By the 1980s, the Kool-Aid Man had attained pop culture icon status and in 1983, he was the subject of two Kool-Aid Man video games for the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision systems. He was also given his own short-lived comic book series (prior to that he starred in a two issue series published by the General Foods Corporation in 1975), called "The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man". This series for three issues under Marvel Comics from 1983 to 1985 and continued with issues #4-9 under Archie Comics, with art by Dan DeCarlo, from 1987 to 1990. It featured the Thirsties, a group of anthropomorphic sun-like creatures, as villains.