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"There's a huge amount to be learned" - how the pioneering years of gaming are being preserved for a new generation in a corner of south London

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Wander the winding track to London's Kingston University over the next week and you'll find a little pocket of gaming history awaiting there. The Archive of Retro Computing (ARC) is free to explore and features over 65 retro personal computers and gaming consoles, some familiar and others considerably less so. It's an exhibit stretching from the mid-70s and the advent of video game cartridges to significantly more modern gaming consoles, charting the history of personal computing across an incredibly rich three decades.

Period7 Aug 2026

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  • Title"There's a huge amount to be learned" - how the pioneering years of gaming are being preserved for a new generation in a corner of south London
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletEurogamer
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date7/08/26
    DescriptionWander the winding track to London's Kingston University over the next week and you'll find a little pocket of gaming history awaiting there. The Archive of Retro Computing (ARC) is free to explore and features over 65 retro personal computers and gaming consoles, some familiar and others considerably less so. It's an exhibit stretching from the mid-70s and the advent of video game cartridges to significantly more modern gaming consoles, charting the history of personal computing across an incredibly rich three decades.
    Producer/AuthorMatt Wales
    URLhttps://www.eurogamer.net/archive-of-retro-computing-showcase-2026-south-london-preview
    PersonsPaul Neve