PORTABLE SONY PASSION

Forever Arcade's Jay Drury loves his handheld gaming, especially Sony's brilliant PSP

- Words by Faith Johnson

Jay Drury has over 1,000 games and movies in his PSP collection, and he's currently going through them all from A to Z. However, Jay's gaming journey didn't start with his love of Sony's mighty handheld but much earlier. "My first gaming experience was playing a Pong clone called Binatone when I was about six years old," he begins. "I remember loving that you could control something to make it move on your TV screen. My dad then bought the ZX Spectrum 48K, and the rest is history."

Although these are cherished memories, it was another side of gaming that truly gripped Jay back then. "My real passion came from the arcades that were such special places back in the Eighties and Nineties. Just seeing the glow of the marquee and screens, it was an amazing time with so many different games and ways to play them. The arcades will always remind me of seaside holidays with the family."