Retro gaming revival: UK enthusiast turns passion into global console repair business

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With some parts of the retro game boys, Sega mega drives and Nintendoes are looking for space and are looking forward to repair, which is the shelf of Luke Melpas’s home workshop line is a decades -old gamer treasure.

Contemporary all over the world send packages to retrosis, cave of Malpas, asks for help.

It has turned a lifetime passion for gaming into a full -time job, answering the common question as to what to do with old and worn machines and their parts.

“I think it might be partially old,” said Malpas, 38, when he surveyed the electronics decorated at his home in the central English city of Stock -Trent.

He said that a huge restoration in retro games and consoles is not just a passing step.

“Personally, I think this is a super -experience. Getting a box from the shelf, physically inserting the game into the console … it makes you play more and enjoy it more.”

Electronic devices and accessories, some begin in the 1980s and wait for the rising dawn of the gaming revolution to be restored to life.

Malpas has between 50 and 150 consoles that require attention at any time at a cost of £ 60 ($ 78) and several hundred pounds at any time.

This is not just an old memory for a long lost childhood.

They believe that this is also a way to disconnect, mostly unlike online games that are now multi -player and the good level of the level is needed during the long hours.

He told AFP, “Retro gaming – just pick up it, activate it, keep it an hour, 10 minutes. It doesn’t matter. It is quick, there, and it’s pleasant.”

With the Vintage One Player Games, “there is no one you are competing and there is nothing that is making you sad or angry.”

Mallpass, who is a sports fans such as “Resident Eule” and “Jurassic Park”, even go to buy old television with cathode ray tubes to copy your experience of playing video games in childhood more loyal.

Video clips that he has published in his gameplay, which he publishes his YouTube channel, has won tens of thousands of followers.

‘Always Retro’

“I think people always have the natural spirit of things with which they grow up in childhood.

“So I think we will always have work. It will be ready. And maybe, there will be no game boys.”

“There is always something that is retro.”

This week, the British Association, which honors films, television, and video games, voted for the 1999 action game “Shanmio” as the most influential video game ever.

“Dome”, which was launched in 1993, and “Super Mario Bruce”, in which Mario first started trying to rescue Princess Patch in 1985, second and third.

And on Wednesday, Nintendo unveiled the details of his long -awaited switch 2 console.

These include the new version of the Japanese giant – “Mario Cart World” and “Donkey Kong Bonaza” lovely.

Every four months, the London gaming market dedicated to Vintage Video Games is attracting the growing number of fans.

“I’m a huge ‘Sonic Hedge Hag’ fan … You will never know what you will find when you are out of here, so I am always looking for,” Adren, who wearing a t -shirt with a picture of a zeno.

The collector and the gamers worked carefully through the piles of CD discs and old consoles in hopes of finding hidden treasures.

Andy Brown, Managing Director of Replay Events and London Event Administrator, now in his 10th year, marked a success in return to the Vintage Games.

He told AFP, “I think people were trapped at home, wished for things that made them remember the better time because it was a lot of punishment and was sad around Covade.”

A study by the US Association’s consumer reports earlier this year said that 14 percent of Americans are playing on consoles before 2000.

And in September, Italian Customs picked up a group of smuggling into fake vintage video games, seizing 12,000 machines consisting of some of the famous sports between the 1980s and 1990s.