Woohoo – announced today. The Cure are coming back to Australia for vivid live festival in Sydney. Playing on the 31st May and 1st June, it’s sure to be be pretty special, especially considering ‘what’ they will be playing. They will be playing three albums in their entirerty – namely Three Imaginary Boys (1979), Seventeen […]

On this day in 1981, I think the delivery of digital media changed forever – MTV started broadcasting at 12:01am. The first music video it played was the Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star. How appropriate! Enjoy the video:

The 80’s were the decade that started the trend in what we enjoy today in handheld games – thanks to Nintendo. These very simple games took the world by storm. The size and simplicity made these very addictive to all. It was always a challenge to beat the highest score – even if it was […]

A very popular arcade game of the 80s was Galaga. It was the sequel to Galaxian and was released in 1981 by Namco. I’d call Galaxian a typical space invaders clone but taken to the next level where the aliens have much more movement when flying around. Galaga goes one step further. The aliens fly […]

Remember when you were were younger and you heard that NASA were going to space in this new aircraft that looked like a plane, and when the mission was finished the craft would then glide bac to Earth and land like a plane? I do, and of course it was the Space Shuttle. It seemed […]