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Early animated Three Musketeers commercial where our candy heroes meet the Queen.


When I think Zappa, I still see this classic comic ad in my head for some reason. I remember not understanding it all when I saw in vintage comics when I was a lad, which of course made me stare at it even more.

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Some time ago I did a web search on the Last Starfighter – one of my favorite 1980s sci-fi movies. I was curious about the actual video game in the movie. Turns out it was more or less just a prop. But then along comes a group of brilliant programmers at Rogue Synapse with a similar interest and tah-dah!! – the game becomes reality!! And you can actually download The Last Starfighter game for free (and other famous movie games) at their website.

I have played The Last Starfighter game and their version of Space Paranoids from the movie Tron. Both are great fun!! What’s even more cool – they have blueprints, etc of the actual Starfighter Cabinet! I am actually planning to build one of these for my home game room – awesome!!

Check it out when you can!!

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The Last Starfighter Video Game [@] Rogue Synapse


Do I really want a beverage to “tickle” my innards? Now that Mountain Dew Throwback is in stores, I thought it would be a good time to post an older commercial that used some of the imagery they are using on the Throwback.


Their is so much wrong with this movie — which makes it soooooo right. I had a friend who saw this in some theater way back in the 1980s and he was suddenly the local expert on the hereto unheard of art of Ninjitsu. It wasn’t until I saw Enter the Ninja that I realized that he received all of his information from the film and not from some secret school he attended that summer.



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