The Shmups Forum Dead Pool

[BulletMagnet]

Loretta Swit, best known as "Hot Lips" Houlihan from M*A*S*H, age 87.

[BulletMagnet]

Two more TV-related obituaries:

Alf Clausen, former longtime composer for The Simpsons, age 87, of a brain disorder.

Johnathan Joss, voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, age 59 - apparently shot dead by a neighbor, possibly on account of his being gay.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Johnathan Joss

The details of the murder, if his husband's account is true, are exceptionally fucked up.

[GaijinPunch]

Happy Pride Month. WTF is wrong w/ people.

[BulletMagnet]

Sly Stone, age 82.

[GaijinPunch]

Sly Stone, age 82.

Maybe mention that's not Sylvester Stallone.

[BulletMagnet]

Maybe mention that's not Sylvester Stallone.

The one with the middle name "and the Family".

[vol.2]

Sly Stone, age 82.

Oh damn. One of the best. Coincidentally was talking about Sly and the Family Stone on Sunday with friends. We were having a discussion about R&B groups that were family members and they came up.

There's A Riot Goin On is firmly in my favorite albums of all time.

[KennyMan666]

Brian Wilson, frontman of The Beach Boys, has passed away at 82 years of age.

[vol.2]

Brian Wilson, frontman of The Beach Boys, has passed away at 82 years of age.

Aww crap. That one stings. I've been a Wilson watcher since I was a kid. He's genuinely one of those people who I sometimes thought about over the years, and it was a comfort to know he was still around, and that there might be some more music coming from him.

Solo Wilson track fromt 1988, Love and Mercy hits home right now.

[GaijinPunch]

Douglas McCarthy, front man of the band Nitzer Ebb, at age 58.

[Lord British]

Douglas McCarthy, front man of the band Nitzer Ebb, at age 58.

They were just touring with Ministry. Was he part of the tour?

[Sumez]

Way too early to leave us!
Nitzer Ebb were playing WGT last year when I was there, but he had to cancel due to health issues and someone else (no idea who) took over vocals duty. But without Douglas on vocals, that's just missing a massive part of what their music is. I've seen them live enough times anyway. But man, I had no idea the health issues were *that* severe

My only personal run-in with Douglas McCarthy was right when they made their comeback in.. 2007 or so? I was helping out the organizers of the local show and he was resting on top of my jacket, so I had to disturb him to get it. I rarely feel starstruck in the presence of EBM artists because of their relative obscurity, but this guy had a certain legendary aura to him. Very cool and friendly, though.

That's Gabi (DAF) and Douglas (Nitzer) out, and Front 242 just officially finally called it quits after decades of touring (they played a couple of new tracks though, so maybe they still have an album in them?).
But dammit, someone needs to protect Dirk Ivens.

[AGermanArtist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9cnNdz3rB4

[BIL]

Man WTF, I'm on hobby hiatus for a bit and this thread still connects like a fuckin Taito Homing Lazor.

Ah well, so it goes. Legend. Choose the Fast Beat / Choose the Hard Line / Build Choose Learn

My only personal run-in with Douglas McCarthy was right when they made their comeback in.. 2007 or so? I was helping out the organizers of the local show and he was resting on top of my jacket, so I had to disturb him to get it. I rarely feel starstruck in the presence of EBM artists because of their relative obscurity, but this guy had a certain legendary aura to him. Very cool and friendly, though.

So rad

[xEbb1993x]

Lalo Schifrin, best known for the Mission: Impossible theme, Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon, Bullitt, and Rush Hour.

[BryanM]

Well, this one hurts. Bill Moyers.

The man was basically the only leftist on TV after Phil Donahue was fired for being against the Iraq war. His episode with Chris Hedges on sacrifice zones was a major step in many people's journey from lib cattle to radicalized anarchist.

That, and the Slavery By Another Name documentary that reminds people that slavery 'with an extra step' is still legal here.

If you were a weirdo pervert who liked knowing things, PBS was your gateway drug into the abyss. Knowing things is horrible I 100% don't recommend it. As Internet Hippo always says, 'I'd give anything to go back to not being informed.'

Thanks for everything, Bill. You were one of the few people close to the levers of power that actually gave a shit about human life.

