot)
p3, pan1 (Fun & Games Land, entrance)
p8, pan3 (Fun & Games Land, giant pinball)
p4, pan6 (floating + challenge)
Appearances:
Care Bears#19/1 (November 1988) - Angelo DeCesare (writer), Howard
Post (pencils), Roberta Edelman (inks), Sid Jacobson (editor)
First posted: 08/02/2025 - celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the first Marvel
Care Bears comic!
Last updated:
08/02/2025
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