"Retro" Blogs & Blog Posts

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...

Map Happenings posted a retrospective of the Etak, the original in-car navigation computer from 1985. The simple and unambigious monochrome display looks great! Lacking GPS, the technical tricks it used to pinpoint the user's location, such as magnet...

A new mod is bringing the best of the fan-favorite Fallout 2, which first launched in 1998, to the latest… Continue reading New Fallout 4 mod revisits the best game in the series The post New Fallout 4 mod revisits the best game in the series a...

Emulators, long forbidden on the App Store unless baked in to a single app or game, may finally do what they're good for: downloading, storing and running retro games, apps and other software written for the emulated system. It comes after the Europe...

Picotron is a fantasy workstation from the creator of the Pico-8 fantasy console (previously at Boing Boing)—an intentionally simple, retro-styled game development environment with a stylishly limited palette, resolution and performance. It's ideal...

At the Replay Museum in Florida you can play more than 120 retro games and pinball machines. Admission includes free play on all the machines for as long as you want. This nostalgia-filled treasure trove of arcade machines began as a couple's private...

There was once a time when people thought it was a great idea to play with Asbestos Snow during the holidays. Despite being made from the incredibly dangerous mineral, Asbestos, this was a genuine and commonly used product in the early 20th century.