Category: Thoughts
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80s and 90s Shopping for games – was it better than today?
Do you remember buying games back in the 80s and 90s? What was your local games shop like? Did you browse the shelves of the big shops like Menzies and WH Smiths? Or were you lucky enough to have a small independent games shop in your town? Was it more fun buying games in a…
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#25: Nintendo Direct Retro Reaction – Sept 2023
Join us for this BONUS episode where we discuss the Nintendo Direct event from 14th of September 2023. We focus on the retro related new releases, the old games that have been re-made, sequels to classic games, and a few other things that caught our attention. Titles covered include: Click here to find the podcast…
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#18: What is Retro gaming?
In this episode, we take a detour from our normal format and talk about our thoughts on Retro gaming – what does that term even really mean? What does it mean to us? Why are we talking about the ZX Spectrum, the NES, Master System, Megadrive and the Amiga all these years after they were…
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Magic Miner
Our podcast is not to be taken seriously. It’s an excuse for three cousins to talk to each other every week and have a laugh doing so. We hope people listen in and have a chuckle too, but mostly we’re doing it for ourselves. We haven’t reached double digits with the episodes yet and we’ve…
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What is `Retro`?
A quick Google (or Excite as I think I used in the 90s) search for the term retro brings forth the result… Accompanying it is a load of pictures of women wearing clothes from the 1960`s and a load of links to retro toy shops, not a mention of our beloved hobby/passion (passing interest) of…