retro
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14 Christmas Gift Ideas for the Gamer in Your Life
From throwback controllers to mini arcade cabinets and Lego replicas, there are plenty of solid options for great gaming gift ideas this year.
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The Hacked Nintendo Game & Watch Now Plays Pokémon and Zelda Too
After successfully hacking Nintendo’s Game & Watch revival a day before the handheld was officially released, it didn’t lake long for Twitter user ‘stacksmashing’ to figure out how to get alternate games running on the device. They started with Doom, but have since succeeded in getting other retro classics like The Legend of Zelda, Super…
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Playing the Nintendo Switch With an Original 1977 Atari Joystick Is Extreme Devotion to Retro Gaming
Hand a modern controller to someone who hasn’t gamed since the days of the original Atari console and they’ll be immediately overwhelmed by its complexity. In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, controllers featured a joystick and a single button, and if you’re looking for the most authentic way to play retro games, you can…
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Get Lost In Old Home Movies of Races From The 1930s To The 1960s
While I wait out my government mandated quarantine, I’ve been digging through YouTube for old archival race footage to pass the time. There’s something about a nice, homemade film of history’s coolest cars that just eases my mind and makes me forget about the absolute disaster that is the world at this exact moment in…