‘There’s no stress’: gamers go offline in retro console revival

Luke Malpass’s business, RetroSix, which repairs vintage consoles, ran a pop-up shop in the Four Quarters arcade game bar in Elephant and Castle. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardian

Nestled between an original Donkey Kong arcade machine, a mint condition OutRun racing simulation game and booths wired up with GameCubes and Nintendo 64s, the engineer Luke Malpass works away dismantling a broken Nintendo Wii.

There has been a steady stream of people bringing in their old game consoles for repairs or modifications, on the house, to Four Quarters, a retro games arcade in Elephant and Castle, which has been transformed into a games clinic for two days.