Retro Sabotage – Retrogaming: classic games we know and love with a twist. Their latest hilariously sabotaged game is called Jumping and it’s quite silly.

In First-Person Tetris, the simple act of rotating a block actually rotates the entire screen, shifting your perspective 90 degrees. Yup, it’s played just like regular Tetris except, instead of the pieces rotating, it’s your view. It’s a fun perspective of fun game.

Life ain’t easy and life on the Oregon Trail ain’t any easier. If you went to grade school in the last 30 years, perhaps you were lucky enough to play this educational game and learn all about the hardships of life. In the game, you assume the role of a wagon leader guiding your party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon’s Willamette Valley by way of the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848. Be sure you pick up plenty of supplies at the general store before you head out. (Don’t worry, you’ll lose most of it later.) If you manage to not get measles, snakebites, dysentery, typhoid, cholera, exhaustion, and diarrhea, you might just drown crossing the river. Good luck!

Play Oregon Trail and relive the feeling of dysentery and perhaps loose an oxen or two. The breathtaking ASCII landmarks are reason enough to play.

Do we have any Pac-Man fans out there? For a limited time over at ClubNamco, you can get this cool looking Pac-Man Pellet Time watch.

Pac-Man and the ghost gang are featured on the watch face, with Inky, Pinky and Clyde trapped inside a ghost nest, and Power Pellet hour markers around the dial. Pac-Man moves with an invisible ‘second’ hand around the dial to chomp up pellets, as well as bonus cherries and Scaredy ghost which accent the ’3′ and ’9′ hour markers.

In grade school, a friend of mine had the old LCD Nelsonic Pac-Man watch, which entertained us during class. What I really could use is the full-sized Pac-Man cabinet arcade game.

Small Wonder aired for five seasons in syndication and often reran out of order, to the chagrin of fans. The show has since withstood the test of time to emerge as a classic laser beacon of 80s nostalgia and pop culture. Marking 24 years after the initial premiere on network television, Small Wonder: The Complete First Season, finally debuts on DVD for the first time on February 16, 2010 from Shout! Factory.

She’s fantastic, made of plastic, microchips here and there . . . she’s a Small Wonder!

With my own baby due really soon, the topic of X-Babies (Mojo-manufactured child clones of the X-Men) came to my attention with the latest comic issue #3. I like the artwork and sure they’re cute bundles of mutant joy, but they’re more like toddlers. I guess X-Toddlers doesn’t have the same ring to it as X-Babies does. They’re byproducts of the “going baby” phase everyone did in the 1980s, thanks in part to Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies. I can just imagine Prof. X as Nanny, wearing those striped socks, never seeing his face and doing mind probes on the gang.

You know I’m a fan of The Maxx as well as The Head, so finding out about these new (yet to be released) DVDs was a cool surprise. If you recall, these two great animated shows were from the mid 90s and were on MTV’s Oddities or Liquid Television. There’s no more details on when these DVDs will be coming out, so we’ll have to wait and see. While we wait, why not watch all 13 episodes of The Maxx over at MTV.com.

Jump into your own colorful netherworld reality!

Shrinky Dinks is amazing shrinkable plastic and when when I was a wee one, I was hooked on them. So it was great when I stumbled across this collection. This spiral-bound book is filled with traceable color templates with directions and cute photos on how to create necklaces, charm bracelets, earrings, zipper pulls, pins, frames and more. You can buy refills for the Shrinky Dinks plastic once you’ve used it all up, which you probably will. Start making your ready-to-shrink artwork today!

Shrinky Dinks make a great gift for youngsters and the young at heart!

Just when you thought Shel Silverstein was busy being deceased he comes out with a new album. As a big fan of him and his books and records, I was totally surprised to hear about his latest work called Underwater Land.

Enjoy seventeen delightful underwater themed songs, written by Shel Silverstein and sung by Pat Dailey for minnows of all ages. Featuring a beautiful 32-page booklet of previously unreleased Silverstein lyrics and illustrations, Underwater Land overflows with the zany humor and poignant wit that has made Shel Silverstein one of the world’s most popular and best-loved children’s authors of all time.

I used to have his vinyl records years ago, but have since lost them I believe. I don’t even have any of his books. But I’ve got most of his humorous rhymes in my heart.

A curved barrel machine gun? A speechless phone-answering robot? A “tasty” mixture of honey and vinegar called Honegar? Brilliant, you say? Ingenious, you mutter. No, they’re just some of the 30 dumb inventions over at Life. These historical blunders are quite entertaining and I bet people are still coming up with dumb inventions. In fact, I’ll give you a few off the top of my head: rechargeable toilet paper, inflatable contact lens, heated ice cube trays and a dateless calendar. Can you come up with some?