It is a truth universally acknowledged that hostile aliens in possession of advanced technology and a desire to invade a planet, must be in want of camels. At least, so we are led to believe by the 1983 game Attack of the Mutant Camels. The game was developed...
A few months ago I had a brilliant idea for a video game: players would control nanotechnology that had been injected into a human body. As the nanotech, you would battle things like disease and infection as they sprang up through the body. You could also repair...
In 1982, Disney released the film Tron starring Jeff Bridges. The story gave the world iconic characters like Kevin Flynn, a software engineer who gets transported into a computer mainframe, the artificial intelligence known as the Master Control Program (or MCP),...
Don’t panic. Now that we’ve got that settled, let’s double check the essentials. Do you have a towel with you? A towel is the most massively useful item an interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Next, find your copy of “The Best Vogon Poems of 1984.” Once you’ve got that,...
Released in 1989, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. It featured everyone’s favorite archaeologist doing what he did best: punching Nazis and searching for ancient relics. In this case, Indiana was searching for the...
Long before the Disney Afternoon games created by Capcom, Nintendo was creating other Disney themed video games. In fact, Disney’s first venture into the world of digital gaming came through Nintendo. In 1981, Nintendo released Mickey Mouse for the Game & Watch...