Stories, deep dives and community articles about retro movies, TV and games — written by members, reviewed before they go live.
At some point, a retro gaming collection stops being a row of consoles and starts becoming infrastructure.You have a system on one shelf, its power supply in a drawer, a controller that may or may no…
There are some shows where you only need to see one image and suddenly you're back there.Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! does that to me.Even the name is ridiculous. Try saying the full thing…
Some films are brilliant because they're genuinely great. Others are brilliant because you first saw them when you were about twelve, and your brain decided that was enough evidence. For me, The Invi…
Every so often I'll remember a cartoon that barely gets talked about anymore, then spend far too long wondering if I imagined the whole thing. Cubix: Robots for Everyone is one of those shows. If you…
TRDB Downloader It is a Chrome extension I built to help download video files that are playing in your browser. It can detect DASH streams, HLS streams and normal video files such as MP4s, then lets…
I need to tell you about the worst film I have ever loved. I was a kid, round at a mate's house, and his little brother had Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 on DVD. We put it on as a joke. We did not sto…
There's a particular sound that means home to me now, and it isn't a song or a doorbell. It's a man bellowing "shit on it" from somewhere upstairs while something goes quietly, hilariously wrong in a…
Some shows shout for your attention. Old Bear Stories did the opposite. It sat you down, lowered its voice, and told you everything was going to be alright. For a lot of us who grew up in 1990s Brita…
There's a specific kind of memory tied to renting a game on a Friday night because the box art looked like it belonged on a death metal album. Mine is Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. A blue, hollow-chee…
