My Summer Lair Chapter #222: How Do You Stop The Saturnians?
You may know Jeff Sinasac as a Nerdy Troy McClure…as an actor he has popped up in Season 4 of Killyjoys, Season 3 of Titans, Season 2 of The Boys and Code 8. Or you may know him as the writer and director of Red Spring an apocalypse pitting survivors against mutated vampires. Well now he’s back with another apocalypse this one is a video game!
Stop the Saturnians! is available on Steam as of February 18, 2022.
This is a classic style arcade video game…our My Summer Lair conversation references Missile Command, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Galaga, Centipedes and of course the classic never out of style: Atari 2600.
If you Die Humanity Dies…the pressure is on in this video game. Are you up to the challenge?
Check it out. It’s so fun to go back to a classic arcade style video game. Lemme know what your high score is or how many levels you successfully complete. Are you able to save humanity?
This text scene of exposition is over so let’s get into the conversation with Jeff and let’s learn how we can we Stop the Saturnians!
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Trump reopens a seemingly settled video-game debate
“Reminder as Trump is set to meet today with video game makers to discuss gun violence: “Roughly two decades of research has repeatedly failed to uncover any such link.”
I am surprised President Trump is going after video games…it totally doesn’t support the he’s a racist narrative when rap is an easy and far more effective target. He’d get way more support going after rappers: remember when Marilyn Manson was the Columbine culprit? That’s the standard M.O. for gun shootings…pick a type of media and throw em under the bus. It works too.
~ Sammy Younan (March 8, 2018)
149 | Reyan Ali (NBA Jam)
My Summer Lair Chapter #149: Do You Have Any NBA Jam Feelings?
Starting in 1984 you could buy Michael Jordan’s Nike shoes with the hope and the expectation that you could “Be like Mike.” You know how the song goes: “Sometimes I dream. That he is me. You’ve got to see that’s how I dream to be. I dream I move, I dream I groove. Like Mike.”
Following Jordan’s inspired example so many kids were on the basketball court game clock winding down everything is on the line…the season the championship and they’re forced to take the final dramatic shot.
And…of course, because many kids were not Michael Jordan the shot didn’t always go in: so many championships were lost on playgrounds. Even harder was trying to dunk like Jordan: dude had hang time but all I ever had was just…time. According to my uber cool Casio calculator watch. Ladies.
So the idea of Be like Mike while a fantastic marketing hook was not going to be a reality; even with sweet Air Jordan 1s.
Unless…I had a quarter. For a quarter an actual physical economic quarter not an NBA quarter I could play NBA Jam.
I could leap into the heavens and bring down an earth-shattering dunk. I could launch threes with smooth peanut butter ease; sometimes if I hit enough shots I’d start to heat up like Jiffy Pop. Vicious classic New York City Knicks defense I can elbow and push and shove my opponents. Eat hardwood!
This quarter was an investment in NBA fun. And so when I discovered Reyan Ali’s NBA Jam?his book on the classic arcade game from Boss Fight Books?I’m like yo I got feelings. I got experiences. So does he.
And we’re not alone! As you’ll hear his 4 year journey to document NBA Jam included talking to DJ Jazzy Jeff and Shaq and the developers and so much more. Like us, they have experience and feelings about NBA Jam.
I’m grateful he wrote this book so we could have this conversation.
Stress free pop culture tastefully harvested for your divine delight. Once a week a carefully curated edition of My Pal Sammy goes directly to your inbox. Sign up for my newsletter because the F in FOMO doesn’t stand for Fun.
149 | Reyan Ali (NBA Jam)
My Summer Lair Chapter #149: Do You Have Any NBA Jam Feelings?
Starting in 1984 you could buy Michael Jordan’s Nike shoes with the hope and the expectation that you could “Be like Mike.” You know how the song goes: “Sometimes I dream. That he is me. You’ve got to see that’s how I dream to be. I dream I move, I dream I groove. Like Mike.”
Following Jordan’s inspired example so many kids were on the basketball court game clock winding down everything is on the line…the season the championship and they’re forced to take the final dramatic shot.
And…of course, because many kids were not Michael Jordan the shot didn’t always go in: so many championships were lost on playgrounds. Even harder was trying to dunk like Jordan: dude had hang time but all I ever had was just…time. According to my uber cool Casio calculator watch. Ladies.
So the idea of Be like Mike while a fantastic marketing hook was not going to be a reality; even with sweet Air Jordan 1s.
Unless…I had a quarter. For a quarter an actual physical economic quarter not an NBA quarter I could play NBA Jam.
I could leap into the heavens and bring down an earth-shattering dunk. I could launch threes with smooth peanut butter ease; sometimes if I hit enough shots I’d start to heat up like Jiffy Pop. Vicious classic New York City Knicks defense I can elbow and push and shove my opponents. Eat hardwood!
This quarter was an investment in NBA fun. And so when I discovered Reyan Ali’s NBA Jam?his book on the classic arcade game from Boss Fight Books?I’m like yo I got feelings. I got experiences. So does he.
And we’re not alone! As you’ll hear his 4 year journey to document NBA Jam included talking to DJ Jazzy Jeff and Shaq and the developers and so much more. Like us, they have experience and feelings about NBA Jam.
I’m grateful he wrote this book so we could have this conversation.
