Word: retro
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Though he has now run the show solo for 12 years, it probably looks exactly like it did during the Carter Administration. Under the harsh glow of fluorescent lights, throw-backs like an old-school beer price guide and a retro Coca-Cola refrigerator scatter the floor. Newspaper clippings yellowed with age and old photos line the wall behind the counter...
...help you recapture those childhood thrills. One is Atari Flashback, a $40 gaming console that plugs directly into your TV (available in Europe in March). The other is Atari Anthology, a $20 disc of games for the PlayStation 2 (available in Europe Feb. 4) and Xbox (available now). These retro games don't have the eye-popping graphics of today's hot sellers, but that doesn't make classics like Centipede and Missile Command any less addictive. To find out how well the updates replicated the originals, I asked a dozen TIME staff members to test them. The verdict: Anthology...
...These retro games don't have the eye-popping graphics of today's hot sellers, but that doesn't make classics like Centipede and Missile Command any less addictive. To find out how well the updates replicated the originals, I asked a dozen Time staff members to test them. The verdict: Anthology most faithfully re-creates the Atari classics, whereas Flashback is a disappointment, lacking in both depth and performance...
America's fat crisis has been a long time coming. Diet books have been selling briskly for decades, and Richard Simmons' fitness infomercials from the '80s seem positively retro. Despite a national obsession with losing weight, however, we have continued to put on pounds. Today one-third of Americans are not just overweight but obese. That's why the issue got more attention in 2004 than ever before from health experts, government agencies and the media--including Time and abc News, which jointly sponsored a conference on obesity in May. And it's why I've decided...
Several celebrities christened their newborns with distinctive monikers, from Gwyneth Paltrow's culinary cutie Apple to Helen Hunt's luau-ready Makena Lei to Julia Roberts' retro-inspired twins Phinnaeus and Hazel. What better way to preserve your kid's anonymity? And nothing helps a youngster get along at school like being named after a lunchtime staple...