May 2008
Lego: Indianna Jones - The Original Adventures
First came the classic Lego: Star Wars, now things just got better.
[ more... ]USB Whack It
Bring classic mole-whacking arcade gaming to your desktop with this leading contender for daftest USB-powered peripheral ever.
[ more... ]Zvg Vector Arcade Interface
Asteroids, Tempest, Lunar Lander, Battlezone and of course Star Wars are some of the most memorable arcade games from the 1980s, but they are also some of the hardest to emulate with modern raster-scan monitors because they used vector graphics (all straight lines, dots and gloriously futuristic images).
[ more... ]Dukes of Hazzard T-Shirts
Some quality T-Shirts featuring the good ol'd boys!
[ more... ]Mobile Phones - The Journey so Far...
The video below shows cellphones (that's mobile phones to you and me!), from 1985 through to today morphing into one another in chronological order. It's interesting to see how little the basic design of the things has changed.
[ more... ]Win A Camper Van - The Who's Magic Bus
The Who - in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust - is currently running a competition to win The Who's Magic Bus - and it is a real bus, an original, customised Volkswagen T1 panel van from 1965.
[ more... ]Arcade Mania - Upright Arcade Machine
Remember those days spent/wasted in dimly lit arcades stuffing 10 pences into the latest arcade machines?! Now you can have one at home!
[ more... ]The Dukes of Hazzard
Set in the south Hazzard County, cousins Bo and Luke Duke spent their days racing 'The General Lee' (a 1969 orange Dodge Charger) through county back roads, fighting the system, finding a way to foil and outwit corrupt county chief Boss Hogg and his dimwitted Police Department, and climbing into cars through the window!
[ more... ]Retro iPod Alarm Clock
It's a clock. It's a dock. It works superbly, irrespective of your taste in music.
[ more... ]Wattoo Wattoo - Superbird
There were some odd cartoons when we we're growing up and this might be one of the oddest. A French cartoon featuring Wattoo Wattoo (a Super Bird-Fish from the planet Auguste) and his attempts to teach ecological lessons to the Earth-dwelling Zwas (Fat, cigar smoking geese-type creatures).
[ more... ]Fisher-Price Retro Classics
Stop reminiscing about the charming nursery toys of yesteryear and treat little ones to these re-issued classics.
If you're old enough to remember the carefree days of Play Away, Trumpton, Johnny Ball, Derek Griffiths, Pipkins and looking through the arched window, you'll know that once upon a time, Fisher-Price ruled the world. Well they did in terms of making charming pre-school toys.
Eurovision
It's that time of year again when representatives of countries in Europe and beyond don their spangly outfits, get their dancing shoes on and gear up to sing their hearts out.
[ more... ]Battle of the Planets
Five orphans with a spacecraft battle a lipsticked maniac from the Crab Nebula and his unlikely big flying robots. No one gets hurt. Well nobody gets hurt in the American version that we watched as kids.
[ more... ]Remote Control General Lee
More impressive than Daisy's hotpants and Rosco's cackle combined, this here R/C version of the General Lee features those famous Dixie horns plus 'Yee-haa!' sound FX!
[ more... ]Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Andy Baio at Waxy.org, found himself in possession of a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989.
He describes it as a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company
, and in amongst the the archives are details of Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the unreleased sequel to Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Save Ferris T-Shirt
This black retro Ferris Bueller T-Shirt features a slogan style print which reads that classic line..... 'Save Ferris.'
[ more... ]Battle of the Planets: Introduction
Introduction to Battle of the Planets (G-force)
[ more... ]TV Cream's Toys: Presents You Pestered Your Parents for
Do you remember tearing down the stairs at five in the morning, in wide-eyed anticipation of the mountain of wrapped boxes under the Woolies' fireproof silver tinsel tree? Do you remember the sense of disappointment when what you'd asked for wasn't among them?
[ more... ]The Flumps Intro
The opening titles for the Flumps classic UK kids programme.
[ more... ]Sesame Street Plush Toys
This page is brought to you by the letters C, U, T and E !
[ more... ]USB Volkswagen Van Memory Stick
Pack up and go with our USB Volkswagen Van Memory Stick!
[ more... ]Stoke City in the Premier League!
What better time to look at some classic retro football shirts from my favourite club.
[ more... ]Classic Kids Hits From School Disco
6 fantastic episodes from these much loved kids TV series:
[ more... ]Jamie and the Magic Torch
The ghost of spiny mountain.
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