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
Something that you don’t see very often is this relatively rare Jupiter Ace that I have spotted on eBay. It even comes with its original box. I don’t own one of these and if I had the funds I would be bidding for this British rarity, but with 1d 22hContinue Reading
This is the first post in a series featuring retro gaming collections from around the world and part of what we hope will become a regular feature on Retro Games Collector. Occasionally in life you happen upon people that are both interesting and great fun to talk to. Australian RetroContinue Reading
A 90 minute feature length documentary film telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry between 1979 – 1996 and how the creativity and vision of a relatively small number of individuals allowed the UK to play a key, pioneering role in the shaping of the billionContinue Reading
A little background info… This is the latest English language translation of a release from Pix’N Love Publishing, an independent French based company who specialise in gaming related publications. Luckily for us, with their British branch now in place they have taken to translating some of the 25 French languageContinue Reading
I’ve been waiting for a while now to review this app on my iPad, waiting because I dearly wanted to review it on my iCade and sadly, it wasn’t compatible. Lo and behold a few days ago I got the news that with the latest update they had added iCadeContinue Reading
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Background The brains behind this release from the newly formed Purple Unicorn Software is Steve ‘JammaJup’ Dixon also the man behind the excellent www.jammajup.co.uk and arcade game enthusiast. When I first downloaded Pip the Pipistrelle and noticed that it had been based upon the Jet Set Willy engine using JSWed,Continue Reading
Only 20 hours left and no bidders yet (at time of posting). An extremely rare Tatung 256, not to be confused with the TC01 (which this seller also has for sale here). I would bid for this myself if I had the funds! 🙁 Auction linkContinue Reading
Sure to appeal to all Retro Gamers worldwide was this years Google April Fools joke. Its latest ‘product’ was entitled Quest, and was a version of Google Maps rendered in 8-Bit adventure style a la NES. It even renders Streetview in 8-Bit style graphics making the view of your localContinue Reading
