Anyway, here’s some stuff I found.

First up, this pretty cool RotJ folder, it’s blurred because they’re going fast.

This Pac-Man lp. You know it’s for kids because it’s from “Kid Stuff.” What’s with the mouse in suspenders?

In the picture, Ms. Pac-Man is showing the number of guys who are as special to her as Pac-Man.

All I remember about this game is that it was really boring.

Can it get any more retro?

Clearly they didn’t precede the wave of in-game tutorials.

What I’ll always think of as a text adventure.

Top Secret!

I can’t tell the number of times I must’ve looked at this and wished I had the same desk.

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I don’t think I got very far in this game. But I always wondered what that shadow was.

Armored Kangaroo

Oh man, an ale by the fire.

This is so Breaking Bad.

If you have the laserdisc…

This is what vinyl snobs live for.

I had a chance to look some boxes while I was home and found a few interesting items. I got the idea to do a “Retro Living” post about all kinds of things from the past. I just finished an epic drive so I’m kind of burning the candle at both ends here but I think I have enough material to make a few entries.

Mini-blog: I have to mention that we took a trip to the city to see some shit. Anyway, I thought I should share this picture.

look for future retro living

Also, I noticed that City of the Living Dead is now streaming on netflix.

Anyway, I was hoping to get your opinions about something. Do you think it’d be lame to travel to Japan as part of a tour group? I’m kind of in a transition period right now and I think I might want to go over the next few months. I’m not sure what level of language proficiency I could obtain in the time frame and I think that just in general going around alone would be kind of stupid. Any advice from the more well traveled?

Bloody Reunion: Honestly, I’m only reviewing this movie in the hope that I can convince one of you to watch it so that I can then ask your opinion of it. If only we had stayed one more night at the river!

Brief summary: a group of young adults visit their old grammar school teacher, Ms. Park, in the South Korean countryside. Things are understandably tense as it is shown how Ms. Park, bitter over the collapse of her family, routinely inflicted varying types of cruelty on her students. For some reason, though, she acts more or less oblivious to it all, even when confronted about it.

I kind of wished they had kept the name “To Sir, with Love” which I suspect is the literal translation of the Korean title. I love the blatant irony of it as well as the obvious gender mismatch. But really, the most curious thing about this movie is the twist. I’d say I’ve watched a fair amount of K-Horror, and almost every K-Horror has a twist, but I’ve never seen a twist that was this incoherent. It’s reason enough to watch.

i guess this is part of a whole disney series