As a retro game store owner, I get a lot of pre-SCART retro consoles and computers sent back to me with reports of them not working. Upon testing, 9 out of 10 of these will prove to be working just fine, leading me to the conclusion that one or more of the following points apply: [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
We’ve all had it happen, whether on our Philips Videopac, NES, MegaDrive or Nintendo 64. A cartridge that refuses to work. It happens to us collectors most frequently, we are after all, more likely to get hold of stuff that someones just pulled out of the loft after 20 years of doing nothing but gathering [...]
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Retro Games Collector is the brainchild of Ant Harper from the West Midlands in the UK. He has been an avid video gamer from the age of 6 or 7 when he started out on the slippery slope of visiting arcades with his father in seaside resorts whilst on summer holidays and being seduced into [...]
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Retro Games Collector (RGC) intends to be a one-stop resource for all those like me, who have a passion for playing on and collecting retro gaming hardware, software and associated paraphernalia. Some collectors concentrate on a certain manufacturer such as Sega or Commodore and collect anything and everything to do with their chosen marque. I [...]
Wed, Jun 12, 2013
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 [...]
Sat, Jun 8, 2013
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 [...]
Fri, May 31, 2013
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.
Fri, May 31, 2013
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 [...]
Mon, May 20, 2013
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 [...]
Tue, May 14, 2013
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 [...]
Sat, May 11, 2013
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 [...]
‘Cos the Commodore is keeping up with you…
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