The first one
July 2026
Every good games mag had a letters page — the bit you turned to first, where the editor answered you like a mate across the pub table. We never had one. So here it is. To get us going, Alex asked me the things people ask us most.
Right — first Postbag. Someone’s going to ask: what is Retro Delights actually for? There’s a lot going on.
It’s a place for people who never stopped loving old games. Not a shop — a clubhouse. Keep your collection on a proper shelf, play a bit every day, help someone name a half-remembered game, argue about the best console in the Countdown. If you’ve got the itch, you’re home.
And the one everyone asks the pair of us — best console, no hedging?
No hedging, then: the one under the telly that took three goes to switch on and still owed you nothing. You know the one. Tell me I’m wrong — the box below is right there.
Fighting talk for issue one. What do you actually want people to send in?
Anything with a story in it. The game you can’t name. The Christmas the Spectrum finally loaded. A shop that’s long gone. A daft high-score grudge. If it made you feel eleven again, write it down and send it — I’ll write back.