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What to say about Anodyne 2: Return to Dust? In the modern world, we see huge corporations pour millions of dollars into making AAA games, and then when you get to play them, the game is garbage. But Anodyne 2: Return to Dust breaks the mold, it was made by just two people working on a...

Laconic: One of the most influential comic-based shows you've never heard of. Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a moderately popular version of the franchise that ran for eighty-eight episodes and four seasons from 1993 to 1997. In a strange twist, rather than focus on comic...

Laconic: Nintendo, the Cartoon Captain N was a Saturday Morning cartoon that ran from 1989 to 1991 and for 34 episodes. For most of its run it was part of a block along with a Super Mario Bros. 3 Cartoon, and later the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. The premise is fairly simple and explained...

Laconic: The most popular show on TV... somehow. Xena: Warrior Princess is a cult classic, target of a thousand parodies, launcher of a great many ships, and equally beloved and hated. It was praised for having a remarkably strong female protagonist before that was really a thing, and hated...

Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys Laconic: Another sci-fi show with animal characters, this one with an unusually good sense of humor. Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys debuted in 1996 and ran for a single season of 26 episodes. It's an action/comedy blend that worked surprisingly well...

So I'm most of the way through my "Cool stuff of the 80s and 90s" that I wanted to prioritize. I need to finish up the Transformers trilogy but Titans Return rather sapped my will to live and I'm not sure I can finish it now. Does anybody have suggestions for the next review?

Robotix Laconic: Awesome model kits, I wish we had toys like this today. Oh, wait, good news... Spelled with an "X" because that's how everything cool was spelled in the 80s. This was a toy franchise first, one that got a brief attempt at a show that, well, didn't make it, sadly. Because...

HISTERIA! This is seriously like one of a dozen or so intros they used. The show loved it's rotating intros. Quite a few episodes took the Saturday Night Live approach instead and had no intro. Laconic: Edutainment at it's finest. Histeria! (Yes, the exclamation point is part of the...

Laconic: A text editor that underwent significant mission creep. Gather round folks, to hear about one of the old, old legends of gaming. People talk sometimes about how a game has lasted abnormally long, DOOM is considered remarkable in that aspect, but ZZT is older. It was the first serious...

Gargoyles Laconic: Shakespeare, urban fantasy, and high tech combine into one of the best animated shows of all time. Ah, Gargoyles, the show that gets trotted out as an example of just how good western animation can get. Even decades after it's ending it still has a cult following. This...

Xyber 9: New Dawn Laconic: Good story, bad CG. Xyber 9: New Dawn was first run in 1999, but only ten episodes were aired before it was canceled. Later the remaining twelve were played by Disney Jetix in 2007, finishing the story that had long been delayed. The general theme of Xyber 9 is a...

Mummies Alive! Laconic: The last hurrah for 90s style action cartoons. Mummies Alive! (Yes, the exclamation point is part of the title) ran at the tail end of the 90s, being a urban fantasy action series. It ran for 42 episodes in one season. Sometime in the ancient past a young...

Sunless Sea Laconic: It's a very well written book pretending to be a game. Sunless Sea bills itself as a Victorian horror-themed roguelike game. You play the captain of a steam-powered ship travelling the Zee, a vast underground ocean filled with monsters, pirates, and eldritch gods. "Your...

Transformers: Rise of the Titans Laconic: Improved, a (very) slightly higher quality of Meh. Needs more Omega Supreme. This is the sequel to Combiner Wars. Actually it happens immediately after, as in minutes after the end of Combiner Wars. We open up with the combiners fixing the damage...

Transformers: Combiner Wars Laconic: It's pretty Meh. Combiner Wars is a Transformers series of 8 episodes of only five minutes long each. This means the entire thing is 40 minutes long and apparently, even with that much run time they had to add an awful lot of padding in the form of long...