Grandson: Grandpa, what were fantasy-adventure games like back when you were young? Way back in 1979?
Grandpa: Well, sonny, there was this one particular game on the Atari VCS called Adventure that was kind of like your own grandpappy but in video game form. Today we may show our age and may not look too impressive anymore but when we were young we were quite the catch. We also managed to sire a bunch of young ‘uns for better or worse (no offense to you sonny […]
We live in an age of instant gratification; the 21st century world waits for nothing.
If a sequel, tie in or teaser trailer isn’t released within a year of the original then you’ve missed the boat. Moviegoers had to wait three years before […]
A long time ago . . . in a galaxy far, far away . . .
For me, and many others, that ‘long time ago’ was a childhood defined by the exploits of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and their Guardians of the Galaxy style, dysfunctional group of androids […]
Despite a mixed critical reception for the culturally offensive ‘Temple of Doom’, audiences’ lapped up the experience of a third Indiana Jones movie. After a brief hiatus to focus on more serious fare in the form of The Colour Purple, Empire of the Sun […]
The beauty of coming up with a character who was originally conceived as James Bond without the gadgets is that you can treat him like Bond. As long as you can come up with a situation, a new location, some new characters and a new dilemma within which to place your hero […]
