Held at Croydon's Fairfield Halls on Saturday 13th August 2005, the CGE UK 2005 event was the second retro expo held at the venue. This was also an event that almost never happened.

The event was originally going to be part of Gamestars Live, but when the Gamestars show went under it looked like 2005 would mark the end of the Classic Gaming Expo UK. Thankfully, organisers Chris and Christine pulled out all the stops, found a vacant Saturday in August and booked the show back into the previous years' venue, the Fairfield Halls, Croydon.

Please accept my apologies for the size of the photos in the section. I did have larger larger versions, but I can't for the life of me find them!


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Archer Maclean's Missile Command Upright


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Andrew Fisher


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Billy Mitchell and his Hot Sauce


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Shaun Bebbington


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The Retro Passion stand


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The GamesTM Retro stand


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Darren Jones of GamesTM Retro, talks to Walter Day


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Chris Wilkins' Supergun setup


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Darren Jones talks to Vinny


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The Console Passion stand


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The youngesters trying out some older titles


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Billy Mitchell's Player of the Century award


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Street Fighter 2 tournament


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Console Passion


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Post event drinks


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Post event gaming


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Archer's Missile Command


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A tiny Space Invaders desktop machine


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Darren Jones (left)


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Andrew Fisher (head of the table)