by Shaun Jex | Aug 8, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
For a kid born in the early 80s, there were no better cartoons than the Disney Afternoon: Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, and Gargoyles. My favorite was DuckTales. I adored Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey,...
by Shaun Jex | Aug 4, 2018 | 1970s
It began with Dungeons & Dragons. In the late 1970s, Jim Connelly acquired a Commodore PET to assist in his work as a Dungeon Master. He led a regular game in California. One of his players was a man named Jon Freeman, the author of books like The Complete Book of...
by Shaun Jex | Aug 1, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
The Ark of the Covenant. The search for the Holy Grail. The Lost Dutchman’s Mine. All are legendary treasures that have inspired exhaustive quests. Epic literature, poems and folklore have been created about the subjects. Over the centuries, heroes and rogues have...
by Shaun Jex | Jul 28, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Before The Sims, before Tamagotchi, there were Little Computer People. It’s hard to know what to say about Little Computer People. The concept was profoundly, wonderfully bizarre: Little people have been found living inside your computer. Players were given an open...
by Shaun Jex | Jul 25, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Growing up, I wanted to be an archeologist. Not a real archeologist mind you. I wanted to be Indiana Jones. I wanted to carry a whip, wear a leather jacket, and travel the world searching for rare (and possibly cursed) historical items. I even built a museum of...