June 19, 2013

I found this in a local thrift store for only a buck and couldn’t pass it up. Although I do listen to vinyl records and often convert them to mp3s so I can listen to them in the car, I … Continue reading →

The Retroist t-shirt is still available for those of you who might have missed me talking about it the first time around. This handsome shirt will make you the envy of all your friend and is only $15! What a … Continue reading →

On the Right Track is one of those movies that settled into a comfortable rotation one summer in the 1980s and dominated my life. I was a big Coleman and the idea of a homeless kid making his way in … Continue reading →

Now that Disney owns Star Wars and a major TV network I think they might want to look into reboot the ABC sitcom, Who’s the Boss, with a Star Wars twist. Thanks to artist, Zach T. Jordan, they don’t even … Continue reading →

I do not know a lot about the hospitality industry, but I do not believe I have ever stayed in a hotel that offered a baby sitting service. I am also not sure that many adults nowadays would leave their … Continue reading →

This is not the best footage in terms of quality and sound (none), but this is a wonderful time capsule that captures the look and feel of a DnD gaming session in the early 1980s. It was uploaded by Ethan … Continue reading →

Armourcote commercials are a perfect example of a type of ads you just don’t see as much as you used to and when they do, they are never this involved (although perhaps infomercials are just extreme versions of this). These … Continue reading →

June 18, 2013

I love the 80′s commercials for this cereal and in fact I still have the back of one of the old cereal boxes; it has a picture of an island on it with a bunch of the animals.

I enjoy looking at the board game section in my local thrift store, but I rarely buy them — mostly because I’m afraid they’ll be missing pieces or the instructions. This one looked like a good one, so I took … Continue reading →

Welcome back ghouls! After the last film I reviewed, Boorman’s beautiful epic Excalibur, anything would seem a bit less majestic, but believe me the film I chose for this piece is an epic all right…an epic piece of…well, let’s just … Continue reading →

This gem was posted by the great Paxton Holley on his Flickr page. It was pulled from Atari fan club magazine. I do not remember seeing this poster back in the 1980s, but I would not have needed it to … Continue reading →

I found this ad in a bag full of vacation mementos my Mother had put aside over the years. It was pulled from a National Geographic from the early 1970s and was in pretty good shape. It was an interesting … Continue reading →

This video contains some classic home movie footage of a young man playing Pac-Man in the arcade at the Lagoon Amusement Park Arcade in Farmington, Utah back in 1982. Sadly no original sounds of the arcade in this video, but … Continue reading →

This ad for the Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 does a great job of masking the deficiencies of this sometimes maligned title. It has a great animated intro and a kinetic gaming sequence complete with music and original Pac-Man audio … Continue reading →

I’ve been a comic book fan nearly all of my life. I can remember the first comic I picked off the rack as a five-year-old, it was a Detective Comics where Batman teams up with Etrigan the Demon. I couldn’t … Continue reading →

June 17, 2013

If you’re a fan of classic television, you might want to mark July 2nd down on your calendar, because that is the day that Shout! Factory is releasing the seminal series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: The Complete Series. … Continue reading →

I watched a lot of Bruce Lee with my friends as a kid and when I worked at a video store in my youth I picked up all of his movies on VHS and a lot of unavailable stuff on … Continue reading →

Almost everyone has heard of the Spirograph, but few people remember the Spirotot, a simpler version designed for toddlers to use. Unlike the original Spirograph that contained a dozen or so small plastic discs for children (and adults) to choose … Continue reading →

You do not hear a lot on the web from Barney Miller fans nowadays. So I was very happy to find a rare instance of Barney Miller fan art. This one by, Stephen Jones, shows Miller and his fellow peacekeepers … Continue reading →

I am very well acquainted with the more “in your face” Dracula Rubik’s Magic Puzzle commercial, but I think I prefer this commercial for the Magic Puzzle which I had never seen before a few weeks ago. In it, Rubik … Continue reading →

Here is another computer desk setup from the mid-1980s. This one features a Commodore 64 and looks to be perfectly suited for gaming (check out the joystick) as well as serious work. [via] lorenztom Dig the Monty Python pic and … Continue reading →

This limited edition Popeye ring was supposed to be an edition of 495 but ended up being just 36. So this is kind of a rare collectible for those Popeye fans out there. [via] Hake’s

In 1983, for the second series of 3¾” G.I. Joe action figures, a silver headed villain started showing up in TV ads. His name was Destro and I had to have him! Metal-domed and bare-chested, Destro was like no other … Continue reading →

June 16, 2013

I found these PB video game ads in The Amazing Spider-Man 251-253. I like how the ads ran consecutively, had the same format, and showed all the different home versions of the game. These are the kinds of ads I … Continue reading →

I’ve sadly not had the pleasure of playing the 1983 Intellivision title ‘Mission X’ but watching this UK TV commercial makes me wish I had. In this commercial the classic games Night Stalker and Buzz Bombers are also mentioned but … Continue reading →

I can claim that I was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan a few years before the animated series and toys made them Icons known throughout every school in the country. I even bought the Toys well into my young … Continue reading →

June 15, 2013

Welcome back to all of you fans of fiendish film and TV! Those howls you hear from the creatures of the night need be no cause for alarm, you are safe down here with us in the Retroist vault! Us? … Continue reading →

An old Jedi Master once said, “Star Wars Collectors. Buy anything, they will.” Okay, so maybe Yoda never really said that, but he might as well have. For a couple of decades I bought everything I could find related to … Continue reading →

You know what they say about laughter, right? It is contagious and in this behind the scenes photo it certainly appears to be true for Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner on the set of the Star Trek TV series back … Continue reading →

With the Man of Steel now in theaters it seemed like a good time to share this awesome piece of art by the one and only Steve Rude depicting the World’s Finest team-up of Batman and Superman! Steve Rude besides … Continue reading →