The version of Final Fantasy XIII at least some of you desperately want to play.
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Google Lets You ‘Breakout’ of Image Search with Retro Atari Easter Egg
Want a quick game of Atari’s Breakout played using Google Images?
SXSW Interactive Goes Retro: A Celebration of Analog at a Digital Fest
Techies show up to SXSW Interactive on the hunt for the next big gadget or app. But on the fest’s second day, digital was pushed aside during a celebration of the analog, the hand drawn and the physical
Pros and Cons of the Internet (as Taught to Students in 1996)
Last weekend, I was at my parents’ house in Connecticut for a family matter. As my sister went through some of the things in her childhood bedroom, she discovered a document from 1996, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet. This was apparently part of some high school handout packet; also included among the papers …
Pentax ‘Q’ Camera Sports Point-and-Shoot Size, DSLR Features
Camera company Pentax wants a space in your pocket, but it’s OK: you don’t need big pockets.
They’ve unveiled the Pentax Q, and they’re calling it the smallest, lightest interchangeable lens camera in the world.
And it’s true: the Q is small. It measures just four inches across and barely more than an inch deep. But there’s a lot …
Two Minute Video: Turn Your iPad into an ’80s Arcade Machine
I’ll show you how to build your own arcade cabinet for use with your iPad. Then when that doesn’t work, I’ll show you where to order one. Enjoy!
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The People Who Prefer Retro Tech
Digital is cheap, digital is easy, digital is everywhere. Perhaps that’s why some people are turning their backs on it.
UK newspaper The Observer ran an interesting feature a week or so ago, highlighting the experiences and emotions of a small group of people who’re deliberately denying themselves the benefits of modern technology, …
Video Evidence: They Predicted the iPad Way Back in 1994
“It may be difficult to conceptualize the idea of digital paper, but in fact, we believe that’s what’s going to happen,” says then Knight-Ridder director Roger Fidler in this eerily prescient video from way back in 1994. That’s over 16 years ago, in a world where Aol was still America Online and you had to use a screechy landline to sign …
Beige is Back: The Commodore 64 and its Amazing Keyboard Return
It’s back! The Commodore 64 computer you may fondly remember from your youth (assuming you were a youth back in the early 1980s) has returned from the place where old computers go to die, reborn as something that looks the same, but acts very different.
The outside is still deliciously two-tone brown, with huge clickety-clackety keys …
Let’s Go Retro: Best Computer Games from the ’80s
If you’re looking for a nostalgia fix, the 1980s made up the golden age of computer games.
Weekend Download: Grab 900 Gigabytes of GeoCities Sites
Remember GeoCities? Did you even notice it got shut down about a year ago? Yahoo bought GeoCities and took all the sites offline on October 27, 2009. For the uninformed, GeoCities was THE premiere place to get a free website a million years ago and all the websites looked like the worst MySpace page you’ve ever seen, times a …
Old Sierra Titles Heading to iPad
If you’re like me, your entire childhood basically consisted of King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gold Rush!, Hero’s Quest followed by Quest for Glory, Manhunter, The Colonel’s Bequest—you get the idea.
Did you know that you can play some of these games online at Sarien.net? It’s true. If you’re a Sierra fan and you haven’t …