21 Bleep Street: Back before iPhones and PSPs and Nintendo DSs, heck, even before the long-extinct Atari Lynx, playing video games on the go meant something clunky, bleepy and not featuring anything you might call graphics or animation. The Handheld Museum features photos of hundreds of these games, which, along with Urkel and The Golden Girls, had largely disappeared by the mid-’90s. You’ll find the familiar, the forgotten and the bizarrely only-in-Japan at www.handheldmuseum.com.
Domo arigato: There is a time when household robots were as common as television sets and microwave ovens. That time is known as the 1980s. That’s right. Everyone from Tom Hanks in Big to Mr. Belvedere had their own robot to do chores, play Bananarama cassettes and make snappy one-liner comebacks. The Old Robots Web Site has a gallery of some of these, mostly manufactured by Tomy in Japan and sold in North America by Radio Shack. Relive your Armatron vs. Omnibot robot war fantasies at www.theoldrobots.com.
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