If it's not from 1999 or earlier I probably haven't seen it.
Fanboys of modern gaming consoles like to bicker about how their console handles the latest generic FPS game with better water transparency or with a few extra lines of microscopic pixels. Forget the fact that 90% of the console libraries are shared. In the early nineties the vitriol spewed against children who supported the competing … More Sega Genesis vs Super Nintendo
During a warm spring day in 1990 my mind was pre-occupied as I struggled to push through my half day of Kindergarten. Although I generally enjoyed school at this young age I knew that something monumental was awaiting me at my grandparents’ house. It was this year that my grandma began a tradition of letting … More Breaking Down My Childhood NES Collection
Microsoft Windows 95 was a landmark piece of software in the history of personal computing. Not only was the marketing blitz itself far reaching and the media buzzing with hype, but the actual software delivered on most fronts introducing millions of people to the world of computing and eventually to their first experiences on the internet. … More Reminiscing about Microsoft Windows 98
It’s December 1990. The setting is south suburban St. Louis. Our house is one of many single story brick ranch style homes lining our street. Each house is approximately 1,200 square feet and built in the 1950’s during the Eisenhower administration when urban sprawl began. It’s the very definition of a blue collar neighborhood and … More Blow Mold Decorations
Going into the summer of 1994 when my friends asked me what I wanted for my birthday my response was concise; “LEGO space sets”. As I approached the ten year anniversary of my birth I was hooked on the space theme and was eager to grab up everything TLG was producing that involved interstellar travel. … More Recon Robot #6889 (LEGO, 1994)
I already wrote about Castlevania a few years ago, but frankly I did a poor job. Half of my write up discusses not having played it growing up which would have been more fitting of an article discussing bad luck and stupid decisions than the game itself. At the time, I was of the opinion … More Castlevania Revisited (Plus A Surprise Announcement)!
Yesterday I read the news that Toys R Us is going to liquidate entirely rather than restructure debt meaning that the last national toy chain in the US is shuttering its doors for good. Over the years I witnessed the closures of Children’s Palace, K.B. Toys, and FAO Schwarz, and although I was dissatisfied or … More Random Memories of a Toys R Us Kid
When Hasbro and the World Wrestling Federation parted ways at the end of 1994 the WWF was without an action figure manufacturer for the first time since the company went national. Throughout the dark days of 1995 the only WWF wrestlers on toy shelves were undesirable Hasbro leftovers in clearance bins and JusToys Bend ‘Em’s … More Jakks Bone Crunching WWF Figures
1991 was a lackluster year for the LEGO Castle theme with the release of only one new set. It was a small catapult only available in a multi-pack and hardly noteworthy. Thankfully castle enthusiasts received eight new sets in 1992 and a brand new faction as well; the Wolfpack Renegades. The Wolfpack were primed to … More Wolfpack Tower #6075 (LEGO, 1992)
Sing a Song of Six Pants is the 102nd short subject film the Three Stooges produced for Columbia Pictures and features Shemp as the third Stooge. Given it’s placement near the middle of the trio’s film run and the fact that it would colloquially be referred to as “a Shemp” by Stooge aficionado’s this episode … More The Three Stooges: Sing a Song of Six Pants (Columbia, 1947)
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