Royal Mail’s video game stamps are released this week – here’s how the set was put together. The announcement recently that Royal Mail would be commemorating classic British video games drew a rapturous reception – but how do you celebrate 40 years of UK gaming in just eight stamps? And how are special sets of stamps …
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Tom Raider and other influential games that were designed in the UK from the 1980s and 1990s are being celebrated in a new set of 12 stamps. The Royal Mail collection includes four stamps presented in a Miniature-Sheet chronicling protagonist Lara Croft through the years. Space trading title Elite, the Dizzy series, 1989’s Populous, …
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