The Cave computer museum & Arcade Archive in UK

Haku

If you're ever in/near the south west of the UK you'll probably want to visit The Cave computer museum in Gloucestershire which is a hands-on experience where you can play on many many old computers & games consoles, as well as the Arcade Archive below it which is full of old arcade machines to play on.

The computing museum has several shelves full of my tabletop games I lent them at the end of 2022 which you can play on, including all 7 Tomytronic 3D games.

Their website is https://www.rmcretro.com/

Here's a visit video from someone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fuzcd-D3d0

OTTOgd · Posted: Sun May 12, 2024 1:39 pm Post subject:

Awesome. I would love to visit.

I actually have high hopes of opening a historic, playable place like that one day.

Thanks for the post!

Haku · Posted: Mon May 13, 2024 12:19 pm Post subject:

Only discovered it beginning of 2022 and felt I had to get involved somehow because it's less than 4 miles away, I was asked to lend them my tabletop games for people to play on which was fine, except they were all covered in a decade+ of dust & a lifetime of play so I took each one apart and cleaned them down to their individual switches & buttons, all looked like new afterwards.

Someone got a good photo of them on the shelves here https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrtomsworld/52931569499/in/album-72177720308619770/

I met the creator of Lemmings there in 2022 when he visited it and gave a talk about his involvement in the games industry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NL9Yb-zMw

OTTOgd · Posted: Sat May 18, 2024 8:53 pm Post subject:

Ugh. Born in '74, I played Lemmings bitd but I don't recall what I played it on and I'm not sure if I completed it. Probably. :-B Great game. Grew up with with Vic-20, C64, then my older brother got a PC, and then I got a 486 DX2-66. I think I still have that pc somewhere ...

Anyway, great vid! Admittedly, I'm not a coder so some of his info glazed over me but really neat. I want a Psygnosis tee!

Btw, it's cool to hear you're sharing your handhelds. A part of me worries about abuse but I guess it's safe to say the visitors are generally respectful, right? I have a bunch that I've arguably devalued after I installed AC adapters. But I don't want to rely on batteries!

Rik · Posted: Mon May 20, 2024 5:24 pm Post subject:

I found Lemmings on PC in 1991, that's where I was introduced to it (I think it was originally written for Amiga?).
I have a few folders on my current PC that I have literally copied from one computer to the next since my fist 486 computer back in 1990 or so, and it still has software from way back then. In my GAMES folder I have:
Lemmings
Lemmings II The Tribes
Oh No, More Lemmings
Lemmings 3D
Christmas Lemmings

'Lemmings' has a file date of May 20th, 1991, so somewhere around there is when I first started playing it... Absolutely loved that game!

I seem to remember having a direct port of it on my iPhone back in the 32-bit days... That version was never updated for newer phones, and I'm not sure about the quality of the current iPhone offering... But I think the old one was actually running on an iOS build of DOSBox (and probably not licensed either...) and Apple yanked it from the store once they realized that (emulation wasn't allowed back then...)

[Edit]- Might be remembering the PSP version... hard to recall... Rolling Eyes