video game museum in the uk?

[watusi]

I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that there was an arcade game museum somewhere (maybe near brighton?) where they had lots of old machines on freeplay. Can't find anything on google though...

Anyone?

[Mayhem]

Wasn't a museum as such, it was called Retrokade, and yes it was down on the south coast near Chichester. You could turn up, pay a fee and everything was on freeplay. I believe they had to move from the location in question, and are still trying to find somewhere new to house the machines.

[Wools]

I'm sure that was mentioned in EDGE years ago but can't rember.

Isint their one like that in Portsmouth? Could be wrong though, never been myself.

[JAPJAC]

There used to be one in Kent that I used to go to run by Arcade Heaven. Not sure about now sorry.

Rolling Thunder, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Viewpoint (in 6-slot), Robocop, OutRun etc

[Vince]

Wasn't a museum as such, it was called Retrokade, and yes it was down on the south coast near Chichester. You could turn up, pay a fee and everything was on freeplay. I believe they had to move from the location in question, and are still trying to find somewhere new to house the machines.

One of the guys i work with here has something to do with this, i think he knows the guy running it and he has 200+ cabs of his own. I'll see if i can get any info.

[Rankles]

Sounds pretty interesting, it'd be cool to find out if any are still around.

[watusi]

it does, fingers crossed one will turn up... cheers for the info so far.

[Vince]

I spoke to the guy at work who knows the guy running retrokade and unfortunatly its gone into liquidation, and most of the machines are for sale.

[Mayhem]

Which explains the sales list on the main page then I guess.

[watusi]

thats a shame. I would've loved to have gone...