Retro Game Base

RGB has a solid collection of retro and import titles, great staff and fair prices. Well worth the trip!

A must visit for any retrogamer or videogame lover. Tons of stuff for many systems at great prices. I really fell in love with the original game boy system… Like new! It’s worth the trip if you are in London.

As a professional game scholar who has written extensively about old video and computer games, I feel fairly well equipped to judge a good video game shop when I see one. Today I found a *great* one. Even though it took an hour and fifteen minutes to get there from Central London, Joe and Tom (the co-​owners) made the trip more than worthwhile. Not only were they extremely helpful (and patient) with all my questions about their prodigious assortment of retro games, consoles, and paraphernalia, but the shop itself is well organized and superbly well stocked. If you’re looking for the latest Xbox 360 title or even last season’s hottest Wii peripheral, RGB is probably not the place for you (unless you’re reading this in 2023, in which case they’ve probably got the rarest 360 titles and weirdest Wii peripherals). Rather, Joe and Tom have the good old good ones as well as the terrible old terrible ones from way back when – think Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. From back issues of _​Amstrad Action_​magazine to an almost-​new-​in-​the-​box Apple Pippin, these guys have a fantastic assortment of items that are generally in excellent condition and reasonably priced.
If you’re in the neighborhood and dig old games, or even if you’re from across the city (or pond, like me) stop in to this very cool local shop. There’s no place like it in all of London.