by Ben Magnet | Jan 25, 2021 | 1990s, 2000s, Console/PC/Handheld, Opinions
I grew up in the 90’s and for video games the 90’s were great. SEGA and Nintendo were going at it with Sony waiting in the wings while PC gaming started to show off how cool it could be with the internet. Things were looking to be great for gamers in the...
by Shaun Jex | Apr 24, 2019 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
My son is gradually working his way toward the end of the book “The Return of the King,” the swan song to J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic Lord of the Rings series. The series is a perfect fit for his personality. He’s obsessed with fantasy and adventure and the creation of new...
by Shaun Jex | Oct 24, 2018 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
It all began with a single childhood trauma. At age four, future video game designer Roberta Williams saw the 1959 film Horrors of the Black Museum, a movie about a frustrated writer who hypnotizes his assistant and makes him torture people to provide inspiration for...
by Shaun Jex | Oct 20, 2018 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Professor Windlenot’s Museum of the Strange and Unusual sits in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Opened by Sir Hubert Windlenot, the museum was intended to highlight the arcane knowledge Windlenot gathered over the course of his career with the The President, Council and...
by Shaun Jex | Oct 17, 2018 | 1990s, Reviews, The Story Of...
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story, “The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse.” For kids who grew up in the 1990s, “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” was practically a right of passage. Along with R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books (the television series...
