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I was floored when I saw this Space Invader chair. It comes in a nice array of colors and looks pretty comfortable on top of looking fantastically retro. Sure, it’s not a Space Invaders… love seat, but then again, having two of these colorful invaders in your pad would make
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May 25th, 2011 by: Range
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A simple little game featuring a bouncing green ball on a laboratory oscilloscope is commonly thought of as one of the first ever video games, if not the first.
Brookhaven Lab engineer Willy Higinbotham’s Tennis for Two was less a game and more a demo of manipulating a bouncing ball…
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December 14th, 2010 by: Technabob
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…and when I say original Apple-1, I mean it. Only about 200 of the first-gen Apple computer were ever built, and they have become extremely difficult to come by, with an estimated 50 left in circulation around the world.
It was announced today that Christie’s will be auctioning off one…
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November 11th, 2010 by: Technabob
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Can you imagine why a robot would need to yodel? I’ve got no idea because yodeling is fricking annoying in my book. Radio Man was featured in the April 1939 issue of Popular Science, and was the Slim Whitman of early android technology.
Radio Man was created by a Swiss…
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September 10th, 2010 by: Range
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Have you beaten Mega Man 10… yet? Celebrate that special day (or night, or late night, or early morning) by getting yourself a mint condition poster of the game, featuring painfully retro art. Seller teammastermarc says that the poster was originally distributed at the Nintendo World store and will never
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March 28th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias
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Game developer Freeverse announced Wednesday that they are currently working on an iPhone/iPod Touch action game based on last year’s hit comedy mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…. Freeverse, who have already made several iPhone games such as Flick Fishing and Big Bang Sudoki, promises “a rollicking action
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March 26th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

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These L and R keyboard cufflinks are perfect for reminding you which arm is which. FPS gamers might be more familiar with A and D though.…
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March 16th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias
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Remember those old Nintendo Game & Watch LCD games from back in the 1980s? Well if you’re a fan of these classic precursors to modern handheld games, you’ll be happy to hear they’re back! Only this time, they’re much, much smaller.
Thanks to a partnership between TakaraTomy A.R.T.S. and Nintendo,…
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February 19th, 2010 by: Technabob
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These Atari-themed shot glasses manage to combine two of my favorite pastimes addictions – one from my childhood (playing Battle Zone), and one from my adulthood (sipping shots of Pappy Van Winkel’s.)
The set of 6 shot glasses includes graphics from six retro Atari arcade games: Asteroids, Centipede…
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January 31st, 2010 by: Technabob
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So now that you’ve bought that brand new 60-inch 3D capable 1-inch thick LED/LCD television for your living room, what’s next? Looks like the guys at LG are going back to the future with their latest TV.
The retro-styled LG Serie 1 television doesn’t just look like an old set,…
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January 24th, 2010 by: Technabob
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