Upcoming Event: The Black Country Games Fair – Sunday 26 October 2025
Event Overview The Black Country Games Fair returns on Sunday 26 October 2025 at The Robin in Wolverhampton. Doors open at 10:00 AM, and the event runs until mid-afternoon. Location & Venue Tickets & Entry Get your early bird tickets here What to Expect This retro gaming fair promises: WhyContinue Reading
RetroHQ Jaguar GameDrive – Breathing New Life into Atari’s Last Console
When you think of the Atari Jaguar, a few things probably spring to mind: the bold claim of being the “first 64-bit console,” the futuristic (and sometimes bizarre) library of games, and of course, that wonderfully unique – some might say unwieldy – controller. Launched in 1993, the Jaguar wasContinue Reading
Grid Frame Studio – Game Boy Review
I do enjoy getting emails out of the blue asking if I want to review products. You never quite know what you will receive. When I picked up this particular email, I must admit to having to look Grid Frame Studio up in a search engine to find out exactlyContinue Reading
Atari 2600 LEGO – is this the best thing I’ve ever seen?
As many of you who check out my YouTube channel or read these pages will already know, my kids and I are massive lego fans. And I also happen to be completely nuts about Atari. In particular the VCS*. So imagine my excitement (it was real my friends, very real)Continue Reading
The Commodore 64 is back! But not as you know it…
Commodore fans and lovers of retro computing in general, thanks to My Retro Computer, the brand could well be back – at least in name. Because in this particular Kickstarter, you are pledging for what is variations of a modern PC within a C64 style case plus the added kudosContinue Reading
Glory Hunters – Kickstarter for Game Boy
Mexican indie game developer César Arminio with his design studio 2think (creator of Pato Box) and software house Bitmap Soft are teaming up to bring you Glory Hunters, a new physical release for the Game Boy with their Kickstarter campaign. Glory Hunters is an all-new action-adventure RPG for the original GameContinue Reading
Upgrade your SEGA Dreamcast – quick, simple and cheap GDEMU and Dream PSU
The Dreamcast is an amazing console. Many would say ahead of it’s time. But being disk based, a cheap SD card solution has been a long time coming. That has all changed in recent years due to the cloning of the GDEMU card by Chinese manufacturers and a GDEMU cloneContinue Reading
SEGA Mania magazine – review
SEGA Mania is a relatively new (4 issues in at the time of writing), glossy, full colour magazine and is an unashamed homage to the likes of Mean Machines SEGA and SEGA Power. The men behind the magazine – Tim Hugall, Simon Pike and Sam Forrester – have produced whatContinue Reading