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Nerd Lunch Episode 119: Board Games

Posted in podcast, pop culture with tags board games, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcast, pop culture on February 18, 2014 by Paxton

Welcome to episode 119 of the Nerd Lunch Podcast. This week we are joined by my Cult Film Club co-host Jaime Hood (ShezCrafti) to talk all about board games.

We discuss our favorite board games and we discuss, of course, our least favorite board games (looking at you, Monopoly). We discuss board games we wish we had when we were growing up and we even have a lengthy discussion on licensed board games based on movie and TV properties. Lots of fun had by all and I edited in a bunch of old board game commercials. You have to hear the Crossfire commercial. And I’ve also had the Pizza Party commercial jingle in my head for the last week.

Download this episode from iTunes or listen to it on Feedburner.

Or listen to the episode online here.

Guest appearance on Cyborgs: A Bionic Podcast

Posted in podcast, pop culture, Six Million Dollar Man, TV shows with tags Bionic Man, Bionic Review, podcast, podcasts, pop culture, Six Million Dollar Man, TV shows on February 17, 2014 by Paxton

This week I am a guest pal on the awesome Cyborgs: A Bionic Podcast. Hosts John and Paul invited me over to discuss the Six Million Dollar Man third season episode, Wolf Boy starring Jodie Foster’s little brother, Buddy (I’m not even joking).

John, Paul and I go over the plot details as well as comment on some of the more ridiculous elements of the episode. It’s a really fun episode to cover and I had a blast in the guest pal seat. Hopefully I can jump over there again soon for another episode.

Click the above image to go listen to the show online and download the show Cyborgs: A Bionic Podcast on iTunes.

Three awesome game shows featuring video games I used to watch

Posted in pop culture, TV shows, video games with tags Cavalcade Arcade, game shows, pop culture, TV shows, video games on February 12, 2014 by Paxton

Yesterday on Nerd Lunch Episode 118, we talked all about our favorite game shows. I love game shows. But I also love video games. So, obviously, I love when they combine the two.

To supplement yesterday’s podcast discussion, here are three video game based game shows that I loved watching when I was growing up.

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Starcade (1982) – I loved this show. It was a quiz show with bonus rounds where players would get to play a few minutes on all types of upright arcade machines. Many of the machines were debuted on the show and there were several I never saw in a local arcade. You can find a ton of episodes all over YouTube. You can also find over 60 episodes streaming live on Starcade.tv.

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Video Power (1990) – OMFG I loved this show and its host, Johnny Arcade (seen above right in his video enhancement chair). Check out the amazing Vanilla Ice-like rap by Johnny for the show’s intro. This show began, surprisingly, as not a game show at all but a cartoon variety show hosted by Johnny Arcade featuring action adventure cartoons starring characters from the games Arch Rivals, Wizards & Warriors, NARC and Bigfoot (the monster truck). However, for the second season the producers overhauled the format and created a game show, still hosted by the venerable Johnny Arcade. Contestants would answer trivia, play timed sessions on console video games (mostly NES stuff) and the winner would run through an obstacle course covered in velcro clothing sticking games to their bodies. This show was so incredible and simply reeks of 1990s awesomeness.

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Nick Arcade (1992) – This was Nickelodeon’s game show which featured trivia rounds plus generic variations of popular games. The winning team of each episode would suit up and actually jump through and play in a virtual video game. It looks like crap now, but was a lot of fun back in the early 90s. Check out an impossibly young Joey Fatone from N’Sync as a contestant.

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Nerd Lunch Episode 118: Game Shows

Posted in podcast, pop culture, TV shows with tags game shows, Nerd Lunch Podcast, podcasts, pop culture, TV shows on February 11, 2014 by Paxton

This week Jeeg is in the hosting chair and we are joined by our good friend Tim Lybarger from The Neighborhood Archive. This week, Jeeg has deemed it is finally time to talk about game shows.

We talk about our experiences watching game shows, we talk about some of our favorites we even mention a few of our least favorites. Lots of popular ones get mentioned but there are a few obscure ones that come up as well.

Download this episode from iTunes or listen to it on Feedburner.

Or listen to it online here.

Six Million Dollar Man Season 6 coming March 12!

Posted in Bionic Man, comic books, pop culture, Six Million Dollar Man, TV shows with tags Bionic Man, Bionic Review, Cavalcade Comics, comic books, pop culture, Six Million Dollar Man, TV shows on January 29, 2014 by Paxton

Not a review, today, just some news about the Dynamite Comics Bionic franchise.

Dynamite Comics announced that they are going to start a new Bionic Man series. Only this series will be a direct sequel to the 70s TV show, The Six Million Dollar Man. The title will begin on March 12 and be named, appropriately enough, The Six Million Dollar Man Season 6.

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Comic book continuations of TV shows have become quite popular since Joss Whedon allowed Buffy (Season 8) and Angel (Season 6) to be continued. Now you can find comic book seasons for TV shows like Smallville (Season 11), Charmed (Season 9) and X-Files (Season 10).

According to Cosmic Book News, the new Six Million Dollar Man book will be drawn by Juan Antonio Ramirez and written by James Kuhoric. Just like the last series, Alex Ross will be doing his awesome painted covers. Writer James Kuhoric should be familiar to fans of this blog as he wrote those awesome Jason vs Freddy vs Ash comics I reviewed for AWESOME-tober-fest 2012. Cosmic Book News has an interview with Kuhoric as well as some early pencil art for the comic by Ramirez. And the art looks GREAT. Click the image below to see a few more of Ramirez’s drawings within the Cosmic Book News’ article.

It looks like Dynamite’s original Bionic Man title will stop in February and this new Season 6 title will take over. I guess that also means Bionic Woman will stop as well. I was enjoying the first Bionic Man title, but honestly, after Kevin Smith’s initial run, the title was holding my interest less and less. I think a reboot is a good idea and I LOVE the idea of actually continuing the original 70s TV show including the fashions and effects of the time. Plus, Steve Austin will actually look like Lee Majors and Oscar will actually look like Richard Anderson. That can be nothing but GOOD. I wonder if Rudy will look like Darren McGavin or Alan Oppenheimer?

There are several other places to see more info about this new title. Bleeding Cool has an interview with Kuhoric and a lot of finished, colored art from the first issue. Also, if you head over to the 6 Million Dollar Blog you can see the cover to issue #2.

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