Happy 81st to Leonard Nimoy!

Growing up, I wasn’t aware of a divide between fans of Star Trek and Star Wars. To this day I consider myself more of a fanboy than a Trekkie, but I have a deep respect for certain aspects of Trek culture, one of which includes the incomparable Leonard Nimoy. Known on Star Trek as Mister…

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What’s in a Name? Misleading cartoon titles…

Certain favorite cartoons in the 80s shared titles with shows that weren’t what I expected. These are a few misleading titles that ended disappointing me. TV Guide spam, if you will…

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Classick appears as a guest on the Beatin Da Block show

This week, I was privileged to appear on the Beatin Da Block podcast and had a great time doing the show! Give it a listen, and check them out… BeatinDaBlock #48 TimeSkip Host Kevo, returning guest Montoyis and new guest Classick comment on gas prices, black videogame characters, the League of Extraordinary Drake Haters and…

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Retro Video Game of the moment: Shinobi (1987)

Make a video game based on a ninja fighting to save his students from other ninjas, mercenaries, monsters, demons and other bad guys and you’ve got a pop culture phenomenon on your hands.
Sega’s Shinobi* changed everything for me. When it was first released in the arcades in 1987, it was the quintessential side-scrolling action game.

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“Lin in the End” and other random Sunday thoughts

If you’ve ever seen the 80’s movie Teen Wolf, you remember the last game when Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) shows up not as the wolf but as himself. Although everyone was pretty dejected, Scott somehow rallied his scrappy underdog team to victory. The gutsy comeback montage in the film is set to the song…

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Presto Magix! Return of the Jedi!!

One of the games I grabbed for the newly purchased XBox 360 was Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. I thought “cool, I get to play through both sets of trilogies, the sucky one and then the good one!” So I make it all the way to Episode VI, Return of the Jedi and allofasudden…

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