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#Bloghouse

I'm a disabled first year mature student at Aberystwyth University. I'd been looking forward to the Blackhouse event in the Students' Union for a few weeks. My taste in music drifts towards mainstream, so the artists names might as well have been in a foreign language, because I had no prior knowledge of them or their work. I was initially drawn to the event for the Retro Games Lounge provided by Dubtendo, which didn't disappoint. I got to play loads of games I had not played since I was a child. I set the high score in the eighties classic Duck Hunt for the NES, it felt like I was in a Zen like duck killing trance, I got to level seven as my mates cheered me on. We eventually moved on to some of the other games, on some of the other retro platforms provided by Dubtendo. I schooled some young guns in the classic art of Street Fighter on the SNES and battled it out in Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart Double Dash on the Gamecube, whilst a girl dressed as Princess...