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What Genesis "does", unfortunately, its successor could not. To commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the 32-Bit platform's official release, this retrospective covers the  lows and low blows of Sega's underrated console-The Sega Saturn. Just the Specs CPU2× Hitachi SH-2 (32-bit) RISC (28.6 MHz) Storage Internal RAM, cartridge GraphicsVDP1 & VDP2 video display processors Rolling Start Development of the Saturn began in 1992 and was designed with a new CPU from Japanese electronics company Hitachi. However, reports in early 1994 regarding the technical capabilities of Sony's upcoming PlayStation console had prompted Sega to include another video display processor (VDP) to improve the system's 2D performance as well as texture-mapping. The Saturn had a dual-CPU architecture and a total of eight processors. Its games are in CD-ROM format, with a game library containing several arcade ports like Daytona and Virtual Fighter along with some original titles such as...

As if this week couldn't get any worse, now there's news that iconic Horror legend Tony Todd has made the transition at the age of 69 from Cancer. While known for his appearances in 1996's The Rock,  Night of the Living Dead , it was 1992's Candyman that jumpstarted his career to prominence.  Based on a short story " The Forbidden" from Horror author Clive Barker, Candyman is a supernatural slasher with sociopolitical allegories. Todd plays as the titular ghost of a black-American artist who was murdered in the late 19th century for having a intimate relationship with the daughter of a wealthy white man and now has come back to reunite with Helen who happens to be his lovers descendant while slaughtering those who would repeat his name five times. Todd was also known for his signature baritone voice which was recently used in Sony's Spider-Man 2 where he portrayed the symbiotic Antihero Venom. Prior to that, he did voiceover work in Activision's Black ...

With Election day here, what would be more timely than looking into an episode from G I Joe that involves  a very controversial subject matter...politics! Originally aired 39 years ago, episode 30 from season one titled "Cobra's Candidate " the story begins with a Mayoral election with cand8date Ron Harper who is running on the promise to bring "Law and Order" to the urban city  presumably New York.   Harpers speeches are interrupted by a rowdy gang xausing panic in the streets, Colonel  Sharp assigns the Joe team to safeguard the election and restore order. But unbeknownst to our real American Heroes,  is that Harper works as an agent of Cobra who hired the provacutuers i.e. bad actors to stir shit so that the public will turn out in droves to support Cobras candidate.  Out of all Cobra's scheme, fixing elections is the more believable plan compared mass devices, a giant laser to paint Cobra Commander's face on the moon, or a weather controlling Canno...

1968 was a tumultuous year full of tragic events from political assassinations to protests and civil unrest, including the heartbreaking assassinations of presidential nominee Bobby Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, and The My Lai Massacre that was committed during the Vietnam War" these tragic events served as a nihilist companion to science fiction films with a horror undercurrent. Horror movies have been a staple genre within the film industry for decades, with filmmakers using various psychological elements to scare and thrill audiences. There were at least three classic science fiction films from 1968 that stood the test of time, for not only influential, but underneath two out of the three, at its core, were thinly disguised horror films, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Night of the Living Dead . These films had unique horror elements that set them apart from other horror movies of their era. First up, is 2001: A Space Odyssey. This classic...