So, as normal, the fact something is old reminded me of my own history. Monday’s article about the 20th anniversay of the Fighting Fantasy books made me realize that those books served a vital purpose in my youth.
I've been a gamer since I got a copy of the red box . Possibly before that, but nature and nurture and who wants to get into all that ( Read more... )

You ever just think to yourself "you know what I'd like, self? A t-shirt for the bad guy dojo from Karate Kid." And the internet hums for a second and there it is!

Wow. We truly live in an age of miracles.

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'80s Cartoon opennings.

Man, you know, Cringer was just huge, and did have the claws and fangs. Why was it such a pussy?

Oh, man. Did She Ra really have a winged horse?

Ohhhh. Inspector Gadget. CLASSIC.

Man, it takes some time to load. Full of fun for everyone (under 50, I suppose).

Sweet Jesus. Gilligan's Planet?

Oddly slow day here at work, so I will write about comic books. That's how I roll ( Read more... )

So, I got bored so I went back to the beginning of TBG and found this post about how I missed good winter gaming cons in Ontario.

I decided to do a search for Redcon, and found only this post from '95:

( REDCON 95 )

Let’s go back to nostalgia, y’all. You know what terrifies me? Sets my bowels to quivering like not quite set Jell-o? The thought that someone who reads this won’t know what I’m gonna talk about in a second ( Read more... )

You know, it's odd, but the phrase "the Golden Age of SF is 12" is one I really like because, against all odds, I have fond memories of my childhood. ( Just standard geek nostalgia )

Well, the NES (Nintendo Entertainmetn System) is now 20 years old as of yesterday (its US debut was Oct 18, 1985). In honour of that, I've set the theme to Super Mario Brothers as my ring tone ( Read more... )

Cynra & I took Supercar up to Stouffville yesterday for the wedding of my old J-School buddy Wes. Wes & I go back a while (I observe that he is one of the people I have known the longest I am still in semi-regular contact with ( Read more... )

You know, going back to tag your old posts is fun. For example, I found this post, where I got amusingly angry.

Feh. Good times.