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"We went to a retro bazaar in Heidelberg, which is like, you know, it's a big fair where people selling used games, and we had a lot of fun there."
"This game is so up my alley; Pseudo Regalia is a 3D retro-style Metroidvania with a focus on movement and nonlinear exploration."
"It's all about retro style, and I think quite an interesting and special look."
"Most of the games that I enjoy playing are small, underpowered retro games, and these devices are perfect for that."
"The kitchen is one of the home's best spaces though, with its yellow countertops, green and white units, vivid linoleum floor, and retro appliances."
"The aspect ratio, along with it being filmed in black and white makes it feel like a much older film."
"A massive 8-bit platformer that pretty much outclasses all of them."
"Dead cells is some of the best Castlevania Metroid style gameplay."
"It's rendered in that newfangled retro style of like 16-bit Metroidvania that has been all the rage these days and deservedly so."
"Teletext: A counterpart to the internet, thriving with renewed interest for its aesthetic."
"The SNES controller has similar bonus ZR and ZL buttons on the top."
"The N64 controller has a built-in rumble feature for N64 games."
"The PSP 6: my new favorite way to enjoy Retro Gaming on the go."
"If you're just going to be focusing on classic and retro gaming, I think this one's a great fit."
"It's all well and good to make a pixel art side-scroller and call it retro, but the cream of the modern retro crop knows exactly how to make a game feel like it traveled in time from that era."
"Without any doubt, the best retro gaming system I have ever used."
"I'm mostly about I love imports and I'm just a fan of like the the 8-bit 16-bit era for sure." - John Riggs
"Fringe: consider getting a fringe jacket or dress for a fun retro look."
"This room is so cozy, it's so different, kind of has a funky feel to it, a bit retro at the same time which I love."
"The graphics of Final Fantasy are actually awesome for the NES."
"Join us on our epic quest to search for retro games."
"The atmosphere alone makes it an obvious must-play for any fans of retro horror games."
"People love to make fun of the mega man games on dos but by looking at their backstory it's easier to see these titles in a new light."
"It's a beautiful abomination, a neon '80s abomination."
"Technically yeah, it seems like a pretty big year for retro stuff."
"Old school style hot seat cool Throne guys on chicks."
"This is a beautiful version of Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure."
"Hell yeah man, it's even if you aren't a retro gamer."
"Do you have a new fridge which is like a super that's cool it's super funky like it's like almost like a 50s kind of fridge which is awesome."
"The controller's themselves are solid perfectly replicating the look of the original three button pads."
"Shovel Knight is a loving look back at the classic platformers that you'd find in an arcade or the consoles of the 80s."
"Flash cartridges have become popular in recent years as a method of playing older games, hacks, and homebrew without software emulation."
"Playing old school, there's a sense of real accomplishment."
"Greetings and welcome to another LGR retro computer build!"
"The aesthetic is retro sensibility with a futuristic flair."
"I love this shirt and this skirt together; it's giving like funky retro collegiate."
"I think my taste is very mid-century modern meets like 70s retro."
"The materials and overall build or shape... this looks so good, it looks like somebody went and grabbed these out of 1989 and brought them to 2024."
"I really love chiptune is taking these old pieces of vintage video game consoles and pushing their soundships to beyond what they were supposed to be doing."
"Keep on rocking, keep on rolling, and keep that retro spirit alive."
"I'm just talking to you through an old school phone right now. Do I sound different?"
"Robocop is a product of the 1980s and experiencing games based on the famous cop of Detroit, it's best to look to the past for your fix with many good choices."
"The whole style of this place is like a 50s diner."
"My style is like retro SL nerd SL Couture. Would you say Street Couture?"
"...this is giving me all of like the 1950s retro Vibes."
"I mean, a retro style is not complete without the Chrome Wagon Wheels and then a chrome roll bar to go with it."
"Nothing screams 1980s build like these Chrome Wagon Wheels."
"This feels so fun and retro. It's like definitely leaning 60s Twee Vibes."
"I love these. They're so vintage or retro."
