80s-90s gifts

Several generations of teenagers poured all their passion and pocket money into these little plastic boxes with tape inside. There was no better an...

Keys are an important part of our daily lives. Who doesn't use them a few times a day to get into their house, office, car, cupboard, safe? Th...

Simple computer games are still the best! Right? That's why after 30 years, the arcade classic with the colourful tetrominos is still one of the mo...

The stereotypical nerd never leaves his mom's basement, is anti-social and only eats cold pizza and drinks warm soda. This image of our subculture ...

Hmm, obviously Doc Brown missed the fact that the TARDIS doesn't always materialise conveniently around obstacles, but simply falls from the s...

We're pretty sure we know what Guybrush Threepwood would say about this example of a three-headed monkey from the monkey island. It's just too bad ...

Remember way back... when to be able to load programmes and games on a C64, you had to type in a special command first? For the sake of nostalgia, ...

Many have long since realised it: Floppy disks are simply no longer an adequate storage medium. They are very fragile and simply don’t offer enough...

If there is one location where you certainly would not expect Godzilla to show up, it's your kitchen. After all, the famous giant lizard is usually...

“It's dangerous to go alone!” These famous words from a video game don't just apply when you're a hero fighting dragons or rescuing princesses. Som...

He wanted to become a real, rough-and-ready pirate. The most notorious pirate ever. Only everything kept going wrong! No one took him seriously as ...

Whilst others are still ranting about the resolution of Fallout 4, we remember that an epic game doesn't need too many pixels. Alright, a litt...

The good ol'’ floppy disk!How we loved you when you were our go-to portable, long-term memory solution. We shared so many happy years…!Not tha...

Nerds can't be romantic? That's just a prejudice, of course. Or why else would we have gone to the trouble of creating a Candlestick lightsaber? Th...

The saying "everything was better in the old days" does not apply at all to video games, if only in terms of graphics. Nevertheless, many of us rem...

Do you remember the computer game 'Day of the Tentacle?' –It was the fantastic follow-up to 'Maniac Mansion!'. Well, if you...

USB flash drives, external hard drives and tiny memory cards have long since outpaced their predecessors. While those old media lacked modern memor...

As the loveable Minions have demonstrated, the bad guys' henchmen do have a life beyond the main story of a movie or game. Which leads us to t...

USB flash drives, external hard drives, memory cards and MP3 players are nowadays substitutes for floppy disks, cassettes and video cassettes. Alth...

You can get this shirt in two ways: In our shop, or after many hours playing one of the coolest games ever, Monkey Island.The disadvantage of the s...

Like all villains, the dark side of the Force usually lures us in with empty promises. Who hasn't heard the famous quote from Darth Vader to Luke: ...

With the cassette sponges in a set of 4, your washing up becomes a journey through time. Or when was the last time you held a real cassette in your...

That's what a Magic Cube looks like in the heat of desperate solution attempts ;)