# “There’s a huge amount to be learned” – how the pioneering years of gaming are being preserved for a new generation in a corner of south London

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/theres-a-huge-amount-to-be-learned-how-the-pioneering-years-of-gaming-are-being-preserved-for-a-new-generation-in-a-corner-of-south-london/
- Published: 2026-08-07T09:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-08T20:49:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Eurogamer
- Original article: https://www.eurogamer.net/archive-of-retro-computing-showcase-2026-south-london-preview
- Topics: Entertainment, Gaming

## Key points

- Kingston University is exhibiting over 65 retro computers and consoles.
- The archive preserves gaming technology from the 1970s onwards.
- Its creator built the collection from personal passion and rescued history.

## Summary

Kingston University’s free Archive of Retro Computing exhibition in south London is presenting more than 65 historic computers and consoles, tracing gaming and home computing from the mid-1970s to more recent machines. Led by computer science course leader Paul Neve, the collection aims to preserve a formative period of technology and help new audiences understand the systems that shaped modern gaming.

Neve began collecting after helping exhibit a large haul of equipment recovered from an engineer’s house in 2004, then expanded it with machines he had wanted as a child. The archive now contains roughly 70 to 80 systems, including Sinclair and Commodore computers, PS1 and PS2 consoles, the original Xbox, Dreamcast, Fairchild Channel F and Vectrex. The display reflects both familiar British home-computing history and rarer “unicorn” hardware.

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