Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For Pop Culture Ephemera
We found 10 episodes of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “80s”.
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Super Mario Bros. 3
May 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 25 mins
1980s, 8-bit, 80s, 8bit, chiptunes, gamer, gamers, games, gaming, mario, nes, nintendo, retro, retrogames, retrogaming, super mario brothers, videogame, videogamer, videogames
Super Mario Bros. 3 set the standard not only for Nintendo's flagship franchise, but it was a literal game changer. Comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) joins us to save the Mushroom Kingdom - yet again - from the nefarious clutches of Bowser and the Koopalings with a little help from flying racoon tails, frog suits, music boxes, and more.
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The Wizard
May 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 33 mins
1980s, 80s, fred savage, gamer, games, gaming, movies, nes, nintendo, power glove, rain man, retrogamer, retrogames, retrogaming, rilo kiley, super mario brothers, video games, videogaming
Part cross-country child road trip, part Nintendo commercial, The Wizard is a time capsule of 1980s nostalgia that holds up better than its corporately calculated premise would suggest. Players Jonathan Cardoso and Tania Newton don their power gloves to join us in retaking the road to Video Armageddon.
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Ghostbusters 2
March 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 43 mins
1980s, 80s, bill murray, comedy, dan ackroyd, ernie hudson, film, ghost, ghostbusters, ghosts, halloween, harold ramis, movie, movies, rick moranis, saturday night live, sigourney weaver, snl
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold. Ghostbusters 2 is a sequel that's anything but paint-by-numbers. We're gonna call superfans Dylan Gregory and Tania Newton to blow some positively-charged slime all over a film that keeps on lifting us higher and higher.
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RoboCop
February 19th, 2024 | 2 hrs 33 mins
1980s, 80s, action, detroit, dystopia, entertainment, film, horror, movies, paul veerhoven, peter weller, police, satire, scifi, veerhoven
Like RoboCop himself, beneath this film's flashy exterior lies turmoil and humanity. Guests comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) join us to investigate Paul Veerhoven's dystopian satire of dehumanization, but one that still manages to kick a lot of iron butt. I'd buy that for a dollar.
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Care Bears
December 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
1980s, 80s, animation, care bears, caring, cartoon, cartoons, child psychology, dic, empathy, entertainment, movies, television, toys, tv
You stare into the Care Bear and the Care Bear stares back at you. This week guest podcaster Jala Prendes (Jala-Chan's Place, Monster, Dear Monster, The Level) drops in from the clouds to help us revisit the Care Bears franchise and how its tender-hearted worldview taught a generation of children to be empathetic and also buy lots of toys.
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Batman (1989)
November 20th, 2023 | 2 hrs 14 mins
1980s, 80s, batman, comic, comic book, comic books, comics, dc, dc comics, film, gotham, gothic, horror, jack nicholson, joker, michael keaton, movies, superhero, tim burton
Tim Burton's fantastical vision of the Caped Crusader and his dark gothic expressionist world forever changed the superhero genre, and the way blockbusters are made. This episode writer/director of horror short film The Canyon Alex Sosin (@alexsosin4831) joins me to revisit our shared love of the summer of Batmania.
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Clue: The Movie
November 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 38 mins
1980s, 80s, board game, board games, cluedo, comedy, farce, game, games, murder, mystery, tim curry, whodunnit
The classic whodunnit game became a classic whodunnit comedy. Guests comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Ami Lief roll the dice and try to make a long story short as we try to solve the mystery of what makes this film so great. Hint, a lot of the credit goes to Tim Curry.
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Queen
September 25th, 2023 | 1 hr 49 mins
1970s, 1980s, 70s, 80s, bohemian rhapsody, classic rock, composition, freddy mercury, music, opera, queen, rock, rock and roll
Queen and its unfathomably talented lead singer Freddie Mercury declared they would rock you, and in so doing achieved music immortality. Guests Matt Storm aka Matt Stormageddon (the Fun & Games, Reignite, and Screen Snark Podcasts) and Dylan Ris (www.lostmoonradio.com) join us to compare lists of our top 10 Queen songs.
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MegaMan 2
August 28th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
1980s, 80s, capcom, captain n, chiptune, chiptunes, gamer, gaming, nes, nintendo, retrogaming, videogame, videogames, videogaming
MegaMan was released to little fanfare but its sequel put the Blue Bomber into the hall of fame. Boasting one of the greatest chiptune rock soundtracks of all time, tight controls, and the biggest whimsical anime robots the NES could muster, MegaMan 2 is a labor of love that has stood the test of time. Comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) joins us to revisit an all-time classic.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
August 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 57 mins
1980s, 80s, alan silvestri, animation, bob hoskins, cartoon, cartoons, christopher lloyd, disney, film, film noir, kathleen turner, mel blanc, movies, noir, robert zemeckis, warner bros, warner brothers
P-p-p-lease join our 35th anniversary retrospective on Robert Zemeckis' 1988 masterpiece with special guest Tarik Davis (@tarikrdavis) of the Amber Ruffin Show. This film still dazzles as it combines unparalleled live action and animation wizardry and a classic noir tale of persecuted toons that are anything but two-dimensional.