On this episode of Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast, your hosts Mark Linsenmayer, Erica Spyres, and Brian Hirt are joined by former video game professional (and current TV development executive) Donald E. Mar...
cool? There was not one demographic that wasn’t drawn into the cultural singularity of gaming and skateboarding like a rent-a-cop to a skate video shoot. Enter Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, an improvement upon the original in virtually every single way imaginable, the popularity of the game ...
As you pay the rent, the rent goes up all the time and you need to make more money, so you need to find synergies with your symbols. Some symbols destroy others, can create others, or just like each other and make more money that way.With each level, you get a choice of powers t...
Third:The best/most serious ending, which wholesale rips offThe Butterfly Effect(which itself might have been ripping offDonnie Darko) introduced me to Laurie Anderson. If you want to talk about Black Mirror and the failure of algorithms, it’s absolutely wild that neither Spotify, nor Amazon,...
You have to pay the rent, don’t you? We could see levels of addiction that by comparison would make drugs & cigarettes seem like a joke. People could squander whole paychecks for a few minutes in a ‘reality-simulator’, while their real-life family starves. ...
the PSN store every Tuesday, for example." And, as anyone whoâs been to electronics meccas like Akihabara knows, thereâs still a strong tradition of building up a physical games collection, and used games in particular remain popular in a country where rentals are banned...
This is an area that GameStop is absolutely abhorrent and should not only take great strides to fix, but should also issue a statement and public apology for its undervaluing of its own product. Retro games have been sorely undervalued by the company historically. Boxes and manuals should neve...
And I told her if it's possible for me to rent an office, and have a bunch of TVs and my consoles there. And I would charge my friends to play with my consoles. LARRY HRYB: Look at you. DANNY PENA: I'd charge them 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or an hour. And they were like...
(except out of bounds, and also, backcourt violations, for some reason). If you want to use a weapon on the court, Bill Laimbeer isn't going to stop you. It's not even that violent, it's just delightfully low-rent, and it's considered one of the worst SNES games in the history...
Night Trapinitially received some attention because it featured formerDiff’rent Strokesstar Dana Plato as one of the girls. Plato played Kelly, who was actually an undercover member of S.C.A.T. and who searched for clues while you were busy trapping Augers. Plato gave such an annoying perf...