I'm back from the dead!!! well..ive started collecting retro game stuff again...so not actualy dead...oh shut up.

So, it's been awhile, I'm a little older, a little wiser and a little richer so Ive decided to start collecting again.

It wasn't my intention to start it up again, after selling my last console (a dreamcast) on a shoreham car boot at the end of 2010 i was going to call it a day, and i did.
I closed my blog, gave up hunting carboots and charity shops for old copies of radiant supergun and snes carts. I stopped my ebay shop where i sold and items i had duplicates of or didn't need.
I even gave my boxed Amiga A1200 to my mate and my whole box of A500 games to my bud Paul.

I was finished, i took up photography and painting, moved house, twice and got a new job working for a heath insurance firm (the one with the blue green logo, you know the one).

Then one rainy morning i spotted something in a shop window. It was a Saturday (other mornings are available)   and i was walking down London road in Brighton ( i don't advise this to the faint of heart, its a bit lively down that way) when i saw a box i recognised in cancer research uk's window.

I went inside and found a fully boxed gamecube with 2 pads, games and memory cards, something stirred that i thought was well and truly gone, i took it to the guy behind he counter and asked how much they wanted, a look of panic ran over his mid teen spot encrusted mug as he tried to deconstruct and reassemble the complex and nuance laden request i had just forced into his subconscious so early on a Saturday morning. How much? yes i said how much? i tried to not look like i felt, ready to hand over all the loot i had to play the collector edition res evil 4 that sat on the shelf next to it.

After he panicked and fled to the back room a older gent in offensively festive knitwear informed that it would be £9 for the system and all the stuff that went with it (turns out it ha a dance mat and a 2.1 sound system from logitec) i handed over the reddies and took it home with me.

The wife took one look at my face when i came in the door, "what have you bought now?" she asked with suspicion. "just an old console"i said, she took one look at my face and walked away, she knew it was only a matter of time.

I'm collecting again.....