I grew up on PC Gaming. Sure, I loved playing on my original Nintendo and Gameboy and all that … but my real passion for gaming came not from Super Mario and Link, but from games like Space Quest, Wing Commander, Monkey Island, King’s Quest and, later on, Gabriel Knight. Point and click adventure games […]
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future is a 1987-88 sci-fi/action television series that ran for 22 episodes in Canadian/American syndication. A toy line was also produced by Mattel, and during each episode there was a segment that included visual and audio material which interacted with the toys. Christmas of 1987 was ALL ABOUT […]
I have a soft spot for anthropomorphic animals in genre fiction, especially in space. Rocket Raccoon, Bucky O’ Hare, and, especially Star Fox. I loved the original Star Fox back on the Super Nintendo (the first game to use the Super FX engine) and this remake introduced the Rumble Pack to the N64, which vibrated […]
Every time I think of ALF, the furry little bastard who took the world by storm back in the last 80’s, I think of the Ben Stiller movie Permanent Midnight, about television writer Jerry Stahl, who was on drugs while working on the show. Weird movie. Anyway, this week for Good Old Days, at the […]
You know, very few cartoons that we loved as kids hold up when we try to watch them as adults. Sure, there’s still charm to shows like G.I. Joe and Transformers, but even then, the animation is so dated, you feel a little ashamed for liking them in the first place. Especially when it comes […]
“I DARE ANYTHING! I am Skeletor!” I still remember when I saw Masters of the Universe in a movie theater. My family and I had gone out of town, but there was no way I was missing out on the friggin He-Man movie! I begged and I pleaded, and we as a family went to […]
Welcome to the first edition of Good Old Days, the new regular column at IoM where we take a look at the crap we loved as kids and give it another look as adults to see if it still holds up. Have you ever had a situation where you just were so excited that something […]