Inside The UK's SECRET Retro Games Shop
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Our first episode of The Retroad Show is here, I find myself visiting a secret retro games shop hidden in Tewksbury called Retro-Sect which is filled with a bunch of incredible vintage products from video games, to toys to retro cars!
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Have you been to the retro computer museum in Leicester?
@@sobek_2012 Not yet.
The Star Wars guy was very honest. Could’ve easily said ‘I’ll give you a quid for these 2 fakes for my kids’
What a nice guy running it. He seems to have real passion
Indeed he does.
Don't go there... You'll never be able to leave!
Was lucky enough to see it open, and now it constantly grows, way to go Ben!
Thanks (in part) to some great customers 😁
I like the shelf where he's like "this is just stuff I like" and he's got Regulate by Warren G and Nate Dogg on cassette at the front.
It's a track that has a lot of memories from my teenage years, rolling around town in my shit Fiesta 😅
Oh it’s that shop that Elliot visited.
He makes a cameo. ;)
@@RetroDodo ah yes 6:42
15:46 The Zelda CD was a free gift with an issue of the Official Nintendo Magazine (or NOM, depending on the era, I guess).
Thanks for the info! It is 20+ years since I got it 😅
@@BenStinson1 No worries! I have the same one in my soundtrack collection 😬
Thank you, I was looking for this comment! I also had this CD and I was pretty certain it came from ONM (or NOM) so it’s nice that someone corroborated that! Loved this CD. The Smash symphony one was amazing too, highly recommend finding that one if you’ve never had it.
I definitely need to make a pilgrimage to Tewkesbury next time I'm in the UK. This guy's clearly passionate about his wares and running a decent and fair shop. Love the cameo!
Absolutely take a visit!
Thank you! 🙏
Damn thats cool! The prices seemed fair, too. On ebay prices are ridiculous. You really gotta go local with most retro stuff.
The Game Boy Pokemon games seem way overpriced, but that's probably with collectors in the market just buying them as investments rather than people buying them to play them for nostalgia purposes. I mean I've still got my copy of red, and my brother still has his copy of yellow/pikachu (although only the cart, no manual or box). He MIGHT still have his copy of blue from back then too. Same with a lot of the PC/MS-DOS games at 1:39, but that's probably because their all "big-box" versions. I mean if you just want to PLAY some of those, rather than physically own them, you can get them cheap on GOG/Steam.
look at all that retro goodness. This is an awesome video bro. Its funny how one thing can lead into another🔥
That was the coolest retro shop I've seen anywhere, and I've seen a lot 😎 BTW shoutout to Elliot popping in to say hi halfway through the video, absolutely amazing to see 2 retro channels bond 😀 🙌
I had no idea this was so near by me! will deffo have to take the drive up at somepoint, cracking vid Brandon!
You're welcome!
It's a good thing that this awesome store is in the UK. If it were here in the US, I'd be broke.
😂
You should check out Forgotten Worlds in Stewarton, Scotland. I haven't seen anywhere bigger in the UK and the guy who runs it is top class.
We're scheduling a visit VERY soon. :)
@@RetroDodo I'm looking forward to seeing it!
I’m from Australia, going to UK for the first time ever soon, and will be within an hour of this shop…obviously I need to go!
Arcade club Bury. 4 floors of arcade machines to play.
@@PeaceBeTheJourney. ooh id never get the husband to leave! Unfortunately we don’t have time to go that far north (staying South) but it’s on the cards for next trip!
Awesome!
Loads of stuff that brought a smile to my face here.
We had an Amstrad PCP (128k power!) and I remember the adverts for Barbarian and really wanting to play it!
And obvs had that red silly driving game toy thing 😊
Fantastic retro shop, Ben is awesome and has a pure passion for it. I loved visiting this shop!
Thanks Chris!
This place is like a dream come true! And what a lovely guy also! I wanna visit for sure
Wow a Renault GTA tucked away !. I used to have a GTA V6 Turbo, they are amazing cars. Really miss mine, used it as a daily driver for 5 years and it never let me down. Just regular servicing every year.
Fun fact they had to change the original shot of Maria Whittaker and the Wolf for WHSmiths for The Barbarian game as they wouldn't sell the game with Maria Whittaker on it. So you will find some Barbarian games with just the Wolf posing by himself. Also the Wolf wasn't that recognised back then as he didn't do Gladiators till later where he got the name The Wolf.
