Microsoft's mid-generation upgrade for the Xbox One line — 4K native rendering on selected titles, HDR support on capable displays and a notably quieter fan than the launch S. We've cleaned the optic…
Nintendo's pocket-sized reissue of the 1985 console, preloaded with 30 of the best titles from the cartridge era — including all three Mario Bros, Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy and Punch-Out. HDMI ou…
Nintendo's original 2017 Switch in standard format — not Lite, not OLED. We have refreshed Joy-Con rails, tested charging dock and HDMI, and verified all Joy-Con drift before listing. Includes origin…
You have stumbled, by however circuitous a route, onto the front page of a small Somerset business that has been quietly selling curated board games and second-hand gaming hardware to UK households since 2017. I keep a single Georgian shop window on Henrietta Mews, three working colleagues, and a request ledger that is presently sixty-two letters thick.
The catalogue holds 72 entries this morning, every one of which has been opened, checked, photographed and described at the bench. There is also a small welcome gift tucked into every first parcel — a present, a treat, the cabinet's quiet thanks for the trouble of finding us.
Tracked Royal Mail across the United Kingdom. A 14-day statutory right to cancel. A 12-month warranty on hardware in addition to your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
A duplicate from last week's fair. A box-corner with a slight crush that won't survive on the main shelf. A console with a tiny — but disclosed — speaker buzz. The cabinet's reduced corner holds the entries the cabinet cannot, in good conscience, sell at full price.
−20%
Microsoft's mid-generation upgrade for the Xbox One line — 4K native rendering on selected titles, HDR support…
−19%
Nintendo's pocket-sized reissue of the 1985 console, preloaded with 30 of the best titles from the cartridge e…
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Nintendo's original 2017 Switch in standard format — not Lite, not OLED.
Serial № MW-6B12B · filed 29 May
Jacob Fryxelius's engine-builder where each player runs a corporation trying to thicken the Martian atmosphere — temperature, oxygen, ocean tiles. Three full evenings to learn, then years of replayability. Two-to-five e…
Tabletop
Board games, deck-builders and tile-layers checked piece-by-piece at the bench.
10 entries
02.
Games
Cartridge classics and recent indies, with save-batteries refreshed where needed.
40 entries
03.
Consoles
Hardware that has passed the cabinet's sixty-second bench test, twice.
10 entries
04.
Curiosities
Trinkets, lamps, mugs and screen-printed paper goods. The cabinet's smaller drawers.
12 entries
New
Donald X.
New
Antoine Bauza's serene travelogue across Edo-period Japan, played as a meditative race that rewards stopping a…
New
Jacob Fryxelius's engine-builder where each player runs a corporation trying to thicken the Martian atmosphere…
New
Fantasy Flight's living card game from 2016 — Lovecraftian co-op where each scenario is a chapter of a longer …
Officially-licensed San-ei Snorlax bean-bag plush, 50 cm wide.
Curiosities · New £32.99
San-ei Pokémon Centre Eevee, 25 cm seated, made to the same standard as their Tokyo flagship store s…
Curiosities · New £18.95
First4Figures' premium painted statue of Kratos and Atreus from the 2018 God of War — 28 cm tall, ha…
Curiosities · New £89.00
Square Enix's three-game compilation for Switch: Final Fantasy Adventure (Mana Origin), Secret of Ma…
Games · New £22.95
Used
Nintendo's pocket-sized reissue of the 1985 console, preloaded with 30 of the best titles from the cartridge e…
Used
Microsoft's mid-generation upgrade for the Xbox One line — 4K native rendering on selected titles, HDR support…
Used
The much sought-after AGS-101 revision of the Game Boy Advance SP — the only model with a properly back-lit IP…
Used
Nintendo's original DS, the 'phat' model from 2004 with the chunky shoulder buttons and the two screens that d…
— 01 —
Five entries the cabinet picked up at the March and April fairs that aren't on any other British retailer's shelves this season. I am the bookkeeper. I have opinions.
— 02 —
After ten years of standing behind a counter, I have a fairly settled view of what to check before paying actual money for a used handheld. Here it is, in order.
— 03 —
Eleanor sent me to Frome on the first Sunday of April with seven hundred pounds in cash and a list of eleven boxes. I came back with twelve boxes and rather less cash. A short acc…
The cabinet's standing instruction, written below in full, for every new customer placing a first order. No code, no minimum spend, no mailing list. The welcome bundle is automatic.
Posted out the same working day. For first-time buyers only.
"The cabinet posted a 2008 Dominion to me on a Wednesday. It arrived on the Friday in a box so well-packed I felt slightly guilty unwrapping it. The hand-written card mentioned a specific card-printing variant I'd asked about three weeks earlier in a different e-mail — I had not expected her to remember."
— Mr P. Kerr
"I bought a second-hand Vita off you in February. The screen had a tiny burn-in patch that you'd disclosed on the listing, and the device was otherwise perfect. The cabinet answered every question I sent within the working day. This is, in 2026, an unusual thing."
— A. Holloway-Mehta
"My welcome bundle on first order contained a 1991 Game Boy magazine page in the brass envelope. I cannot describe how peculiar and pleasing this was. Whoever made up the bundle has at least one customer for life on the strength of one piece of yellowed newsprint."
— R. Conroy
If you are passing through Bath — most of our customers are not, but a fortnight does not go by without a familiar face stopping in — the Georgian shopfront is open Tuesdays to Saturdays. The bench is open, the kettle is on, and there is usually a board game half-set-up on the back table.
For an in-person visit drop us a note ahead — most letters answered within the working day.
