Weekend Reading 11/27/22

Every weekend, I like to share a curated list of retro & nostalgia-themed articles, stories, and posts that I’ve come across in the last week. It gives you a chance to escape the daily grind, and just sit back and pass the time reading about the good old days. So with that in mind, here are some things I wanted to share with you this week.

Movies, TV, & Streaming

• Where to Stream All of Your Favorite Holiday Films (Den of Geek)

• When Ginsu Knives Cut Through the As-Seen-On-TV Competition (Mental Floss)

• Saturday Morning Cartoons From the ’70s That You Need to Know About (Looper)

• The Incredible Transformers Movie That Ruined Plenty of Childhoods in 1986 (Nightmare Nostalgia)

• Home Alone: 45 Differences Between the Film and Script (The Retro Network)

Toys & Video Games

• The Top 13 Original Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes Head Sculps Ranked (13th Dimension)

• How Food Became the Most Iconic Video Game Powerup (Den of Geek)

• The History and Evolution of Arcade Games (Rediscover the ’80s)

• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

• Pitfall Harry and the Christmas Road Trip (The Retro Network)

Books, Magazines, & Comic Books

• Hostess Comic Book Ads Were Hot Stuff (Between the Pages)

• 10 Marvel Villains Who Reshaped the Universe (CBR)

• A Brief History of ‘National Lampoon’ (Mental Floss)

Junk Food

• Official Cheetos Grinder Lets You Make Cheese Dust at Home (Mental Floss)

• A Review of Spam Figgy Pudding (Retroist)