Show us your collection: #2 NES_4Life
Welcome to the second in our series of posts showing the achievements of retro collectors form around the globe. This time we are back on home turf (Great Britain) with NES_4Life who, unlike his name suggests does not only collect Nintendo. No siree, this magnificent collection has a massive amountContinue Reading
…and the Jupiter Ace goes for (queue drum roll)
Holy moley. I know these are rare but there are some deep pockets out there in retro-land… Yes that’s £568.00 in this cash strapped land of stagnant growth. He/she must be a banker.Continue Reading
The Sega Master System Encyclopedia: Volume 1 Review
For the purposes of this review I have used the iPad version of this book, but it needs to be noted that there are also Kindle and printed versions to be purchased, although the iPad version has the added benefit of gameplay videos which we will come to shortly. TheContinue Reading
Spotted! – Jupiter Ace up for auction
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
Show us your collection: #1 Australian Retro Gamer
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
From Bedroom to Billions – the story of the UK Video Games Industry from 1979 to 1996
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
The History of Nintendo Volume 2 – 1980-1991 The Game & Watch Games Review
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
Midway Arcade App for iPad plus iCade Review
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
Sinclair Spectrum 128 TV review 1986, Alison Maguire interviewed
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q17zTQMHxGs 270 210]Continue Reading
Review of Pip the Pipistrelle – new ZX Spectrum game by Purple Unicorn Software
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