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WE HAVE A BRAND SPANKING NEW WEBSITE AND WOULD LOVE YOU TO SEE IT! CLICK HERE TO GO TO IT NOW If you enjoy reading our articles, watching our videos or listening to us chat rubbish on twitter then you will find all the links to follow us in some way here: www.TheGamesShed.com The new site is now fully operational but we would really appreciate any comments or suggestions

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So everyone is different right? This is something we've come to strongly believe since starting up the Games Shed. Some people think collecting retro video gaming items would be pretty standard, right? Wrong. We catch up with our mate Dave Bird, programmer by day, retro collector by night, to find out just what makes his collection a little bit different from others!

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DUST 514 - Closed BETA - Charge me? Are you kidding?! Yesterday, having a lazy day gaming, I happened to be so short of bandwidth that I couldn't play CoD MW3. You see, a 'non-gamer' pal of mine at work has recently got the CoD itch and has become very good, in a very short space of time. He's become so good that he has in fact overtaken me in all aspects of the online game...

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CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS POST ON OUR NEWLY DESIGNED WEBSITE - TheGamesShed.com Recently we joined RetroCollect.com (I know, we've told you before) and posted up to see if any gaming collectors would be up for a little feature... One of the people that took us up on our offer was Ian.  He clearly has massive love for Mega Man and hes not afraid to show it!  Check out our

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Please CLICK HERE to view this post on our newly designed website.  TheGamesShed.com We generous lads brought you a feature on the first ever issue of GamesMaster Magazine a while back and it's had lots and lots of interest, so we thought; why not whip out the second issue and let you filthy perverts have a gander inside it's freakishly sexy pages? The date; Feb 1993 - I was

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His name is Marcel Weber and he lives in Zurich. After putting a post up on RetroCollect.com we were lucky enough to get a reply from Marcel about his fantastic collection. Thankfully he was well up for an interview and gives us a glimpse into his gaming life!  Here's how it all went down. TGS: Hi Marcel, thank you very much for agreeing to chat with us, you have a very

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Thank you to everyone that entered the competition we have been running for the past 7 days. We had over 200 views and 35 of you entered... Pretty good odds of winning if you ask me! It was fortunate that we chose a pretty low number for our winning comment! :) Now onto the important bit.... The winning answer, the winning comment number and the winner of the GameCube bundle.. The

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After putting a forum post up in the retrocollect.com retro gaming section all about the gaming tattoos on our site we have found another willing volunteer for The Games Shed! His name is Shane Barrett and we had a quick chat about his tattoos. TGS: Hi Shane, Thanks for agreeing to a chat with us. First of can you tell us a little about yourself.SB: My name is Shane, I'm 20 and Live in Dublin

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Hi Andrew, Thank you very much for agreeing to talk to us about your gaming collection. You have been fantastic on Twitter giving us lots of banter, advice and ideas. We suggest everyone reading this article get straight on Twitter and follow you!! Twitter.com/Retrocollie  Lets get stuck straight into this and have a look at your amazing collection!

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During Nintendo's Direct broadcast last night it was revealed that they are going to release a new version of the Nintendo 3DS featuring larger screens and better battery life.  Just as I was about to drop the cash for a 3DS, Nintendo go and do this! :) Look at the difference here: The system will be called the 3DS XL and will be released on August 19th in the US,

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BOULDER (June 19, 2012): One of the most respected video games of all-time,M.U.L.E. is making its long-awaited comeback to tablets, smart phones, anddesktops everywhere.  A family-friendly economic video game similar toSimCity or Civilisation, 'Alpha Colony: A Tribute to M.U.L.E.' will delivera modern sequel to this classic game and strive to fulfill the originaldeveloper's ambition.