"I wanted to build something that would handle pretty much everything retro related in one package without the need of removing or replacing anything for any game."
"Imagine being able to stretch out your playgrounds and play Pac-Man at whim."
"This is the magical 8-bit plugin, it's very basic and gives you just a few NES sounds."
"Hey look, here it is, the Sega, nice, so now we have the box from earlier and both controllers, so we got the Sega complete."
"The '80s style is coming straight back in."
"It’s not at the top of my list for favorite turbo clones or anything, but still. I’m happy this one came across my path some 35 years later, and that I was able to share the King Kong Bundy-approved experience here on LGR."
"They released a final ad in which he saves Sega headquarters from a missile being shot at them by catching it in midair and then riding it into space."
"Nostalgia for the past was really reflected in this interest in retro things."
"I love me some retro toy Biz stuff too."
"It's just like, you know what, hell yeah. Hell yeah, this is the type of retro sequel."
"The influence of the 1970s on the design world has been a defining trend throughout all of the 2020s so far, and it's really not going to go anywhere for a while."
"They're great looking bikes, they're competitively priced, they're very retro."
"Now if you only want the experience of an old terminal simply install the cool retro term uh software package and you can have an application window that looks like an old monitor even if you like with the sync problems coming down the screen if you like."
"I've always been super impressed by the creativity that comes out of the Retro Hardware scene."
"This product is probably a winner for retro."
"The Butterfinger commercials I think definitely have the Retro charm."
"Look at this place, it's like a time machine into the '70s."
"The 3DS allows for players to play classic games from the NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Gear via virtual storefront."
"It's homey, it's retro, it's just so nice."
"There's nothing stopping us from living in the 80s now."
"Retro today is everything, whether it's fashion made to look '90s or music from the '70s."
"The Bonneville built this retro craze just as much as the retro craze built it."
"It's fair to say that retro motorcycles are cool."
"The 2018 Suzuki Chimney was an instant hit because it combined go anywhere mechanicals with a sort of retro-ish character."
"These are mainly for people who want a little piece of the 50s or the 60s for not too much money."
"You look like you knocked your face in the cheese dip back in '83."
"For the most part with retro bikes, I can tell they're new bikes because they have master cylinders and disc brakes all around or even radiators, but with this bike, there is just very little giving away that it's not an old bike."
"The current kawasaki z900 rs is basically kawasaki's inline four z 900 in retro clothes and i have to say it's done well you know this is such a cool looking bike with true modern performance for less money than a lot of retro bikes."
"The design is really key for honda, the monkey really toes the line between being retro inspired and actually classic."
"There's just something that's just so... I don't know, '80s about it."
"How to describe the 1956 BMW Isetta? It's as if the Muppets time-traveled to the 1950s and designed the car of the future."
"These retro cardback figures are truly terrific."
"For many, the Retro static of an iPod is irresistible, yet you're still bound to using audio cables with it."
"It's kind of nice to see some of the old forgotten McDonald's characters."
"Retro vintage is typified by early 1980s advertising style and minimalist layout."
"Art Nouveau focuses on organic flowing lines and curves, giving a sophisticated retro feeling."
"This one was inspired by the iconic eye makeup from the 1960s like twiggies eyelashes."
"The iPhone 13 mini gave me a retro feel but it was also packed with top-tier specs."
"These ones were released from JB hi-fi here in Australia seem to quite popular at the moment releasing movies in sort of retro VHS packaging."
"These are definitely one of my best buys cuz they're just so comfortable and they feel so retro."
"The CB354 is the perfect unmodern motorcycle for the modern rider."
"The Honda CB354 may not have made sense in its day, but if you ask me today, it makes perfect sense."
"This thing is 100% tube-based other than the occasional retrofitted rectifiers."
"The polkadot drive-in has been there since the 1960s and it still has that fun route 66 diner vibe."
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Retro Rewind."
"It gives you a very like I don't know like 60s news reporter kind of look to all of it."
"I'm going to attempt to build my own computer almost from scratch using the Z80 microprocessor from the late 70s, early 80s. So it's going to be a retro 8-bit computer."
