I’m setting myself the challenge this year to do something that I’ve wanted to do for ages… Build my own arcade machine. I’ve had this on my list for about 5 years now and I feel that this year is the year to do it….
Today is a special day. 30 years after the original game was released, a new version of Elite has just been launched. (and it’s so popular that at the time of writing, the website was down – keep trying) Elite is without doubt my all…
I was wondering what I could do around Christmas on the blog that was a bit special, so I decided to make a Retromash Advent Calendar. Each day you will get an absolute gem straight from the pages of the Argos Catalogues. Something that you…
Or more accurately, when would I go? This is the last post of my Time Travel Week and is the culmination of all my research and thoughts about time travel lately. If I actually did have some kind of time machine then where, or when,…
Time Travel can be such a complex beast that sometimes it’s handy to have it visualised in a more graphical way. Infographics are a great way of representing data and there are some very cool ones about time travel. I’ve put links in the text…
This is one of the posts from my Time Travel Week that I have really been looking forward to. So much so in fact that I have watched or rewatched about 12 time travel movies over the past 2 months to prepare. I still haven’t…
So, after posting a couple of pretty heavy time travel articles the last two days I thought I would change the pace a little bit with a couple of Top Ten lists. Time Travel Vehicles today and Time Travel Movies tomorrow. When I say ‘vehicle’…
Welcome back to the Retromash Time Travel Week. Yesterday I looked at several different methods of time travel used in popular culture and sci-fi. Today I’m taking a bit of a closer look at some of the cliches and tropes that are regularly used in…
After my gentle introduction to Time Travel Week yesterday I thought I’d get a bit more heavy today. Time travel is a subject that has always fascinated me. I’m not quite sure what it is about it that is so alluring to me. It’s probably…
And so, my Time Travel Week begins… Time travel can be quite a heavy subject so I thought I would kick things off with a review of the event that inspired me to do a week about time travel in the first place. Secret Cinema,…