Tobol N01 I played to death with my friends. What a fantastic fighting game.
Wow !!!!! Want to go there!! What a wonderful retro place 👍👍💯And he seems really nice too.
I wish there was a place like this in America in Connecticut, it looks like an amazing place to go and spend time and money.
His shop is amazing i grew up with most of the stuff he has in the shop. I used to have one of those game watches i think it was the tetris one. I will deffo go there sometime and maybe clean out his shop! 😂😂😂
Do it!
It's one of those! Oh my.. Turbo Tomy. Had one of those as a kid.
omg that Malice 'ultraconversion' for Quake!! I completely forgot about that
So much cool stuff. Would like to visit the shop one day.
Forget Wolf on the poster...what about Maria Whittiker? Seeing as it's retro related, she also happens to be married to Rebel MC.
Cool place...I'm sorely tempted by that Astro Wars.
Just looking for places to stay down that neck of the woods, me and the missus are going to make a weekend of it.
The guy could make a youtube channel with a 10 min video per week featuring one of each object, for instance
Agreed
Dang, I had those TMNT cards when I was a kid! Perfect for a game of snap!
Ha! I was there just a few weeks ago. Picked up a SNES controller. Cracking little place.
Awesome!
you should take a trip to York and visit Sore thumb Retro games, they are great
It’s on our list. :)
The Zelda symphonic music CD was given away on a magazine. Sadly I can't remember which. There was also a Mario collection one.
Retro Sect is an awesome shop
Ohhh Premier Manager 98 on original PS 👌🏻👌🏻
Game boy colour 👏🏻
Very nice shop!
This is heaven on Earth 😍
Hey Elliot popped by here as well 🙏🏽
I could probably get there in about 30mins. I might have to go sometime.
Wicked episode Brandon 🎉 Would love to visit this place...2.5 hours drive for me though. Maybe I'll turn it into a holiday 😂 Also, great Sonic Game Gear pick up (although it'd irk me somewhat to have an outlier NTSC copy sat on my shelf 😅)!
This is so cool!! Not in the UK but definitely would check it out if I ever visited 😍
OMG im local im so going there, thank you for sharing this
You’re welcome!
I had that Sega watch as a kid!!
Can you remember where it came from? I've found very little mixed information on it!
Tobal No. 1 is a PlayStation fighting game, the interesting thing is the character designs are by the late Akira Toriyama (best known for Dragon Ball).
This looks like a great place to empty my bank account!
Fun Fact: in the 80s and 90s (i guess) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were called the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK (correct my mistakes if im wrong somewhere) oh wait i forgot that they were called hero turtles instead of ninja turtles to have a more friendly title and Mikey used a rope instead of his nunchucks in the UK but that changed.
I had Barbarian on C64 haha.
those watches are great - totallly better than the iphone watch
The shop we'd all have in our basements if our partners allowed it...
Woow I would love to go but I'm from South africa and flight tickets are very expensive
More vids like this please❤
Super cool :)) ❤❤❤❤❤
Wow so many of my old things..
Oh damn, anyone got a name of the small figurines at 12:28? I remember having these as a kid
They're Z-Bots by Galoob!
Crazy prices
I recon it's 'premium pricing'
He'll probably put his prices up now lol
He should get some development kits
I didn’t expected Fiat 126p from Poland in this video, but here we are.
It's up for sale soon for around £5k.
raczej to nie jest z polskiej produkcji, raczej originalny włoski ale rynek brytyjski z kierownica po "złej" stronie :)
theres one game ive been trying to name for well over a decade now, i had it as a kid on the megadrive 2, it started with a cutscene of people around a table and as the table which had a world on it, can anyone help me finally put a name to my childhood game
Could it have been 'Captain Planet and the Planeteers' what kind of game was it?
@@craig2892 it was slightly gothic and dark in tone, my memory might be wrong but it felt like the opening cutscene was gods looking at the world, i last played this game about 20 years ago so my memory is a bit fuzzy but that intro has always stuck with me
edit: closest thing i can say is had a high fantasy vibe but in a really dark and gloomy scene
this has been stuck in my head 20 years and ive spent 16 years trying to find this game
@@kevinmorrice was it a platform or RPG? It wasn't the port of God's by Bitmal Brothers?
