If you’re craving a truly different sound with which to slay the crew this weekend, look no further than System Beeps, a new album by shiru8bit — though you may have to drag your old 486 out of storage to play it. Yes, this album runs in MS-DOS and its music is produced entirely through the PC speaker — you know, the one that can only beep.
View More Feel the beep: This album is played entirely on a PC motherboard speakerCategory: Retro
This extra-large handheld Nintendo works (and feels) like the real thing
Handheld retro gaming machines come and go, but few go so simply and effectively to the point as My Arcade’s Retro Champ. You stick in your NES cartridge, hit the power button, and assuming you blew on it beforehand, it powers up. This one sets itself apart with a big ol’ screen, Famicom compatibility, and a whopping 35-hour battery life.
View More This extra-large handheld Nintendo works (and feels) like the real thingZelda has a minus world
Listen, everyone. It’s not every day that a new fact comes to light regarding a game that came out more than 30 years ago. And I happen to love it when retro games get broken in fabulous and entertaining ways. So the news that The Legend of Zelda for NES has a minus world like Super Mario Bros and others hit me like like a freight train.
View More Zelda has a minus worldFine, we want the Windows Ugly Sweater
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I hate that I love it.
In a pun-filled tweet, the Windows Twitter account announced that it’s giving away a select amount of “ugly sweaters” adorned with the blocky Windows 95 logo.
It’s chunky. It’s knit. It’s filled with primary colors. It’s positively hideous! Despite all this, I still want the Windows sweater.
Introducing the latest #Windows95 custom “softwear.”😉 Wish you could rock the #WindowsUglySweater? 👀 your DMs, because we’re giving a few lucky fans one of their very ownpic.twitter.com/84kQLtYsF2
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Cassette decks from Crosley take aim at tape-hoarding nostalgia-seekers
Crosley, makers of the “good enough” record players you see in Urban Outfitters and Target, have turned their retro novelty eye on the next obvious format: cassettes. These two new decks from the company have all the latest features from 1985, but also a handful of modern conveniences.
View More Cassette decks from Crosley take aim at tape-hoarding nostalgia-seekersThese antique phones are precious, private Alexa vessels
Amazon’s Alexa may be in ten thousand different devices now, but they all have one other thing in common: they’re new. So for those of us that prefer old things but still want to be able to set timers and do metric-imperial conversions without pulling out our phones, Grain Design is retrofitting these fabulous old telephones to provide Alexa access with no other hints of modernity. There’s even a privacy angle!
View More These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vesselsRetro logos for modern internet companies
What would the internet look like in 1975? Can you picture scrolling through Instagram in 1984, or tweeting in 1991?
Graphic designer Future Punk reimagined sites like Reddit, Amazon, and SoundCloud as retro logos from the 1970s to the mid-…
Cult classic indie game La-Mulana finally gets a proper sequel
The sequel to the legendary, and legendarily difficult, indie sleeper hit La-Mulana has finally been released, and all gamers with a penchant for retro-style platforming and a broad masochistic streak are encouraged to descend into its depths.
View More Cult classic indie game La-Mulana finally gets a proper sequelArcade fame turns to infamy as Billy Mitchell’s record-setting Donkey Kong score is invalidated
The record-setting score that settled the Donkey Kong arcade rivalry, made famous by the documentary The King of Kong, has been invalidated by Twin Galaxies, the de facto arbiter of arcade world records. What’s more, Billy Mitchell, the occasionally controversial player who set the scores, has been permanently banned from consideration for future records.
View More Arcade fame turns to infamy as Billy Mitchell’s record-setting Donkey Kong score is invalidatedConserve the Sound is an archive of noises from old tape players, projectors, and other dying tech
All of us grew up around tech different from what we have today, and many of us look back on those devices with fondness. But can you recall the exact sound your first Casio keyboard made, or the cadence of a rotary phone’s clicks? Conserve the Sound aims to, well, conserve the sound of gadgets like these so that future generations will know what it sounded like to put a cartridge in the NES.
View More Conserve the Sound is an archive of noises from old tape players, projectors, and other dying techAll the greatest ’80s tech you can buy, ahead of ‘Ready Player One’
If you’ve seen any trailer for Ready Player One, or read Ernest Cline’s wildly popular book that serves as the flick’s inspiration, then you already know it’s chock full of nerdy references from the ’80s.
Ready Player One is pretty much the…
Skip-It is that highly addictive ’90s toy that forced you off the couch
If you grew up in the’80s or ’90s, you knew there was no joy quite like hopping up and down on one foot with a Skip-It.
Sounds a bit too active for today’s age of toys, but back in the day, Skip-Its peppered suburban neighborhoods and schoolyards ali…