The world of video games is full of iconic heroes: Link from The Legend of Zelda, Sonic from Sonic the Hedgehog, Ryu from Street Fighter, and…Steve Perry? The man who took the midnight train going anywhere? The lead singer of the rock band Journey, who was...
When you think of Aerosmith, you probably think of the songs “Dream On” or “Sweet Emotion.” You might think of their classic, 1975 album “Toys In the Attic” or the flamboyant, semi-androgynous looks and soaring vocals of lead singer Steven Tyler (the man who once...
THE RETRO-BIT DUAL LINK CONTROLLER FOR NES / MAC / PC A step up from the aging NES d-pad, this handy control- ler comes sporting two flavored paint job themes: MegaMan or Ghosts ‘n Goblins. While you may still be diagnosed with “Nintendo Thumb,” using this controller...
I will always associate the game House of the Dead with going to the movies. The game was released in Japan in 1996, appearing in the United States a year later. It immediately became a staple at arcades. As I recall, it sat in the arcade section of every movie...
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...
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...