Surveying the Gen X landscape and the origins of geek
Okay, those Big Bird and Yoda costumes are seriously creepy, and I don’t think they’re supposed to be.
The Wonder Woman mask with horse teeth and drug addict eyes is not very flattering, kids. And the “popular characters from Star Wars” are all the bad guys, naturally.
(Video sources: William Presley and tk421maul)
Brilliant. There’s a comics rack behind them. I can make out Ms. Marvel, The Defenders, and Star Wars.
(Photo via Lexibell Vintage Photos)
The first photo is from June, 1945, just after V-E Day. The second photo is from 1942, just after the U.S. entered WWII. Both images are from the Life photo archive.
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I never had a 2600, but I’m sure I played this game, because I remember how frustratingly hard it was.
Absolutely killer, and maybe the weirdest, scariest shit that’s ever been marketed to kids. Just listen to the first 2 or 3 minutes. This would never fly today. Some limp, quivering runt would start to cry and his manic, helicopter parents would sue everyone involved with the enterprise. End of fun for the rest of us.
I thought Peter’s voice sounded familiar. That’s Rene Auberjonois, a great character actor best known to geeks as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
(Image source: The Howard Hallis Dr. Strange Collection)
(Video source: Baroque Pop Radio)
2 Warps to Neptune 