Retro Ramblings
A Few of My Favorite Christmas Gifts Through the Years
With Christmas getting ever so closer, let’s take a break from everyday life to remember some of our favorite old Christmas gifts. I’m listing five of mine here for you …
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Time Capsule
TV Guide’s 1994 Holiday Viewing Guide
For this Time Capsule, I’m taking you back to 1994 to check out TV Guide’s Holiday Viewing Guide. TV Guide used to put these extended articles in their magazines during …
Special Feature
Highlights From the 1991 Sears Christmas Wishbook
Now that we’re past Thanksgiving, I’m all in on Christmas, and that means features like this. We’re going to look at a few things that really caught my eye while …
Retro Ramblings
1992’s Christmas Creatures TBS Movie Marathon
Back in the early 1990s, when cable TV still felt like a treasure chest and not just a scrollable blur of sameness, there was one channel that stood out like …
Time Capsule
Disney Channel Guide for December 1984
Back when I was young and being jealous of my friends who had cable television, one of the channels I drooled over the most was The Disney Channel. It seemed …
Special Feature
Christmas Specials as Presented in Old TV Guides
Am I alone in missing the good old days of TV Guide? Not only for the listings that helped you know what to watch when but for the ads for …
Time Capsule
1990 Gamepro Holiday Catalog
Back in 1990, handheld gaming systems were the new hotness, and Gamepro provided a handy guide to all of the games that were currently available for both Gameboy and Lynx …
Retro Ramblings
Merry Christmas 2020!
Merry Christmas to all of you out there on the interweb! I know this year’s Christmas celebrations are probably going to be vastly different for most of us. But I …
Special Feature
My Virtual Christmas Tree
Way back in 2014, Matt at Dinosaur Dracula unleashed on the world an idea to create a virtual Christmas tree. It was an awesome idea, but I didn’t heed his …
Retro Ramblings
Cobra, Construx, and Christmas Chaos
There are Christmases you remember vaguely…bits and pieces, a toy here, a family gathering there. And then there are the ones etched into your memory like carvings in old oak. …