Retro Nerd Merchandise & Fan Articles

Keys are an important part of our daily lives. Who doesn't use them a few times a day to get into their house, office, car, cupboard, safe? Th...

Simple computer games are still the best! Right? That's why after 30 years, the arcade classic with the colourful tetrominos is still one of the mo...

The saying "everything was better in the old days" does not apply at all to video games, if only in terms of graphics. Nevertheless, many of us rem...

If there is one location where you certainly would not expect Godzilla to show up, it's your kitchen. After all, the famous giant lizard is usually...

Whilst others are still ranting about the resolution of Fallout 4, we remember that an epic game doesn't need too many pixels. Alright, a litt...

The stereotypical nerd never leaves his mom's basement, is anti-social and only eats cold pizza and drinks warm soda. This image of our subculture ...

Several generations of teenagers poured all their passion and pocket money into these little plastic boxes with tape inside. There was no better an...

Many have long since realised it: Floppy disks are simply no longer an adequate storage medium. They are very fragile and simply don’t offer enough...

He wanted to become a real, rough-and-ready pirate. The most notorious pirate ever. Only everything kept going wrong! No one took him seriously as ...

Gamer hands are sensitive tools, as we all know. And frost is something they don't like at all,… which can be awful in the winter as there isn't al...

“It's dangerous to go alone!” These famous words from a video game don't just apply when you're a hero fighting dragons or rescuing princesses. Som...

The good, old cartridges from the NES video game console were (almost) built like tanks: The sturdy grey plastic managed to protect the electronics...

We're pretty sure we know what Guybrush Threepwood would say about this example of a three-headed monkey from the monkey island. It's just too bad ...

With the cassette sponges in a set of 4, your washing up becomes a journey through time. Or when was the last time you held a real cassette in your...

USB flash drives, external hard drives and tiny memory cards have long since outpaced their predecessors. While those old media lacked modern memor...

Nerds can't be romantic? That's just a prejudice, of course. Or why else would we have gone to the trouble of creating a Candlestick lightsaber? Th...

It doesn't get much nerdier than the retro video games of the 70s and 80s. And Pac-Man in particular is of course a classic. A greedy yellow circle...

The average nerd prefers his coffee black. No milk, no sugar, no frills. But from time to time, a latte macchiato, crema or some other fancy form o...

Imagine Mewtu suddenly appears and you realise that you don't have a single Pokéball left. To make sure that something annoying like this never hap...

Smell like Captain Kirk for once: it's possible with this Captain Kirk soap! In the vastness of space, non-Vulcans can sometimes work up a sweat. B...

Are you a retro gamer with a penchant for legendary point-and-click adventures? Or an aspiring politician? Then this sticker is just the thing for ...

The Magic Cube stands for the golden age of nerds like hardly anything else. With Star Wars, the first PCs and consoles for the home and the rise o...

Imagine running, jumping and diving through hazardous levels while malicious turtles and devious mushrooms have it in for you. And now imagine the ...

Even if you always hated eating vegetables as a child, video games show that conscious eating can have a lot of positive consequences. For example,...

Like all villains, the dark side of the Force usually lures us in with empty promises. Who hasn't heard the famous quote from Darth Vader to Luke: ...

It is no coincidence that this tape dispenser is shaped like a cassette. Because in English, the word "tape" means both adhesive tape and audio tap...

If you’re wondering why a music cassette, of all things, makes such a good key rack, you were most likely born after 1999. Everyone else will know ...

Arcade machines, asteroids, spaceships, lasers… Ring any bells? Of course! After all, every child of the 1980s (and geeks who know their tribe’s hi...

The phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" was never actually uttered in the popular science fiction series. Nevertheless, it has become a household phrase in...

During his adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario has to face a multitude of dangers: hazardous obstacles, carnivorous plants and Bowser&#...

Creepers, the green monsters with four legs and no arms, are the most iconic character in Minecraft Every player has a certain love-hate relationsh...

After the destruction of the Death Star at the latest, the X-Wing became the symbol of the Rebel Alliance. One can only imagine how upset those in ...

Are you looking for a suitable storage option for your cassette-style cleaning sponges [Link]? That's exactly what you get with the cassette record...

The year 1990 changed our lives forever when the first Gameboy came on the market. The absolute horror for parents and teachers, because it was dif...

Few villains from the golden age of point and click adventures have risen to such prominence as the megalomaniac, Purple Tentacle! After the rather...