VSF: Virtual Special Forces (often shortened to VSF) is an American animated television series produced by DIC Enterprises. It premiered in syndication in September 1986 and ran for a single season of 26 episodes before its cancellation in 1987.
VSF debuted with middling numbers and quickly collapsed. By episode five, several stations had moved it to pre-dawn slots, effectively burning off contracts. By mid-season, VSF ranked among the lowest-rated syndicated cartoons of 1986.
Critics panned the show as derivative, incoherent, and shamelessly commercial. TV Guide dismissed it as “a commercial break with occasional animation.” Animation historian Fred Patten called it “the nadir of the toy-cartoon craze. Proof that you could not simply slap plastic and neon together and expect children to care.”