@@craig2892 no it wasnt a sidescroller, from my memory it was i think a top down sort of view
@@craig2892 it was a top down view 3d free roam sort of game i think, as i said, 20 years since i last played it so memory is just what i vaguely remember
edit: but it may have had a greek theme to it, im remembering columns in the background of the cutscene
finding this game will lift a 20 year weight from my shoulders and cleanse my sanity, this game has been itching away in the back of my head all the time
No entry to under 18's without adult supervision 🤓
Feeling very disappointed travelled 4 and a half hours to get there and he wasn’t open to doing any deals on some gamecube games I left without buying anything.
Hey! It's Ben here... When did you visit? Haven't had anyone asking for deals on GameCube games recently 🤔
@@BenStinson1 last year you might remember I was wanting to trade in original xbox games towards the GameCube games
Sorry, I don't remember! I'm always open to doing deals where I can, but if not there would have been a valid reason - either I've only just put the game out, or perhaps I already priced it competitively. Anyway, I'm sorry you felt disappointed - I always try and offer the best service possible.
Brandon, where are you?? :D
Tewkesbury! :)
terrible condition, no protective cases
Stop snitchin’, bruv.
These Rich folk are the reason
Prices stay high
It's an exclusive club and I don't have any spare kidneys left to sell.
Literally nothing "secret" about it.
What the fuck kind of name is Tewksbury?????
Big Tech companies are shitting down WEB2.0 applications and softwares. Giving room for more businesses to be their own tech company is too priority.
If you have the knowledge of coding, then applying that to their open source softwares shouldn’t be a problem since you still on that technology. It would mean GPL and MIT licenses can be open to the public now for people to publish their own versions of what they have bought with their own money.
Not secret at all now.
what an awesome show! I loved the passion the guy running the store has for each and every item no matter what it is.
The classic casio digital watches caught my eye...cool shop
same
Same here
A great shop. I visited it last October and spent far more than I should have. I hope to get back there in a month or two.
This video has unlocked so many core memories for me. Crazy how much I recognise and remember from my childhood, over 35 years ago!
I love this, Man i remember most of these items, I kept them for years but nobody enjoyed them as much as me and now....... Its like worth 1000s damn you!
The Barbarian poster is page 3 model Maria Whittaker, weirdly she was a household name in the 80’s
She's still beautiful now. Kids use to rave for The Barbarian just because she was on the front of the cassette. She's my favourite Page 3 girl from The Sun as well as Linda Lusardi. There's actual footage of Maria Whittaker and the Wolf modeling for the pictures of this game on youtube but unfortunately can't seem to remember on who's platform.
Great episode 🎉 I set a trend when I filmed my episode. Ben deserves the exposure honestly ❤
You'll always be the first and your enthusiasm for what I had only recently opened made a big difference in my outlook. Much love 🙏💜
@@BenStinson1 You a legend mate and you deserve every success. I’ll come and visit soon ❤️
@@TheGebs24 - Thank you n Would be lovely to catch up 😊👍
Porsche 928 😍😍😍 this place looks amazing
That retro shop looks amazing!! 🤩
I always thought the Barbarian looked familiar
Holy shit, I had that Turtles card games as a child. I had completely forgotten about it, and seeing it gave me such a nostalgic rush! I’ll have to check if it still exists in my parents’ storage.
Walking around in this shop would be heaven 🤩
what an amazing shop , i want to visit ;-))
🤤
13:04 For when you love music, and you love films.
I need that in my country
I had Barbarian for the C64. Had no idea Wolf was the cover star! 😂
Haha, now you know! :)
Maria Whittaker (page 3 girl). Is the model next to him, really nice.
No lie i actually had the making of Thriller VHS as a kid. What memories.
Awesome!
The Zelda music CD was given away free with a magazine.
You should definitely visit Arcade Club in Bury as part of this series.
Does this guy have a website at all? Some really interesting stuff there!
He does, I have now added that into the description! :)
I’ll have to look 👀 at the car 🚗 boots 🥾 and see what I can find.
hate to see price stickers on the stuff. probably leaves nasty residue and damage if removed
My stickers can usually be easily removed with little more than blowing warm air over them and peeling off. If the items are delicate I usually bag them or don't put the price on it, but in the shelf / next to it instead.
As a grown man myself into retro gaming i would never have a teenage mutant ninja turtle t shirt ever. im not 10 years old and i have my pride.
Boring!
Nothing wrong with being a man child sometimes. On another day you might find me wearing a plain Primark top. Is that approved?... 😅
@@RetroDodo how am i boring just because i wont wear kiddy t shirts?