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Jon Reddick is a well-credentialed nerd of the 80s, classic game fan, and technology geek. He merged those interests into the creation of GenXGrownUp: a weekly podcast and YouTube channel which explores and celebrates media, games, tech, toys, comics, and pop culture of yesterday and today through the eyes of Generation X'ers.
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Backtrack: Playing Outside

One, two, three…. NOT IT! How many times have you started an exhausting game of tag with those words? In this week’s GenXGrownUp Backtrack we remember playing outside. Sometimes because we wanted to and sometimes because our parents banned us from the house! We talk about playing in the dirt, playing alone and other uses […]
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Top 10 Box Office Flops of the 1990s

Mo returns with another edition of Movies You Probably Missed & he’s back on the low road again. Yeah, these might all be failed movies, but we loved these box office flops! Here is Mo’s list of his favorite Top 10 Box Office Bombs of the 1990s. Nightbreed » amzn.to/2wo2UF9 Hero » amzn.to/2BJ0rLj Mystery Men […]
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Happytime Murders, Galaxy Watch, & Dying Light

This week, we all admit to crying while watching a movie, George vehemently defends a TV show, Jon gives his feeling on using retro game ROMs and Mo finds a site that talks about the failed comic book heroes and villains! As usual, this is only a sampling of the discussions that take place in […]
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GenXGrownUp at Dragon Con 2018

If you’re in or around the Atlanta area this weekend, or better yet, are headed to the nerd mecca known worldwide as Dragon Con, we hope you’ll make time to visit with Jon, George, and Mo and participate in some of the events we have going on. GenXGrownUp has a full slate of activities we’re […]
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Time Grunts | Comic Sans Episode 20

We love comic books, especially indie comics! In this week’s round table comic book review we take a look at a book from Caliber Comics written by Evan K. Pozios and illustrated by Alex Sanchez & Patrick Parnell. Nazi fortunes appear bleaker by the day, but in the bowels of a mine, a terrible threat […]
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Galaga Arcade Classic RePlay

In 1981 Namco and Midway released Galaga! A sequel to 1979’s Galaxian, Galaga puts the player in control of a spacecraft shooting at enemy aliens arriving in formation who try to destroy, collide with, or capture the spaceship. Released on multiple platforms including Atari 2600, NES, SNES, and many more as well as modern versions […]
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