In this episode:

• Stan Lee’s Rants on You Tube,
• Lou Ferrigno and Steven Seagal training a posse of criminals to guard schools,
• thoughts on Once Upon Atari,
• wacky Tod Frye and Atari’s lucrative game compensation package,
• Howard Scott Warshaw acting like Indiana Jones,
• Rick Maurer fitting 100+ variations of Space Invaders on one 2600 cartridge,
• Playstation 4 unveiling,
• MC Hammer gets arrested for unknown reasons,
• laptop computer sweater sock,
• Umberto of Naples, ventriloquist on 1990′s NJ Suburban Cable (video),
• our video game ideas from 25 years ago,
• lousy and obscure Atari computer games,
• was there really a Birdman’s Alley?,
• repairman purposely breaking an old console television,
• and Alec Baldwin vs. Shia LeBeouf.

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Thanks to Bob Budiansky, acclaimed comic book writer, editor, and artist, for joining us!

In this episode:

• confusion about Peter Cullen’s age on Wikipedia,
• the Star Wars Detours animated show from the Robot Chicken team,
• our interview with Bob Budiansky,
• his experience working with Hasbro,
• early expectations for the Transformers toy line,
• how Bob got involved with the comic book,
• rushing to develop the original 26 Transformers characters in 1983,
• limited coloring techniques in 1980s comics,
• “knocking out” background characters,
• the inspiration behind Bob’s Sleepwalker Marvel comic series,
• former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter,
• the anti-Super Man,
• work atmosphere at Marvel Comics,
• receiving a fan letter for Transformers from Stan Lee,
• getting to work with Stan Lee,
• Marvel Universe trading cards by Impel,
• Bob’s life after leaving Marvel,
• changes in the comic book industry,
• the overuse of comic book gimmicks in the early 1990s,
• Rob’s movie review of Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995) starring Richard Dreyfuss,
• the new musical chairs-themed game show Oh Sit!,
• Greg’s movie review of Underworld: Awakening (2012), starring Kate Beckinsale,
• Shia LaBeouf inspired to act by Steven Seagal,
• Nicolas Cage being sued for not returning rental DVDs,
• a stupid style redux (short-shorts with pockets hanging out),
• Tom Green’s stand-up comedy,
• a Transformers collector on Pawn Stars,
• and The Burn hosted by a disheveled Jeffrey Ross.

UPDATE!!! Greg actually ran into Bob Budiansky at the New York Comic Con!

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Talking video games with our NJ friends….
Joe Santulli, co-founder of Digital Press, Classic Gaming Expo, and the Video Game History Museum.
Frankie V, member of the Digital Press Podcast.

In this episode:

• celebrity deaths (Sally Ride, Leroy Neiman, Rodney King, Ernest Borgnine, Nora Ephron, Sherman Hemsley, and Sage Stallone),
• Steve Martin and Steven Seagal doing bad Italian accents,
• the lights turned out on Bruce Springsteen’s concert with Paul McCartney in London,
• High Score (2006) documentary (watch on Hulu),
• Missile Command,
• was The King of Kong (starring Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe) a fraud?,
• a YouTube video featuring accusations by video game record holder Dwayne Richard,
• former and current Donkey Kong champs Tim Sczerby and Hank Chien,
• the Twin Galaxies video game record board,
• would a dog raise a human baby?,
• What Ever Happened To? (Teri Hatcher, Lauren Graham, and Carlos Mencia),
• Gallagher does a GEICO commercial (video),
• Sugar Daddy and other bad hard candy,
• annoying door-to-door cable television salespeople,
• knowledgeable forum dslreports.com,
• Dolph Lundgren is actually a chemical engineer,
• Fred Willard may or may not have pulled a Pee-wee Herman,
• Rob invented dine-in movie theaters,
• poor presentation of a film at an AMC theater,
• interview with founder of Digital Press Videogames Joe Santulli,
• his decision to go from game collector to retailer,
• what does his wife think of his collecting?,
• Atari Airborne Avenger pinball wall art (photo),
• what you’ll find in the Digital Press store in Clifton, NJ,
• rare and unique items “in the wild” traded into the store,
• video game grading services,
• monthly NAVA (North Atlantic Videogame Aficionados) gatherings,
• the concept behind the Video Game History Museum,
• is the future of gaming fully downloadable content?,
• promoting the community aspect of gaming,
• our interview with Frankie V. of the Digital Press Video Game Podcast,
• gory horror arcade game Chiller by Exidy,
• Atari Lynx,
• great Lynx games like Electrocop,
• is Sony’s PlayStation Vita this generation’s Lynx?,
• the open platform game system Ouya,
• a return to hobby-developed gaming like in the 1980s,
• Android and iOS gaming vs. traditional portable consoles,
• and “crowdsourcing” via Kickstarter.

