Curly Claire's Retro Gaming

04/09/2026

04/09/2026

Is anyone going to this tomorrow?

🚨💥 ONE. DAY. TO. GO. 💥🚨

TOMORROW… COLCHESTER WILL BE INVADED!

After months of planning, organising, building, booking and probably more than a few sleepless nights... Invasion Colchester 2026 is TOMORROW! 🎉

Get ready to fill Colchester City Centre with...

🦸 Heroes & villains
🌌 Stormtroopers, Jedi & Sith
👻 Ghostbusters & Ectomobiles
🤖 Transformers
💙 Doctor Who & the TARDIS
👑 Movie Princesses
🦖 Dinosaurs
🚗 Famous TV & movie vehicles
🎬 Special Guests
⚔️ Lightsaber Training
🤼 Live Wrestling
🎵 Live Music & DJs
🏆 Fancy Dress
🎮 Games & activities
🎟️ Fundraising & prizes
✨ ...and surprises around every corner!

From Lion Walk to Culver Square, St Nicholas Square to Fenwick, the High Street to Culver Street East and beyond, there's a whole city centre to explore.

And we're doing it all to help raise money and awareness for three fantastic charities:

💚 St Helena Hospice
💙 Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity
💚 Mind (Mid & North East Essex)

📅 TOMORROW – SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
⏰ 10AM–4PM
📍 COLCHESTER CITY CENTRE
🎟️ FREE EVENT

⏳ JUST 1 DAY TO GO!

🌐 invasioncolchester.co.uk

Costumes ready? Cameras charged? Excited yet?

WE'LL SEE YOU TOMORROW! 💥



St Helena Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity Mid and North East Essex Mind Culver Square Lion Walk Shopping Centre Fenwick ACE Comics Colchester City Council In Colchester Our Colchester

02/09/2026

Super Mario Kart launched 34 years ago today
The first Mario Kart. Mode 7 tracks, banana peels, and a Rainbow Road the series still has not let go of. It sold 8.76 million copies and became the fourth best-selling SNES game. Every kart racer since is chasing this one.

26/08/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to last nights retro gaming club. We welcomed some newbies and missed a few regulars that were on holiday. It was a great evening as always!

Results for the Track and Field Swimming competition are in! 🏊‍♂️

In 3rd place we have Steven Wright with a time of 59:50 seconds 🥉

In 2nd place we have Sarah Barker with a time of 57:75 seconds 🥈

And in 1st place with a super fast swim time of 48:62 seconds Sam 🏆

Congratulations everyone it was close!

See you next month for some more retro gaming madness! 🤓

25/08/2026

I'm fairly new to my house and I always wonder what the neighbours must think with me putting all these old tvs in my car once a month 🤔 🤣