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
Not content with giving us the amazing ZX Spectrum title Terry the Turtle, Purple Unicorn Software have released screenshots to RGC of their forthcoming Terry the Turtle – Vektor. From what we can see it looks stunning and the new title will be based on the Yellow and Cyan versionsContinue Reading
Background Purple Unicorn Software is a small software developer run by Steve ‘JammaJup’ Dixon, coinop enthusiast and also the man behind the excellent www.jammajup.co.uk. Another wildlife themed game ensues, following on from his fantastic Pip The Pipistrelle (see the review here), this time Steve has opted to get down toContinue Reading
Why retro gamers shouldn’t let this happen These are just my opinions and I know this will rub some people up the wrong way but if you follow my Twitter or Instagram accounts you will no doubt be aware of my growing anger, yes irritation has grown to anger now,Continue Reading
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 sawContinue Reading
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 missingContinue Reading
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.Continue Reading
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 theContinue Reading
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 arcadeContinue Reading
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 userContinue Reading
These new figures look fantastic, see the official Press Release below. [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of RetroGamesCollector.com and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.] First 4 Figures Presents SEGA All Stars: Ryo Hazuki May 1st 2013- First 4 Figures is extremely proud to announceContinue Reading