Hey Retropals, what’s coming?

Hi guys, Those who are following our Facebook and Twitter page – if you don’t, please do so – noticed we had a good and busy retro gaming week. The original plan for me, AuronnBE, was to post about my Final Fantasy collection this week. I was planning to put it all together and tell you…

1Life RetroRun : Blue Shadow (NES)

While rearranging the collection closet with all the stuff that came in lately, I had to test my boxed NES at last. With all the stuff going on the last few weeks I haven’t found the time to do so. While I always test a newly arrived NES with a known to work game, I…

A boxed NES… Waaaa !!!

Damn, that title says it all… any readers left? The plan today was to write a blog to warn all of you collectors that a deal is only complete when you have the goods in your hands. Until that moment there’s always a chance the deal is off or someone scammed you. I had 2…

Controlling the Collecting Budget

Any retro video game collector who’s browsing the internet daily, goes to a flea market each weekend or visits every retro video game convention there is, knows that you can spend all your money in the blink of an eye. If there’s 10 things you want right now, go to EBay and pay whatever the…

Leveling up the collection…

Awaiting the blog I’m writing for Wednesday, I’d like to share some finds of this week with you in the meantime. None of the finds were in the top 5 of my want list post from a couple of weeks ago, but still, I had been on the lookout for these for some time. The first one arrived in the mail…

The Future of Retro Gaming

“Future vs Retro, isn’t that the total opposite?” We, at Retropals, couldn’t agree less and would like to show you that the future looks bright for the community we all have in our hearts, retro video games. As you may have noticed retro gaming is on the rise and blogs, youtube channels and podcasts keep…