As we all know, Christmas is a time for both giv­ing and receiv­ing. The UCHG have a habit of exchang­ing par­tic­u­larly mar­vel­lous bits of retro gam­ing periph­ery; gift results have in the past included mul­ti­ple Alex Kidd games and light­guns in all … Continue read­ing →

If you cast your mind back to February 2010 you may well remem­ber a lit­tle post on the old UCHG about 3D gam­ing. If you are unable to cast your mind back any fur­ther than the last few min­uets you can … Continue read­ing →

Who doesn’t like light­gun games? No-one, that’s who. Because of the hard­ware required (and issues with mod­ern day TVs), light­gun games aren’t that com­mon. But of those that do exist, which are the ones you really have to play? Check out … Continue read­ing →

At UCHG HQ, we’ve got so much stuff — games num­ber in their hun­dreds, for con­soles that many peo­ple nowa­days wouldn’t even recog­nise. By now, we’ve man­aged to get hold of many of the real land­marks in gam­ing; but what … Continue read­ing →

On a cold dark January evening a call was made to UCHG HQ. The anony­mous voice on the end of the phone sug­gested that it would be within the best inter­ests of both par­ties if they were to meet. Sensing an immi­nent … Continue read­ing →

This week has been a dra­matic and upset­ting week for the UCHG. It is not a well known fact but keep­ing old games and con­soles is both fun but extremely dan­ger­ous. There are cer­tain con­soles that are more dan­ger­ous than oth­ers and … Continue read­ing →

I should be able to pick up my game from where I left off, and indeed I can but it wasn’t always like this. There was once a time when the save point was unheard of and a Hard Drive was some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent … Continue read­ing →

Faced with the death of the leg­endary, hard-hitting portable video game con­sole, SEGA PAYNE 2 tells the story of a mav­er­ick cop deter­mined to track down the cure for a bru­tal ill­ness. Hell-bent on dis­cov­er­ing a rem­edy, his obses­sive inves­ti­ga­tion takes him on … Continue read­ing →