Take a trip down memory lane with NerdLeaks Nostalgia. Revisit the golden era of classic games, tech, movies, TV shows, toys, and more. Cherish the timeless nostalgia of the nerd scene and relive those unforgettable moments.
If you haven’t tried Planet Coaster yet and you’re a big fan of management or simulation games, then we’d definitely recommend it. The essence of the game is building your own park and trying to attract as many customers to it as possible; in that regard, it’s a lot like the old Theme Park series, … Read more
Although many people think reality TV has its origins in the 1990s, it was actually invented far earlier than that. The very first reality TV show was created in the 1970s, although people probably didn’t think of it as a reality show; nevertheless, it’s one of the many old reality TV shows that the public … Read more
If there’s one trope that has come to dominate romantic comedies in the last couple of decades, it’s the “love-hate relationship”. Two individuals who supposedly loathe each other find themselves drawn together due to circumstances, and wouldn’t you know it, they discover that they’re actually insanely attracted to one another. Peter Hutchings’ The Hating Game … Read more
True Detective really is a one-of-a-kind show. Combining gothic horror aesthetics with the police procedural genre, the show garnered critical acclaim for its first season, and while the response to its second season was decidedly more divided, True Detective maintained its fair share of followers and fans. If you’ve binged all three seasons of True … Read more
At time of writing, Titanic is the third highest-grossing movie of all time. It’s achieved a worldwide gross of $2.19 billion, and it’s only thanks to the dominance of Avengers: Endgame and Avatar that Titanic doesn’t rule supreme. It’s clear the doomed romance between Rose and Jack (spoilers, sorry) still has a great deal of … Read more
There have been three King Kong movies over the years. The first is, of course, the classic 1933 original, which memorably stars Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray. The second was made in 1976 and isn’t regarded in anywhere near as favourable a light as the original, but Peter Jackson’s 2005 attempt is much more well-liked … Read more
It’s hard to imagine a movie more iconic than Jurassic Park. Packed with classic moments that movie fans can quote at the drop of a hat, Spielberg’s blockbuster masterpiece helped to usher in the modern age of ultra-high-budget cinema, and its practical and special effects are still yet to be bested in many ways. If … Read more
Technically speaking, Nintendo’s GameCube was a more powerful console than the PS2. It had better graphical capabilities, but due to its unusual choice of physical media and its relative lack of major third-party exclusives, the GameCube unfairly lagged behind Sony’s all-conquering black monolith during the sixth console generation. This is unfortunate, because the GameCube had … Read more
It’s fair to say the Nintendo Game Boy was a runaway success. It’s still one of the top ten best-selling consoles of all time, and in the years following its release, it routinely topped hardware sales charts, demonstrating the incredible staying power of this handheld marvel. Much has been made of the Game Boy’s hardiness, … Read more
The arcade can be seen as the crucible of modern gaming as we know it. A typical arcade contained many cabinets, all of them housing different gaming wonders and promising mastery if only you could spend the time (and, crucially, the money) to get seriously good at them. Many of your favourite games likely began … Read more
It could be argued that the launch of the Xbox 360 was the point at which gaming went truly mainstream. Of course, such a thing is impossible to quantify, but the Xbox 360 did absolutely huge numbers; we distinctly remember almost every household we went into in the 2000s and early 2010s having an Xbox … Read more
When Microsoft entered the console market, it had everything to play for. The Washington tech giant was already dominating the world of PC gaming with its Windows operating system, but it had yet to prove that it could establish itself in console gaming as well. The original Xbox arrived to much cautious optimism and quickly … Read more
After the video game crash of 1983, it was going to take something seriously effective and innovative to change the public’s hearts and minds about gaming. That something came in the form of Nintendo’s NES, or Nintendo Entertainment System. By packaging the console as an “entertainment system”, Nintendo sidestepped the idea that it was “just” … Read more
Here’s an idea of just how dominant and all-conquering the PS2 was back in the day. As of 2022, the PS2 is still the best-selling console of all time, outstripping rivals like the Nintendo DS and the PS4 by a significant distance. With over 155 million units sold across its lifetime, the PS2 still stands … Read more
The Sony PlayStation came about thanks to a botched deal with Nintendo. Originally, Sony was to develop a CD add-on peripheral for Nintendo’s SNES console, but the deal fell through, leaving Sony with a whole bunch of CD-ROM gaming research and nowhere to put it. They channeled that research into the PlayStation, which rapidly took … Read more
Ah, the Sega Mega Drive. Sega’s answer to the Super Nintendo had a famously aggressive marketing campaign, claiming that the console (which was called the Genesis in America) “does what Nintendon’t”. Whether you remember this campaign or the infamous “blast processing” that Sega used to promote the Mega Drive, one thing’s for sure: the console … Read more
There are many who say that Sony should re-enter the handheld gaming market. Thanks to the success of the PSP (and, to a lesser extent, the cult popularity of the PlayStation Vita), many gamers clamour for a return to the halcyon days of Sony’s first handheld and its hardcore alternative to the more family-friendly DS. … Read more
The Sega Dreamcast is one of the most underrated gaming consoles of all time. Launched back in 1999 (in the West, at least; it was released a year earlier in Japan), the Dreamcast had to compete with the PlayStation 2, the GameCube, and the Xbox, and it struggled to do so. That’s a shame, though, … Read more