The Retro Collective

Sega's Mega-Tech arcade cabinet is a rare find, especially for this price, but have I made a big mistake? Bought sight unseen on Ebay today we start a new Trash to Treasure series and figure out if we can make it look and run like new.

Washing a CRT and Cleaning PCB's is the order of the day as I do more work on the Sega Mega-Tech restoration today.

Let's clean this filthy Sega up. Today we continue the restoration with cleaning, filling, sticking and repairing but it's not all smooth sailing, this Mega Tech is putting up a fight.

Capturing VHS tapes is the order of the day. Come and hang out with me as we explore a pile of tapes and see what secrets are hiding on them.

The Sega Mega-Tech restoration is completed! Let me show you around the finishing touches to round off the series.

Thunder Helix is a homage to '90s flight sims with elements of Desert Strike thrown in for good measure. Today we get an early look at the pre-release build of the game set to be released in March.

Rare, weird, wonderful and curious computers is the topic for our talk today. Recorded in front of a live audience at The Cave, Lewis Packwood takes us on a "choose your own adventure" journey through the lesser known world of video game machines.

What video games would you put in a museum? Today I explore the inventory of The Cave and pick out my choices, or at least some of them. We're going to need more glass cabinets.

Today we look at the only known Lemmings arcade PCB in existence. Does it work and is it any good? Let's find out.

Do you remember The Commodore PC20-III that arrived covered in poop! That was a year ago! Today we can finally bring it back to life.

Computer Space was the first commercially available Arcade Video Game, and as such a historic piece it carries a hefty price tag. Too much for us, so we decided to 3D print a replica with the help of Richard from Heber.

Two 1994 Light guns are compared today with two very different approaches, but one game in common. Mad Dog McCree. Let's do some rootin' and tootin' cowboys!

Did you know Sega made a PC in 1991? Part business, part pleasure, it's the Sega TeraDrive.

We're retro hunters today on a road trip to check a storage unit that hasn't been opened for 10 years. Can we find treasure in the trash!?

Today we repair, and test drive the rare Sega Teradrive from 1991

The Cave is growing again! Today we start building The Dev Den!

Data East's Lemmings Arcade was never made....until now! We scratch build our imagining of the 1991 game and install the only known prototype PCB of it for visitors to try out.

In 1987 Mastertronic hatched a plan to create an Amiga 500 based arcade. After many years of hunting I've managed to find one, and in this series we'll restore it and tell the story of the Arcadia Super Select System.

This Atari Mega ST was a game dev powerhouse used and owned by Richard Costello. Today we're taking a look at the condition of it and seeing if anything can be salvaged from the original 1988 hardware, and we find some very interesting things along the way!

The MultiPi and MultiPi JAMMA are a new retro gaming console from Heber Ltd which is now available. Today Richard and I check it out and he talks us through his latest creation for the company.

We met the Arcadia Super Select System in part one of the series, now it's time to inspect and test it. Does it work? And what on earth are we going to put this in?

Electronic Table-top games are the topic of today's talk thanks to Mike Diver, author of the book "From Coin-Ops to Table-Tops".

Did your arcade have upcycled, converted and generic cabinets in it? We wouldn't be a proper arcade if we didn't celebrate this aspect of the art of arcade maintenance! Today we convert 4 machines into something visitors will want to play.

The first software I ever owned was the Amstrad Amsoft Soft999 compilation which came bundled with my Amstrad CPC464. It turned 40 this year and thanks to a chance eBay auction win I get to revisit it today.

The Arcadia restoration project has been an exciting one but a question has always lingered...what does anyone actually want to play on it? We may have just found the answer thanks to the efforts of h0ffman and The Twitch Elite, while we at the Retro Collective put in a final effort to get the system finished.