The Grand Emperor's Retro Video Gaming Blog

When it’s not Friday a.k.a. Delving into the Insomniacs Abyss For NBC the territory of 12:35 to 1:05 AM is somewhat unchallenged territory. Of course as previously mentioned this was once the home to Friday Night Videos on Fridays, but on Monday through Thursday nights NBC has always tried to have something holding the spot. Since 2002 this spot has been held by Last Call with Carson Daly , a low key show featuring short interviews, and music segments. Years before Last Call though between 1988 and 1994 the spot was held by longtime NBC sports announcer Bob Costas and simply called Later. For me Later holds some special memories as well. Back beyond the whole Jay Leno, David Letterman thing in 1991 I remember staying up late on summer nights to watch Carson, Letterman, and Costas in succession on NBC. For me one of the best memories I have of this show was when Costas interviewed Mel Brooks over four nights before the release of Life Stinks . Obviously I knew the who...

I'm aware its been sometime since I wrote something for my Trekking series. It's not that I had fallen out of love for the idea or that my Trek phase had ended, but more or less I just haven't had the time to write much of anything lately. With that said though I am back for this interim and plan on trying to cover at least a few more games. This time I am going to cover one of the most popular franchises within the franchise, if that makes sense. That is of course the Starfleet Command  franchise by 14° East, and Interplay Entertainment. Of course I'm mainly going to cover the first game in the series today simply Starfleet Command , although the series did have an add-on for the original game Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates , plus two sequels Starfleet Command II: Empires at War , and Starfleet Command III . Starfleet Command was released in 1999 at a time when Deep Space 9 , and  Voyager where still on TV and the  TNG  movies where still arriving...

About two weeks ago my wife and I started out a Friday evening watching a repeat of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon , and ended up staying up long enough to finish Late Night with Seth Meyer , and briefly into Last Call with Carson Daly after that. I know it doesn't sound like much to lounge around on the couch and watch 2 ½ hours of TV, but on a Friday evening after a long week it's a major triumph for the parents of two, one of which is a toddler, to get that far. For me personally it's not always a huge deal to stay up that late on Fridays, after all my 8-bit Fridays articles are based on the fact that I do, sometimes. What is unusual though is for me not to turn on a video game, Netflix, or YouTube after Seth Meyers goes through his SNL type news intro at the beginning of his show. Don't get me wrong it's not that I don't like Seth Meyers or his show, but around Midnight I get the television to myself as my wife and eldest son usually go to bed. O...