Retro & Arcade Gaming: (Just like Mum used to make)

The satisfying clack of a Sanwa joystick changes the experience entirely. Every budget covered, from first-time buyers to tournament-ready hardware.

Most modern controllers get the D-pad badly wrong. 8BitDo dominates this list, and here’s why.

From the NES to the Dreamcast — original hardware, modern minis, and premium Analogue machines, covered properly.

Plug-and-play classics, no setup required. The best of the mini console boom, ranked.

A tiny computer, a microSD card, and a weekend afternoon. Thousands of classic games across dozens of systems.

A machine that looks like it belongs in a 1980s chip shop. Flat-pack kits, scratch builds, and everything in between.

The most powerful home console of the early 1990s is back — and this time you can actually afford one.

Half-Life, Diablo II, Grim Fandango — not just historically important, still genuinely great games.

Digital via Switch Online and PS Plus, or hunting physical copies at car boots and CEX — here’s what’s worth your time.

Eight-bit beeps, rubber keys, and tape decks that took four minutes to load a game. Originals and modern replicas covered.

No lore, four colours, one perfect idea: the detachable Force pod.

The game that understood football better than any other — with five-pixel players.

Remembered for its music first — and that’s the correct order of priorities.

The beat-’em-up that set the template everyone else copied.

A Mega Drive game that asked you to solve puzzles as a dolphin, not shoot anything. Genuinely strange, genuinely good.

A four-minute game. Six courses, a timer, and a marble that never quite does what you want.

A game about war that hated war. Sensible Software made you care about tiny soldiers — and then killed them.