#2November 2026

Your retro-gaming meeting point.

In this edition

The map of Spain’s retro-gaming scene and, in every edition, what’s worth your time. Free, in your inbox.

Manifesto

We are the ones who blew into the cartridges, the ones who still keep the box and the ones who never stopped playing, and we exist because this country’s retro‑gaming culture deserves more than nostalgia: a place of its own, made with care, where we can meet.

How The Retro Club began

Soon on paper

November 2026

Number 2: Player 2.

Playing with others: the shared sofa, the rivalry at the arcade, the people who get together to play. Free, in your inbox.

In this edition

01Places: the map of the scene
02Events: November to May
03Retromaniacs: twelve years playing together
04Player 2: when it took two to play
05Documentary: Píxel a Píxel
06Listen: five podcasts
07Gadgets: TCADE
08Trends: what’s moving

Previous edition: #1 · Nostalgia

01Places

The map of the scene.

Retro shops, arcades, bars with consoles and museums across Spain, chosen with care. Every place checked. And it grows with every edition.

Pick a point on the map

NewDirectory

All of retro, built together.

The directory is our attempt to bring some order to Spain’s retro scene: the channels, podcasts, documentaries, magazines and associations that genuinely deserve your time, each with a reason why.

We started it ourselves, entry by entry, but we don’t want to be the only ones finishing it. If something’s missing, or you’re one of the people who make the scene happen, tell us and we’ll add it.

54 entries5 categoriesupdated every edition

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YouTubers13 Podcasts12 Documentaries7 Magazines6 Associations16

02Events

The events worth the trip.

November 2026 to May 2027

Highlight

Salón del Videojuego de Madrid

5–6 December at La Nave, Villaverde. Madrid’s big retro date before Christmas: arcade cabinets, market and tournaments. Programme and tickets soon.

9–11Oct
SAGA Barcelona Game Fest
Fira de Montjuïc, Barcelona
10–11Oct
RetroChiclana VIII
Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz · Free
15–16Oct
Xornadas Videoxogo e Literatura
Vigo
17Oct
Explora Commodore
Fabra i Coats, Barcelona · Free · 10th anniversary
24Oct
Mercadet Friqui
Carrer de Blanquerna, Palma · Over 50 stalls
31Oct · 1 Nov
Retroplay 4
C. C. Las Américas, Torrent (Valencia) · Free
21–22Nov
RetroWeekend Valencia
Feria Valencia, inside Japan Weekend
5–6Dec
Salón del Videojuego de Madrid
La Nave, Villaverde, Madrid
11Dec
Amstradmanía Elche TBC
Elche (Alicante)
18–20Dec
Gamergy TBC
IFEMA, Madrid
20Feb 2027
Retronuba TBC
Huelva
6–7Mar 2027
Retro Parla 2027 TBC
Casa de la Juventud, Parla (Madrid)
15–19Mar 2027
RetroMañía 2027
Río Ebro Campus, University of Zaragoza
24–25Apr 2027
Granada Gaming · FicZone
FERMASA, Granada
May 2027
RetroBarcelona 2027 TBC
La Farga, L’Hospitalet (Barcelona)
More dates soon.

Retromaniacs members posing among pinball machines at Flynn’s, their clubhouse in Mollet del Vallès

03The scene

Mollet del Vallès · since 2014

Retromaniacs

Born in Sant Andreu, they keep their machines in a workshop called Flynn’s, and every autumn they put on a free retro fair. Twelve years of bringing people together to play.

“We all win and childhood cancer loses!”The motto of their charity tournaments

Read the feature

04Feature

Player 2: when it took two to play.

The second controller, the rivalry at the arcade, the shared sofa. Before online play, playing with others meant being in the same room.

Read the feature

Two people sitting on a sofa, each holding a controller

05Documentary

Píxel a Píxel, the chronicle we were missing.

Ángel Tirado, who drew games at Dinamic in the eighties, has made the most complete documentary yet on almost fifty years of video games made in Spain. We’ve watched it: it hooks you from the very first minute.

Read the review Watch it on RTVE Play

Year: 2025
Director: Ángel Tirado
Running time: 93 min
Where to watch: RTVE Play, free

Poster for Píxel a Píxel: a boy wearing headphones in front of an arcade cabinet, surrounded by eighties computers and consoles

06Listen

Five podcasts to play by ear.

One for every afternoon, with the episode to start with.

