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MTV’s Undressed
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Undressed is a television series on MTV that was first broadcast in 1999. It was an anthology series that followed the relationships (both sexual and romantic) of young people, often high schoolers, college students, and twenty somethings in the Los Angeles area. The series was controversial for its frank discussions about sex, including depictions of promiscuous behavior between teens, as well as gay and lesbian relationships. The show’s Head Writers were Michael Grodner and Swith Bell, while Neil Landau served as the co-head writer.
William Haislip “Billy” Squier (born May 12, 1950 in Wellesley, Massachusetts) is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is probably best known for the song “The Stroke” on his 1981 album release Don’t Say No. Other hits include “In the Dark”, “Rock Me Tonite”, “Lonely Is the Night”, “My Kinda Lover”, Everybody Wants You, “All Night Long” and “Emotions in Motion”.
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages[3] are two action-adventure games developed by Flagship and published by Nintendo and the seventh and eighth installments in The Legend of Zelda video game series. They were released on February 27, 2001 in Japan, May 14, 2001 in North America, and October 5, 2001 in Europe for the Nintendo Game Boy Color. The game features a brighter color palette when played on a Nintendo Game Boy Advance in order to make up for the darkness of the screen, and a special shop is also made available.[4]
After experimenting with porting the original The Legend of Zelda to the Game Boy Color, Yoshiki Okamoto’s Flagship team began developing three interconnected Zelda games that could be played in any order. The complexity of this system led the team to cancel one game; the remaining two were adapted into Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages. The two games, released simultaneously, interact via a Game Link Cable and a password system.
D.A.R.Y.L. is a 1985 science fiction film which was written by David Ambrose, Allan Scott and Jeffrey Ellis. It was directed by Simon Wincer and stars Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Danny Corkill and Josef Sommer. The original music score was composed by Marvin Hamlisch.
Little Monsters is a 1989 comedy-drama film starring Fred Savage as Brian Stevenson, a sixth-grader who has recently moved to a new town, and Howie Mandel as Maurice, the monster under the bed.
The fictional story purports to explain “what really goes on under the bed” and why children are always getting blamed for things they did not do. Beginning as a flashback, it tells of how Maurice befriends Brian and shows him a world where there are no rules and no parents to tell them what to do. However, there is more to this fantasy world than meets the eye, and when Brian’s brother Eric (Ben Savage) is kidnapped, the fun and games turn deadly serious.
Forever Young is a song that really resonates with people of a certain age. It seems to both glorify youth while mourning that fact that we all grow old eventually. The song asks the question “Do you really want to live forever?” and, while any child has a good chance of answering “YES!”, the same question asked of a senior citizen will get a far different answer. What good is eternal life if you must watch all your friends die?
Louie’s brains and eyes POP when the special gooey gets picked. If you want to have fun in a most unusual way, then Gooey Louie is the game to pick. Put your fingers up his nose and pull out a gooey. What does Louie say about that? “Pick me a winner!”, “This is soooo gross!”, “This really tickles!” If you pick the wrong gooey, Louie’s eyes pop out and his brains fly into the air. Boiiinnng! The other players continue until there’s one player left who hasn’t set Gooey Louie off – the winner.
The first game I got on my ancient Windows 95 machine, kept me up for hours trying to beat the levels at the higher difficulties. The video combines all the major aspects that made Descent and Descent II awesome games: stomach-bending flying through tunnels, great boss fights, and that iconic escape from the mine at the end of every level.
One of the most underrated cartoons of the early 90s, this was the best reason ever for getting up at 7am on a Saturday (before learning how to program a VCR). Set in a distant future where mankind has achieved the current pipe dream of terraforming Earth’s planetary neighbors, Venus and Mars, into secondary homes, the series follows the breakout and conclusion of a civil war “on a scale previously unimagined,” between mankind and their genetically engineered slave laborers, the Neosapiens. It was noteworthy in that the storyline treated many adult subjects such as war, racism, and moral ambiguity with respect and a frank, almost unforgiving intelligence. While not many may remember it now, 16 years later, those who do rate it highly; for once, there was an American cartoon that made us think as well as laugh.
Sky Kid (スカイキッド Sukai Kiddō?) is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1985. It runs on Namco Pac-Land hardware but with a video system like that used in Dragon Buster. It is also the first game from Namco to allow 2 players to play simultaneously. The game was later released on the Famicom (brought to the American NES by Sunsoft), and both this version and the original arcade version were later released on Nintendo’s Virtual Console service.[1]