"Retroid prices are well thought out and fair at each of these price points."
"I've only tried disc images, but you can make Apple 3 discs using ADT Pro on an Apple 2."
"To put it simply, the Coleco Chameleon literally fits the dictionary definition of retro: to imitate a style of the past."
"This design is both futuristic but also has this kind of retro vibe."
"This one tastes and looks like something that should have been discontinued in the 70s, but I'm really glad it wasn't."
"I'm extremely pleased with these. I love how weird and kind of retro video game goggle-ish they look."
"It's quirky, it's retro, so it's just fun, isn't it really?"
"The fact that we're finally getting retro cloth releases of even any of them just makes me so happy inside as Halloween is one of my all-time favorite horror franchises."
"Bring it back, but keep those essence of the 80s with it, man."
"I absolutely love old retro games."
"...a PiStorm using Mu68, this solution I think is going to be one of the most preferable and affordable and most powerful ways that you can max out your classic Amiga with a nice mixture of mod cons and retro stuff in there as well."
"Ah, the '80s and '90s, the age of retro."
"It's really retro, but it's kind of special. It doesn't look like every other SUV."
"There's nothing quite like the feeling of old 4x3 cassette tapes, 16-bit games, and anything else to what I consider to be the Golden Age of entertainment."
"I love retro. I knew I was going to love it even speaking about it without it being here."
"Simple retro, you outdo yourself every time."
"For playability, this round goes to Retro Card."
"...very retro varsity collegiate style but I think it's actually a very great way to style your knitwear."
"I love everything kind of retro, I love groovy looking, if it makes me think of the word groovy when I look at it, I'm pretty much going to want it."
"It takes its design from the first generation from the 1970s and even with this modern take on the design, it looks stunning."
"the kind of retro wavy text performs really well...it kind of does really really well"
"Mercedes has really nailed the combination of retro looks with a thoroughly modern interior and driving experience."
"it's a really perfect blend of really retro gauges that also have a very nice modern element"
"It's got a really cool retro look."
"The Tandy 1000 has some tricks up its sleeve that I think make it interesting and unique even today."
"Synthwave is often instrumental and has a futuristic theme with large throbbing retro synths and house-influenced side-chained heavy drums."
"This is retro food, but made more modern."
"I love retro things, so this stamp set really speaks to me. I just love that."
"It's like that 1960s or 70s nostalgic feel. It's really cool."
"A really great middle ground between retro design without spending a lot of money at all."
"The Fiat follows a very sort of retro theme with its very simplistic dashboard, very reminiscent of the original cars but brought up today in a really modern and actually quite luxurious way."
"This is a retro style which is what I'm enjoying at the minute."
"Robbie the robot from Forbidden Planet. He's one of the coolest looking retro robots."
"Continuing on with the retro merchandise I love these at the launch last year the black hole the flume the corkscrew just there 25 pounds for these"
"Retro Brite: the semi-scientific journey to a brighter past."
"Unveiling the truth behind retro Brite: temporary fixes and potential pitfalls."
"Preserve the history or brighten the future? The dilemma of retro Brite."
"Retro Brite revelations: testing, trials, and the quest for the perfect formula."
"From yellowed to youthful: the transformative power of retro Brite."
"I just want to go back and find all the retro funk music videos I can."
"...what I really like about the ti99 more than anything else is just the way its failure has in a backwards kind of way set it up for Success because TI abandoning it right when its user base exploded in 1983 meant that sudden L the system was ours to do with as we pleased."
"Four terabytes of retro games is a freaking huge Library."
"That's kind of cool, like a retro uh, little thing going on right there."
"How about this retro yet stylish tabletop CD jukebox?"
"...that allows you to have that fully retro feel without going into something that's super modern."
"Time to get a watch from the 80s."
"This is eighties nostalgia at its finest."
"When you walk into a drive-in that does what I'm doing, you are stepping back in time."
"It's very, very 'Ronnie Spectre,' very beehive from the '60s."
"Retro was about games like Penetrator, where you mastered the art of bombing things. It never ends; it falls backward forever. That was the beauty."
