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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

• 11 Totally Rad Shampoos From the 1980s You Definitely Forgot About (MeTV)

• The Controversial History of McDonald’s Happy Meal (Mental Floss)

• Iconic ’80s Video Games You Have to Play at Least Once (Rediscover the ’80s)

• 13 Vintage Kitchen Appliances We’d Love to Have Again (Decades)

• The VHS vs. LaserDisc Battle Explained (SlashGear)

• Looking Back at Pizza Hut’s Priazzo (Retroist)

• 8 Magicians Who Dazzled Us on TV as Children (MeTV)

• 15 Quick Facts About Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Salon)

• 20 Totally Tubular Pages From the 1983 Sears Catalog (Decades)

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

If you know of a link you think I should check out to enjoy myself, or to include in the next Weekend Edition, drop it in the comments below!

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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

• Why Emilio Estevez Doesn’t Go By the Last Name Sheen (CBR)

• When the ThighMaster Got a Leg Up on the Fitness Industry (Mental Floss)

• Hasbro is Set to Relaunch Starting Lineup Sports Action Figures (The Toy Book)

• Five ’80s Horror Movies That Remain Timeless (GameRant)

• The Best Arcade Games From the ’70s Through the ’90s (Game Spot)

• What Ever Happened to Oliver From the Brady Brunch? (Looper)

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

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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

• Attention, Kmart Shoppers: There Are Only 3 Kmart Stores Left in the Continental U.S. (Mental Floss)

• Favorite Easter Basket Goodies (20 Years Before 2000)

• The Ten Greatest Biblical Epics of Classic Hollywood (Listverse)

• Hasbro Screwed the Super Soaker’s Inventor Out of Millions (Cracked)

• 3 Things to Do on a Saturday Night in the ’80s (Rediscover the ’80s)

• Godspeed Gilbert Gottfried (A Shroud of Thoughts)

• Remembering the Notorious Viper Room As It Closes Its Doors For Good (The Vintage News)

• Like Totally the Top Songs of the ’80s With ‘LIKE’ in the Title (The Retro Network)

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

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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

• The Quest For the Real-Life Treasures of Atari’s Swordquest (Atlas Obscura)

• 15 NES Games That Were Way Ahead of Their Time (Den of Geek)

• The Brief History of Crystal Pepsi (The Retro Network…by me!)

• How the Vietnam War Inspired Star Wars (CBR)

• Remembering Fast Food Glasses (20 Years Before 2000)

• Nickelodeon’s Super Toy Run (Retroist)

• Did You Know There Was a Dallas Role Playing Game in the Early ’80s? (EN World)

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

Since Easter is just one week away, I didn’t want to wait any longer before sharing the following link. Over at Rediscover the ’80s, my online best friend Jason posted an article a couple of years ago where he shared printable plans to make your own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Easter eggs. I made them one year and they turned out really well, so I recommend you going to check out the article and make your own TMNT eggs this year.

Download These Free Printable Ninja Turtle Easter Egg Costumes

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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

I’m going to start this Weekend Edition off by highlighting my latest entry into The Junk Food Files over at The Retro Network. In The Short Life of New Coke, I briefly run down the story of the launch and quick demise of New Coke in the ’80s. Being as how you’re here at Retro Ramblings, I know it’s something you’d be interested in so go check it out.

And since we’re in the middle of Wrestlemania weekend, it would be rude of me to not highlight an older post of mine at TRN where I detail my Favorite Wrestlemania Memories. And while I’m on the subject, you can also check out my post, Saturday Night Suspense: The Night Hulk Hogan Fought Paul Orndorff in a Cage! at TRN as well. And further down in this column, you’ll find plenty more old Wrestling nostalgia to celebrate the Wrestlemania season.

Retro & Nostalgia Stuff

• Unforgettable Events That Happened in the ’80s (Rediscover the ’80s)
• The Wildest Moments in Award Show History (CBR)
• Mad Magazine’s Most Significant Cultural Moments (Den of Geek)
• ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ Originally Had a Much Darker Ending (Mental Floss)
• 10 Must-See Horror Movies From the ’70s (Screen Rant)
• 10 Examples of Vintage Computing Still in Wide Use Today (Listverse)
• How PEZ Changed Collectibles, 12 Little Pieces of Candy at a Time (Den of Geek)
• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

Wrestling Nostalgia

• 25 Wild Facts About Wrestlemania I (Mental Floss)
• Wrestlemania’s Most Unusual Matches (The Retro Network)
• 7 Times Heavy Metal and Wrestling Rocked Together (Pro Wrestling Stories)
• The Greatest Vehicles in Wrestling History (The Retro Network)
• 5 Things Fans Miss Most About WCW (Sportster)
• Mythological Creatures in Pro Wrestling (Dinosaur Dracula)
• Wrestling’s Black Saturday (The Retro Network)
• Wrestling at the Arcade: 1991’s WWF Wrestlefest (The Retro Network)
• Retro Ads From a 1987 Wrestling Magazine (The Retro Network)
• WWF and MTV: The Brawl to End it All (The Retro Network)
• Five Wrestlers From the ’90s You’ve Probably Forgotten (The Retro Network)

To close this Weekend Edition out, I leave you with highlights of the greatest Wrestlemania match of all-time featuring Randy “Macho Man” Savage vs. Rick “The Dragon” Steamboat from Wrestlemania 3 in 1987.

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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

Most folks who enjoy going back in time to revisit the things they enjoyed through the years sometimes get their nostalgia fix via podcasts. With that in mind, I wanted to share a podcast I only recently discovered called History of the ’90s. I’ve been binge listening since I came across it, and think you might enjoy it. It covers a wide variety of topics ranging from television nostalgia to recapping major news stories from the decade. Here is the synopsis of the show from the creators themselves:

On History of the ’90s we’ll travel back in time through the stories that defined a decade. The last 10 years of the 20th century was a time like no other, from Columbine to Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Seinfeld, Air Jordan, and the Spice Girls…if it happened in the ’90s you’ll hear about it on this podcast. Join Kathy Kenzora as we journey through the History of the ’90s every other Wednesday.

