"Retro" Blogs & Blog Posts

The Xbox 360’s online store is closing down at the end of July. But before it goes, several dozen games… Continue reading Xbox 360 sale brings back a lot of great memories at a deep discount The post Xbox 360 sale brings back a lot of great m...

Lego's Retro Radio is a 906-piece beauty in teal, tan and off-white, complete with bakelite-style knobs and an antenna. It has a speaker but isn't a real radio. It can pretend to be one, sort of, by housing a smartphone or playing back its built-in r...

The pinball revival is well under way. There's a Labyrinth pinball machine, a Pulp Fiction one, and now Ars Technica's Aurich Lawson reviews the latest: a John Wick pinball machine inspired by the Keanu Reeves interpretive dance franchise. First off...

Fatih Arslan reports from the annual Braun Börse, a collector's fair held May 4 at the company's headquarters in Kronberg, Germany, "the perfect place for any Braun or Dieter Rams enthusiasts." This is my first visit to the Braun Börse fair. ...

The Electronic Software Ratings Board, which is the video games rating authority in North America, has just given an E-for-Everyone… Continue reading Nintendo’s rarest game ever just got an ESRB rating The post Nintendo’s rarest gam...

You've seen motorized skates from 1952. How about motorized skates from 1962? This British Pathé film depicts inventor Tom Hancocks of Buckinghamshire and the wonderful ambulatory menace he created. I had to double check the British Pathé channel l...

Twenty-five years after Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness launched for Nintendo 64, someone has discovered a new Konami code lurking within… Continue reading Konami code found in Castlevania N64 game 25 years after release The post Konami code fo...