Father, Husband, website developer, avid gamer since the mid-70s and collector of just about anything video game related. 8-Bit microcomputer and Sinclair specialist with a huge Sinclair related collection of his own. Blogs about retro gaming here but occasionally elsewhere when people ask. Bored of Mario and never much liked Zelda. Performs quirkafleegs for cold hard cash. Often found destroying ice crowns in the Lands of Midnight.
Remembers: Lunar Lander.
Plays: Steel Battalion, Gears of War
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/aRsLOUYL3mk”] This is an excerpt from ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ a ‘2 hour’ feature length documentary movie telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present. See more at: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com Pre-order the film before the 31st May 2014 to get a 4Continue Reading
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/j7WLYVOKtyk”] This is an excerpt from ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ a ‘2 hour’ feature length documentary movie telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present. See more at: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com Pre-order the film before the 31st May 2014 to get a 4Continue Reading
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/CkbmXiiLoDk”] This is an excerpt from ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ a ‘2 hour’ feature length documentary movie telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present. See more at: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com Pre-order the film before the 31st May 2014 to get a 4Continue Reading
Way before full colour ads were the norm and just before the emergence of it’s colourful sibling; the ZX Spectrum, ZX81 software adverts in computer magazines were often a very crude affair. Still very much in the time of the ‘bedroom coder’ much of the software in this early periodContinue Reading
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/ITEOcqnTt38″] This is an excerpt from ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ a ‘2 hour’ feature length documentary movie telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present. See more at: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com Pre-order the film before the 31st May 2014 to get a 4Continue Reading
[youtube=”http://youtu.be/z_frTJjeP50″] This is an excerpt from ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ a ‘2 hour’ feature length documentary movie telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present. See more at: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com Pre-order the film before the 31st May 2014 to get a 4Continue Reading
Another interesting looking Kickstarter campaign has come to light; Fizz! The Surge of Video Games will be a 90 minute DVD documentary movie made with lost and previously unseen archive footage which was filmed between 1989 & 1998. The film is a project by Jonathan Beales and will cover allContinue Reading
It never ceases to amaze me what talents lie waiting to be discovered via social media. I, along with scores of retro gamers, use Instagram to showcase our collections and to trade games. Simon Svensson’s Instagram feed transcends the normal posed shots and replaces them with something akin to art.Continue Reading
A bit closer to home with our latest featured collection. Another social networking hookup, Stuart Clough’s collection was spotted on Instagram (@cluffo) and as soon as I set eyes on that wall of Sega Master System games I just knew it had to be shown on RGC. So check outContinue Reading
My reasons for penning this article are twofold. My first reason if I’m completely honest is just to vent off some mental steam after my latest visit to what was once a pleasant part of my pastime. The second is to reminisce about car boots of old, times now pastContinue Reading