Namco Museum Volume 2 (“A”) (Playstation import)

Namco Museum Volume 2Namco releases the arcade compilation Namco Museum Volume 2 for the Sony Playstation, including the ’80s arcade hits Gaplus, Mappy, and Xevious. (This is the Japanese release; the same title will be released in North America later in the year, with a slightly different lineup of games.) Read more

The Outer Limits: First Anniversary

The Outer LimitsPremium cable channel Showtime airs the 28th episode of The Outer Limits, a revival of Leslie Stevens’ 1960s science fiction anthology series. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom), Jayne Heitmeyer (Earth: Final Conflict), Clint Howard (Space Rangers) and Steve Bacic (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest star.

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NEAR launched

NEARThe NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) unmanned spacecraft, built and flown for NASA by John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab, lifts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to orbit and study asteroid 433 Eros, a target it won’t reach until 1998 at the earliest; it will fly by another asteroid in 1997. Other trajectories under consideration during mission planning included a combination of several asteroids and comets, before the limitations of NEAR’s chemical propulsion system forced those plans to be scaled back. (A more ambitious multi-asteroid mission, Dawn, will be launched in the 21st century.) NEAR will become the first human-made spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

TekWar: Betrayal

TekWarThe 18th episode of the sci-fi crime series TekWar, based on William Shatner’s novel series, airs as part of the Universal Action Pack syndication package. One of Shatner’s daughter, Melanie Shatner (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier), guest stars in a script written by her sister, Lisabeth Shatner, who had also written an episode of Shatner’s 1980s cop show T.J. Hooker. This is the final episode of TekWar to be produced and aired.

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Xena: Warrior Princess: The Royal Couple Of Thieves

XenaThe week-long national syndication window opens for the 17th episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Bruce Campbell guest stars as Autolycus, a character originated earlier in the season on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Read more