The 50 Raddest Video Game Characters
October 31, 2006
The late 1980s and early 1990s were the apex of the rad cultural hero; they appeared in movies like “Rad” and were the commercial and cultural lynch pins of the most important art form of our generation, video games.
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Films: They Don’t Make ‘em Like These Anymore
October 31, 2006
Time to get nostalgic for children’s films of the 1980s and early 1990s in this essay which looks at the appeals of certain kid flicks. The films reviewed include: “The Brave Little Toaster;” “An American Tail;” “Ferngully;” and “The Land Before Time.” If any of these heart warming animated musicals move you, then perhaps this essay is for you.
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IMDB Credits Frank Welker as (new movie) Megatron!
October 30, 2006
Not linking to a “story” per se, but I did notice that the Internet Movie Database is now crediting Frank Welker as the voice of Megatron in the 2007 Transformers movie! That’s a pretty exciting signal for all of us original fans who were hoping to see Peter Cullen face…er…”voice” off against his old nemesis.
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Real Life Transformers Robots, Made in Japan!
October 30, 2006
While we are waiting for Transformers - The Movie, and we wonder might it be like to see/own a real car that would transform to a kickass intelligent Robot on will or on a buttons push, our friends from the Land of the Rising Sun have done it again. From Japan comes this video of a REAL transformer Vehicle, amazing work really.
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Alexei Sayle - Didn’t You Kill My Brother? - Bizarre 80s video
October 30, 2006
In the late 80s, English comedian Alexei Sayle created a truly bizarre and hilarious video. A must watch for fans of absurd comedy. The video includes a short interview.
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Partial 80s Tracklist for Vice City Stories
October 30, 2006
With less than a week before Rockstar Games drops Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on PSP owners, the official website’s updated with quality details on a series staple: the soundtrack.
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Original Nintendo Commercial From The 80’s
October 30, 2006
This classic nintendo commerical is so bad that it’s just so funny. What was Nintendo thinking!
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Bollywood’s Superman: One Mean Superhero
October 30, 2006
Bollywood does Superman in the 80s. It is badly acted, badly directed, badly filmed, and makes no sense whatsoever. And just to add that extra level of offensiveness, the whole project is probably illegal. Jor-El was played by Dharmendra and perhaps a lot of footage was stolen from Hollywood.
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The Top 10 Silliest Computer Mag Covers in History
October 30, 2006
Over 2,500 home-computer mags from the 1970s and 80s were scoured to find the geekiest mag covers out there, from Star Trek helping you learn basic, to a cover featuring the women of Apple in 1981 - and they’re all reprinted for your amusement.
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Why People Are Obsessed with the 80s
October 25, 2006
This new obsession with the 80s is really my generation coming of age. We are in our mid-20’s to early-40s now. We are the up in coming writers, bloggers, producers and directors and we are remembering our child and teen years. So it is really just nostalgia. That is why you see all the 80s movie remakes (Transformers, Miami Vice, Dukes of Hazard), 80s music samples, 80s revisited culture, re-ingnited 80s stars (Mr. T, Weird Al) and even 80s blogs.
I suspect that in about 5-10 years we’ll see the same thing happen with the 90’s when the Internet generation starts to come of age. There revolution will be much different since they’ll include the 2000’s and talk about things like the “Star Wars kid” and “Numa” and that peanut butter jelly song banana.
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