Computers Are Educational
What were the works we encountered as children that set us on the pop-cultural path we walk to this day? We begin a two-episode series on our individual childhood canon. Also, John McCoy would really like you to find a movie he remembers seeing as a kid.
Listen to this episode (1 hour, 26 minutes)
Show Notes
- Jean and Jason: Star Trek TOS
- John: The Fourth Tower of Inverness from ZBS
- Liz and Tony: LucasArts point-and-click adventures from the early ’90s
- Joe: Star Trek: TNG
- Jean: “The Time Machine”
- John: “I Am the Devil”
- Liz: Dune: The Videogame
- Joe: The THX VHS set of the original “Star Wars” films
- Tony: A Guide to the Star Wars Universe
- Jason: SSI Computer Baseball
Bring out your dead
- Jean: Batman (Adam West)
- John: Masterpiece Theater
- Liz: Sid Meier’s Civilization, Star Wars: KOTR
- Joe: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Tiny Toons, Freakazoid, Animaniacs
- Tony: Batman: The Animated Series, Magic: The Gathering, The Tripods series of books, D&D and TMNT RPGs
- Jason: Micronauts, James and the Giant Peach, The Science Fiction Book Club
