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Calling all you gamers! Level up your retro gaming knowledge with our latest installment of fact-finding awesomeness! Yep, this time to help celebrate our latest collection of seriously cool Street Fighter TShirts which have just hit the site (go take a peep!), we're digging into the combo loving, button smashing and sometimes controller throwing world of the iconic Street Fighter game franchise.

So! Take a leap with us into this weird and wonderful world and check out some of these pretty funky facts! Enjoy....

1. It was almost a failure

Now this might come as a shock, but back when this game was first released, multiplayer was relatively new. Launching into arcades, the concept of playing another human rather then just the AI didn't instantly catch on. However after a fair few weeks and good word of mouth, competition between players became a big deal and still is today.

2.Lost in translation!

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Whether you're somewhat of a board gaming master, or you just like to wind away the odd rainy weekend, Monopoly is surely one of the top games in your collection. If not, it should be! With over a whopping 80 years of being sent to jail, playing a Community Chest card and building and empire, Monopoly has been a household staple and we're sure it will be around for a long while yet.

To help celebrate this true retro icon and our latest range of Monopoly Merchandise which has just hit our site, we thought we would do some digging and sniff out some cool facts to share with you guys.

So! Without further ado, let us pass GO, collect £200 and let the fact finding begin! Enjoy...

1. As odd as it seems for such an iconic game, it was actually initially rejected by Parker Brothers for having '52 fundamental errors'. These included game length and simply how complex it was. Mad huh.

2. The games mascot or 'The Monopoly guy' is actually called Rich Uncle Pennybags which was also the games original title.

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It's soooooo nearly that time folks! With just over a week to go until the big day, we're sure there are plenty of other out there who, just like us, are still in the mix of all their Christmas shopping.

Whether it's looking for something special for that auntie you rarely see, or perhaps picking up something for the in-laws that you've been putting off, grabbing those last minute gifts is never fun but doesn't have to be a stress OR result in settling for something you would feel bad giving to the dog to play with.

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With a simply mahooosive range of funky gifts to suit even the most tricky of customers, we're sure you'll be able to get that Christmas stocking full fit to burst ready for the special morning.

To help inspire you, we've put together a few ideas for great stocking fillers or little treats for someone special this year. Enjoy!

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Soooo excited to have our latest range on board the SS TruffleShuffle! Packed with so many nostalgia feels, our amazing new range of Playmobil T-Shirts are sending memories of these iconic playsets flooding back and all the good times it has given us as kids or even with our own little nippers.

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With each new set came the chance to become something completely new. One week you could be working a petrol pump, the next you're a knight in shining armour. Playmobil offered us and kids today the building blocks to craft our own universe where anything is possible and imaginations could run wild.

To celebrate this true toy icon, we've just launched our amazing new, exclusive and 100% official Playmobil clothing which has been inspired the the classic Pirates range! Take a peep....

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Well....we're stunned! This doesn't happen very often, but every once in a while we learn a cheeky fact or stat that leaves our eyes wide and our mouths open. Today is one of those days.

Yes indeediedodie, as hard and possibly scary as it might be, the humble PlayStation (or magic grey box of awesomeness as we like to think of it) turns a whopping 20 years old today! Yep all those years ago, kids and big kids all over Europe first got their eager hands on this little CD playing moment in gaming history and well.... things were never the same again.

Bringing us some of the best game ever including the likes of Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Tekken, MediEvil, Gran Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Tony Hawks, and soooooo many more, this console has played such a huge part of many of our lives which countless hours spent and many amazing moments with friends.

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Put simply, along with others we simply cannot imagine growing up without these little bundles of cool around and would also like to say a huge thank you to our and all the parents out there who went out and made our dreams come true all those years ago. You rock!

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As 80s kids, we spent much of our childhoods living through the weird and wonderful time that was the 90s. This was a strange, mysterious and generally colourful place where you could be wowed by even the simplest things like analogue controllers, 3D gaming and even split screen gaming!

Like most teenagers in the land then and now, gaming was a huge part of our social and anti-social lives. It passed the time during school holidays and weekends, it brought friends together aaaaand probably caused the odd sibling argument over who was hogging it the most. We've all been there.

Doing what we like to do best, we've been looking back on these good old days (are we really that old already?!) and thinking up some of our biggest memories from these pixel-tastic times. Check out some of our top retro gaming memories!

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1. When you console was one of the only things you could play music with...

Yep we've been there. When we first had a PS1 we were still rocking our old tape player. This might just be us being behind the times but for a lot of us, the trusty console was the newest and best thing ever and we used it for as much as we sure could.

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