☆ The Sozu Arcade Stick - "A Thing Of Beauty!" ☆ #Arcade #Retrogaming

Every time I go onto Shika Arcades website I fall in love with the awesome video game arcade stick that they have created for the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom.

It's a work of art and the Sozu Arcade Stick joystick is now available in a small amount of units from Shika.

☆ 1982 - A Year In Video Games "Dragon 32, Pitfall & Popeye!" ☆ #Retrogaming

Let's get in the Delorean and go back in time to take a closer look at a year in video games.

I'm always interested in what happened in the glorious and not so glorious past of video games and this seems like a good way of giving you all a snapshot of a year in video games.

I'll be picking out the following things for each year to give you an insight into what that year was like to be a gamer.

• Gaming Consoles & Computers released in that year
• 5 Key Video Games Released in that year
• A sample of the key video games magazines from that year
• Some nice retro gaming adverts from that year
• 5 Key Arcade Games Released in that year
• 5 Awesome Films released that year (not necessarily video games related)

Now you know the format let's take a closer look at 1982