I'm Roly, and I collect, restore, play, blog and tweet #retrogaming. Arcades, 80s consoles, handhelds and home computers. Also create web tools for bloggers
Joined April 2011
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2 Oct 2021
Been a bit quiet on here for a while now, but with new house comes new arcade, the third @rolyretro arcade shed is on the way #retrogaming #arcade
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May 24
Newly updated blog post on the Munchman handheld game. Even managed to include some emulated gameplay! Who had this fame as a kid? #munchman #pacman retrogamesnow.co.uk/grandsta…
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May 22
Atari 2600 purchase this week. I really need to get to my storage locker and catalogue everything as I suspect I’m now into multiples. May need to do a swap-shop on here at some point #noel #atari2600
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May 21
Just an original Donkey Kong cabinet, sitting quietly in my home office #arcade #donkeykong
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May 21
Had a bit of a refresh on the website RetroGames!now, been updating old articles with new graphics and gameplay clips, starting with my favourite, Phoenix #arcade #atari2600 retrogamesnow.co.uk/phoenix-…
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May 21
@HRGL89 just saw your comment from 2014, how did I miss your excellent BBC Micro conversion! That’s going in the blog too :) youtu.be/h_d3dkBmpmc?si=Fvog…
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RolyRetro retweeted
May 16
Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.
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May 17
Playing around with my recently launched website freephototools.com and wanted an image to show capabilities for eBay sellers. No more cluttered backgrounds in your listings. Not that anyone would ever want to sell R2D2 #removebackground
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May 10
Fed up with sites trying to charge for simple photo edits for my blogs, I created a free website for simple photo editing, including background removal, compression and resizing. Check it out on freephototools.com.
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Feb 14
The sun has come out long enough in Shenfield for R2D2 to get a coat of primer, after applying car body filler to the joins in the 3D prints
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Jan 17
My latest project - building a life size R2D2. Follow my progress live (link attached)
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3 Sep 2025
40 years ago, Ocean - under the guise of Imagine - was advertising its ports of Konami's Yie Ar Kung-Fu coin-op. This early beat 'em up evolved the genre with unique characters and very fast-feeling gameplay, plus a wide variety of moves. The ports were generally very good.
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30 Jan 2025
Updating my blog on BurgerTime, adding in some animated graphics - GIFs are the future! #burgertime #arcade #retrogaming
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11 Jan 2025
Updating some of my retro gaming blog posts, including this one on Grandstand’s Astro Wars handheld #retrogaming retrogamesnow.co.uk/astro-wa…
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15 Oct 2024
Updated my review of Frak! On the blog, adding some new graphics. Any live for this 1984 game on the BBC Micro? #retrogaming
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