Awesome Retro

(Gore) Claymation animator Lee Hardcastle goes back to the big ’80s with the music video for Gunship’s synthwave track which shares its name with the nightclub in The Terminator, while the video is packed with characters from classic films of the era.

Play poker, go fish, spades or your favorite game with these official Gremlins playing cards, illustrated by Nat Iwata for Albino Dragon. Just keep them away from the sun, never get them wet, and never ever deal them after midnight.

Modder Matt Gruskin took one of those 1980’s Fisher Price cassette players and transformed it into a Bluetooth speaker for his iPhone. With the help of his mechanical and electronic knowhow, the buttons and volume know even work.

Combining ’60s retro style with modern tech, Electrohome’s clear- and bright-sounding Archer turntable folds into a suitcase for easy transit. It’s got built-in speakers, and USB and AUX inputs. Plus, it won’t break the bank.

Back in the ’60s kids could still play with toy guns without worry about being shot by the police or being told they would become sociopathic killers. And the Johnny Seven OMA (One Man Army) was quite possibly the greatest toy gun of all time.

“I’d rather play outside… or maybe do homework more than this!” The Fine Bros. dust off another relic of the past, the primitive LCD handheld games from the 1990s. That Jurassic Park game proves that movie games have always sucked.

In 1933, architect Buckminster Fuller wanted to revolutionize the automotive industry with the Dymaxion car – designed to be fast, aerodynamic and could seat 11 passengers. An accident killed the Dymaxion, but this replica is impressive.

Bobby Burns revamps the trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and replaces our superfoes with their cartoony predecessors – with Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, and Adam West as The not-so-Dark Knight.

Jo “SquirrelMonkey” Luitjen takes a hilarious look at what dating app Tinder would have been like had it existed back in the 1980s. We’re not sure if that one dude was named Mason or Manson, but either way he’s creeptacular.

Developer Kingpenguin created this insane retro-style game which manages to seamlessly incorporate elements of Pac-Man, Pong, and Space Invaders all on the same playfield. Available for Windows, Mac or Linux.

We can make hyperlapse videos with our phones these days. Pacer, the first known hyperlapse film was captured one frame at a time on 16mm film by Guy Roland in 1995, and only screened once before the negative was destroyed.

We finally ditched our old VHS deck about five years ago, but if the modern TV shows and movies that Stan’s VHS has made up actually existed back in the day, our VCR would have gotten way more use. Be kind, rewind.

Long before we had phones that could shoot time-lapse videos, Disney used good old film to document the construction of its California theme park, and recently shared this classic footage in celebration of its upcoming 60th anniversary.

YouTuber Amazing LP spent over 100 hours carefully superimposing himself into the NEO GEO classic The King of Fighters ’97, turning himself into a real-world opponent for the game’s virtual fighters. We want a Kinect game like this.

“If you paired this with Oculus Rift, this is like next gen!” The Fine Brothers put iconic late ’80s tech in the hands of today’s youth. While the Mattel Power Glove for the NES never lived up to its promise, we know one person who still uses his.

An neat hack by Pekka Väänänen which transforms the 3D graphics of Quake first into audio, then into X/Y vectors which can be displayed on an oscilloscope. Read more about the tech behind the hack here.