First Issue of Nintendo Power Magazine Hits Newsstands | Jul 1, 1988
In July of 1988, the July/August 1988 issue of Nintendo Power Magazine was published. Nintendo Power was a video game news and game tips magazine published by Nintendo of America. The publication was Nintendo’s official print magazine in North America. Nintendo Power was initially published monthly by Nintendo of America, then in December 2007, was ….
Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Television/Streaming Premiere | May 10, 1988
Mystery Science Theater 3000 takes place in the not-too-distant future, where Joel Robinson (played by show creator Joel Hodgson) is held captive by Dr. Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl) and TV’s Frank (Frank Conniff), forced to watch B-movies on the Satellite of Love with the help of his robot friends – Cambot, Gypsy, Tom Servo ….
Scarecrow Video First Opens its Doors in Seattle, Washington | Dec 8, 1988
Scarecrow Video opened in December of 1988, five years after Rebecca and George Latsios moved from Allentown, Pennsylvania to Seattle, Washington. George always had a fondness for movies and considered starting his own video store. In 1986, George rented out about 200 of his own personal tapes in the rear of Backtrack Records and Video. ….
