Nintendo is a pop culture icon that has loomed large for decades. In the 90s, Nintendo established itself as a power player in the home console business. The company competed aggressively with Sega and Sony for ultimate market supremacy. The Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 were household names during their respective generations. Then, the turn […]
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Image courtesy of Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment Growing up in the 1980s ensured kids of the decade had plenty of action figures to choose from with franchises like He-Man, Thundercats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and more all filling toy shelves across the years. With hundreds of different figures available, all costing parents a sizeable amount to […]
Image Courtesy of Marvel The Marvel Cinematic Universe was rolling along with a ton of momentum heading into Avengers: Endgame in 2019. The main storyline to that point was wrapping up and although Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson were pretty much finished with the franchise, the future looked bright. Characters like T’Challa, […]
Star Wars is still the ultimate sci-fi epic for a lot of people. All it took was one movie to make an impact, and then more followed until it became a big, timeless franchise. And if there’s one thing you can’t deny, it’s really the epic scale, because when the saga began back in 1977, […]
Image Courtesy of A24 Backrooms was a surprising success this year, dominating the box office and beating out even bigger blockbuster movies along the way. Based on a YouTube series by Kane Parsons that itself was based on liminal-space creepypasta photographs, the movie takes a man and his therapist into a labyrinth of yellow-colored rooms […]
Image Courtesy of The WB After two seasons of Buffy Summers fighting all sorts of monsters in Sunnydale, things changed drastically when a new character joined the show in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 3. The episode was the third of the season, titled “Faith, Hope & Trick,” and as is evident from the title, […]
Image Courtesy of DC Comics Lanterns has become something of a bone of contention among superhero fans since it ended. On the one hand, there’s a part of the fandom that thinks that Lanterns is a fantastic example of what you can do with a superhero story when you don’t look at the source material […]
From the moment you step into the world of Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, there are no delusions as to what series this game is a part of. Developer Evil Empire understands that there doesn’t need to be any fanfare here, putting you in the heart of a collapsing France where darkness has taken hold. You are […]
Courtesy of New Line Cinema Jumping into toy collecting can be a daunting task when considering you are attempting to track down up to 100 figures if you are determined to complete a collection over time. Yet, there are rare opportunities when you could take the plunge and complete a huge set of action figures […]
Image courtesy of Hasbro Being an ’80s kid meant that you had an abundance of great TV shows to watch while growing up during the ’90s. It was the best time for television series aimed at children, as we didn’t have nearly as many before the ’80s, and in the most recent decades, kids have […]