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New retro gaming centre opens in Portsmouth on February 5th

2025-02-26
By: Christian Cawley
On: February 26, 2025
In: Miscellaneous retro stuff

If you’re on the UK’s south coast and have a passion for retro gaming, Portsmouth should be your destination from next week. On Saturday, 5th February the Retro Gaming centre opens at 58D Cosham High Street, offering a big selection of video games and classic board games. It’s the brainchildRead More →

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7 Mini Consoles We’d Like to See From Retro Games Ltd

2025-01-16
By: Christian Cawley
On: January 16, 2025
In: Retro gaming features

With a mini Commodore 64 and a full-sized variant, a VIC-20, a mini Amiga, an Atari 400, and now a ZX Spectrum, Retro Games Ltd has amazing at supporting retro gaming. But what could be coming next? While we don’t know, we’ve compiled some possibilities; a sort of slightly-likely wishlist…Read More →

What a video game box should be

The inner life of the video game box

2023-07-26
By: John Bowe
On: July 26, 2023
In: Retro gaming features

Unboxing videos. They occasionally appear on my YouTube page and are a lurid reminder that time is short, and I should go and unpack it somewhere else. But I do understand the sentiment. Less so the delivery boxes themselves, which I tear into like it was a super move fromRead More →

Retro Games Ltd Hints at Classic Grandstand Handheld Titles

2023-05-05
By: Christian Cawley
On: May 5, 2023
In: Retro games news

Reading an article on tabletop arcade game systems from the 1980s, I was surprised to see Retro Games Ltd make a starting revelation. The company – well known for TheC64 and TheA500 – own the rights to classic brands Grandstand and Quickshot. As part of a feature on everything fromRead More →

Retro Games Ltd Tease Upcoming Device!

2023-03-29
By: Christian Cawley
On: March 29, 2023
In: Retro Consoles, Retro gear

What is Retro Games Ltd planning next? On numerous occasions over the past few months the team behind TheC64 Mini and TheA500 Mini have teased an upcoming device. Various ideas have been suggested. Could it be a BBC Micro Mini or some other Acorn computer? Could it be a ZXRead More →

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A500 Maxi? A Mini Spectrum? What is Retro Games Ltd planning next?

2023-01-11
By: Christian Cawley
On: January 11, 2023
In: Retro Computers, Retro gear

UPDATE: The A500 Maxi has been confirmed, with release scheduled for 2024 If you’ve been holding out for an A500 Maxi from Retro Games Ltd, your dream might be about to come true. Retro Games Ltd has been teasing its Facebook followers as to its upcoming plans, referring to aRead More →

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The best of the old school: My 5 favorite retro game genres

2022-07-08
By: Zahir Hassan
On: July 8, 2022
In: Retro arcades, Retro games news, Retro gaming features

There are many different gaming genres. Some people are into FPS (First Person Shooters) so prefer games like Call of Duty, DOOM, etc. Others prefer sports titles such as FIFA, or NBA Jam. Most gaming genres cover the retro era. I’ve listed my five favourite retro gaming genres below, inRead More →

Evercade THEC64 Team Up Happening, with a 14 Commodore 64 Game Cart!

2022-07-07
By: Christian Cawley
On: July 7, 2022
In: Retro Computers, Retro Consoles, Retro games news, Retro gear

After much speculation, the news has been released: 14 Commodore 64 games are heading to Evercade with a new THEC64 cartridge collection! This amazing news is the result of a team up by Blaze Entertainment and Retro Games LTD, working together to make a THEC64 cartridge possible on Evercade. HereRead More →

How Playing Retro Games Helped Overcome My COVID-19 Stress

2022-06-01
By: Zahir Hassan
On: June 1, 2022
In: Miscellaneous retro stuff

The COVID-19 pandemic affected millions of people and disrupted life on a global scale. Lockdowns, restrictions, event cancellations and mask wearing had become a common thing and because of the spread of the virus, our movements had been restricted and there was little we could do but hope that theRead More →

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