Maybe it’s an age thing. but there was a time when video games shops seemed like magical kingdoms, the kind of fantastical emporium you would find in Diagon Alley and be whisked away to a fantastical land.
The first video game ‘shop’ I can recall was simply a market stall tucked away at the back of the concrete monstrosity that is the Chelmsford multi-storey car park.
As I only had an Atari 2600 and my mate had a 4K Spectrum, the choice was either the outrageously priced console cartridges or the much more pocket money-friendly cassette tapes to choose from.
There was a bewildering amount of cheap games on the Spectrum,… Read the full story