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Was a bit bored this morning so put together this quick video tour of my collection 🙂

Another new one for the collection arrived today in the form of a top-loading Neo Geo CD. Unboxed, but it’s in great condition. The console has a Sega Saturn sort of aesthetic to it, but the controllers are really nice. I am loving the micro-switched joypads! I decided to go for the CD version as […]

If you’ve never listened to this podcast before then I envy you, because you now get to start back at episode one and listen through to their 300th episode which is being recorded on Sunday 31st October. Each week this podcast has the latest in Retro gaming news and then an interview with a guest […]

I have been looking at these machines for a while now and monitoring what prices they go for. Then just before the weekend, I saw this one come up on eBay for a reasonable price. I then noticed that it was actually located in Bristol which is only a day trip away from me. With […]

I’m not really a game collector as such, mainly due to lack of space. But I do like to have a selection of original games for each of the consoles. And if you are only to have a few then why not have some rare beauties 🙂 Now I would never go out and this […]

So today I braved the big wide world and left Devon for a trip up to Bristol to pick up a new console for my collection (details coming soon). But this port is about the location I had to collect it from. It was from a guy named Mark who has set up a retro […]

I have wanted one of these in my collection for ages but at around £200-250 for an unboxed one, I had decided to wait to see if a better offer came along. Typically two then came at once so I had to buy both of them! The first of which arrived today. This one was […]

So if you have not heard of the MiSTer project (where have you been?) it is an open-source project that runs on top of the DE10 Nano FPGA board. OK, so that probably doesn’t help you understand much about it. An FPGA is a Field Programmable Gate Array. What this means is it is basically […]

I know this is far from retro, but if I add it to my collection now, it saves my having to do it in 20 years when it will cost 3 times the price! Anyway, considering I have the original XBOX and an XBOX 360, it only seemed right to add an XBOX One to […]

Well since I had a PC Engine in my collection now, along with a flashcard, I figured it would be rude not to get the PC Engine handheld console also since they can share the same game cartridge. Looking on eBay I found one for a reasonable price and made an offer which was auto […]

I have always wanted a PC engine in my collection but for a while, I settled with the PC Engine mini console to get my PC engine fix. Well, now I have the real thing finally. I went for the PC engine DUO which is a Japanese version of the PC engine with the CD-ROM […]

Rather than a new console, this update is for a new accessory. The Gameboy player, as it suggests, allows you to play Gameboy/Color/Advance games on the Gamecube. I picked this up from eBay for a reasonable price as it was the unit only without the required disc. But since my Gamecube is modded I can […]