Breakout: If you grew up with video games, you played Arkanoid—or some version of it. You know, the game where you break blocks with a ball bouncing off a paddle and get a bonus called “ball grab.” This site is devoted to the myriad takes on the formula, playable right in your browser. Get powered up with colour-coded capsules at www.arkanoid.com.

Rockbox: The classic ’80s ghettoblaster, with its chrome façade and earache-inducing high decibel brouhaha, is experiencing a revival with a certain subset of the hipster doofus population that prowl the Main after dark. Fortunately, an even more maladroit sub-sect has already thoroughly investigated the topic—the people behind short-wave radio’s The Pocket Calculator show, a forum for collectors of recently vintage consumer electronics. There’s a photo gallery of classic ghettoblasters, an index of references to ghettoblasters in popular culture, and pathos. Gucci Crew II at www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/. :

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