80s-90s gifts

Keys are an important part of our daily lives. Who doesn't use them a few times a day to get into their house, office, car, cupboard, safe? Th...

Simple computer games are still the best! Right? That's why after 30 years, the arcade classic with the colourful tetrominos is still one of the mo...

Several generations of teenagers poured all their passion and pocket money into these little plastic boxes with tape inside. There was no better an...

Whilst others are still ranting about the resolution of Fallout 4, we remember that an epic game doesn't need too many pixels. Alright, a litt...

If there is one location where you certainly would not expect Godzilla to show up, it's your kitchen. After all, the famous giant lizard is usually...

The stereotypical nerd never leaves his mom's basement, is anti-social and only eats cold pizza and drinks warm soda. This image of our subculture ...

The saying "everything was better in the old days" does not apply at all to video games, if only in terms of graphics. Nevertheless, many of us rem...

Many have long since realised it: Floppy disks are simply no longer an adequate storage medium. They are very fragile and simply don’t offer enough...

He wanted to become a real, rough-and-ready pirate. The most notorious pirate ever. Only everything kept going wrong! No one took him seriously as ...

We're pretty sure we know what Guybrush Threepwood would say about this example of a three-headed monkey from the monkey island. It's just too bad ...

“It's dangerous to go alone!” These famous words from a video game don't just apply when you're a hero fighting dragons or rescuing princesses. Som...

USB flash drives, external hard drives and tiny memory cards have long since outpaced their predecessors. While those old media lacked modern memor...

Nerds can't be romantic? That's just a prejudice, of course. Or why else would we have gone to the trouble of creating a Candlestick lightsaber? Th...

With the cassette sponges in a set of 4, your washing up becomes a journey through time. Or when was the last time you held a real cassette in your...

The average nerd prefers his coffee black. No milk, no sugar, no frills. But from time to time, a latte macchiato, crema or some other fancy form o...

Imagine Mewtu suddenly appears and you realise that you don't have a single Pokéball left. To make sure that something annoying like this never hap...

It doesn't get much nerdier than the retro video games of the 70s and 80s. And Pac-Man in particular is of course a classic. A greedy yellow circle...

Like all villains, the dark side of the Force usually lures us in with empty promises. Who hasn't heard the famous quote from Darth Vader to Luke: ...

The Magic Cube stands for the golden age of nerds like hardly anything else. With Star Wars, the first PCs and consoles for the home and the rise o...

Imagine running, jumping and diving through hazardous levels while malicious turtles and devious mushrooms have it in for you. And now imagine the ...

It is no coincidence that this tape dispenser is shaped like a cassette. Because in English, the word "tape" means both adhesive tape and audio tap...

Arcade machines, asteroids, spaceships, lasers… Ring any bells? Of course! After all, every child of the 1980s (and geeks who know their tribe’s hi...

During his adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario has to face a multitude of dangers: hazardous obstacles, carnivorous plants and Bowser&#...

Creepers, the green monsters with four legs and no arms, are the most iconic character in Minecraft Every player has a certain love-hate relationsh...

The year 1990 changed our lives forever when the first Gameboy came on the market. The absolute horror for parents and teachers, because it was dif...

Are you looking for a suitable storage option for your cassette-style cleaning sponges [Link]? That's exactly what you get with the cassette record...

The phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" was never actually uttered in the popular science fiction series. Nevertheless, it has become a household phrase in...

What does a hero truly need? A magic sword, a mithril shirt and magical powers? Well, those and a proper jacket, of course. After all, what good is...

Few villains from the golden age of point and click adventures have risen to such prominence as the megalomaniac, Purple Tentacle! After the rather...

Of course you can love the Godzilla franchise simply because they are cool horror films. But true fans know that there is a lot more behind the mon...

The 80s really had a lot of cool stuff to offer. The 'Ghostbusters' film series was of course particularly iconic for all fans of ghosts and the su...

The sight of Bub and Bob from Bubble Bobble makes you feel very nostalgic. While multiplayer games are something completely normal today, the two-p...

Everyday life can sometimes be so exhausting and monotonous that even the simplest activities, such as regular showering, become an insurmountable ...

You bring security and stability to the entire galaxy. You don't expect fame or recognition in return, but there's one thing you won't do without: ...

Tetris is such a popular game that it can be played on all kinds of consoles and even on calculators and buildings. So it's time to integrate the f...