4 minDollar Tree DVD Find: "The Best of COPS" Cartoon (AKA "CyberCOPS")COPS isn't the first '80s cartoon that comes to mind for most people, but I have fond memories of watching it during the early '90s at my...
2 minMcDonald's Funny Fry Friends Happy Meal Toys (1988). Fry Guys Over Five Guys!Nobody wants their food stolen. Despite this, major fast food chains continue to employ mascots determined to rip you off and/or tarnish...
1 minVideo: This Retro Home Arcade Used to be My Grandmother's Porch.Welcome to Ghosts of the '80s, my home arcade. It's a tribute to the Time-Out where I grew up and later worked, so its name really refers...
4 minCannon Films' "Mannequin": Man, I Can't.Mark Twain once said, "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." There are movies people talk...
4 min"A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" is a Prime '80s Slasher.Most horror fans have their favorite slasher series. While I have an appreciation for the entire genre, I've always been a Friday the...
3 minWhat's the Deal with Namco's PAC-LAND?I first heard of PAC-LAND circa 2004 when I acquired this pin from The Toy Cave, a now-defunct toy store in Carlisle, PA. I paid them...
4 minThe Trapper Keeper Game Lets You Relive School. Is This a Good Thing?"There's no excuse for bad grades now." These words were uttered by my dad in 1991, when my mom bought me a Trapper Keeper for my fourth...
5 minReview: The Care Bears Movie. (Yeah, Really.)Debuting in 1982, The Care Bears stuffed animals were a product of Kenner, the company behind The Real Ghostbusters and Star Wars...
9 minHere's Why CGI Doesn't Work.By Luke Worle, contributing writer to Retro Injection. "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is...