The Rubik’s cube has been updated to become the ultimate geek’s toy.  The Rubik’s TouchCube by Technosource seamlessly blends cutting edge technology with the world’s #1 puzzle to create the first completely electronic, solvable Rubik’s Cube. Featuring touch sensor technology on all 6 sides and lights in every square, slide the lights with a simple [...]

Nintendo ruled the ’80s — let’s get that fact out in the open right away. Yes, Atari had its moments (including a central role in the videogame crash of 1983), Sega was on the cusp of something great with the Genesis in 1989, and even NEC had a few rough gems with the fledgling TurboGrafx-16. [...]

From The Patriot Ledger:
Darth Vader, Batman, and Harry Potter are perennial favorites for trick-or-treaters. This year, however, nostalgia for the 1980s – that bygone age of leggings and big hair – will unleash an army of Material Girls and Gloved Ones on Halloween, according to costume store owners.
“We’re selling lots of headbands and bright colors [...]

If you were like me in the 80s,  you would wake up Sunday morning, grab the paper, and skip directly to the comic strips to get your Bloom County fix.  What predicament was Opus the penguin going to get himself into this time?  Did Bill the Cat win the election?  What scheme is Steve Dallas running?  [...]

These are strange times we live in. People my age grew up playing with 12-inch-tall versions of “G.I. Joe” characters, imagining wondrous adventures as we grew up in the ’80s. Now, Hollywood is bringing back “Transformers,” “Smurfs” and all the rest — and risking our beloved memories as they attempt to see if we’re still [...]

Now that Hollywood has plumbed every videogame out there and turned them into (mostly) bad movies, studios are scrambling to pick up…Atari 2600 games?
Four studios have been battling to land rights to the Atari classic “Asteroids,” in which (unlike every other Atari game at the time) you controlled a dot on the screen, and pressed [...]

Remember pouring tons of money into the Pac Man machine back in the 80s?  Now you can put your money into Pac Man all over again.  Nilesz.com is selling wallets made out of recycled Atari 2600 video game cartridges.
The description from their website:
“Wallets are repurposed from 100% original Atari 2600 games, selected for their high quality [...]

What a way to turn 28!
Jessica Alba brought in a new year Sunday with an ’80s theme party, complete with tunes from Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna, and games of Connect Four and Chinese Checkers.
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Even as far as video game preview events go, the latest showing of Atari’s Ghostbusters: The Video Game certainly got off to a surreal start. Sitting comfortably in a swanky London hotel’s screening room, the gathered games writers were treated to the full-length music video of Ray Parker Jr’s Ghostbusters theme tune, which some of [...]

Videogame publisher XSEED Games announced today that Retro Game Challange for the Nintendo DS has shipped across North America. Retro Game Challenge is based on the original Japanese TV series, Retro Game Master, now adapted as an 80s handheld gaming adventure produced by Namco Bandai Games.
Travelling back to the 1980’s, play as a young boy forced [...]