Classic Gaming Articles, Lists, Opinions & Lore

When you stumble upon a second hand shop that describes itself as a retro graveyard, you know you're in for a treat. Bitz, located on the Promenade in the sunny town of Bridlington, is potentially the best stocked retro gaming shop in the country, holding plenty of reasons for any retro gamer to make a day trip out to the coast.

With over 25 years worth of titles spread across a vast array of systems, and the next generation of consoles revving their engines, where will Dracula and the Belmont gang be headed to next?

For the final stop of our retro gaming tour of the south, we stop by Insane Games in Clevedon, North Somerset. With the RetroCollect Squad hoping even more classic games at bargain prices, our focus ended up elsewhere thanks to a certain in store distraction...

As the RetroCollect Squad continue their tour of the south, they stumbled upon yet another decent stockist of classic games. MT Games situated in Weston-Super-Mare was another member of the 'proud to be stocking retro' retailers. With cabinets and shelves holding many desirables, we decided to get the word out to the retro gaming community.

With several of the RetroCollect Squad on tour down south after RetroVision 2012, a tour of the local gaming shops was in order. After viewing the lackluster stock found in the high street chains, we stumbled across the much more promising branch of Pink Planet Exchange, situated on Bristol's Gloucester Road.

Do you ever find yourself staring at your retro games collection wondering what to play, with the passing thought that a small visual hint might make the decision easier? Well how about a video containing every single Nintendo 64 game released?

Although arriving two years before the hit UK TV show Gamesmaster, gamers in the US had their very own video game broadcast known as Video Power featuring news, hints and reviews. The show was also accompanied by The Power Team, a cartoon tailored around characters from various Acclaim games.

With over 450 Nintendo Game Boy games released in PAL territories, there’s more than enough to be enjoying on the classic chunky handheld. But what are the greatest titles hidden amongst the wealth of grey cartridges? Get your batteries at the ready and power up to find out!

There’s a huge unspoken monster that’s slowly revealing its face to the video game public, and it’s going to have an effect on every single person who reads this, guaranteed. It’s video games and ageism, and how we’re not dealing with it the proper way. 

Remember those adverts placed amongst the back pages of Computer & Video Games magazine which offered a gateway into the wonderful world of import gaming? RetroCollect catches up with one of the veterans of the import gaming scene now known as VideoGameImports, offering an insight into the rollercoaster ride of being a mail-order business.