retro

Fallout’s Apocalyptic New Trailer Brings Retro Wasteland Weirdness

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Screenshot: Prime Video Amazon’s new Fallout show is the latest in the companies’ big, splashy adaptation plans—and it really wants you to know it’s taking the retro aesthetic and charm of the classic video game series to heart, beneath its pulsing, murkily irradiated post-apocalypse. Making the Freddy Fazbear Pizza Band Come to Life for Five … Read more

Azio’s Retro Classic Keyboard Looks as Nice as It Is to Type On

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The RC Prestige mechanical keyboard from Azio has a bit of a steampunk vibe. Its backlit half-height keycaps — rounded squares with brushed silver edges — float above the faceplate and look like old-fashioned typewriter keys. The ebony version I tested has a black-stained wood faceplate; an ivory version swaps wood for white leather. The … Read more

The Phantom Menace Goes All the Way Retro In These New Star Wars Toys

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Image: Hasbro Retro toys are a funny thing. When The Phantom Menace hit theaters, it did so alongside the firepower of a fully armed and operational action figure line that represented a huge generational leap from the Star Wars toys that changed the movie industry two decades prior. And yet now in the present, nearly … Read more

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Retro Review: Freddy’s Ahead of Time

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The year is 1994. I head to the theater, buy a ticket for Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m not ready for what happens next. The year is 2023. I flip over to Max, press play on Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m still not ready for what happens next. Spoilers of the Week | … Read more

Analogue’s Next Retro Console is a 4K Nintendo 64

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Image: Analogue On Monday, Analogue revealed that it will release a recreation of the Nintendo 64 console, the Analogue 3D, which will play cartridges like Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 4K. What Was Your First Experience with Super Mario Bros? | io9 Interview Analogue is a renowned retro console … Read more

The best price ever on Sharge’s transparent batteries and retro Mac chargers

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Ever heard of Sharge? The company is arguably just as responsible as Nothing for bringing transparent gadgets back — its see-through batteries swarmed social media and have inspired a wave of copycats. Less famously, it sells a kickass charger shaped like a classic Mac that offers 67 watts of USB-C PD charging across three ports … Read more

Patriotic Horror Satire Retro Assessment

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After your July 4 re-watch of Independence Day, your subsequent transfer needs to be to stream 1996’s different patriotically themed launch: Uncle Sam, a film so up-front about its intentions as a satirical horror comedy that its poster, a ghoulish parody of a military-recruiting advert, has the tag line “I Need You… Lifeless.” Spoilers of … Read more

Watch Pac-Man Get Chased by Ghosts on Lego’s New Retro Arcade Cupboard

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Following brick-built variations of the unique NES recreation console and the enduring Atari 2600, Lego has now recreated one of the vital in style arcade video games of all time with its new 2,650-piece 1980 Pac-Man arcade cupboard set. Due to some intelligent engineering, this set even finds Pac-Man getting chased across the display by … Read more