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Commodore 64 Plug and Play

Posted on February 9, 2012 by plcary

Last Sunday I hit a big indoor garage sale event and picked up some goodies. One of those items was this C64 plug and play game. Just plug it into your tv and you have 30 classic Commodore 64 games at your fingertips. I paid $2 for for it and later spotted a Commodore 64 computer, floppy drive and printer for $25 but didn’t pull the trigger on that one.

Swamp Thing Public Service Announcement

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Saturday World

I love bad cinema. I also love movies based off of comics and cartoons. When I have the ability to combine the two, it makes for some interesting adventures (or torture…sometimes I get the two mixed up).

I was watching The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) on DVD the other day (there was nothing on TV and it had been years since I watched it), and I decided that I would check out the special features. I’m glad that I did, for I had found one of the greatest hidden treasures that such a horrible movie could give me…Swamp Thing in a PSA for Greenpeace.

I think the greatest part is the pun at the end. I can’t help but laugh each time I watch this. It’s so horrible.

Thanks to YouTube user Quackerson for the upload.

Chuck Norris on The Arsenio Hall Show (1991)

Posted on February 9, 2012 by The Retroist

This video covers Chuck Norris’ appearance on the Arsenio Hall show from October 22, 1991. Norris talks about his movie “The Hitman” but more interestingly about his early career (including a long story about his Missing in Action rat scene).

[via] YouTube

I Want To Believe…in Star Trek

Posted on February 9, 2012 by The Retroist

Trek fan and digital artist, Rabittooth has mashed up two of my favorite TV shows, The X-Files and Star Trek in this “I Want To Believe” poster. The source image is a very large 5514×7000, so if you are interested in printing it out and making your own poster, I think that should have you covered.

Remember Planters Potato Chips?

Posted on February 9, 2012 by The Retroist

I seem to recall eating these at some point in my life even though my family was usually a strict Pringles household. They tasted pretty good and I especially enjoyed the ones with ridges. I have no idea why the ridged canned chip never caught on, the plain ones are fine, but ridged is the express train to flavor town. Where was I? Oh yeah, Planters Chips.

So I was looking for info on the chip and the web is actually pretty void of details. Even the Wikipedia page fails to mention them. Conspiracy? Perhaps? It could just be that these chips were too delicious. After all, when you polled Nuns. Nuns! They overwhelmingly chose the Planters over that other canned chip. They even compare them to the potatoes they got back in Ireland (sigh).