What do you do when your industry collapses and you are looking for an innovative way to stay viable? If you are Nintendo, you create a video game playing robot and hope for the best. In 1983, the bottom fell out of the video game industry. After reaching revenues...
There’s probably no better scene in movie history than Doc Holliday stepping through the trees to confront Johnny Ringo and saying coolly, “I’m your huckleberry.” The quick draw gun fight that follows is brilliant, capped by Doc standing over Ringo’s body and...
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...
It’s very strange to think that PaRappa the Rapper is now an old school game, but 23 years have passed since it was released in Japan and 22 since it debuted in the rest of the world. The game was the brainchild of Japanese musician Masaya Matsuura, who had enjoyed...
August 11, 1991 It’s a date that should be etched in the annals of time. It’s like July 20, 1969 (the date of the first moon landing), but much more important. It’s the day that The Ren & Stimpy Show first debuted on television. There aren’t enough superlatives to...