Join me, if you will, for a trip back to 1982. Disco was essentially dead, Pac Man was cutting edge, Kool and the Gang was actually considered to be cool, and ET was the all time highest grossing movie EVAR. Another sign of the times was that Atari had 80% of the market share, thus giving Atari free reign to do pretty much whatever they wanted, s...

You’d have to live under a rock not to know that games based off of movies just plain suck, and if you doubt me one bit then you can look no further than Total Recall. Let's look at it in contrast; you're a movie producer with an R-rated Sci-Fi thriller about to hit theaters. You want to merchandise it, but you can't make toys and action figu...