Roughly a year and a half ago, I made a pitch that we were due for a magnetic-tape comeback similar to the one we’ve seen for vinyl. (I titled it after a Frank Turner album, because Frank Turner is cool.) Now, we haven’t seen that magnetic-tape comeback just yet, but it might help if I did my part by highlighting tape-format obscurities.

The network has confirmed rumors that it’s actively developing a new version of the Aaron Spelling drama, which ran for eight seasons on The WB. But there’s a twist: This “reimagining” of the series will not be set in contemporary times like the original. In a Stranger Things-esque shakeup, the reboot will take place in 1976.

One of the track from my upcoming EP "Unfinished Business"

"I'm playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: 'WAHR'. And this lady's voice--I can still hear her voice--she goes: 'I want you.'" - Larry King

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of breakdancing in the USSR, breakdancers from back in the day reprise their moves.

ShareIT, gladly enough, can be touted as the best installment to the arena of instant messaging. It is a smasher on all accounts. Topping several charts on technical finesse and popularity, ShareIT is arguably the smartest and the coolest application …

It’s hard to put a figure on the number of classic arcade machines that are still around. As you will have read on this blog, those cabinets not in the safe hands of restorers and collectors today, are likely to have met a grim fate at some point. When machines came to the end of their useful life (when they stopped taking money) they were either smashed up and destroyed, or converted into something else by enterprising operators, often with cataclysmic results.

One of what is believed to be only a dozen remaining cabinets of a canceled Beavis and Butt-Head arcade game has been repaired and is playable in a Chicago-area aracde. Galloping Ghost Arcade, a curator of very rare units in Brookfield, Ill., says it restored unit No. 9 of Beavis and Butt-Head this week. While MTV had been given a cabinet for posterity, and it has been seen regularly at gaming expos, running across one in the wild like this is a rarity indeed.

Relive the '80s era of video games in 'The Art of Atari.'

In this episode I cover Apple II and Atari 2600 graphics modes.

The remastered port of classic JRPG Grandia II launches next week for PC.

My rev B IBM PC 5150 A couple of months ago I moved my IBM PC into the living room thinking that with a more prominent location I would use it more often. It’s fun to try out ancient software, or use the PC to connect to the occasional surviving BBS. I also like tinkering trying to use the PC to access the modern internet, or at least see if I can. I definitely won't be playing YouTube videos on it, but I can read reddit, or search Google. Because of the nice keyboard and no...

Maggie (Kristen Wiig) is angry with Milo (Bill Hader), so he tries to cheer her up with a lip-sync of Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.

Dynamite Entertainment And Atari Join Forces For New Comic Projects - A new deal will see Dynamite creating new comics and graphic novels based on Atari properties as well as reprint old stories.