Old animated movie with boy that has adventures in VR-like environments, using a pod in a science lab

Question

So I am looking for an old animated movie that was probably from the 1960~1990s. I do not think it is Disney, but I could be wrong. It looks like a 80s or 90s cartoon movie but I believe it was just a standalone movie. I keep trying to find it but have not had any luck.

The movie starts out with a boy in a jungle adventure. He is going down a river. At some point this ends, and it turns out that the boy was using some kind of machine to have this adventures. It's in some kind of science lab. Kind of what we would call virtual reality now. It kind of looks like a pod. As the boy is exiting this device, climbing out of it down a staircase, then there is a big flash and accident.

He then meets this character that is like an angel. He helps the boy and they go through different adventure sequences. One sequence has them driving a car around a mountain area that is like a James Bond knock-off. There is a part where the car uses jump jets. I think they crash through a gate at some point. This angel-like character keeps telling the boy its very important for him to protect him.

I also remember that there is a character that is a metaphor for a demon. I think their name is Grim. There is a final fight were it is like a Star Trek knock-off with ships that end up crashing into each other. Its like these two entities (the angel and demon) are fighting for protection or destruction of this boy in this dream-like reality. Anyway the boy wakes up in bed and recalls to his parents that they won't believe his story.

Answer 1

We used to rent this show a lot, had to do some digging, but I think this is it: Adventures in Odyssey - Someone to Watch Over Me.

Dylan and Jesse's adventure in the Yucatan jungle ends abruptly when the Imagination Station malfunctions.

As Whit and Eugene are trying to fix the machine, Dylan enters and is suddenly catapulted into another adventure. Dylan finds himself in a World War II B-17G "Flying Fortress," flying over Nazi territory. He discovers from his companions, a navigator and Lieutenant Nagle, that he is Captain Taylor, in command. He recalls reading about the craft in a book Mr. Whittaker gave him and assumes he is in the Imagination Station.

Their plane is damaged, and they detour to take a direct route home, but their path lies over Grimmstaad's sector, Dylan's arch enemy. The plane is hit and Grimmstaad demands Dylan bail out. He jumps out the door and lands in the snow, and Nagle is there to meet him, calling him Agent 014, and steering him to a waiting 1968 Lamborghini. Nagle's plan is to smuggle Dylan past a blockade set up by his arch rival Grimkov, but before he can do so, their car is fired upon, and crashes. They begin running, but find themselves trapped. The only escape is to jump into a manhole next to the car, and Dylan finds himself falling again, this time landing on the star cruiser Wonder, now Admiral Taylor, with Nagle piloting the spacecraft.

Dylan gets tired of the recurring theme of these adventures and yells to Whit that he has had enough. Nagle comes out of character to inform Dylan that Grimm is angrier than ever, after the previous three defeats and tells him he is not in the Imagination Station and Whit cannot get him out of this adventure, but cannot explain further because the craft is attacked. Via hologram projection, Grimm demands Dylan's surrender, but Nagle secures Dylan in the escape pod and sacrifices himself to save him. Nagle appears to Dylan on the escape pod and urges him to remember something before he can leave the vessel. Dylan develops a headache and slowly remembers that he had been in the Imagination Station and fell, hitting his head. He has been in a coma for three days and the Grim Reaper — death — has been pursuing him. God sent Nagle to protect Dylan because it was not yet his time to die.