Great British gaming (pic: Royal Mail)

Tomb Raider, Lemmings, WipEout, and Sensible Soccer are amongst the British video game classics being honoured by Royal Mail.

The British video games industry is not something that gets celebrated nearly as often as it should. Almost all retro nostalgia is focused on what was big in America and Japan, with games on the ZX Spectrum and Amiga rarely ever getting a look in. But not when it comes to… stamps.

We’ve no idea why, but the Royal Mail has decided to celebrate the best of British retro gaming with a set of stamps featuring classic games from the 80s and 90s.



The games featured are Elite, Dizzy, Populous, Lemmings, Micro Machines, Sensible Soccer, WipEout, Worms, and Tomb Raider.


Are the stamps miniature or the pack? Answers on a postcard… (pic: Royal Mail)

The first eight are on regular stamps but there’s four Tomb Raider ones on a ‘Miniature Sheet’. Although we’re not big enough on stamps to know whether that means they’re smaller than usual or just that there’s only four of them.

You can immediately tell whoever made the selections knew what they were doing and lo and behold the official website reveals that veteran UK journalist Julian ‘Jaz’ Rignall was the consultant.

We might’ve been tempted to try and get Grand Theft Auto in there – since it only came out a year after Tomb Raider – but given it’s by the same developer as Lemmings we’re not going to complain. Some representation for Ultimate Play the Game/Rare would’ve been nice too, but it’s still a great line-up.

Whether you’d want to pay £14.25 for it is up to you, but they’re available online from 21 January.

This is all surprisingly great (pic: Royal Mail)

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