GAMING

Love Hulten Pyua

Gamers are bathing in the glory of a retro revival at present. One Stuff staffer’s dad is a veteran gamer and has hurled himself head-first through this window of opportunity to replenish his cherished haul with kit that fraternises with HDMI. Enter nostalgic Swedish design house Love Hulten and its glass-domed shrine to Nintendo – or more specifically, to the NES system. The Pyua console comes complete with original NES controllers, and gives your 8-bit collection some upscaling TLC with Full HD resolution. £tba / lovehulten.com

Atari VCS

This stylish wee system elevates Atari into the modern world. There are more than 100 classic games to sink your teeth into, such as Missile Command, Asteroidsand the obligatory appearance of Pong, mixed with a dash of new titles. Alongside internet access, Twitch streaming, voice controls and ports galore, it uses Linux OS for a customisable setup. Choose to play with an original joystick or a PC-compatible controller. from £180 / atarivcs.com

Retro Freak

Aptly named, this machine supports original games from 12 different systems, including the Sega Genesis and Mega Drive, Nintendo Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Gameboy Advance, SNES, NES and more. It has cartridge slots, controller ports plus SD card and HDMI support. It upscales to HD, or you can enable a scanline overlay. The premium version ships with an adaptor for TurboGrafx, Famicom, Super Famicom and Genesis controllers. £150 / cybergadget.co.jp

SNK Neo Geo Mini

SNK’s Neo Geo Mini is a titchy tribute to the classic arcade machine. Decked out with 40 original titles, including the likes of The King of Fightersseries, the Metal Slugtrilogy and Fatal Fury Special, there are plenty of memories to jog – so we suggest multipacks of Space Raiders and Nerds to see you through the night. There’s a built-in LCD screen, joystick controls, an HDMI port for TV connectivity and support for official Neo Geo controllers. £139 / snk-corp.co.jp

Numskull Pac-Man

Waka waka waka waka. Do you hear that? It can mean only one thing: Pac-Man’s got the munchies. Numskull’s adorable cabinet is the result of a passion project to create replicas of iconic arcade machines, but crucially at a quarter of the size so you can store them on a shelf. The first in a series of three machines, the Pac-Man unit runs a ROM of the original game on a 5in display and even includes a coin slot. £150 / numskull.com

PHOTOGRAPHY

Fujifilm X-T100

What do you do when you’re lusting after Leica-esque design and image quality, but don’t really fancy selling everything to get it? The X-T100 comes with a 24.2MP APS-C sensor and a newly developed rapid autofocus system, all for a relatively modest price. All of you smartphone snapping hounds should be happy too, because it’ll be quicker than ever to transfer files via Bluetooth. £619 /fujifilm.eu

Hasselblad X1D

Step into the average photographer’s studio and you’ll spot a medium format camera. They pack in pixels perfect for portraits, but aren’t so handy on the move. Hasselblad changed all that with the X1D. This was the first time we’d seen a medium format sensor squeezed into a compact system camera body – it looks great, has top build quality, is easy to use and produces outstanding pictures. £5999 /hasselblad.com

Leica Q Khaki Special Edition

Leica’s limited-edition Q compact camera is wrapped in a ‘khaki’ leather trim. This is a 24.2MP luxury snapper in its purest form with a full-frame sensor, fast prime lens, Full HD video recording and Wi-Fi connectivity for transferring content to a smartphone, tablet or laptop. It’s also ludicrously expensive and just 495 are being produced. Given it’s called Q, we suggest pairing it with a Roger Moore safari suit and heading off to exotic climes – just remember the Empire no longer exists. £4150 /en.leica-camera.com

Polaroid OneStep+

We love the Polaroid OneStep 2 for its retro quirks, its fun factor and the sheer fact that it’s built using a decades-old process. The OneStep+ adds a Bluetooth-connected smartphone app with double exposure, light painting, self-timer, remote trigger, noise trigger, scanner and manual mode for finetuning your shutter and flash. There’s also a new portrait lens for taking photos from just over 30cm away. £150 / uk.polaroidoriginals.com

Reflex SLR

Feast your eyes upon the first update of a manual 35mm SLR camera in more than 25 years. Modular in design, it has an interchangeable lens mount and film back, so it’s easy to use with lenses you already own and change film on the fly. It’ll also play nicely with third-party accessories. Originally a Kickstarter campaign, another £20,000 will reach its stretch funding goal and add Bluetooth LE tech. £350 /reflex-s.com

MOBILES

Nokia 8110

Back in 1999, when the Millennium Dome was called the Millennium Dome, there was nothing cooler than Nokia’s 8110 slider phone. Sure, it was like making calls on a banana, but Keanu Reeves had one in the The Matrixso we all wanted one. Nokia’s rebooted version has a colour display and 4G connectivity for app downloads and mobile web browsing – ideas considered witchcraft at the turn of the century. There’s a new version of Snaketo tackle, and if yellow isn’t your colour it also comes in a more sedate black finish. £69 /nokia.com

Punkt MP02

Launched at the London Design Festival, the second iteration of the Punkt mindful mobile is a minimalist’s dream, with leanings towards Braun’s iconic designs of the 1980s. What do we mean by mindful? Well it’s 4G, can tether to other devices, and is the first third-party handset to have Blackberry Secure Software; but it also aims to offer a digital life balance, so no web browsing or app downloads on the device itself. £295 / punkt.ch

Gemini PDA

The Psion 5 PDA was heralded as a yuppie gamechanger in the late ’90s, when city workers were doing so many drugs they required a palm-sized keyboard to cater for their skewed vision. Finally emerging from that haze is Planet Computers, which has reinvented the PDA with the Gemini, a 4G Android phone with 5.7in ultra-wide touchscreen. If you’re missing the superclub era, there’s also a dual-boot Linux option. £599 / planetcom.co.uk

