http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp Retro-fitted blatherings of media and memories. We brought the cheese -- who has the fondue? Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:43:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Easter holidays ! I just finished up some yardwork this afternoon and was about to relax with a cold draft Sake when I stumbled onto a video for the Freeware game Jumpman !!! It's so bloody oldschool, and chill. Needless to say, I have found a new love. http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/877/freeware-is-beautiful/ It's a one-in-a-million moment when nostalgia almost brings me to tears. Spike Jonze (skateboard mogul, and freaky movie auteur) has just finished shooting a live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak's legendary children's book Where The Wild Things Are. You remember ? The book about Max, the little kid in the grey monster ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/873/where-the-wild-things-are/ Yep, it was only a matter of time before the glacier-paced onslaught of DVD sales finally put the last VHS distributer out of business. No amount of cult video rental joints is going to bring our beloved (if slightly fuzzy) video medium back to the mainstream. It certainly took a long ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/868/dvd-killed-the-video-star/ Last month Majel Barrett Roddenberry, widow of the man himself Gene Roddenberry, and long time Star Trek cameo goddess died at the age of 76. She is most remembered as Nurse Chapel from the original series, Diana Troi's party animal mom from The Next Generation, and the ever-pleasing voice of ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/862/their-final-frontier/ After a holiday marathon of sniveling, bribing and good 'ol fashioned throat-slitting, I finally weaseled my way onto the Email list of those jolly old elves over at OCReMix.com. It's been a busy time (no posts during X-Mas, sorry), but  Tweek's new "Holiday Frappe" re-arrangement of a classic Mario Kart ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/801/a-new-year-a-new-era-for-street-fighter/ Remember those X-Ray glasses you ordered from the backside of a tattered 'ol Warlord comic when you were eleven? You paid half a buck and they didn't even work! The Comic Vine remember well the golden age of Comic Books and their superhuman abillity to get kids to buy the ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/804/in-between-the-pages/ No matter what particular holiday you may celebrate (Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Celtic Yule, etc.) 'tis the season to relax with a little rum and a lot of warm memories. I've settled into a nice big chair by the fire (okay, so I don't have a fire) and have spent most of ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/795/happy-nostalgic-holidays/ Everybody's got a lost song.... You, me, everybody. You heard it during a commercial, you listened to it on the radio during some stunningly bright afternoon drive when you were young and buzzing, or maybe your favourite live band played a cover of it at that concert you only kind-of remember. ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/769/searching-for-that-lost-song/ Packaging Of The World has a boss gallery of Vintage Sodas courtesy of the enigmatic Allen. "I'm very old fashioned and have never liked change. I should have been born in 1936, but wasn't. I collect old cans, bottles, radios and alot of other stuff." - Allen Be sure to nibble on ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/773/the-vintage-soda/ One of my best-loved/most-linked music collectives has just decked it's halls with glorious nostalgic lovin. 8bitpeoples.com (who you may remember from our post) has just released a Christmas Album!!! If you ever wondered what "The First Noel" would sound like played through an Atari ST system, wonder no-more... Where's my ... http://www.nostalgiaholic.com/wp/765/the-8bits-of-christmas/