Unfortunately, you have to let them have time off! You will experience a few delays with parcels from us over the coming week. Due to staff holidays, we plan to have just one post collection on Wednesday the 5th of August, then back to normal on the following Monday. This means if you order order over the weekend or on Monday or Tuesday, it's probable your parcel won't go out until Wednesday. I know, it's not that much of a delay, but when we're used to posting every day, it seems like a big change ;o)  All back to normal on Monday the 10th, with daily post collections.

30th June 2009:  New Picture Features!

Regular visitors will see that our picture viewing features have been updated today. You now get a larger thumbnail of the tiny additional thumbnails when you hover over them. Click while hovering, and they still zoom up to the full size pictures you're used to. The best news is that we've expanded our picture capability, and are now able to have up to fifteen pictures for each item. That means no more double ups, where one medium sized picture is added to another to create one picture. As soon as we get back to listing Handhelds or Hardware, we'll be adding more pictures than ever!

29th June 2009:  Rare Neo Geo and Playstation Update

It's going to be a big update week, with another couple of hundred games set to go live before the end of Friday. You may have already noticed the rare Neo Geo AES games we've added. Well, we're concentrating on UK Playstation for a few days, then we'll be moving on to other formats. We now have twelve and a half thousand live items, and it's going to be a challenge to hit fifteen thousand before Christmas - but we're gonna try!

12th June 2009:  New Additions Page Update -  now live

Now you can't say that we don't listen to our customers! Several people have mentioned how they didn't like the 'Recent Additions' page not showing the format for each game or item in the list. 

Well, some expensive web development later, we've got a completely revamped page. Now not only do all the items in the list have their format and section names with them, but they are split up into their categories. That means all the Nintendo or Sega (etc) items are listed together in sections on the page. There are even links at the top of the 'Recent Additions' page so you can just see the latest items added to your favourite format.  I'm sure you'll agree it's a huge improvement, and makes keeping up with all the newly listed items much easier.

You may also have noticed that Magazine 'week' has continued now for two weeks. The good news is that we're nearly there, another fifty magazines and we'll have them all on. We were going to list the books after the magazines, but let's leave it a few weeks and carry on adding games for a while.

29th May 2009:  New Sections sneaking in

Well, we still haven't got to our magazine section, but eagle eyed watchers will have noticed a few new sections popping up on the site over recent weeks. First there was a Nintendo DS section, which i'm sure we all agree is non-retro, but hey, we aquired some interesting import games, and it made sense to add them to the site. Then the Xbox section which has very very slowly been growing recently. We've actually got a barrage of Xbox games to add, so this section will balloon soon.

In the past week we've added an Acorn Archimedes section (with the BBC/Electron stuff), full of games so rare, we didn't even know they existed! Finally, today we added a Sam Coupe section under the Sinclair heading, and there are lots more new sections coming over the next few weeks. Indeed, if you hadn't noticed, the site is growing faster than ever before, with 2500 new titles added since the new site went live at the end of March. With 1000 more games (and magazines) ready to be added in the next two weeks, this really is a boom time for Retrogames.

It's becoming apparent that many of the top collectors are checking into the site more often to browse the newly listed section. It's also clear that we need to organise this section so you know which format the games are for within it. This job is in hand, and we hope to have a revamped 'new additions' section in the coming months. Ok, back to work...

15th May 2009:  Magazine Week on the way

For the past couple of years, we've been promising to update our magazine and book section. Blimey, the Spectrum magazine section isn't even currently on the site! The good news is we're dedicating an entire week to sorting out our huge book and magazine inventory, and will be listing 100s of them soon. Crash, Sinclair User, C&VG, Your Spectrum, Your Sinclair, Edge Magazine, Ace, and lots more. Nothing takes you back more than looking at some of these old magazines again after all these years, so i'm sure lots of you will be pleased to see them. We've got about 500 games to list over the next week, then the magazines will start trickling onto the site. Phew, it's all hard work, no wonder there aren't any other sites putting the effort in ;oP

8th May 2009:  New Rant Content

We're still listing 100s of games, but this week we've also added some new content to our Online magazine section. There's a new Jace's Rant, only the second one since the new version of the site went live. There are new guest rants too, from the mysterious Rough Text, and the clinically insane 'Mad Gamer'.

1st May 2009:  Bob Monkhouse's Games Collection

Well, we've managed to hit our targets, well over 300 items added to the site every week, so that's over 1000 new items in the past three weeks. As promised last week, the batch of hardware we had ready has now been added, along with a few more handhelds, and lots more Playstation, Sega and Nintendo rarities.

If you check our latest items list, at the bottom you'll find a few MINT NES games. This is the start of an amazing collection we recently aquired, the video game collection of comedy legend Bob Monkhouse. While Bob was famous for his film collection, he actually started collecting games back in the late 1970s, after giving away an Intellivision on the quiz show, Celebrity squares.

Fitting with his superstar status, apparently he would walk into games shops, ask how many games they had for a particular format, then buy them all. The best news for us, is that he seldom actually played them. Get ready for some lovely games in really beautiful condition over the coming week. It's a great shame Bob isn't still around, not just because TV light entertainment isn't the same without him, but because i'm sure he'd be an avid Retrogames customer!

24th April 2009:  Handhelds, Amiga and Rare Sega

If you're keeping in touch with the site, WELL DONE!  Hopefully you'll have noticed that we're making good progress. We are currently averaging at well over 300 new items added per week. In the past week you'll have seen major updates to the following sections.

Handheld Games - LED/LCD/G&W/Other/Chess/Bargain
Amiga Games - All game genres
Sega Saturn - UK and a few Japanese
Sega Dreamcast - UK and a few USA
Plus other bits and pieces, Gameboy, SNES, N64, NES etc.

Next week we are listing some really nice Nintendo games, mainly SNES and N64, some Playstation 1 and 2 games, and then we're moving onto Hardware, which hasn't been updated for some time. Lots of computers, consoles, peripherals, controllers and spares.

8th April 2009 : Stock Updates

We're beavering away adding 100s more games to the site. This week has seen big updates to Atari ST , Commodore Amiga, Mattel Intellivision, and Neo Geo CD.