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Manhunter / Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal

January 27, 2024

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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 1001 TV Shows You Must Watch Before You Die

When Thomas Harris was writing the first book, Red Dragon, it came to him how Hannibal would be so evil and end up being the focus of the book. And the character portrays so well that Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs are on the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and…

Akira Toriyama

January 23, 2024

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1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

Photo By https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/arts/akira-toriyama-dead.html, Fair use, Link This manga creator is responsible for the most famous and beloved video games and comics of all time. He created the ultrafamous Dragon Ball series, and the character designs for Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon and the Dragon Quest series. Dragon Ball is on the 1001 Comics You Must Read…

MSX

January 23, 2024

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Video Game Systems

In the 1980s, home computer systems were just getting off the ground, While IBM PC and Commodore dominated the US, Sinclair and Amstrad CPC were big in Europe, and in Japan NEC and a system called MSX were the big players. MSX was an important home computer system at the time, which interestingly Microsoft helped…

Neuromancer

January 23, 2024

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1001 Books to Read Before You Die, 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

William Gibson was one of the first cyberpunk authors, and showed that there was demand for this thing called cyberpunk. After him there could be a market for Shadowrun and Cyberpunk tabletop RPG games, as well as their video games. Neuromancer is somehow both on the list of 1001 Books You Must Read and 1001…

Danger Man / The Prisoner

January 21, 2024

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1001 TV Shows You Must Watch Before You Die

Danger Man, known as Secret Agent in the USA, was one of best spy tv series, with good script-wrting and superb acting by Patrick McGoohan. The character can easily be compared in quality to Bond. In a later series starring Patrick McGoohan called The Prisoner, his same character resigns but is then relegated to an…

The Time Tunnel

January 20, 2024

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1001 TV Shows You Must Watch Before You Die

A time travel TV series back in 1966! While Twilight Zone did time travel, especially the episode “Back There” this was an entire TV series dedicated to time travel, similar to a later TV series called Quantum Leap. The creator of the series was also the creator of Lost in Space. Time Tunnel was very…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade games)

January 17, 2024

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The 100 Greatest Console Video Games 1988-1998

While Konami had many very good comic book or cartoon arcade beat ’em up games, which includes X-Men and The Simpsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the quintessential game to sum up the beat ’em up and spirit of the time. While TMNT was ubiquitous at the time, the arcade games were very fun to…

Missile Command

January 9, 2024

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, The 100 Greatest Console Video Games 1977-1987

Missile Command is among the first arcade games to really take off and one of the first Atari 2600 games that created a compelling reason to buy that system, which I mean having an arcade game playable in your own home. The Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 version are listed in book The 100 Greatest…

Dragon Age: Origins

October 24, 2023

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

An extremely well-done fantasy RPG game made by BioWare, the makers of the famous Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. This game is on the 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die list. It’s also the first game in the series, and you might want to play it before Inquisition, the 3rd…

Kunio-kun series

October 18, 2023

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Video Games

Kunio-kun series was made from the original game, known as Renegade in the USA. It stems from the video game designer’s idea about making a game about when he was a teenager and getting into fights every day at school. Later Kunio-kun games had distinctive cartoon graphics and spread out into sports first high school…

Manhunter / Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal

Akira Toriyama

MSX

Neuromancer

Danger Man / The Prisoner

The Time Tunnel

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade games)

Missile Command

Dragon Age: Origins

Kunio-kun series

1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

Zork I

1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die

Kolchak: The Night Stalker, X-Files, Millennium

Naruto, One Piece, Ninjas or Pirates

Blendo Games

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