Well, we all know someone close to us – be it a friend, family member or work colleague that asks this very question when they find out your dirty little secret.

For me? Well it was obviously something I grew up with as a kid. Spending lots and lots of pocket change (which basically means your entire lunch money) down the local arcades, then only to go home, get out the spectrum/C64/Amstrad/Whatever you owned and played something till it was time to go off to bed.

It was a great era for gaming, everything seemed new, inventive, exciting back then!

Then you started to enter your teens several years later and for some of us, games and consoles took a back seat for other things like Football, Girls, alcohol, friends- take your pick!

Then back in 2000 it was a case of passing a car boot sale and seeing a badly treated Sega Master System with umpteen games sat beside it. I just looked and thought ‘hey it’s worth asking to see if it is going cheap – might help pass a few bored moments and take a trip back to the good old days!. £5 and an hour later, it was wired up, and I got the bug!

So that’s myself. How did it start again for you? Or did it never stop? Come and pop over to

www.retropassionforum.co.uk and let us know. We always like to hear from new members about their experiences, not only with retro gaming, but also the new stuff too.Maybe we will see you soon then?