Retro Gaming Australia

After putting Retro Reading to bed, I’ve been contemplating the future of coverage on the site.

The founding principle of RGA was to establish a community forum for the discussion of retro gaming in Australia, and unfortunately, that hasn’t been as successful as I had hoped – in some ways, I think Australia just hasn’t had the retro gaming boom seen in the US and UK. In pure statistical terms, our growth is astronomical, but the base figures are so low that it doesn’t matter. We’ve started to produce more original content, but since I’m working alone here (if you’re interested in writing anything for the site, contact me), that takes time. We have plans for more original content as well as more resources concerning the industry in Australia, and they will roll out in the future.

I’ve been wanting to update the site more frequently – those ad posts are nice, but it’s depressing seeing three or four of them in a row on the front page. So I’ve decided that we’re going to experiment with posting a couple of news articles each day over the next couple of weeks. If we’re happy with it, it’ll become a permanent fixture.

Other components that once made up Retro Reading will also appear on the site in their own sections in due course.