About the Retro Tech What's Missing? Game
A picture-recall challenge based on the classic parlour game. Study a board of pictures for a few seconds, then one quietly disappears — can you say which? Rounds get bigger and faster as you go, and three wrong answers ends the run.
Pagers, fax machines, pencils for rewinding cassettes and the unforgettable scream of dial-up internet. The retro tech deck is a museum of gadgets your kids won't believe were once cutting edge.
How to Play
- Press Start and memorise every picture on the board.
- After a few seconds the board hides and one picture is removed.
- Pick the missing picture from the answer choices.
- Each correct answer adds a bigger board. Three misses ends the game.
Why Play What's Missing?
- Trains observation and visual recall under time pressure
- Based on "Kim’s Game", used for over a century in memory training
- Great party and classroom game — call answers out loud together
Fun Facts About Retro Tech
- The classic 3.5-inch floppy disk held just 1.44 megabytes — a single phone photo wouldn't fit.
- The compact cassette was introduced by Philips in 1963.
- The "save" icon used in software today is a picture of a floppy disk many users have never seen in real life.
- Rotary phones required you to dial each digit by spinning a wheel — a wrong digit meant starting over.