You can find the podcast on your podcast app of choice, or check it out on Spotify:

I also want to direct your attention to my latest entry into The Junk Food Files over at The Retro Network. In my latest edition, I take a look at The Crispy Crusted History of Totinos Pizza. You know you’ve eaten your fair share of Totino’s products in your lifetime, so do yourself a favor and brush up on the origins of the iconic brand.

More Retro & Nostalgia fun…

• My Favorite Wrestlemania Memories (The Retro Network – written by me!)
• Unforgettable Events That Happened in the ’80s (Rediscover the ’80s)
• Has McDonald’s Big Mac been Shrinking Over the Years? (Mashed)
• 12 All-Time Legends the WWE Hall of Fame Did Wrong (Pro Wrestling Stories)
• 14 Surprising Facts About Happy Days (Mental Floss)
• Retro Easter Candy From the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s Remains Some of the Greatest Candy of All Time (Click Americana)
• Boy Meets Wrestling: When Vader and the WWF Invaded Boy Meets World (The Retro Network)
• 10 Forgotten TV Shows From the ’90s (MeTV)
• When ’90s Gamers Tuned In To The Sega Channel (Mental Floss)
• Are Funko Pops the New Beanie Babies? (Beyond My Geeky Life)
• Remembering Dusty Rhodes (Mid-Atlantic Gateway)
• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

In case you missed them, here are the posts that dropped on here on Retro Ramblings this week…

• Five Old Pieces of Dukes of Hazzard Merch
• Wax Pack Flashback: Mad Magazine Cards (1992)
• Saturday Morning Showcase: Captain N The Game Master

And before I get out of here, I wanted to include a little video for you to watch. With Wrestlemania being just a week away, I’m feeling nostalgic for the big event in years past and found a nice video looking back at the marquee event through the years. Enjoy!

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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

Retro & Nostalgia Links

• How the Rumble in the Jungle Became One of the Most Iconic Fights in Boxing History (All That’s Interesting)
• Toy of the Week: Medley of My Little Pony (The Retro Network)
• Top Ten Board Games with Cult-Like Followings (Listverse)
• Wax Pack Revolution: Baseball Edition (20 Years Before 2000)
• Top 10 Iconic Albums That Are Turning 40 in 2022 (Ultimate Guitar)
• Cel to Silver – Transformers (The Retro Network)
• From Mad Max to Indiana Jones: The Greatest Adventure Films of the ’80s (Rediscover the ’80s)
• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

I’m sure you already know this, but I write quite a few features over at The Retro Network. Part of what I do there is posting The Junk Food Files post every week, and with St. Patrick’s Day this past week, I put together something appropriate for the occasion with a feature about the history of one of our favorite cereals of all time, Lucky Charms, and I think you’d probably enjoy it, so here is the link to go check it out:

The Magically Delicious History of Lucky Charms Cereal

My partner over at The Retro Network, Jason Gross, is also the creator of Rediscoverthe80s.com. And he hosts a podcast there as part of the content he produces. On recent episodes, he and Wyatt have been pulling topics at random to talk about, and this weeks episode was right up my alley:

“The random topic chosen during the show is The Dukes of Hazzard! Jason and Wyatt jog their memories of watching the hit TV show as kids, what toys they had, and overall thoughts on the series that aired for 7 seasons. Superfan Wyatt as tells about obtaining autographs of the stars while visiting Cooter’s Last Stand and the hosts remember their trip to Covington, GA in search of filming locations for the show.“

Give the episode a listen in the player below, and since you’ll more than likely like what you hear, be ready to click on the Subscribe button to get more fun episodes:

And in case you missed them, here are the posts that dropped here on Retro Ramblings this week…

• Saturday Morning Showcase: Hulk Hogan’s Rock N’ Wrestling
• Special Feature: Ten Old Basketball Things I Enjoyed
• Sponsored Post: Five Things We All Miss From the ’80s

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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

Retro & Nostalgia Fun

• 20 Times Newman Was Our Favorite Character on Seinfeld (BuzzFeed Rewind)
• 10 Must See Movies From the ’80s That Still Hold Up (CBR)
• 15 Worst SNES Games Ever (Den of Geek)
• Water Guns From Entertech (Retroist)
• How Much Your Favorite Nostalgic Stars Get Paid for Reruns (Do You Remember)
• How World War I Turned Peanut Butter Into a Kitchen Staple (Mental Floss)
• 5 Times Scooby-Doo Met Real Monsters (Retro-Daze)
• 6 Iconic Books From the ’80s (Rediscover the 80s)
• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)

And check out my latest entry to the Junk Food Files at The Retro Network, A Brief History of Sizzler.

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 grab a hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa, 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.

Retro & Nostalgia Fun

• Forgotten Movies From the ’90s That Deserve a Second Chance (BuzzFeed Rewind)
• The Power Rangers Episodes That Will Make You a Fan (Den of Geek)
• 10 Movie Props That Will Give You the Feels (Listverse)
• Watch Old Coffee Commercials Starring Jim Henson’s Early Muppets (Mental Floss)
• The Rocketeer is Turning 40 and Celebrating With an Anniversary Comic Book (Pop Geeks)
• The 1980’s Walking Workout That Will Actually Get You in Shape (Art of Manliness)
• Favorite Pop Culture Bears of the ’80s (The Retro Network)
• 5 Awesome Things on eBay This Week (Plaid Stallions)