Samsung W2018

The flip-phone flame burns brightly in Japan, where such handsets are dubbed ‘garakei’ and are packed with features for a nation working crazy-long hours. This flipper is for the Far East, but can be found online and imported. It has a 4.2in Super AMOLED touchscreen, variable aperture camera, dual SIMs and USB-C charging. A W2019 should arrive soon for an equally eyewatering price tag. £1600 / samsung.com

Nokia 3310

If a fruit-based Nokia doesn’t float your retro boat, the 3310 is a reimagining of the noughties classic responsible for disturbing train passengers with monophonic UK garage ringtones. The 2.4in curved display has been treated to Technicolor, and while the 2MP camera takes photos akin to a farcical e-fit and connectivity is only 3G, the battery lasts up to a month on standby, so it’s ideal for festivals. Nokia 3310 If a fruit-based Nokia doesn’t float your retro boat, the 3310 is a reimagining of the noughties classic responsible for disturbing train passengers with monophonic UK garage ringtones. The 2.4in curved display has been treated to Technicolor, and while the 2MP camera takes photos akin to a farcical e-fit and connectivity is only 3G, the battery lasts up to a month on standby, so it’s ideal for festivals. £50 / nokia.com

AUDIO

Toshiba Aurex TYKA1

Toshiba is taking a different route back into the world of tapes with a cassette deck purporting to deliver the same quality as high-resolution audio. Aurex was a subsidiary of Toshiba back in the 1970s, and this new player of the same name is said to contain a mechanism that improves the music data quality on a tape. It’ll also play CDs and files from SD cards and USB sticks, all for £200-ish. ¥29k/toshiba.co.uk

GPO Brooklyn

Go all Beastie Boys and fight for your right to party with GPO’s Brooklyn ghetto blaster. It’ll sit on your shoulder and pump out old cassette recordings of the top 40, but also has the nous to cover you for CD, DAB, FM radio or Bluetooth streaming. There’s a backlight and analogue VU meters, so pair it with a tracksuit, Adidas shell toes and a breakdancing mat, and fool people into wondering what year it is. £249/gporetro.com

Komozophone

Love vinyl, but feel you’ve not gone retro enough? Reckon you’d happily plonk a gramophone in your living room if only it weren’t century-old tech? You’re in luck. Kozmophone hurls Edison’s invention into the present, and then drop-kicks it into the future. The main unit resembles the classic gramophone, but incorporates a headphone stand including a holographic display. There’s Bluetooth in and RCA line out, while the horn can be detached for 12 hours of portable playback… and presumably quite a few funny looks from anyone nearby. £228/kozmophone.com

Master & Dynamic MW50+

Gloriously Mad Menin style but with a wealth of cutting-edge tech, M&D’s hybrid headphones have a neat trick up their sleeve: you can swap between on-ear and over-ear modes. A warm sound emanates from the 40mm beryllium drivers, and there’s Bluetooth 4.1 with AptX, a 16-hour battery life and a choice of three understated finishes. £369/masterdynamic.co.uk

Ballfinger M063H5

Reel-to-reel tape is the chosen format for a wealth of serious recording artists, and Lady Gaga. For those seeking true, unadulterated audiophile sound, Ballfinger’s M063H5 deck is the one to have. It’s housed in a precision aluminium chassis and sports threespeed playback, a headphone amp, its own editing system and Uncle Buck passion-wagon-style wooden side panels. €24k/ballfinger.de

ART

Sonic by Robert Oxley

It’s a testament to artist Robert Oxley’s skill that he can let paint dribble down a canvas and give off this incredible ‘melted waxwork’ reimagining of Sonic the Hedgehog. Created in collaboration with Sega to celebrate the character’s 25th anniversary, an original limited-edition boxed canvas of ‘Sonic’ or ‘Speed of Sound’ (left) can be bought direct from the artist. from £850 /oxleyart.co.uk

Mike Wrobel 8090s Thrones

Mike Wrobel is a Japan-based artist with a penchant for slipping Games of Thronescharacters into ’80 and ’90s clothing. White Walkers, Missandei, Jon Snow, Littlefinger and Olenna Tyrell are among those given the treatment, the latter depicted in a shellsuit sporting a dookie gold chain. Other incarnations include Conan the Barbarian, Axel Foley and Mulder & Scully. from $25 / mikewrobel.shop

Replaceface

Home furnishings: boring. Not these, though. Replaceface takes the works of English portrait artist George Dawe, who painted 329 Russian generals during Napoleon’s invasion, and Photoshops iconic characters on their shoulders instead. Bedspreads, pillowcases, cushions, rugs, tapestries – they’re all available, and included are the likes of Bill Murray, Sir Patrick Stewart and Neil Armstrong. from $15 / society6. com/replaceface

Blade Runner Whiskey Glasses

Relax after a stressful day spent ‘retiring’ replicants by supping sweet single malt – or Tab Clear, Panda Cola etc – from the same tumblers used by Rick Deckard in the seminal 1982 sci-fi movie Blade Runner. Each one is formed from hand-made crystal glass, mouth-blown at boutique Italian firm Arnolfo di Cambio, and goes perfectly with flickering neon signs reflecting off puddles. £120 / firebox.com

Star Wars Wampa Rug

There’s something gloriously tacky about this fireplace-worthy white Wampa rug. Somehow this is officially licensed, and features four limbs with softsculpted vinyl claws, embroidered eyes and printed teeth – so just like the real thing, then. Naturally, if you’re planning on entertaining friends or have designs on someone special coming over for dinner, we suggest you store this in a cupboard. £123 / fun.co.uk