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1980s Fashion Trends

About This Episode The ’80s featured fast music, sporty cars, TV in every home, and new materials that changed the world. Everything was somehow bigger, brighter, and bolder than any decade before, and that included fashion. For both men and women, ’80s fashion created some iconic looks that we won’t soon forget, and in this […]

Trivial Pursuit

About This Episode For most GenX’ers, board games were a big part of how we played together. In 1981, a new game came along where rolling the dice and moving your piece was secondary to your knowledge of trivia and pop culture. In this Backtrack, we’re going around the board collecting pie pieces as we […]

Brats, Cassette Digitizer, & Star Trek: Resurgence

About This Episode We watch a new Hulu documentary reflecting on the members of the “Brat Pack,” check out some tech that promises to bring your old cassette tapes into the digital age, and play a new decision-based computer game that puts you into the uniform of characters in the Star Trek universe. Patreon » […]

GenX Kids’ Rides

About This Episode It’s common knowledge that our GenX youth was a free-range childhood – leaving the house & the morning and back before dark. As we spent our unsupervised days roaming the neighborhood, our modes of personal transportation were as varied as they were awesome. From Big Wheels & bicycles to go-karts & skateboards […]

Tron: Ares, Arc Lighter, & ReStory

About This Episode We reflect on the first season of a new TV series that explores Stephen King’s clown-centric horror universe, check out a decorative piece of technology for Christmas that will invoke some arcade memories, and play the early preview of a Zen-like game where the goal is to restore vintage electronics. (May contain […]