See them all in the directory

Josua Ckultur and "La Alegre Pandilla"
Retro Entre Amigos
A laid-back monthly get-together about retro games and retro life in general, like a long chat round the table with friends, now in its 15th season.
Start withPrograma ESPECIAL - Entrevistas RETROPIXEL 2026
Jesús Martínez del Vas, Jesús Relinque "Pedja", Alejandro Ibáñez
El Mundo del Spectrum Podcast
Fourteen seasons of the ZX Spectrum and the Golden Age of Spanish software, with interviews with people from Dinamic, Topo and MicroHobby.
Start with14x05 Piratería – Tienda de barrio – Jordi Bartolls
Pepe Luna and team
RetroManiac Podcast
Long, well-researched round-table discussions about retro, neo-retro and today’s scene: from E3 1999 to Westwood or the Neo Geo AES.
Start withRetroManiac Podcast 8x10 - 40 aniversario de saga Super Mario
Game Museum Podcast (GM Podcast)
Deep dives into a single series, game or system, from 8-bit micros to 128-bit consoles: Heart of Darkness, Gran Turismo…
Start withGM Podcast #095 - Los periféricos más locos
Retroscroll Channel (r-channel)
The Catalan-language podcast from the retroscroll.cat blog: looks back at magazines such as Hobby Consolas, “forever on the list” games like Super Metroid, and live shows from RetroBarcelona.
Start withr-channel 057 – Repassant la Hobby Consolas número 14

TCADE tabletop arcade cabinet in blue and white, with an iPad as its screen and a joystick and buttons

07Gadgets

TCADE, the arcade cabinet that brings your iPad back to life.

A bartop cabinet with a real joystick and buttons that takes the iPad you no longer use. We met its creator at the last Retro Barcelona and we’re looking forward to the launch.

01Tabletop bartop cabinet, with classic-style vinyl artwork.
02Real arcade joystick and buttons, connected to the iPad.
03Any iPad you’ve got lying in a drawer will do: you bring the screen.
04Play the classics and current games that support a controller.

Read the article tcade.com

08Trends

What’s moving.

Young Link with the ocarina and Kokiri shield, artwork from the Ocarina of Time remake

Zelda · 40th anniversary

Zelda turns 40 and Ocarina of Time is back

The Legend of Zelda came out in Japan in February 1986, and Nintendo has spent the whole autumn celebrating. The big one lands on 5 November: a full Ocarina of Time remake for Switch 2, with rebuilt graphics, an orchestral soundtrack, voiced cutscenes and a Spanish dub (€59.99 digital, €69.99 boxed). And there’s more: a live-action film on 30 April 2027, a Koji Kondo concert tour stopping in London on 3 April, and a life-size Link statue at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto.

For many it was their first 3D Zelda and the game that made them buy a Nintendo 64. Going back to Hyrule with a full sofa is practically compulsory.

Source: Vandal

A classic Game Boy next to the Mole Mania box and cartridge

Nintendo Classics

Three Game Boy gems arrive on Switch Online

Since 27 October, the Game Boy library on Nintendo Switch Online includes Mole Mania, Avenging Spirit and Revenge of the ’Gator. The first is a mole puzzler produced by Shigeru Miyamoto; the second, a Jaleco platformer where you play a ghost who possesses enemies; the third, a pinball game by HAL Laboratory.

None of them were best-sellers, and that’s the charm: you only knew them if a friend lent you the cartridge at break time.

Source: VGC

The House of the Dead artwork: an agent aims his pistol, surrounded by zombies

Arcades

The House of the Dead returns to arcades, now in virtual reality

Sega Amusements is showing House of the Dead: Reawakened at IAAPA in Orlando, 17–20 November. It’s a two-player cabinet with VR headsets, light guns and a haunted-mansion façade whose front door is an 85-inch screen. It’s the series’ first arcade game since Scarlet Dawn in 2018. No arcade release date yet.

Sega still building arcade machines in 2026 says a lot: physical arcades aren’t dead, they’ve just changed shape.

Source: Time Extension

ZX Spectrum

Wizball returns to the Spectrum, better than in 1987

Ocean’s classic has a refreshed version for the ZX Spectrum 128K. It comes from coder Leigh “Gravious” Ashton together with Mark R. Jones, Ocean’s original artist, and it’s packed with changes: less sprite flicker, a new HUD, full-colour menus, a high-score table, tighter collision detection and the music from the Commodore 64 version, jukebox included. It’s on itch.io and runs on a real Spectrum or an emulator.

This is retro at its best: almost forty years on, one of the people who drew it is back working on it. Tape, cable, and wait for the loading screen.

Source: Time Extension

Shop

Exclusive T-shirts.

Lines every player knows, in a short run. More merch, soon.

Go to the shop

Woman wearing the It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this. T-shirt

Printed copies of The Retro Club #1 Nostalgia on a desk, one open at the MUVIC feature

In print

You can now hold Number 1.

Our first printed editions are here. Number 1, Nostalgia, printed and stapled, with the Game Boy on the cover and the MUVIC feature inside.

See Number 1 online

What’s next

This has only just begun.

First, the map and the edition. As the club grows, the rest will come. Founding members first.

Paper subscriptionEvery edition, at home.
ExperiencesPlans with the scene’s associations and venues.
Premium membersPerks for those who sustain the club.
Club eventsTo play together, in person.

Extra Life · This month’s little gift

A real treat

This month, a real treat: the first 200 editions of Hobby Consolas, complete and in PDF, starting with Number 1 from October 1991. Open them with someone beside you and argue over which game you each asked for that Christmas.

Open the collection

200 editions of Hobby Consolas · scanned on the Internet Archive