Retro Games Collector

Show us your collection: #18 Heidi stopXwhispering

A visit to Scandinavia for our next collection, Sweden to be precise and the awesome collection of Heidi. Heidi (@Retro_Game_Blog) who many of you may already know from her retro gaming website or her Instagram pictures has a freshly refurbished game room and gaming collection to die for. We saw it and immediately knew we [...]

Retro Mods Ltd – console modding service

Mod or Super Famicom? During the past year or so I have become increasingly convinced that I was missing out on something that my friends were doing on a regular basis – playing Japanese games on the Super Famicom. So having finally decided to do something about this large missing piece in my retrogaming jigsaw [...]

Atari 2600 – The History, hardware and how to write programs

If you are at all interested in Atari’s most famous console you have just got to watch this. The history (and much more) of the 2600 in a great video by CCCen.

Show us your collection #17: Ant Harper (Retro Games Collector)

Converting my loft (click here to see the finished games room) gave me space enough and an excuse to sort out and catalogue my own hardware collection. I now actually know what I have, what works, what’s boxed or unboxed and what I need to complete certain elements of the collection. It also gave me [...]

Revival 2013 – Retro Gaming Event Dunstall Park Wolverhampton in pictures

I must first congratulate the organisers of Revival 2013 for a fantastic show. I only managed to visit one day unfortunately but there was so much to see and do, it was remarkable how many usable micros were waiting to be played on and even more remarkable how many arcade machines were lined up on [...]

Sega Pluto fails to sell at eBay auction with bidding up to $15,500

In case you missed it, the rare prototype Sega ‘Pluto’, one of only two known to exist has failed to reach it reserve price in an eBay auction that ended last week. That is despite the bidding reaching a whopping $15,500 (£10,101.67). All this after Roger Vega’s (aka YouTube user kidvid666) previous attempt at selling [...]

Speccy Nation by Dan Whitehead – Review

Some people might wonder what the purpose might be to having a book of reviews of Spectrum games? Such a collection seems unintuitive when you consider that reviews for these games no longer aid consumer decisions, the games being mostly available online to run for free on emulators. To complain that it doesn’t make sense [...]