Old School Nintendo Fun!
Here’s a double dose of Nintendo nostalgia…
First, check out this 20/20 report about the Nintendo “fad.” Judging by what’s featured, I’m gonna guess that it’s from 1989:
…and if that put you in the mood for MORE MARIO, here are a bunch of vintage Nintendo commercials:
Enjoy!
Holy Batmania!
Let’s pour one out for Adam West tonight, for obvious sad reasons:
Here’s Holy Batmania, a direct-to-video Batman documentary from 1989.
My impression is that the doc was hastily thrown together to capitalize on the success of Tim Burton’s Batman, though it focuses more on the Batman stuff that came before that film — most specifically Adam West’s legendary turn as the Caped Crusader from the 1960s TV series.
I grew up on a steady diet of that show, but one network (Fox, I think) gave it a majorly renewed push when Burton’s film came out. West was as much “my Batman” as any other actor has been, and if I manage to hang around for as long as he did, that’ll still be true.
TMNT: Krang Gets His Body!
Happy Friday!
Just a quickie for tonight. Here’s one of THE most important episodes of the original TMNT series, called Shredder & Splintered:
What makes it so important? Well, it’s the one where Krang finally gets his classic android body!
Memory Mysteries!
Let’s try a different sort of survey tonight.
Google’s gotten so good that we take the accessibility of information for granted. There’s almost nothing we can’t learn more about in two seconds flat.
Sometimes, though, we’d love to read more about something, but we can’t remember quite enough about that something to Google it effectively.
So let’s use tonight’s thread to help each other in the areas where Google has failed us.
Do you half-remember some movie, TV show, old candy, old toy or whatever? Having trouble finding an exact match on the web?
Describe it as well as you can in the comments, and maybe another Dino Drac After Dark reader can fill in the blanks!
I’ll start with two of mine:
1) “Tron meets Dungeons & Dragons?”
Years ago, an X-E reader mailed me a movie he thought I’d like to review… and I almost did, but the movie turned out to be so awesome and so full of stuff that I simply found it too daunting to summarize.
For the life of me, I can’t remember the name of this film. From what I remember, it was about a nerdy guy being sucked into his computer and having to fight in various fantasy adventure lands. It was like four movies in one, loaded with monsters and weird effects and all sorts of crazy shit. Any clue? I really wanna see it again!
UPDATE: JsynX has correctly named The Dungeonmaster from 1984 as the missing movie. Yes!
2) Scary Eye Movie?
As a kid, I remember watching this ancient black-and-white short about a dude who “inherits” a disembodied eyeball and cannot get rid of it no matter what he does. Like he’ll try to burn it or bury it, and the eye will just be back in his house the next morning.
At the end of the short, after taking severe measures to rid himself of the eyeball, not only does it return the next day, but it brings along a *second* eyeball. I know I didn’t dream this, but I’ve never been able to find it online. (If it helps, I believe it was a silent film.)
Any ideas?
Looking forward to hearing about your memory mysteries, too!
