"Retro" Blogs & Blog Posts

Few words will put a catch in the throat of a Gen Xer like “Atari.” No matter how badly that… Continue reading Atari plans ‘expanded edition’ of its 50th anniversary anthology of 1980s console classics The post Atari plans ̵...

Tim Cain, the creator of Fallout, has provided fresh insight into the cancellation of the original Fallout 3 — the… Continue reading Fallout creator takes you inside the demise of the original Fallout 3 The post Fallout creator takes you insi...

Winamp was the just-works music-playing app of the late 1990s. Its perfect utilily facilitated the MP3 era, and the distinctive style of its interface became legendary in its own right. Now, nearly thirty years on, it's finally implemented in hardwar...

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. ...