{"id":1078,"date":"2012-02-23T20:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/retro-computer-museum-event-april-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T20:01:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:01:33","slug":"retro-computer-museum-event-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/retro-computer-museum-event-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Computer Museum &#8211; Event &#8211; April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not really a massive secret I\u2019m a little partial to a spot of retro gaming. <\/p>\n<p>Back in 2010 I first visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tubblog.co.uk\/2010\/11\/05\/retro-computer-museum-gaming-day\/\">Retro Computer Museum<\/a> and I\u2019ve been quite a few times since. <\/p>\n<p>The guys there work really hard and put in a lot of their free time in keeping everything running smoothly. What\u2019s really great about any event they put on is that all of their \u201cexhibits\u201d are setup and ready for you to play. Nothing is hidden behind glass cases so if you quite fancy playing some of those games from yesteryear then it\u2019s worth taking a look at their next event. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RCM-April.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"RCM April\" border=\"0\" alt=\"RCM April\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/RCM-April_thumb.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"673\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of April at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snibston.com\/\">Snibston Discovery Museum<\/a>. I\u2019ve been to the venue before and that\u2019s worth a visit anyway but with the added bonus of checking out the RCM stuff it\u2019ll make for a great trip. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fretrocomputermuseum.co.uk%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D4323.0&amp;h=jAQGsD-Rg\" class=\"broken_link\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there, I\u2019ll be taking on all comers at Super Streetfighter 2 for the Super Nintendo. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wlEmoticon-smile.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not really a massive secret I\u2019m a little partial to a spot of retro gaming. 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What\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/retro-computer-museum-event-april-2012\/\"><span class=\"arrow-right icon\"><\/span>Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Retro Computer Museum - Event - April 2012 - Andy&#039;s Techie Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/retro-computer-museum-event-april-2012\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Retro Computer Museum - Event - April 2012 - Andy&#039;s Techie Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s not really a massive secret I\u2019m a little partial to a spot of retro gaming. 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