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Giancarlo Esposito, killed at the arcade, in Stephen King's "Maximum Overdrive" (1986).

#giancarlo esposito #stephen king #maximum overdrive #80s

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Invented by Commodore 64 as their punk rock, female answer to the Super Mario Brothers, the Great Gianna Sisters were a little too on the nose when it came to their inspiration. When something truly groundbreaking comes out, there are a lot of identical imitators, because people think “well, that’s what all this looks like” (see the original Battlestar Galactica, made after Star Wars). No legal action was taken, however. That would be comparable to the first Western ever made suing the second. 

#retrogaming #commodore 64

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#kiss #70s #volkswagen

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Sbarro Autobau.

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Concept for a 1982 Lamborghini minivan. It had the engine of a Countach. 

#lamborghini #minivan

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#video games #retrogaming

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Travis Chapman’s painting of Bigfoot saving animals from a forest fire. 

#bigfoot #cryptid #sasquatch

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Clint Eastwood brings his kids to visit Kirk and Spock on the set of “Star Trek: the Motion Picture”

#star trek #tos #clint eastwood #william shatner #leonard nimoy

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#vectrex #vector graphics #80s #retrogaming

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An 18 year old Leonard Nimoy with Commando Cody in Republic’s “Zombies of the Stratosphere” (1952). At the time, Nimoy was a Boston native from a tough neighborhood who practiced boxing on his own time, and for that reason Nimoy’s early roles were as working class boxers and tough guy prizefighters. 

#leonard nimoy

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Captain Satan was a pulp hero who only lasted for 5 issues. He was very much like Phantom Detective, who was a bored rich guy, and all around classy gentleman, who fought crime for kicks. He was also like Doc Savage, particularly in the way he was the leader of a team of assistants. Captain Satan’s Satanic Crew, however, seemed to have a disposability equal to that of the Enterprise’s security officers, in that they tended to die to prove that the situation is serious. 

The author, William O’Sullivan, is interesting in that he is almost a complete and total question mark even to pulp historians, especially compared to how well documented, say, Walter Gibson or Clark Ashton Smith’s life has been. Very little about him is actually known, and we only have a handful of examples of aviation stories to go by elsewhere.

#Captain satan #pulp heroes

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Discovering an artist from the 1950s is still very much alive and still working, and even commenting on modern issues is a fascinating discovery.

Ramona Fradon, the artist most associated with Aquaman in the Silver Age.

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"BMX Bandits" (1984). An Ozploitation movie originally conceived as a modern update of Ealing Studios' boys adventure movies, on BMX bikes. It was Nicole Kidman's first movie.

#bmx bikes #80s #australia #ozploitation

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