Visit dpvideogames.com for more information on the Digital Press store and the audio/video podcasts!

Pictures taken during the July 28, 2012, NAVA gathering at Digital Press in Clifton, NJ:
Flickr – Digital Press in Clifton, NJ 7/28/2012

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In this episode:

• a Paunch Stevenson Show update: Mel Blanc’s voice was definitely used in Daffy’s Rhapsody,
• thoughts on New Girl and college cuisine from new Paunch fan Steve Rugel,
• calling the Diarrhea Doctor,
• the Beatles kids band, with James McCartney, Sean Lennon, Dhani Harrison, and Jason Starr,
• new Paunch fans Adam and his son Nate impersonating Stan Lee,
• spacemandavid’s “comment” marathon,
• Penn Jillette fired on The Celebrity Apprentice,
• Arrested Development returning in 2013 with new episodes on Netflix,
• our review of Horrible Bosses (2011), starring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day,
• Chris Diamantopoulos, the new Moe Howard,
• “I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining,” a live action episode of South Park,
• Steven Seagal brings cheaply produced former Soviet bloc action movies to Reelz Channel in True Justice,
• animated interpretation of The Kid From Brooklyn (link),
• Tupac Shakur hologram,
• Pepper’s ghost illusion,
• Rob’s dorky Looney Tunes t-shirt collection in the 1990s,
• What Ever Happened To? (Calista Flockhart),
• Liverpool, England obsessed with Donny Osmond,
• Axl Rose too out of shape to sing,
• wild turkeys running loose in New Jersey,
• What Ever Happened To? (our interest in the International Federation of Competitive Eating),
• blame for high gasoline prices,
• the other MTV Julie Brown on YouTube,
• the Paunch luck: 92Y Tribeca screening, Q&A with Chris Elliott sold out,
• Bobcat Goldthwait,
• the fantastic website Pica-pic.com that lets you play 1980s hand-held LCD games,
• the free application Joy2Key that maps keyboard keys to a computer joystick,
• celebrity deaths (Dick Clark, Jonathan Frid, and Levon Helm),
• Howard Stern as the newest judge on the TV competition show America’s Got Talent,
• and one of Greg’s favorite musical groups The Band.

Rob wearing one of his infamous Looney Tunes t-shirts in 1994…

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In this episode:

• Rob’s upgrade to Windows 7,
• April Fools’ Day gag involving the Bio Force Ape prototype NES game,
• homebrew Bio Force Ape programmer foiled,
• Sega developed the Microsoft Xbox?,
• the video game prototype scene,
• the Angry Video Game Nerd’s future,
• movies that kill franchises (The Jerky Boys: The Movie, Big Top Pee-wee, etc.),
• Pee-wee Herman on Saturday Night Live (video),
• the upcoming third Bill and Ted movie starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter,
• Nicolas Cage arrested in New Orleans while busting into houses and screaming in the street,
• the upcoming cartoon series The Governator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,
• the Fake Stan Lee meets the Real Stan Lee,
• and Ted Danson’s lack of podium microphone skills.

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