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Who stole your images, Andy...

 

Forgotten Worlds made it to Number One in the list of course

I've visited many a retro games store here and in America and without any bias can say that Forgotten Worlds has the biggest range of any. I have visited Sore Thumbs in York a few times as well and it always seems to small and you get a feeling that it might be a bit cliquey and look down on casual gamers.

The only negative I would say about the Forgotten Worlds video is that it misses out a lot of the computers and 8 bit games that Alan has in-store.

 

Nicely compared and contrasted, Al.
Aye, from what you tell us, Forgotten Worlds takes some beating - but even it could improve by stocking more 1980s 8bit classic micros, peripherals and software, yeah?
Maybe the gaffer there isn't such a strong fan of this era, would you say, and that he's a total collector of everything, just about, since??
Probably an age thing - is he relatively young compared to fossils such as I?!?
I'm now that old, Age Concern have given up on me and Paul's asked the British Museum to carbon date me and me Atmos...


Methusalah Baz inspects his fossilised Atmos

I'll get me straightjacket.

 

Alan is just a year or two younger than me and is a fan of the 8 bit era although it tends to sell slower in store than the consoles. At the moment he has some Spectrums, BBC B, couple of C64's, Vic 20, Commodore 16, a few MSX's, 600XL, 800XL, ST's and Amiga's. Then there is stuff like a boxed Mattel Aquarius or the Philips G7000.
He also has a really big range of cassettes and floppies for Speccy, C64, Amstrad, Atari, Amiga, ST, etc.
Oh, and he prefers the ST to the Amiga lol.

 

Hmmm, bit like the police at our local nick when all the toilets were stolen earlier today, Paul...

It's early doors in the investigation, but so far we have nothing to go on... bo-bum!

I'll look further into this crime, pal!!

 

Me, Dad jokes.....Pot Kettle..etc..

 

Hats off to Alan, Al. He clearly does support that era of 8bit machine that I prefer. I'd help him get a lot more and boost his stock levels, mate!

 

Must have had a crack on the heed as a kidey...