Berkeley Systems released After Dark a screensaver modules included, the most famous is the iconic Flying Toasters which featured 1940s-style chrome toasters sporting bird-like wings, flying across the screen with pieces of toast. A slider enabled users to adjust the toast’s darkness and an updated Flying Toasters Pro module added a choice of music: Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries or a flying toaster anthem with optional karaoke lyrics. Yet another version called Flying Toasters! added bagels and pastries, baby toasters, and more elaborate toaster animation. A 3D version of the toasters featuring swarms of toasters with plane wings, rather than bird wings.
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Posts Tagged ‘Retro’
Electronic Gaming Magazine of the 80’s
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009The First video game magazine.
Open the mail to see the newest Electronic Gaming magazine and check out the latest tips and tricks and what’s in the arcade this month! This was before computers and cool video games, this was all there was as far as the world of computing and games were at the time. A fun blast from the past, this short lived magazine was popular for the time.
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Saved By the Bell Reunion | Zack & his crazy friends
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Twenty years after it all began, the cast of Saved By The Bell has reunited on the pages of the new issue of PEOPLE Magazine. When the cast of “Saved by the Bell” assembled for this week’s PEOPLE photo shoot and cover story, everyone breathed a sigh of relief-including Mario Lopez, who nearly missed the whole thing.
Dustin Diamond who played the loveable, but nerdy “Screech” on the late 80s/early 90s Saturday morning sitcom Saved by the Bell wasn’t invited to a recent cast reunion photo shoot for the cover of this week’s People magazine.
Dynamite pop culture magazine of the 70’s & 80’s
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
During the 70s and early 80s, grade school kids in school who were part of the Scholastic book program enjoyed the monthly Dynamite magazine which had the hottest stars, cartoons, TV shows, music and movies of the time.
The View Master classic toy, trigger happy 3D images
Friday, July 24th, 2009The View-Master was first introduced at the 1939 World’s Fair. Originally intended as a souvenir (and not a children’s toy), View-Master was sold at stationary and photo stores as an alternative to postcards. It is easy to forget that the View-Master was once a successful mass-market product akin to today’s VCR and DVD player. It was family entertainment. Millions of reels have been sold and a collectors’ community thrives today even though View-Master is now owned and marketed by Fisher-Price as a toy for toddlers.
The memories of View Master are as cool as the boggling images it gave us. The experience was like graduating from story books. With a clickity clack of the trigger we were presented with frame after frame of eye popping natural wonders, bold new takes on otherwise tired tales, and Scooby’s latest madcap capers – all in 3D that was as mind-blowing as anything on our movie screens today. That’s how I remember it anyway..!
View master Resources
Candy.com opens it’s doors after purchasing the name for 3 million
Monday, July 20th, 2009Tough times need sweet deals! Candy sales are up during economic times: Hershey’s and Mar’s were both born during and because of the Great Depression, interestingly enough Hershey’s just closed it’s online store.
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In June, a 3 million dollar purchase for the domain name candy.com was sold to G&J Holdings, a Weymouth, Massachusetts-based Internet candy retailer that has been in business since 2005. Candy.com sells all the sugary sweets from the past to funky novelty candy kids love today. Everything candy – the company boasts that they will sell more than 6,000 different candy items. Go on and get some sweet stuff at candy.com
Other online candy stores under 3 million dollars:
Nostalgic Candy
Candy Direct
Candy Warehouse
Candy Favorites
Groovy Candies
Remember those Discontinued Goodies?!
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
- Keebler Tato Skins
- Bonkers Candy
- Pepsi Clear
- Nabisco Snaps
- Hubba Bubba Soda
- Marathon Bar
- Freakies Cereal
- Goofy Grape
- Reggie Candy
- Keebler Tato Skins
- Bonkers Candy
- Pepsi Clear
- Nabisco Snaps
- Hubba Bubba Soda
- Marathon Bar
- Freakies Cereal
- Goofy Grape
- Reggie Candy
Who was more out of their minds – the folks who came up with this
wacky stuff – or those of us who put it into our bodies? Who can name all the Funny Faces?: Rudy Tutti Frutti, Goofy Grape, Freckle Face Strawberry, Rootin’ Tootin Raspberry, Rah Rah Rootbeer, Loud mouth punch, Black Captain Cherry, Jolly Olly Orange, Choo Choo Cherry, Lefty Lemonade, With it watermelon . A show of hands: who had a “Freaky Racer” that you hooked to a balloon? Oompas from Wonka! And who actually DRANK that Hubba Bubba soda – and if you did, what were the burp bubbles like? Only in America, baby.
Retro Goods Resources
Zany Advertising Characters from the 80’s
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
- Toothpaste Kid & Cavity Creeps from Crest
- 7-up the spot
- The California Raisins
- Dominos Pizza - the Noid
- McDonalds Mac Tonight
- Cheetos - Chester Cheetah
- Burger King Kids
- Coke - Max Headroom
- Bud Light - Spuds Mackenzie
No, it’s not a sales flyer for Spencer Gifts – it’s those
trend-setting product icons that watched over our shoulder as we
gobbled our way to the high score on PacMan. Remember Max Headroom’s guest appearance on David Letterman? What about the rumor that a real life guy with the last name of Noid got so upset about being avoided that he went on a killing spree? Oh, good times, gooood times. Now excuse me while I go dance to my motion sensitive singing raisins..!
80’s Resources
80’s Saturday Morning Cartoons
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
- Rubik, the Amazing Cube
- The Real Ghostbusters
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Thundarr the Barbarian
- Mr. T
- The New Shmoo
- Gummi Bears
- Pac Man
- The Smurfs
Saturday Morning Cartoons in the eighties.
Whether we were going through a D&D hangover or suffering video arcade
withdrawal, Saturday mornings in the 80’s hooked us UP. There we sat
in front of our Smurf menagerie, sucking down the cereal tie-ins,
trying for TWO solid sides on the cube, and humming “Bouncin’ here and
there and everywhere!” over and over and over til it was time to head
off to the new mall and beat that high score.
80’s Cartoon Resources
9 Video Games Systems from the past
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
- ColecoVision
- Atari 2600
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Intellivision
- Turbo Grafx
- Sega Saturn
- Atari Lynx
- Magnavox Odyssey 2
- Nintendo Vectrex
