Jul. 19th, 2009
The name change of the Sears Tower in Chicago brought on yet another bizarre piece of pop culture nostalgia.
Around the end of the 1980s the action figure craze and the laser tag craze met head on with the series Captain Power & The Soldiers of the Future. As a tie-in to the toys and the quasi-interactive TV series (written by future Babylon 5 emperor J. Michael Stracynski!), there was a trio of anime VHS videos produced by the studio that also made many of the cool shows of that era--A.I.C. Plus, ARTMIC (of Mospeada, Bubble Gum Crisis, and Gall Force fame) handled much of the design work, so the result nearly transcended its game roots.
In the second tape of the set, the heroes are forced to raid a landmark in the middle of a ruined Great Lakes city known as the "Tower of the Seer".
I guess if they made it today, it would be the "Tower of the Willies". I'm sure fans of It's Walky would get into that.
MISSION COMPLETE. CHECK YOUR POWER POINTS.
Around the end of the 1980s the action figure craze and the laser tag craze met head on with the series Captain Power & The Soldiers of the Future. As a tie-in to the toys and the quasi-interactive TV series (written by future Babylon 5 emperor J. Michael Stracynski!), there was a trio of anime VHS videos produced by the studio that also made many of the cool shows of that era--A.I.C. Plus, ARTMIC (of Mospeada, Bubble Gum Crisis, and Gall Force fame) handled much of the design work, so the result nearly transcended its game roots.
In the second tape of the set, the heroes are forced to raid a landmark in the middle of a ruined Great Lakes city known as the "Tower of the Seer".
I guess if they made it today, it would be the "Tower of the Willies". I'm sure fans of It's Walky would get into that.
MISSION COMPLETE. CHECK YOUR POWER POINTS.