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Wooden Skittles Set from Dotcomgiftshop

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Be prepared to be bowled over by this nifty Wooden Skittles Set from Dotcomgiftshop; guaranteed to get you off the sofa and outside in the garden to indulge in some good old fashioned fun this summer.

Suitable for kids big & small, the set comes with twelve wooden pins, a ball and a bag, making it a must have for summer staycations. It's also suitable for indoor use should August prove to be a grey one. Retro rounders and croquet sets are also available in the range.

The set is £39.95 from Dotcomgiftshop.

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Retro Games Compendium at The General Toy Store

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With the advent of the summer holidays imminent, this Retro Games Compendium from The General Toy Store is perfect for rediscovering the joys of traditional childhood games.

The set comes in a wooden box with a sliding lid and includes all the old favourites: Jacks, Marbles, Dominoes, Yo-Yo, Pick-up Sticks, Bouncing Balls and a Pack of Playing Cards. A perfect holiday purchase, it could prove invaluable should the weather take a turn for the worse and it might just show the kids that there's more to life than YouTube and the PSP.

The set is currently on sale, down from £13.99 to £7.99 here.

 

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Block notes from Suck UK – Tetris style post-its

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Though they don't say it by name, it's easy to recognise what has inspired these Block notes from Suck UK: with their interlocking shapes, you can have hours of fun rearranging them as though you were playing a game of Tetris. 

Fun, certainly, but also possibly useful – the long strips can be used for marking pages, the square ones scribbling longer notes. In fact, with all the blocks together, you can over 100 sheets worth of sticky notes. The number of different arrangements that can be made using one pack of the note pads is less obvious…

A set of the notes costs £7.50.

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Game Over cup and saucer sets from The TeaShed

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These Game Over cup and saucer sets – from newly opened webstore The TeaShed - offer a fresh take on some of your favourite retro gaming icons.

At first glance, they look like delicate white porcelain cup and saucers – albeit with a bright pattern. Peer a bit closer and you'll realise the patterns come straight out of your favourite games. The Space Invaders cup and saucer is pictured but there's also designs that use the motifs of Tetris, Pac Man and, slightly more up-to-date, Snake. Each design is available in either a blue or red colour scheme. 

A fresh look at a favourite theme, a cup and saucer will set you back £15. 

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Mario accessories from Year Retro

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Straight out of the game and ready to wear, show your gamer loyalty with these Mario accessories from Year Retro (how could we resist a company with a name like that?).

Their range features some of your favourite characters – Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and even the mushrooms – carefully rendered in fuse beads which mimic the pixellated effect of the computer image, and then hung on long silver chains. Year Zero also make brooches and key charms, though with much less choice available than in the chain range. And, if you really want to test your brand loyalty, there's also a Sonic chain available. 

Prices for the chains start at £14.99

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Sega Arcade Nano Keychain

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Ever get an urge to play an old school arcade game on the go? You can with the Sega Arcade Nano Keychain. Just as long as you happen to be near a TV.

Choose from two units, the  Sonic Arcade and Virtua Fighter 2, the first of those offering Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic Spinball, Sonic 3D Blast, Alex Kidd, Air Hockey, Naval Power, Cannon, Fight or Lose and Checker within the mini control pad, the latter with Virtua Fighter 2, Shinobi III, Golden Axe, Golden Axe III, Alien Storm, Snake, Spider, Bottle Taps Race, Bomber and Hexagons.

Just plug into a TV and you can enjoy those Megadrive classics once more. When you're not playing, it hooks up to your person or fits into your pocket. Both are on pre-order now, £12.99 is the price for each.

Find out more at the Firebox website