Tag: NOSTALGIA

The Mario series is one of the most storied in video game history. Its lineage stretches from an arcade cabinet with two buttons and a joystick all the way to the wireless world of Wii. With all the sequels and spin-offs along the way, though, it can be tough for a gamer to keep track. Did 'Super Mario World' beget 'Super Mario RPG?' Just how many games featured Yoshi? Thankfully, some ...

Sure, the United States has reality-television talent competitions. It's all old hat material though -- some cute little girl with a seriously big voice or some guy who can bend his body at weird angles. Now, India on the other hand. That country knows how to really come up with some inventive stuff for television. A group of contestants on the show 'India's Got Talent' have recreated an entire ...

We've covered nostalgic tech before. Several times. We can't help it -- everyone love a little blast from the past once in a while. So when we saw yet another list of "forgotten" operating systems (this one from Silicon Alley Insider), we just had to bring it to your attention. The previous list (from Computer World) was populated with obscure operating systems (OS) from eras past, but all they ...

In a sure attempt to make us all feel prematurely old, BBC Magazine has announced that today is the 30th anniversary of the Sony Walkman. If that fact alone doesn't have you clamoring for the prune juice, freelance BBC writer and Scottish 13-year-old Scott Campbell's retro-review of the classic gadget surely will. BBC Magazine asked the Aberdeenshire student to carry the "cumbersome" gadget ...

Behold, worshipers at the altar of the keyboard! Since we've all lent our whole-hearted support to one particular operating system or gadget at some point, and since we're committed to promoting peace and understanding between rival tech factions, we pass on to you a canon of tech cults -- complete with a list of their practitioners' strange habits. The list, courtesy of the scribes of ...

Maybe it just shows what big dorks we are, but we were fascinated the whole way through Edge-Online's 'The Making Of: PlayStation' article. Some of you may be more than happy to accept that PlayStation exists and never give it any more thought. Others, however, might be interested to know some of the quirks and trivia surrounding the creation and launch of what would become one of the most ...

A truly puzzling alarm clock, the Cube Clock (which is available for $24) resembles a mixed-up Rubik's Cube, with an LED screen smack-dab in the middle. When it starts emitting a robotic, electronic alarm, all you have to do is twist the top of the cube to snooze. You can also set the display to show the current temperature (shown), current time, alarm time, or the day's date. Just don't ...

GeoCities (you know, that aging homepage hosting service that you only ever arrived at by accident) is getting ready to shut its doors. The pioneering service, which eventually sold out to Yahoo! and slowly slipped into complete irrelevance, became popular in the 90's during the early dot-com boom for allowing geeks to quickly and easily create their own basic Web sites. Yahoo! very quietly ...

Bill O'Reilly has more than cemented his position as a confrontational and effusive media pundit. He's even created his own nickname, the "T-Warrior," as he believes himself to be a "traditional" journalist along the lines of Walter Cronkite. In honor of that bastion of journalistic integrity, the T-Warrior, we bring you this video from his lighter, more whimsical days at 'Inside Edition.' The ...

If you're ever feeling nostalgic for the geeky halcyon days of the '70s and '80s, or if you're just looking for a good laugh, take a visit to DorkYearbook.com, where you can relive your cherished childhood memories of Atari and the awesome Apple II. If you're secure enough in your matured state of dorkdom, you can even post photos proving what a technically-versed dork you really were. We ...

Sure, you've all heard of Windows and Apple's OS X, and at least some of you are familiar with Linux, but those aren't the only operating systems out there. Many of you have probably never heard of NeXTStep, the operating system developed by Steve Jobs's company NeXT after he left Apple. NeXTStep eventually became the basis for OS X when Jobs was asked to rejoin the home of the Mac. NeXTStep was ...

Who doesn't love 'Pong?' Nobody, that's who. That's why we just had to tell you about the Pong Museum, a Web site dedicated to all things 'Pong.' The museum opened its virtual doors on January 27 to celebrate the 40th(ish) anniversary of 'Pong' and the Magnavox Odyssey (the first commercially available video game system). Along with a detailed history of the game and all of its various ...

What is it about 8-bit nostalgia that makes everything better? We didn't think it was possible to improve upon the classic hair-puller Jenga. But then again, we never thought to paint the blocks with pink girders and work in plastic Marios and a Donkey Kong. While you can play Donkey Kong Jenga just like the original, the real fun comes when you play the 'Donkey Kong' variation, which has you ...

It's one thing to craft a home theater that keeps guests coming back weekend after weekend, but it's another to create one that keeps them rolling (literally) in by the dozens. Kevin Van fulfilled what we can only imagine was a mid-20s fantasy by building his very own backyard theater, complete with an Epson 77c projector, homemade 6-foot retractable screen and 8 vintage drive-in speakers ...

Many of us have piles of cassettes laying around -- relics of days in which you expressed love by way of the mix tape and in which "stealing music" meant dubbing a friend's copy of 'Night Moves.' But, the rise of the digital revolution has relegated these magnetic mementos to storage bins under our beds. Sometimes, though, a little bit of nostalgia takes hold and listening to those old ...