Failures Flops and Fiascos

MySpace

MySpace- a place for fails. 

Cleveland balloonfest fiasco

What goes up must come down. Even if it was 1.5 million balloons. 

BetaMax/Laser disc flop

There's a belly flop. There's also a betamax flop.
 
Williams, Nate (August 7, 2023) “The Real Reason Betamax Failed Spectacularly”. History Computer. Retrieved January 15, 2024. 
Williams, Nate (August 7, 2023) “The Real Reason LaserDisc Failed Spectacularly”. History Computer. Retrieved January 15, 2024. 
Weber, Jeff (January 4, 2021) “What is a Betamax (Beta) video cassette tape? Heirloom Cloud. Retrieved January 15, 2024.

The deflategate fiasco

This episode will deflate your confidence in humanity. 

The Yugo Car

Hint: Yu don't go. 
 
1. Kacher, Georg (2023, March 23) “What to Buy: 1986-1992 Yugo” Car and Driver. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
2. Furchgott, Roy (2021, June 15) “They Love the Car That People Love to Hate.” The New York Times. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
3. Phillips, John (2018, June 6) “Book Review: A Quick Look at the Yugo, the Worst Car in History” Car and Driver. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
4. Hawley, Dustin (2022, October 2) “A Quick History Of The Yugo” J.D. Power. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
5. Foster, Patrick R. (2020, March 2) “Yugo: How it went wrong” Old Cars Weekly. Retrieved December 25, 2023.

Hoverboards

"Yes, I'll take a hoverboard. Hold the hover, and add second degree burns on the side, thank you."

The Power Glove

The Power Glove? What was it and why? Tim and Jordan discuss this forgotten piece of gaming technology.

The night that disco failed

Disco was not stayin' alive on this baseball field. 
 
SOURCES:
Lapointe, Joe (July 4, 2009). “The Night Disco Went up in Smoke” The New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
Lynskey, Dorian (September 22, 2023). “The 1979 riot that ‘killed’ disco” BBC.Retrieved November 27, 2023.
Petridis, Alexis (July 19, 2019). “Disco Demolition: the night they tried to crush black music”The Guardian. Retrieved November 27, 2023.