80s-90s gifts

In the Fallout wasteland, currency isn't gold—it's bottle caps, preferably Nuka-Cola ones. The fizzy drink with the bright red label was America's ...

„Der Weltraum, unendliche Weiten.“ Mit diesem Satz begann 1966 jede Folge, und er hat vermutlich mehr Menschen für die Raumfahrt begeistert als jed...

October 21st, 2015 – the date an entire generation has been waiting for. When Marty McFly hovered through Hill Valley on his pink hoverboard in Bac...

Whoever ran home from school in the 90s to not miss a single episode knows: Dragon Ball Z wasn't just an anime — it was religion. Goku, Vegeta, Tru...

Long before their film adaptation in Hollywood, the "Transformers" were one of Marvel's most famous comic series. With the Transformers 40th Annive...

1984 schrieb Alexei Paschitnow in Moskau ein Spiel, in dem sieben verschieden geformte Klötzchen von oben herabfallen und ordentlich gestapelt werd...

In 1954 a man in a rubber suit stomped through a model city made of balsa wood, and cinema was never the same afterwards. Godzilla was never just a...

Let's be honest: The Empire's white soldiers are famous for many things. For their spotless armor. For their unwavering loyalty. For their… well, a...

Steven Rhodes is the illustrator behind these delightfully dark retro images that look like harmless 1970s schoolbooks – until you take a closer lo...

With the Pokémon Pokéball sandwich maker, your snack ends up where it belongs: neatly caught between two slices of toast. Shiny black on the outsid...

"Oomenacka!" - when you hear this call, you know: It's time for a little magic! With the Banjo Kazooie Mumbo Jumbo medallion, you not only have an ...

Am 26. Oktober 1985 um 1:21 Uhr wird ein umgebauter Sportwagen zur Zeitmaschine. Auf dem Armaturenbrett leuchten drei Zeilen übereinander: wohin di...

You run through level after level, jump over chasms, dodge turtles - and then, just before you give up, it glows: the green mushroom. A 1-UP. An ex...

If your breakfast deserves a special treat that doesn't sound like "standard toast", this gadget is practically a little kitchen companion from Kan...

Red or Blue? Since the first Pokémon games on the Game Boy, the choice of starter Pokémon has divided friendships and schoolyards. Bulbasaur fans, ...

"I am the one who knocks" - one of the most iconic sentences in TV history. But what if the most famous plumber in the video game world had decided...

Anyone who drinks sake like a warrior from the world of Dragon Ball should do so in style. The Dragon Ball Z Blue Shenlong Sake Set made of ceramic...

1986. An old man stands in a cave, holds out a wooden sword and says what is perhaps the most famous sentence in video game history: "It's dangerou...

Before Windows took over computers, the PC greeted you with a black screen, green text, and a blinking cursor behind C:\>. Anyone who used dir t...

Vier Schildkröten in der Kanalisation von New York, benannt nach Renaissance-Künstlern, trainiert von einer Ratte und angetrieben von Pizza. Die Id...

Anfang der Neunziger endete jede Zone damit, dass ein rundlicher Herr mit gewaltigem Schnauzbart in irgendeiner Flugmaschine über den Bildschirm sc...

88 miles per hour: no other number in film history sounds quite so much like a departure. Below it, the silver runabout is just a car with a stiff ...

In the Mushroom Kingdom the important things hang in mid air anyway: the Question Block that spits out a coin after a solid headbutt from below, an...

In the 1960s, they hung in travel agencies: bold posters that made distant destinations tangible with a single image. NASA has embraced this tradit...

The Pokémon Pokéball Toaster is the kind of kitchen gadget that makes even morning grouches look like they've just stepped out of the Pokécenter. I...

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...

Every year the same ritual: pull the light chain out of the basement, untangle it, plug it in, and half the bulbs don't light up. This year, howeve...

1844 klopfte Samuel Morse die erste Nachricht durch eine Leitung, und auf einmal war eine Botschaft schneller unterwegs als jedes Pferd. Geblieben ...

No villain has lost as often and lost his temper as rarely as Skeletor. The lord of the underworld has been marching against He-Man in front of Cas...

Sonic hat in über dreißig Jahren Loopings, Chaos Emeralds und einen Bösewicht mit Riesenschnurrbart überstanden. Wirklich berühmt sind trotzdem sei...

"ThunderCats, Ho!" – if you grew up with this battle cry, you know: the Sword of Omens is no ordinary sword. It carries the Eye of Thundera, a red ...

At some point the last pizza box is empty, the television is only hissing away to itself, and things go quiet under the streets of New York. That i...

Chrome, Formica and a counter where the refill arrives before anyone asks: the American diner of the eighties ran on a fixed inventory. Somewhere i...

In the world of Sonic the Hedgehog, one thing counts above all: speed. The blue hedgehog races through loops and green hills at supersonic pace, co...

Who hasn't dreamed of turning to Shenlong with a wish? While the dragon himself may be difficult to summon, you can at least treat yourself to a li...

Since the early eighties, a small plumber with a red cap has been jumping on everything that wears armor and kicking the remains across the level. ...