by Shaun Jex | Sep 22, 2018 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Hulk Hogan. Macho Man Randy Savage. Mr. Perfect. Ted Dibiase, the Million Dollar Man. The Ultimate Warrior. In the early 90s, these were some of the biggest names in the world of professional wrestling. They were superstars. They were loud, brash, full of swagger (and...
by JasonBreininger | Sep 20, 2018 | 1980s, Columns, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...
Nintendo Power was an enormous resource when it came to helping NES owners determine what games were worth buying, renting, or better off skipping entirely. However, not everyone was blessed enough to be a Nintendo Power subscriber, and there were very few other ways...
by Shaun Jex | Sep 19, 2018 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
The first animated shorts featuring The Simpsons debuted on the Tracey Ullman Show in 1987. The characters got their own prime time series two years later. Over three decades later and the show has becomes longest running American sitcom and the country’s longest...
by Shaun Jex | Sep 15, 2018 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Mark Cerny began working in the video game industry at the tender age of 17. In the early 1980s, he joined Atari and worked on titles like Major Havoc and Marble Madness. Over the course of his career, his name has been connected to some of the industry’s most iconic...
by Shaun Jex | Sep 12, 2018 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
What do you do if aliens abduct your archaeologist uncle? Well, if you’re a young, baseball playing boy named Mike Jones, you set out to rescue him armed with a yo-yo that the chief of the Coralcola people of Island-C gave you. Of course, I’m talking about the 1990...
by Shaun Jex | Sep 8, 2018 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that hostile aliens in possession of advanced technology and a desire to invade a planet, must be in want of camels. At least, so we are led to believe by the 1983 game Attack of the Mutant Camels. The game was developed...