Please forgive me while I indulge my geek and nostalgia genes simultaneously – it is Friday after all.

Monkey Island has made it to the iPhone ::iTunes Link:: and not just any old Monkey Island, the new Special Edition which landed on PC and xBox360(shudder) last weekend. The game contains the original VGA-tastic version as well as a new improved graphic incarnation (HD on the other formats, slightly less impressive on the iPhone). The new version has a new voiceover track and you can flip between past and present with a swipe gesture at any time. Here’s to many more LucasArts titles on the App Store and to a graphic adventure renaissance!

If you haven’t ever played Monkey Island, it’s an offbeat adventure of piratey proportions. A genuine classic game from the early 90′s with excellent writing and atmospheric gameplay. They really don’t make them like this anymore and now it’s had a new lick of pixelly paint…

If you don’t have an iPhone, you can get the new Special Edition on your dirty PC via Steam or your filthy xBox through XBLA. If you don’t have an iPhone, PC or xBox, check out ScummVM, which lets you play all the old LucasArts adventures on almost any platform. And don’t forget Telltale Games’ new episodic Monkey Island series Tales of Monkey Island…

The iPhone is really starting to come into its own as a bona fide gaming platform, notable recent additions to the App Store with a retro flavour also include Peggle, Worms and Wolfenstein 3D. Doom can’t be far away.

All highly recommended to take the edge of travel on the London Underground network…

Now this is something special. Some ingenious chap has actually created a recreation of the classic arcade shooter Defender, wait for it… as a website favicon.

You know favicons, they’re those teeny tiny little icons you get next to a website address bar which show the company’s logo or something and get saved when you bookmark it. They’re only 16 pixels square, so to get even the most crude version of Defender running in there is mind boggling.

I found this via Andy Bennett, but don’t take our word for it, head over to the page and try it out for yourself. Amazing.

I thought these were great, but then again I love stuff like this. Fantastic attention to detail…

Ffffound via Fubiz, where there are lots more…

I’d noticed a few lovely classic film title screens cropping up on Ffffound! in recent weeks, then all of a sudden I stumble across this website, an archive of great (and not so great) film title screens lovingly compiled over a number of years by Steven Hill.

I could spend hours looking through these, the old ones are particularly lovely. Reminds me of watching classic afternoon films staying at my Nan’s house when I was little. No, we didn’t watch Battle Royale!

Thanks to Sean for the link…

When the worlds of Back to the Future and Graphic Design mix, you can be sure I’m all over it like a rash.

Neon Neon, Boom Bip’s collaboration with Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals has resulted in the album ‘Stainless Style’ with accompanying picture disc singles following the theme. Stainless steel, diagonal lines and lovely ladies. I’m off to their site for a listen…

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Should I post this? It’s got nothing to do with graphic design and it makes me look like a geek. Hmm…

Sod it, blogging is supposed to be about honesty.

As part of the current trend of reimagining retro TV shows, Sky is remaking Blake’s 7. Blake’s 7 x 2, Blake’s 14… Could be good, but will it work? Well it worked for Doctor Who, that must be what the marketing people said in the meeting…

At least I posted a nice logo.