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Retrogaming Made in France: Interviews with the association's honorary members

At Paris Games Week 2019, to coincide with the release of the Retrogaming Made in France series, we welcomed several honorary members of the association to our stand. They presented their work to us, and explained why they had agreed to join us and to be part of the association.

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PGW 2019: the MO5.COM stand in videos

This 10th edition of Paris Games Week saw the association welcome a record number of visitors to our 400m² stand. Here are two reports on the event: For Gamekult, Kamuirobotics and Puyo take a look back at the Saturn/Playstation duel that took centre stage: From his

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Podcast #44 - The prehistory of video games

After the Game Boy, which took us thirty years back in time for its captivating genesis, MO5.COM Podcasts are going back even further in time for a show about the first videogame experiments... To tell the truth, this summer episode has been in the can for a few months already, but it's now time for the next episode.

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MO5.COM X Asenka events on Twitch at Japan Expo

In addition to offering visitors a selection of retro games during the twentieth edition of Japan Expo, as well as a signing session with our honorary member Kazuko Shibuya, for the first time we will be hosting a series of programmes dedicated to Retrogaming. With the help of Guillaume "Asenka" Dorison

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New acquisitions: Mega-LD games

Today we're honouring some games that the general public don't know about. The Pioneer LaserActive, released in 1993, is a LaserDisc player with two extensions. One allowed you to play PC-Engine games, the other allowed you to play Mega Drive and Mega-CD games, as well as a completely new format: the

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Gifts from Mars - Part 2/2

Here is the second part of the donations received in March. Still hardware, but mostly games. We're receiving more and more PS3/Xbox 360 games, a sign that we're beginning to enter a new era of retrogaming! Nicolas has left his dancing career behind him (unless he's

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MEMO5 #4.4 -Interview : Florent Gorge and AHL

Here's the fourth and final interview from RGP 2019, with AHL and Florent Gorges, who need no introduction. You can listen to the podcast using the player above, in your usual app, and in the YouTube player below:

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MEMO5 #4.3 -Interview : Jean-Martial Lefranc

Here is the third interview conducted at RGP 2019, this time with Jean-Martial Lefranc, co-founder of Cryo Interactive, creator of Maître SEGA, and publisher of L'Écran Fantastique and Retrogamer Collection magazines. He is interviewed by the hilarious Belasco. You can listen to the podcast using the player above, in

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MEMO5 #4.2 -Interview : Joseph Redon

Following on from 50%'s interview with the Hard Looters team, we're continuing to publish the interviews that took place at Retrogaming Play 2019. For this second episode, our host Belasco spoke to Joseph Redon, President of the Game Preservation Society, about his work to preserve video games.

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MEMO5 #4 - Hard Looters

At Retrogaming Play, our team recorded a series of interviews, which we'll be airing here over the coming weeks. To mark the launch of their Hard Looters series, we spoke to Asenka and Mr Quaraté about their search for the rare pearl of retrogaming in Europe.

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