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
If you are of a certain age and owned a ZX Spectrum you will remember well the playground taunts from your Commodore owning friends regarding colour clash, its rubber keyboard and feeble sound effects. Likewise if you owned a Commodore 64 you will remember the playground taunts regarding washed outContinue Reading
OK, so not strictly retro game related, but we saw this computer gadget of yesteryear and we now long to run around with serial ports sticking out of the back of our trainers. How cool would it be to plug your trainers into an Commodore 64? Super cool, that’s howContinue Reading
As an 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 prove to be working just fine, leading me to the conclusion that one or more ofContinue Reading
Our latest interview is with Steve Dixon, the man behind www.JammaJup.co.uk a site not only dedicated (as it’s name might suggest) to coin-ops, but classic consoles and computers of all marques. The site also features one of the most comprehensive retro gaming polling systems on the web, collating some veryContinue Reading
Previously, to play Neo Geo MVS cartridges you would had to have made room for a Neo Geo arcade cabinet or a messy (sorry SuperGun fans) SuperGun wiring loom set up attached to your TV. This is all now in the past thanks to Analogue Interactives new consolised MVS system.Continue Reading
Were getting all hot under our geeky collars here at RGC at the prospect of a re-released ZX Spectrum for its 30th anniversary next year. Details are sketchy at the moment but we have it on good authority that the UK game developer Elite Systems, who recently re-released some ofContinue Reading
OK, this review is probably a little too late in coming, but having just purchased a GP2X Wiz handheld and knowing how many of you out there are wondering just how good this fabled machine really is at emulating your favourite retro consoles, I felt I had to let youContinue Reading
Back once again with more news of Sinclair ZX Spectrum software auctions that have ended with good prices being paid, and more proof that there are collectors out there with deep pockets indeed… The software in question here is none other than the very rare Sinclair branded Macmillan Education titles;Continue Reading