Episode 95 - 1995 and MerrittK
Oct 14, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 94
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Episode description
Trav and Alex are joined by MerrittK! We talk about her upcoming coffee table book about LAN parties, jump head-first into 1995, and answer a few emails about 80's baseball. Follow MerrittK on twitter @MerrittK
- Sports
- How bout dem Cowboys again
- Nebraska puts up a 60-burger over Flahr-duh
- Atlanta Braves over Cleveland Indians
- Jordan returns from baseball
- Houston Rockets sweep Orlando
- Devils over Red Wings
- Gaming
- Super Nintendo
- Killer Instinct
- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest
- Mega Man X2
- Breath of Fire 2
- Final Fight 3
- ChronoTrigger
- Earthbound
- Genesis (best selling console in NA that year)
- Phantasy Star IV
- Crusader of Centy
- Beyond Oasis
- Alien Soldier
- Gargoyles
- Virtual Boy released
- PlayStation
- Rayman
- Ridge Racer
- Tekken
- Twisted Metal
- Sega Saturn (release was moved way up because of PS’s release, no Sonic title)
- Panzer Dragoon
- Daytona USA
- Virtua Fighter and Virtua Fighter 2
- Ask for emails about games released in other parts of the world
- Super Nintendo
- Music
- Smashing Pumpkins, “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”
- Radiohead, “The Bends”
- 2pac, “Me Against the World”
- Silverchair, “Frogstomp”
- White Zombie, “Astrocreep 2000”
- Songs
- Los del Rio - Macarena
- Coolio - Gangsta’s Paradise
- TLC - Waterfalls & Creep
- Seal - Kiss from a rose
- Montell Jordan - This is how we do it
- Collective Soul - December
- Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
- Jewel
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Elastica
- Movies
- GoldenEye
- Braveheart
- Babe
- Batman Forever
- Toy Story
- Waterworld
- Heat
- Casper
- Judge Dredd
- Congo
- Billy Madison
- Apollo 13
- World events
- OJ Simpson not guilty
- Oklahoma City bombing
- Most popular TV shows
- The Critic
- The Drew Carey Show
- ER
- Teen “cool” food and beverage trends of the year
- Starbucks Frappuccino debut
- Best Selling Books
- Amazon sold its first book, Douglas Hofstadter’s “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought”
- John Grisham - The Rainmaker
- Toys
- Find links for all things network related here: https://linktr.ee/polymedianetwork
- Find Travis on BlueSky
- Find Alex on BlueSky
- Send us an email drunkfriendpodcast@gmail.com
- Visit our Subreddit reddit.com/r/polymedia
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