It quickly emerges that people have very different tastes, with some favouring the brutalist retro sci-fi look, while others prefer the shiny Y2K CD player look of the Panasonic Q and others like the 1970s living room aesthetic of the Atari 2600 (see our Atari 2600+ review ).

More than 47 million pirated copies of games including and Mario Bros. and Street Fighter II were seized in raids across Italy.

Italian police have broken up a gang trafficking fake retro video games from China, seizing a haul that they claimed was worth £40 million.

Italian tax police said on Friday they have seized counterfeit Chinese copies of vintage game consoles and video games from the 1980s and 1990s worth almost 50 million euros ($55.5 million).

Italian police have busted up a retro game trafficking ring worth an estimated $52.5 million USD, and now nine pirates are facing up to eight years in prison. "Around 12,000 consoles on which more than 47 million pirated video games were illegally stored were seized,

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Italian Police have shut down a counterfeit retro game trafficking ring in Turin. The seized assets are valued at $55 million. Nine Italian nationals are facing prison if found guilty. A fake retro game trafficking ring has been broken up by authorities in Turin,