Full Unsolved Mysteries Episode!
Well, here’s the perfect way to end your weekend. It’s a full episode of Unsolved Mysteries, seen as it was originally broadcast back in 1989, with commercials:
FYI: I check Amazon daily to see if they’ve added any new streaming episodes. Sadly, they’ve been stuck on Season 4 for a while. As soon as Season 5 hits, I’ll be doing another “spookiest segments” article.
Tonight’s survey:
What’s the scariest Unsolved Mysteries segment you’ve ever seen?
(And yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve run this survey before, but whatever, I will never ever tire of Unsolved Mysteries discussions.)
Invaders from Mars!
Here’s the 1986 remake of Invaders from Mars, which as I understand it is not very good!
…on the other hand, judging by pro reviews, most of the movies I love aren’t very good. I will say that I kinda scanned through the timeline on this one and did notice some interesting effects.
Tonight’s survey:
Name your three favorite ALIENS from all walks of pop culture.
They can be scary, funny, monstrous or humanoid, so long as they’re not from Earth!
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue!
Oh yes, it’s that time.
Released in 1990, Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue gathered everyone from ALF to Winnie the Pooh to the Ninja Turtles for an all-out assault on drugs. It’s way cheesy, but never uninteresting.
Tonight’s survey:
Name 3 posters that hung in your childhood bedroom.
Playing video games the wrong way.
As a (very) young child, I loved to play Impossible Mission on my brother’s Commodore 64.
I don’t remember what your goal was, but I know it involved hopping between ten thousand floors filled with evil robots.
Being so young, I was never very good at the game. Actually, that’s putting it mildly. I had *no idea* how to play Impossible Mission, yet continued to do so, because the graphics and fluidity were great, and the idea of a never-ending building filled with desks, bookcases and killer robots just fascinated me to pieces.
Instead of trying to “win,” I simply explored the rooms and acted like the whole thing was some digital action figure playset.
I’ve done this with quite a few games over the years — generally robust titles that I was never much good at. Examples:
– I never came close to beating Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, but I absolutely adored visiting the towns to “chat” with Hyrule’s randos. I’d pretend that that was the whole game.
– I was TERRIBLE at Metroid — like just brutally bad — so I’d instead pretend that Samus was a happy-go-lucky explorer who only shot at things as a matter of survival.
– I never even tried to play Ecco the Dolphin the right way. I just acted like it was one of those “virtual aquariums,” with the added bonus of a dolphin that I could pilot.
Tonight’s survey:
Name some video games that you intentionally played the “wrong” way. Give us the details, too!
