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Little Monsters


Submitted by Christa M

From Wikipedia:

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.

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Alphaville – Forever Young


Submitted by Dave H

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?

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Gooey Louie


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Submitted by John Thompson

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.

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Descent


Submitted by Pierce L

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.

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EXOsquad


Submitted by Rachel D

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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.

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Sky Kid


Submitted by Maria S

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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]

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Turok: Dinosaur Hunter


Submitted by Dylan A

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Turok: Dinosaur Hunter is a first-person shooter video game developed by Iguana Entertainment and published by Acclaim for the Nintendo 64 (N64) and personal computer platforms. It was released on March 4, 1997 in North America and Europe. Turok is an adaptation of the Acclaim Comics comic book series of the same name. The player controls a Native American warrior, Turok, who must stop the evil Campaigner from conquering the universe with an ancient and powerful weapon.

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Foreigner


Submitted by Justin B

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Foreigner is a English-American rock band formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones, ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald, and a American vocalist Lou Gramm (Louis Grammatico). Foreigner has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide [1] (including over 37.5 million in the United States alone).

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Crispy Numbers Cereal


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Submitted by Reg

Because WHAT could be more exciting than Crispy Numbers?!?

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Crazy Cow Cereal


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Submitted by Reg

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Crazy Cow is a breakfast cereal produced by General Mills during the 1970s. The cereal was somewhat of a novelty item in that it had an unusual trait. The round, multi-grain cereal pellets were coated with an excipient of a drink mix. When milk was added, it would dissolve the powdered coating, and the resultant mixture would resemble, in sight smell and taste, a flavored milk. Crazy cow came in two flavors, chocolate and strawberry.[1] As the box indicated, these were just flavors; no actual chocolate or strawberries were in the ingredients. The box always contained the disclaimer “artificially flavored” or “chocolate flavored”.

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