Michael Panayiotakis spent the last 6 years collecting unboxed Nintendo Game & Watch games. He has finally managed to get hold of all 60 of them (59 plus a special edition). His friend Andy Cole has been a collector even longer - 10 years. Over at DSFanboy you can find an interview with them where they try to explain why they do it.

Collecting & Obsessing: Game & Watch [dsfanboy.com]

Tags: game & watch, nintendo, obsession, retro

I stumbled across this quite huge gallery (they got hundreds of them) of old nerd watches. The nerdy watch above is an Alba Y765 including a Mamagon Dragon Lady Game Watch.

pocketcalculatorshow.com/nerdwatch

Tags: alba, retro, watch

I guess that some of my youngest readers never even seen a compact cassette - and that just makes this nice lamp even cooler. Each lamp is hand made out of old cassette tapes and they come in various sizes and shapes. Here is another example:

Cassette tape lamps look great, sound awful [technabob.com]

Tags: compact cassette, Design, interior, retro

It aint cheap. It aint good looking. But it is cool and it can convert your vinyls into mp3. It probably sound bad too! Hehe, but I like it! $500 and it’s yours.

Gais Faltima Series 010 SD, LP, CD System [Uncrate]

Tags: hifi, lp, retro, ugly

I was really surprised when I saw that Firebox had a bunch of fresh Cobra phone remakes in stock. The Cobra, or Scandiphone, is a classic Swedish retro phone from the 1950s that still is very popular over here. The ones you can find over at Firebox looks exactly like the original one. Cool.

Retro Telephones [firebox.com]

Tags: Cobra, Design, phone, remake, replica, retro, Scandiphone