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!
Old junk food.
No video tonight, as I’m facing a deadline that cannot be pushed!
Instead, let’s just do a little survey:
Name a discontinued junk food item that you’d KILL to eat one last time.
(Both store-bought snacks and fast food items count.)
We’re gonna make each other hungry tonight.
Demons!
Tonight’s movie is Demons, from 1985.
I think IMDB’s plot summary sells it best: A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.
Warning: This one gets gory. (I doubt you’re surprised.)
Tonight’s survey:
Name a place you’d like to visit before you die. Assume money is no object!
(I didn’t mean to word that so macabrely. I guess it fits, considering tonight’s film choice!)
