Retro-gaming events were relatively rare in the UK at the time, and I relished the chance to buy some games and play some rare machines, but I was primarily there to meet up with some fellow Sonic fans. I’ve attended a number of events since then, but until recently the last one I’d been to was Play Expo London in 2018. I’d become complacent – it was very easy to just say “maybe next time” until the pandemic came along and nobody quite knew when those kinds of
