1980: Empire Strikes Back, Pac-Man, ad Superman II

History of Awesome is an epic 38-part trip
down memory lane - each episode we're covering a new year's most
important, influential, or just-plain-awesome movies, games, TV
shows, comics, and more.


Up today is 1980. Empire Strikes Back took us
back to a galaxy far, far away. Meanwhile Superman II proved the
superhero genre wasn't a fluke, Pac-Man further cemented the
world's arcade fever, and Zork showed us a different kind of
video game.


Other discussion topics include Airplane!, Friday the 13th, The
Shining, the Rubix Cube, and more.