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 1978. Halloween scared the pants off us all, Superman brought superheroes to the big screen, and Space Invaders gobbled up everyone's quarters.

Other discussion topics include Dawn of the Dead, Battlestar Galactica, The Stand, and the Speak and Spell.