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Things that Sparkle in the Dark - The evolution of the amusement arcade The fruit machine, or ‘one-armed bandit’ as it was disapprovingly named, has been an iconic symbol of amusement arcades over the last century. But this single machine has hidden other aspects of the amusement arcades’ history. There has always been a range of machines from gambling, games of skill, to machines that are

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After some great feedback from a whole host of people on Twitter we find ourselves looking at loads of amazing pictures of peoples retro gaming collections on a regular basis. For this article we will be focusing on Terry 'Page' Hunter who can be followed on Twitter @PageVGP - Go and do it now!! TGS: Hi Terry, Thanks for agreeing to have a quick chat with us about your

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The Games Shed hits ONE THOUSAND FOLLOWERS on Twitter!! To celebrate this monumental feat we have decided to, firstly put our faces out there and secondly run a competition! We are giving away the following: Nintendo GameCube - Indigo  Official Nintendo controller - Indigo Power and AV leads Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 Mario Kart Double Dash Sonic Mega

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Hi Steve, Thank you very much for agreeing to let us into your gaming and tattoo filled world. We love your work on twitter and suggest all our readers go and follow you as soon as possible!! @hsriner1984      TGS: To start with please go ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself SR: I am a father of 3 that has never grown up himself and still

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PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS POST ON OUR NEWLY DESIGNED WEBSITE. TheGamesShed.com If you keep up with our blog then you will notice that Alana has been featured recently, starring in our first Retro Gaming Tattoos article. HERE (Follow her on twiitter - @retrogamergirls and check out http://www.retrogamergirl.com/) The thing about Alana is, she doesnt just have gaming tattoos , she is

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We recently featured a congratulatory post to our heroes 'GamesMaster Magazine' on reaching their 250th edition milestone - which got us thinking..  250 glorious editions of glossy gaming heaven. 250 marvellous magazines full of tips, reviews, cheats & previews. But how did it all begin? Well we happen to have the first edition here at The Games Shed HQ and we thought we'd share

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Every once in a while we come across an utterly amazing find, this week was no exception, but this time, the find came to us.. A chap called Russell dropped us a tweet this week stating that he had just completed his collection of retro gaming items and attached a photo. This photo showed a room utterly full of Sega console games. We had plenty of questions and Russell

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Wow, what a week. It seems almost crazy posting this on a Tuesday evening, but being UK lads we've had a four day weekend, all thanks to our beloved Queen! (Happy Diamond Jubilee Ma'am). So what have we been up to these last seven days? Well aside from hearing 'God Save The Queen' on TV & Radio around one hundred times, we've actually fit in quite a lot of gaming! We kicked things off

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Its not every day that you get to quiz someone who loves retro gaming so much that they are willing to get someone to stab them with ink filled needles leaving a permanent reminder of their retro heroes! Luckily for all you lot we have managed just this!  The person in question is Alana.. Retro gaming enthusiast with a love in particular for Mega Man. Very active in the twitter gaming

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So Capcom have announced a limited edition Street Fighter collectors set which has an absolute hoard of items included.. As massive fans of street fighter we think this set will be a collectors item in years to come and is definitely worth snapping up if you got a spare $149.99 (Or £95 of your English pounds) As you can see from the picture above there is loads of stuff in the box but

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With E3 only weeks away, we thought it would be nice to highlight a few of the "Big Boys" exhibiting on the day and make a few predictions... First up is one of our favourites. Nintendo. The good thing about Nintendo is that they have made a special effort and created a website just for us to showcase their stuff from the 5th of June 2012. For now all we get is a splash page and the

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Well, that time is upon us once more.. the most eagerly anticipated yearly gaming event - the world famous E3 Expo. The expo will see a gathering of every influential name in the gaming industry over the space of 5 days, all under one roof! But what can we expect at this years LA expo? One thing we do know is there will be a lot of COD action - this time it is once more Treyarch's

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So a photo has been leaked of Nintendos Wii U controller. Two analogue sticks and a massive screen make for some interesting viewing. The tablet has Wii U branding, which tells us that Nintendo are likely to be sticking to the name instead of changing it. A report last year claimed that Nintendo had rushed the final Wii U designs "with undesirable consequences" including "

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The M82 Game Selectable Working Product Display - a shop unit for letting customers try out NES game carts before parting with their hard earned cash. This beast would hold up to 12 NTSC (US Region) games and had up to two controllers & one Zapper plugged in. These true treasures rarely come up for sale so when they do you can expect to part with a lot of money if you want to

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