However you play retro video games right now – there’s in all probability a time in your life the place you ‘acquired severe’ about beginning to play and acquire. Andy Hugg tells us about his adventures in retrogaming when began accumulating just a few years in the past. 

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It began fairly innocently. Picking up just a few alternative Mega Drive video games from my childhood. 

Slowly over time I acquired an increasing number of concerned with the retro scene. A number of video games turned loads of video games. I began branching out to different techniques that I’d had as a child.

 Andy in motion:

Fuelled by nostalgia and speaking to different like minded individuals via social media it turned it little bit of an obsession. It’s humorous, as I grew older I misplaced loads of love for gaming. I did not choose up a controller for years.

But after doing all these unecessary ‘grown up’ issues via my twenties I’ve reverted to my huge ardour in life and that’s accumulating and taking part in video games. I have a tendency to gather 8 and 16-Bit titles. Games that had been launched via the late 80’s into the early 90’s.

My golden period of gaming. When arcades had been nonetheless of their prime and console house owners looked for arcade good, coin op conversions and the platform recreation dominated.

Later when the Playstation got here out and with it, the leap to 3D and polygons, I fell barely out of affection with all of it.

Andy unboxes and performs NES Popeye:

I nonetheless get pleasure from many trendy video games in fact however my ardour will at all times lie with these early Sega and Nintendo video games that performed an enormous half in shaping who I’m.

Most individuals have songs that remind them of sure occasions of their lives. Hearing a track instantly takes them again to a less complicated time. For me video games do that and so accumulating and taking part in these video games once more has been vastly satisfying for me.

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