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Retro Thursday: Prodigy

Welcome to Retro Thursday. Where I take some old technology or product and most likely make fun of it. Yes, these are your favorite products, websites and technologies of yesteryear that did not age...

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Retro Thursday: The 7th Guest

I have had two major bad calls in my day. One, I was convinced the iPod would never catch on because people wouldn’t be willing to convert their entire music catalogs to MP3, and two, I thought the...

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Retro Thursday: The Power Glove

Picture this: Eric is turning ten years old today.  It’s a big day! Why? Not because it’s his birthday necessarily, but because today is the day he gets his Power Glove. The Power Glove, made by the...

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Retro Thursday: The BBS Scene

Yeah, you might say I’m old school. Back before craigslist killers,  Dateline NBC special reports on internet predators, and mail-order prescriptions, there was the BBS, or bulletin board system. When...

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Retro Thursday: The VCR

Yeah, I said it. The VCR.  Perhaps it’s a controversial choice for Retro Thursday, being that a lot of people still have one sitting under their television stands, but if you think about it, these...

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Retro Thursday: The Original Game Boy

I do a lot of complaining here on Retro Thursday. Unfortunately, I seem to remember more of the stinkers than the winners when I think of ideas for Retro Thursday. A few weeks back I featured the Atari...

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Retro Thursday: Mozart’s Ghost

Movies are full of awful websites, operating systems, and programs. Quite often you see the “total internet search” where someone types into an enormous text box, hits “search” and every detail they...

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Cranky old man of the internet

For better or worse, I never used to care about what I shared online. The way I saw it was, there are millions, nay, hundreds of millions of people who share just as much as I do, so who cares? I...

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Retro Thursday – The elusive homemade Nintendo arcade cabinet

When I was a kid I had some pretty lofty aspirations. I wanted to build tree fort on stilts in my backyard, I wanted to construct a spaceship cockpit on the shelf of my closet, and I wanted to build a...

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Retro Thursday: Realistic Pocketvision 3 Portable LCD Television

. I love Retro Thursday. Having been a tech geek for most of my life AND having a tech geek for a father, we had some pretty bad-ass gear in the house growing up. Laserdiscs, Portable CD Players that...

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Retro Thursday: The Nintendo Power Line

Picture this: A world with no internet. Scary, huh? Still with me? OK: A world without a virtual treasure trove of information: content, movies, podcasts, reviews, and the all blessed Frequently Asked...

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Retro Thursday: Captain Power

Yeah, intense, right? In 1987 Captain Power was one of those toys that, for it’s time, was a fantastic concept. It was new, it was interactive, and it had toy guns that looked like spaceships....

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Retro Thursday: The Residents Freak Show CD-ROM

Today we are going all “deep tracks” on Retro Thursday. In 1995 my sister gave me The Residents Freak Show CD-ROM as a gift. I had absolutely no idea what I was holding in my hands. Was it a game? Is...

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Retro Thursday: Lechmere

So this week’s Retro Thursday is going to be a little different. Instead of the technology itself we are going to talk about little Eric’s go-to shop for technology. Lechmere. *cue fanfare* Back in the...

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Retro Thursday: The Turbo Button

No feature may have been more anticipated for young Eric, and less used than the Turbo button on NES controllers. Mostly found on horrible third party controllers, the turbo button found it’s way into...

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Retro Thursday: My love/hate, mostly hate relationship with Sega

I like to think I have some self respect. Even in my Apple fandom, I feel like I can look at a product and say, “Yep. I need that”, or “That’s stupid”. It’s common sense. Right? Well not so for young...

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The NES turns 30…

OK, so maybe I am turning the tech blog into the “old man video game blog”, but this is kinda important. Sue me. Today, the NES, or, the Famicom as it was known in Japan turns 30. Originally known as...

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Retro Thursday: SegaNet

Long before the PS3, the PS2, the Xbox, or Xbox 360 there was the little doomed console known as the Sega Dreamcast. What would become Sega’s last console, the Dreamcast did do a number of things...

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Retro Thursday: The CD Collection

Here’s something that’s weird to think about: I haven’t bought a CD in 7 years. My last physical CD was (A) Senile Animal by the Melvins in 2006. I bought it at the Border’s on Wolf Road. The funny...

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Retro Thursday: Time Traveler Hologram

It’s like a video game… with holograms! Yeah… that’s the idea behind Sega’s Time Traveler arcade game. Released in 1991, Sega’s Time Traveler game used a huge curved mirror to simulate a hologram. So...

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