Welcome to the new Retro Repair Bear Blog. Have a good look around. Let me know what you think. See you in the comments!
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A 32 bit CD based consolised Amiga based games system. These are quite sought after now, and a lovely thing it is too. A great example here in really well looked after condition, in for
The Philips Discoverer CRT TV, better known as the red one that looks like a space helmet, was released in the early to mid eighties to celebrate the Space Shuttle launches. This one doesn’t have
These two Atari VCS 2600’s came in together for repairing and servicing. Both in largely unknown condition having spent some years in storage but one was reported to have smoked the last time it was
It is, isn’t it. These were only ever produced in really small numbers, so you can imagine the astronomical prices for them now. It is in to the £thousands. The PC Engine LT is, in
Something fancy today! Fun fact: This is the console they’re searching for in the top 90s movie Enemy of the State, with Will Smith. Lots of pictures, bear with. This one has been languishing in
That’s a lot isn’t it! The Lynx is a really underrated system. With some modern, quality of life mods it is really playable. I really like it. Perhaps even prefer it to the Game Gear.
Another 8 bit system. There’s been a bit of a run of them recently. The Schneider CPC 464 is essentially the Amstrad CPC 464 used by most of Europe. Not very commonly seen in the
Something different this time, this is a Phonemark Load-It style datasette for the Commodore 64. It’s in a bit of a rough shape. A Datasette is just what Commodore like to call the data recorder.
A continuation of the Game Gear that was recapped last week. It’s not ideal doing this in two stages but it’s often the case with these. You can never really tell what state the original
This Spectrum came in having become a bit flaky. It was actually booting though, which gives a good indication that the lower RAM is OK. There are two banks of RAM in a 48k Spectrum.