"Retro is all about innocence. The real British retro is about games like Hover B, where you were a middle-aged man mowing your garden."
"Love them, hate them, that's the beauty of the retro series."
"Big hoop earrings to complete the 80s inspired look."
"They've proven that good value retro bikes can be cool. They've proven that you don't need huge amounts of engine size and you don't need to spend the world to get that genuine feeling of coolness, that desirability from a bike."
"It kind of looks like the old days... everything just looks all chromey and silvery."
"Continuing with the Vintage retro Vibes I had to have some neon in this apartment."
"Let's talk about retro things, people love that stuff."
"Underneath the surface of these retro videos lies a bizarre and mysterious realm of untold horrors."
"This is Avant that I see as a very retro '70s vibe."
"Everyone was so so excited when Nike retroed this shoe in 2012."
"Flared pants and a turtleneck or a button-up top, that's a super easy way to get a vintage look."
"I don't want to put Tron lights in someday, but you want to put Tron lights in here, okay, well, it's actually a cover from an album from the '70s, but it looks Tron-ish."
"I just love how G1 this Scorponok looks."
"It's almost very 80s-ish, isn't it?"
"This brings back old school vibes."
"The Retro styling of the Thunderbird, especially when draped with bright colors, is the car's strongest suit."
"The Retro bird stands out as a bright, happy counterpoint."
"This looks like a jersey, exact same jersey that they would have worn in the 80s, and this is perfect."
"...many of the costumes take inspiration from the 70s."
"So in this case, you can see the vibe I'm going for is a sort of 90s skater look."
"The lineup here isn't bad, dare I say it might be one of the best retro cup lineups."
"Look at that, that is a fancy ass old-school VHS tape right there."
"A retro bike with a gear indicator just so helpful to have when you're driving."
"Hello everyone and welcome to PC Retro Tech."
"A bike that defines an era really retro style but a cruiser with incredible personality and fit and finish."
"I think it looks great. I love these types of helmets because it's really retro and I also really do like the gold, the golden touch with the simple black design."
"I really like that background. It's also in a newsprint. That's what they would do with some of that stuff."
"Welcome to this greatest hits album curating the digital watches of the 80s."
"Hello and welcome to my retro watches."
"It tapped into that 80s nostalgia better than most things nowadays do."
"The Defender's exterior styling has been described as a retro-modern design."
"I wanted it to be like as if someone found a cassette tape of some obscure band."
"It's kind of that '80s minimalist vibe."
"I love retro card back figures from Masters of the Universe to super powers to Star Wars; they bring back all that warm fuzzy nostalgia of my childhood."
"It's passion, you see a lot of retro things."
"These are boards designed by Retro Ninja."
"I'm thinking we kick this one old school."
"Music from the 1970s might end up coming back and young people like the sound of it more than they did before."
"I'm obsessed with this design; it's kind of retro yet futuristic."
"It has this sci-fi kind of retro futuristic feel which is very hard to simulate with any other display."
"I will have a Manhattan, I think I might need a few more 50s before you're invited to cocktails as well."
"We are going to have ourselves an old-fashioned dance-off."
"You can make a movie on film in the late '80s for the price of a crappy used car and totally make it look like an exploitation film from the '70s."
"MIDI with no USB is how physical hardware instruments talked to each other before computers ever entered the picture."
"Flare jeans are coming back in and I love the kind of retro vibe that it gives off."
"Great symmetry, kind of retro style, the Baltic Bicompax certainly does that."
"It's comforting, it's familiar, it's 80s, it's very very comforting."
"It's a cool throwback to the classic Jean Grey costume."
"Chevrolet decided to bring the iconic Camaro back to its lineup and really try to take some of that retro style and blend it with 21st-century style."
"It's like you just want to go back into a DeLorean and tell some of these idiot producers at the time... 'Start making more of these things, put them all together!'"
"The Retro look of the M240 does catch more positive attention."
"It does everything that you would like a little retro runabout to do."
"Look how retro this is, look how cool and funky and fresh this is."
"I am loving the retro design, the feel, the vibe, the aesthetic, the nostalgia."