Games room/museum tour video mainly uploaded for you good folks to choose a computer or console for my upcoming series where I focus on piece of hardware, its history and maybe show some gameplay footage from the hardware in question.
Sneak peek at the new RetroGear game store website too!
Leave your suggestions for consoles/computers to feature in the comments please.
Please forgive the shaky nature of the video, it was shot using my phone, pending the purchase of better equipment.
ATTENTION: Motion sickness may occur. RGC takes no responsibility for clothes ruined during the watching of this video. ;)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG2BcFZ4gZw
Q-Bert. Number 3 in a new series of Head 2 Heads where classic games on rival consoles face-off against each other.
Head 2 Heads are NOT a judgement on which console is best. All consoles have their own particular strengths and weaknesses and some of a consoles strengths will not utilised by certain games. This is purely my own judgment of which version of a classic game was better on rival consoles of the time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDhoR5Q83uI
First in a new series which sees Ben and Milly play on retro games for the first time. In this episode, watch my retro-loving kids play Double Dragon on the arcade cab to see their reaction and they even give a score out of ten at the end of the video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACQnOun3kxA
This is an excerpt from 'From Bedrooms to Billions' a '2 hour' feature length documentary movie telling the remarkable, true story of the British Video Games Industry from 1979 to the present.
See more at: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com
Pre-order the film before the 31st May 2014 to get a 4 clip film bundle on 'Manic Miner', 'Elite', 'Deus Ex Machina' and 'Rob Hubbard' plus gain exclusive access to the 'Backers Zone' filled with extra previews and content.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITEOcqnTt38
Desert Strike - Return to the Gulf. First in a new series of Head 2 Heads where classic games on rival consoles face-off against each other.
Head 2 Heads are NOT a judgement on which console is best. All consoles have their own particular strengths and weaknesses and some of a consoles strengths will not utilised by certain games. This is purely my own judgment of which version of a classic game was better on rival consoles of the time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6HgRkxlWM
Finally, I return with the mother of all pick-ups videos. I apologise for the length, probably my longest video to date and if you can sit through this, you can sit through anything!
My biggest pick-up to date is near the end of the video, worth hanging in there for!
Fake internet points to whoever can tell me what game the ZX81 listing is on my title screen (pretty easy).
ZXuitape (TZXduino device for Spectrum Plus): http://zxuitape.youmakerobots.com/ (NOT Zxduino!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXYls33tmWM
The long-lost (22 years) Wonderland Dizzy is revealed at the Centre For Computing History, Cambridge by Andrew and Philip Oliver - 24th October 2015.
'The Story of the Oliver Twins' Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/the-story-of-the-oliver-twins
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41maAmr74vs
We unbox an unusual (here in the UK) Japanese-only console called the Playdia. Released by Bandai in 1994 and followed by the Pippin in 1996, it featured a CD-ROM drive and the games mainly consisted of interactive Full Motion Video (FMV) games. Will it even work after 28 years in it's box?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3qpGjl9fyU