Yes, the current fad for 80s nostalgia can get a little tedious, especially when applied to arcane markers of nerd-dom like first-generation video games. That was our initial reaction when we saw Unreality’s listicle of 10 Nintendo Ads from the 80s. Then we saw this incredible ad for WWF Wrestlemania and suddenly everything made sense:

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Here’s some advice from a child of the eighties: this Christmas season, give your kids the gift of lowered expectations. Because no matter what Monopoly says, we’ll never be homeowners. Not even on Baltic.
10. Let’s Be Safe!: The geniuses at Milton Bradley were sitting in a room in 1986 and were all, “You [...]

Some time ago we mentioned, in a listicle about obscure musical genres, our developing taste for Chiptune: music made with the primitive chips used in the first generation of videogame systems. With that in mind, the musical nerds over at Unreality have compiled a list of 10 Songs and Sounds from 8-Bit Nintendo Games.
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Those perpetual frat boys over at COED Magazine unleashed a list of their 8 favorite Tracy Morgan moments yesterday, covering just about every venue in which the prolific comedian’s work has featured. The better of their two nods to 30 Rock (the other being the “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah”) is this strange online feature of Tracy [...]