by Shaun Jex | Aug 11, 2019 | 1980s, Reviews
The 1980s were a glorious era for pop culture: the films of John Hughes, Aqua Net, Flock of Seagulls, the list is virtually endless. Of course, no list of 1980s icons would be complete without ALF. That’s right: the Alien Life Form from the planet Melmac. He is an...
by Shaddi Albawab | Aug 9, 2019 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
One component of video games that really stand out to me is their music. From Nobuo Uematsu to Koji Kondo, the composition and soundtracks of video games help immerse the player into the created worlds and helps set the mood for certain stages. These are the top 5...
by Shaun Jex | Jul 19, 2019 | 1980s, Reviews
There are many dark and dusty corridors in the Cabinet of Curiosities, musty passageways filled with cobwebs and lit only by the eerie glow of a computer monitor or television screen. At night, you can hear the pitiful cries of frustrated gamers, mourning the loss of...
by Shaun Jex | Jul 5, 2019 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Late at night, I often lay in bed pondering the deep, unanswerable questions of life: Why are we here? What does it all mean? And why would someone decide to make a video game based off Purina’s Chuck Wagon line of dog food? First, a little background is necessary. In...
by Shaun Jex | Jun 26, 2019 | 1980s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Kids these days don’t know how good they’ve got it. Why, back in the olden days, our programming was so rudimentary it was literally called BASIC. We didn’t have any of these fancy MMORPGs. No sir. When we wanted to play a video game we played things like Paper Boy,...