I just want the next season on Disney+ already

How ON EARTH does this list not include All Dogs Go To Heaven? There are SO many terrifying parts of that movie. I never found Secret of NIMH scary, but All Dogs was pure nightmare fuel.

Mine would be a Disney movie from 1959; Darby O’Gill and the Little People. I had nightmares about that banshee for weeks!

You had “rises above the rest” RIGHT THERE.

In a world of truly terrible video game titles, one game aspires to stand above the rest!

I enjoyed the first one as entertaining, if not incredibly well-written. I'm disappointed to hear this is basically the same thing, but I think saying that the nostalgia this book had doesn't exist in 2020 is a crazy statement. 

Wow i09 is trashing RPO. Again. Talk about unoriginality.

it’s hard to imagine a statement more wrong than this one.  are you sure you’re not mixing up the two?

One bit of interesting trivia that I found while doing research on these games is that Doki Doki Panic actually did start off development as a Mario game. So, even before they put in the Fuji TV characters for their Dream Factory ‘87 event, it had Mario DNA at the heart of it. Shigeru Miyamoto even had them include…

Konami developed the Castlevania games, not Nintendo.

It’s still one of the most amazing stories in gaming history that Nintendo scraps a true SMB2 for being fanhack difficult, redresses a different game, and THAT game also happens to become a stone-cold gaming classic of its own right. They just had all the golden horseshoes.

This also harkens back to the day when Nintendo figured fans didn’t want more of the same for a sequel, so they completely changed the formula. (Zelda II’s side scrolling and RPG elements, Castlevania II’s proto-Metroidvania approach, etc.)

Ready Player One: New Game+

I had to roll my eyes and think “Just answer the question, nobody said morality wasn’t a construct. You know what they mean.”

Star Wars was so out of left field that I don’t think Hollywood knew how to respond to it. (Nor did they anticipate it. In 1977, Fox assumed that its big summer blockbuster was going to be The Other Side of Midnight, a soapy melodrama based on a Sidney Sheldon potboiler.) It was a space fantasy made by a fairly young…

Full disclosure - I will always love ST: TMP for being a genuine and ambitious attempt at a truly science fiction story, rather than the space drama serial it was up to that point.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture feels less like a response to Star Wars than the last of the big “roadshow” type productions that were big in the ‘60s and ‘70s — and which director Robert Wise directed several of, including The Sound of Music and Star!. Like The Black Hole, which came out the same month, it has an…