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Canadian Couch-Sitters Darren and Robin talk about all the great movies, video games, comics, music and other stuff from the 80s that they loved as they grew up and that they still enjoy!
Update frequency:
every 37 days
Average audio length:
85 minutes
English
United States
29 episodes
since June 20, 2018
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Way back in the 1980s, before the internet was a "thing", Darren and Robin dreamed of connecting their Commodore 64s to other computers. Could we change our grades on the school computers? Could we play games against super intelligent military computers? And then we actually got our first modems! F…
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What boy growing up in the 1980s wasn't fascinated by Detectives? Certainly not our two hosts! Join Robin and Darren as they talk about all the Detective books, video games, TV shows and board games they enjoyed as kids growing up in the 1980s!
Darren and Robin share their memories of learning music at school and in private piano lessons, and eventually buying guitars and drums, recording equipment, and forming bands. Includes some terrible/awesome home recordings from the 1980s and early 1990s. -= Podcast cover art made with the use of A…
This time, Darren and Robin talk about our memories of Construction Set games and programs from Electronic Arts and other similar software that allowed us to create in addition to playing.
Join your friends, Robin and Darren as they talk about all the things that they love about Steve Lisberger and Disney's 1982 classic, TRON! If you don't know what we're talking about, you're listening to the wrong podcast.
Board games! Back when we were little kids, "let's play a board game" might be suggested when we claimed to be bored. But, as we grew up, we found a number of board games that really entertained us. And this was all pre-Catan. We also talk about a bunch of board game adjacent games that we played i…
Strap yourself into your Edgley Optica ultralight for 90 minutes of one of Robin's favourite movies ever! Slipstream is an oft-forgotten sci-fi movie from 1989 staring Star Wars' Mark Hamill, Aliens' Bill Paxton and Jurassic Park's Bob Peck. And if that doesn't get you wanting to watch it, Slipstre…
That big fat orange cat was a great source of entertainment and influence upon us as young kids at the beginning of the '80s. After a bit of a history lesson, listen to how Darren and Robin first discovered Garfield and collected the comics. They also had a few stuffed toys from the Garfield comics…
Collecting Comic Books! How we were introduced to comics and realized that we were collectors. We talk about buying the comics that everyone bought, and how we discovered the comics that we liked. How about the comic book stores in the neighbourhood? We go through it all!
Robin and Darren go on a full ramble about things that fascinated us as kids in the '80s. Naturally we're talking about home computers, but also, Space Shuttles, how-to-draw books, the paranormal, and awesome vehicles, like the A-Team Van, and Winnebegos!
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