One thing that all computers do in some form is store data, be it programs we install on them, or data we generate ourselves using these programs. This is, of course, by design – computers are tools to help us do work (or at least, that’s why they are made, whether or not we use […]
45 years ago today, on April 16th, 1972, Apollo 16, the penultimate mission of the Apollo Lunar Program, launched, carrying John Young, Ken Mattingly, and Charles Duke on a mission to land at Descartes Highlands and learn more about the geology of the lunar highlands, a part of the Moons lithograph that had not been […]
Memphis’s primary local newspaper, the Commercial Appeal, will no longer be printed here in Memphis, Tennessee, starting with the April 18th edition. This marks the first time since the Civil War that the paper hasn’t been printed in its home city. This means the end of jobs for 19 people who work at the production […]
Anti-Drug video games were a bit of a thing in the late 80’s and early 90’s, and here the Nerd takes a look at the unlicensed “classic” that is Wally Bear and the NO! Gang on NES.
I swear I’ve written 3 separate times about this subject, but this really does look to be it – the NES Classic Edition is over and done. That’s it. Game over. This last batch is the end. It’s been reported to IGN, and of course being shared via every gaming news outlet imaginable, that Nintendo […]
Windows Vista, the Microsoft operating system that everyone loved to hate, has finally died – it reached end-of-support status back on April 11th. This comes just a little over 10 years since the operating systems release. Now, this would be the part where every other blogger would talk about how terrible Vista was, and tear […]
Amazingly, I don’t have much to share today on Vostok 1. I covered most everything I could possibly need to cover on the mission last year, and, suffice it to say, there amazingly isn’t that much video or special content out there on this mission – at least, nothing I’m quite feeling like sharing at […]
Last year I covered the launch of STS-1, the first flight of the Space Shuttle Program, with a more in-depth article which you can find in the link below. Today, I thought it would be better to share just a fragment of that historic, albeit somewhat forgotten mission, by focusing on the launch of the […]
It’s time for another Game Players magazine Gametape, the circa 1990 video tape series that told you, well, quite a bit about how to best play many NES games. Corny as ever, this tape covers Ninja Gaiden (pronounced correctly, to boot!), Mega Man 2, Bad Dudes, Amagon, and lastly Air Wolf. The video skips some […]
The ill-fated Apollo 13 missions launched on this day, April 11th, 47 years ago today in the year 1970. The mission was famously portrayed in the 1995 film Apollo 13 which, while somewhat inaccurate on many elements, and slightly altered for the sake of drama, still told the story well enough for most people to […]
Home technology store chain HHGregg is closing all of its 220 stores after failing to find a buyer for the now-struggling company. It’s the usual case of a business going into the red financially and filing chapter 11 bankruptcy to try to liquidate all its assets, pay its debts, and maybe restructure and get back […]
In a nice bit of scammer news, a man by the name of Sagar Thakkar was arrested in Mumbai as the suspected leader of a ring of IRS phone scammers. I’ve covered a few of these scams before, where people are cold-called out of nowhere and told that they owe some extremely high amount in […]
It took long enough, but patience paid off – I got an NES Classic Edition. Oh, sure, it isn’t something many people are talking about anymore, but it’s still an item fetching high prices on eBay and Amazon, and since it isn’t in stores at all anymore, well, you’re hard pressed to get one if […]
Building your own computer is considered pretty much the standard these days in most computer enthusiast circles – dare to mention you use a store-bought desktop and even if you have done some damn fine upgrades, odds are someone is going to find some issue with it and try to give you hell for simply […]
This time the Nerd rips into a product placement disguised as a video game: McKids for the NES.