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Howard Scott Warshaw Talks Atari & Yars 2

About This Episode GenXGrownUp sat down with legendary Atari developer, Howard Scott Warshaw, to discuss his book, Once Upon Atari, his history at Atari, details on the forthcoming Yars’ Revenge Sequel, and how he made the migration from engineer to therapist. See the Video Interview » youtu.be/fYrs7sLJxP8 ONCE UPON ATARI is an intimate view into […]

November 12, 2022

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Gift Guide for Geeks 2024

About This Episode Picking just the right holiday gift for the GenX nerd in your life can be challenging, but we’re here to help. Each year around this time we release our Geek Gift Guide. Once more this year, we run down some great gift ideas for the 2024 holidays, regardless of your budget! Discord […]

December 5, 2024

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Movie Rental Stores

About This Episode Remember walking down aisles of seemingly endless choices of movies? How about renting a movie based only on its cover and finding gems but more often terrible movies? Do you remember making mad dashes to the video store at 2am to avoid paying late fees? Join us as we talk about the […]

Jon

August 9, 2018

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Backtrack: Choose Your Own Adventure Books

About This Episode You are walking down a path and you see a dragon blocking your way. If you want to fight the dragon, turn to page 3. If you want to talk to the dragon, turn to page 4. If you want to throw rocks at the dragon…. well, you can’t. Why would anybody […]

Jon

April 2, 2020

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Bulletin Board Systems

About This Episode There was once a time when it took hours to download a file, when you had to find out from friends and magazines the numbers to the best… well.. let’s call them “sites,” and when your home phone (no mobile back then) was the same line that you used to access remote […]

Jon

December 27, 2018

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In Search Of…

About This Episode We dive into one of the most intriguing and mysterious television series of the late 1970s and early ’80, In Search Of… With its eerie narration and fascination with the unexplained, it explored everything from ancient mysteries to paranormal phenomena. We talk about how it came to be, why it captured so […]

September 11, 2025