Tag: Retro
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Nanoarcade Is The World’s Smallest Arcade Machine
The Nanoarcade isn’t the first small arcade cabinet we’ve seen, with the iCade having been introduced to the market around 5 years ago. But unlike that device, the Nanoarcade doesn’t require the use of an iPad; it’s a standalone miniaturized gaming cabinet that measures 1/10th the size of a normal arcade. It’s able to play…
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Retro Gaming Still Kicking: RetroN 4 Multi-System Console Adds GBA, HDMI Capabilities
If you grew up gaming and have a bunch of cartridges lying around, you may very well want to relive some of their former glory now and then. You can either pop them into their respective consoles, or you can grab the latest iteration from Hyperkin, the RetroN 4. Like the previous generation machine, it…
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Shut Up and Take My Money: Floppy Disk Coffee Table
Remember those floppy disks from the yesteryears which only allowed you to store up to 1.44MB of data on each disk? That’s not enough space for an mp3 file containing a full song, let alone a single high-res image file. It just goes to show that data storage has truly come a long way since…
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Atari Paddle Earrings And Cufflinks
We’re suckers for retro gaming. We imagine we are because it reminds us of our childhood and lets us forget for a little bit that we’re aging old farts. Also, retro gaming rocks! There’s a purity and a focus on gameplay that isn’t always present when it’s possible to dazzle with graphics and effects. But…
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Pac-Man Table Is Retro Chic That Would Look Good In Your Living Room
When looking for design themes to deck your place out with, you can rarely go wrong with retro gaming. 8-bit characters, Space Invaders, Pong… everyone’s welcome, and especially Pac-Man. One Thanasis Mokas, a woodworker, feels the same way and he’s put his money where his mouth is by creating the above coffee table. While it’s…
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Retro Looking iPhone Cordless Handset
By David Ponce Sure to rejoice countless hipster households across New York City, only to be shunned by them a few weeks later for making this product too popular, the iPhone Cordless Handset does an excellent job of making your iDevice significantly less convenient. For the sake of reviving bygone memories and asserting your individuality,…
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Rack Up Some Faux Gaming Cred With These Retro NES Carts That Never Existed
By Andrew Liszewski The next time you get in a conversation where you’re trying to one-up your friends about your cred as a gamer, just drop the old “well I’ve been playing Dead Space since it was on the NES” line and declare your checkmate. Who cares if the game never actually had an 8-bit…
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Game Boy Dress Isn’t Limited To Just Hallowe’en Parties
By Andrew Liszewski While no where near as racy as the Game Boy print swimsuit we brought you a couple of months ago, this Game Boy dress will still provide loads of opportunity for double entendres and innuendo at any Hallowe’en party. “Press my buttons”, “insert a cartridge”, “where’s that Tetris piece I need?”, “up,…
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Space Invaders Playing Cards
By Andrew Liszewski Dear Art Lebedev, your Optimus Maximus keyboard may be light years beyond what I’m willing to spend on a set of QWERTYs, but your Space Invaders themed playing cards are a different story. They’re a perfect pop-culture mashup, complete with 8-bit graphics of said invaders from space, and an awesomely pixelated font.…
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Check Out This Best Buy Flyer From September, 1996
By Andrew Liszewski I’m sure 15 years from now we’ll be looking back at Best Buy flyers from 2011 and snickering at how crappy the electronics of today are. But that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable to do the same with this flyer from September, 1996. As a young’n I’m sure I stared at…