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Tag: Nostalgia

  • Morning Coffee: Cassette Dreams

    Morning Coffee: Cassette Dreams

    Set between vinyl and compact disc, the beautiful cassette tape, in any of its iterations, may hold special memories for certain generations. Whether recording or listening, the cassette provided an accessible medium for creating and collecting music.

  • Morning Coffee: Languishing LEGO

    Morning Coffee: Languishing LEGO

    Once upon a time, LEGO inspired magnificent and limitless imaginative world building. Today, LEGO markets those sets to adults and collectors, only offering them if they are voted into existence by nostalgic fans. LEGO has strayed from offering the tools to create worlds and instead sells sets tied to IPs and targeted at fandom economies.

  • Morning Coffee: The Laser-Filled, Burning World of CDs

    Morning Coffee: The Laser-Filled, Burning World of CDs

    Do you remember the heyday of CDs, when Sam Goody existed and Best Buy was a cornucopia of entertainment? I remember, and that’s probably why my knees hurt and I grunt when bending over. Those shiny platters provided escape to an ethereal plane where the noise, distractions, and grit of the real world could not…

  • Battlefield 6: Fighting for Nostalgic Survival in an Era of Competitive Youth

    Battlefield 6: Fighting for Nostalgic Survival in an Era of Competitive Youth

    Multiplayer games of today require reflexes and precision that I no longer have at my world-weary age. Battlefield 6, however, rekindles memories of more youthful days, and I’m still able to enjoy playing the objective. Join me as I fight the good fight of keeping games fun, no matter the stage in life.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

    1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a movie steeped in nostalgia, but it is also a weird movie with eccentirc characters. This article explores what makes Prince of Thieves enjoyable and what brings it down.

  • A Collecting Comeback

    I want them all. I want to catch them all. I want to collect them all. Sometimes, it just feels good to be a kid again. My collecting itch went into hibernation but re-emerged with a vengeance.

  • Where Have All The Lego Gone?

    Remember when Lego let you enter plausible worlds of imagination? You could venture into medieval kingdoms, take on pirates, or leap into the unknown of space. Each world, or time, had protagonists and antagonists with exquisite set pieces to create, well, worlds. It could be a completely immersive experience. There were no movie or TV…