[vol.2]

If you were a weirdo pervert who liked knowing things, PBS was your gateway drug into the abyss. Knowing things is horrible I 100% don't recommend it. As Internet Hippo always says, 'I'd give anything to go back to not being informed.'

I'd rather die in tears than live with compartmentalization.

There's the journey that mankind has to take, and then there's the individual journeys that we must all take alone. If we can't see the former through, the least I can hold myself to is seeing to the later.

rip Bill Moyers, one of the very very best

[AGermanArtist]

Michael Madsen

[Sturmvogel Prime]

Jim Shooter, the editor who saved Marvel Comics and the Father of Transformers lore died of esophogeal cancer at 73.
https://www.seibertron.com/transmission ... way/48622/
https://www.imdb.com/fr-ca/news/ni65364 ... _=tt_nwr_2

'Till all are one.

[Mortificator]

RIP. '80s Marvel was peak Marvel.

[xEbb1993x]

Mark Snow, best known for composing the theme from
The X-Files.

[xEbb1993x]

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025 ... -qc-davies

PatmanQC, best known for those history of all those good video games, recently passed away. A damn shame too, because I loved his videos.

[vol.2]

PatmanQC, best known for those history of all those good video games, recently passed away. A damn shame too, because I loved his videos.

Ah. I never watched his stuff before. Checked out the QBert video and it was fun. I like how he incorporates old commercial footage into his videos, and he's a charming presenter.

Also pretty amazing that he did all of this after losing all of his hands and feet to a bad case of pneumonia. Very sad he passed, but I suppose he must have had tons of lingering health complications and stuff. That's a pretty intense thing to undergo.

[xEbb1993x]

He did look pretty old and frail, but I’m still pissed to hear about this.

[xEbb1993x]

https://sandlershandlings.substack.com/ ... 71?r=ab2ie

James Carter Cathcart also kicked it not too long ago. Another cancer victim. You guys know him as the voice of many Pokemon characters like James and Ash's rival Gary.

[Sturmvogel Prime]

Alan Hassenfeld, former CEO of Hasbro and the man who oversaw the birth of The Transformers passes away at 76.
https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/07/10/for ... -76-541686

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Alan Hassenfeld, former CEO of Hasbro and the man who oversaw the birth of The Transformers passes away at 76.
https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/07/10/for ... -76-541686

I recall heading on down to my local "Consumers" retail store back in late November of 1984 and inquired if they had any new Transformers to sell. The Consumers salesguy at the front desk said that they were completely sold out (which told me that they were the hottest "in thing" to get/buy that year).

I recall the seeing the Hasbro G1 Transformer of the Autobot "Air Guardian" of Jetfire (essentially a rebadgered Bandai 1/55th scale VF-1S with Super Valkyrie parts included but decked out in a red colored motif instead of the usual dark blue motif variant associated with the 1982 SDF Macross anime) back in 1985 brand new for $69.99 usd. The rare Hasbro TV commercial depicts Jetfire as the Bandai VF-1S Valkyrie as it should be in animated form but was later changed in overall appearance for the animated Transformers series due to Harmony Gold's airing of Robotech with it's VF-1 Valkyie based mecha in the USA back in April "Easter" holiday week of 1985 for it's initial American TV airwave debut with the special episode of "Codename: Robotech." It wasn't until 1986/1987 that Matchbox started selling Robotech toys & action figures to try to "cash-in" on the Robotech fad/craze going on at the time (which was a little "too late" to retail in regarding the American toy industry/business -- akin to how Kenner Toys finally starting selling Star Wars toys & action figures in June of 1978 well over a year after the initial debut of the Star Wars movie in May of 1977). Mattel ultimately passed up on the exclusive rights to manufacture the Star Wars toys & action figures as they made the bad business decision to dismiss SW as a possible sci-fi film flop at the time before the SW film debut.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Stevens]

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025 ... -qc-davies

PatmanQC, best known for those history of all those good video games, recently passed away. A damn shame too, because I loved his videos.

Aww man. That's a bummer. He had a good sense of humor.

[vol.2]

He did look pretty old and frail, but I’m still pissed to hear about this.

It's very sad, and he was still pretty young IMO.

However, in these situations, it can help me to understand the context of the situation. It doesn't make it less sad, but it's less shocking.