Royal Mail Retro Gaming Stamps
Information on the new Royal Mail retro gaming theme stamps some iconic games from the 80’s & 90’s Inc Tomb Raider, Dizzy, Lemmings, Wipeout etc
Category: Nostalgic
Coventry Transport Museum Visit
A few weekends we had to drop our daughter off to Leamington Spa, so we decided on the way back we would visit Coventry, I persuaded the missus to go so could go round...
My Fathers Brass Belt Buckle Collection
As regular reader will know my late father collected all sorts of items, one was belt buckles. I am now going through these to sell on, I have had one box off my mom...
NES Classic Mini Alternative
With the official NES classic going on sale and then being sold out within a day, there is an alternative other than paying silly money for ones that people were lucky enough to buy...
My Late Fathers Novelty Christmas Candles
My late father at Christmas aswell as decorating the outside of the house with Christmas lights he also had a large novelty Christmas candle display. To see more further info about the Christmas light...
Visit To Tutbury Castle
On the way back from a visit to Sudbury Hall & Childhood museum, we decided to visit Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. We visited on Sunday 29th May and we didn’t realise that there was an...
How To Use Sega Emulator PC
Recently I had a request on how to play old Sega Master System games on windows pc, so this is just a quick guide, on how to play old sega games on your pc....
Motor Museum Visit – Bourton-On-The-Water
While on a nice day out in Bourton on the water we visited a few attractions one of these was the Cotswold motoring museum and toy collection, price are £5.25 Adults, £3.74 Children (4-16yrs)...
Reminiscing Over Retro Games
Today of writing this article 22nd may 2015 is the 35th anniversary of the release of pacman, first this does make me feel at tad bit old as at the time of release I...
Model Village Bourton-on-the-water Visit
While on a day trip to Bourton-on-the-water for the bank holiday we visited the model village, we had been to the model village before but this was about 15 years ago, so thought would...
7th Guest 20th Anniversary – Android
At long last a remastered version of the 7th guest has just been released for Android devices. This version has remastered graphics and music and made for touch screen. Even though you have been...
Retro Gaming With Old Xbox
I have recently gone trough my old original Microsoft XBOX’s to sell as they have just been collecting dust. Even though these consoles are over 12 Years old, they are still great if you...
National Trust Free Weekend
Just though I would share this, the national trust are doing a free weekend this weekend the 20th and 21st march 2010, this is free entry to their attractions, so a great time to...
My Mini
I Brought a Austin Mini in April 2007 as I had just had some extra cash and I loved the Italian job and always wanted another mini. I had one a few years ago...
Amiga Archive
The Amiga computers by commodore were a great range of computers for there time. I had several amiga computers I had the A500, A500+, A600, A1500 and then the A1200, I started with the amiga...
Sega Dreamcast
This was a pretty good console, i had a few just before they were discontinued mainly for the kids as using a special boot disk you could play video cd’s as well as mp3’s....
Philips Video 2000
Philips and other manufactures did a video system called Video 2000.This was first released in 1982. The V2000 format could record on tapes that where double sided ie could turn a 4hr tape into...
Xbox / XBMC
I have a few Xbox’s as they are a good games console, but the best thing if they are modified they act as a media centre for your home. With XBMC (xbox media centre)...
