CRASH! Live 2026

Introduction

We are proud to announce our CRASH Live 2026 event and in addition, a new venue - The Village Hotel in Coventry. We have done a "level up" to this premium venue with swimming pool, gym, spa, Starbucks and Flame Grill restaurant. Oh yes, we are also covering the parking this time, so there will be 200+ FREE car parking spaces. If you want to stay over, the hotel has 150+ rooms.

Village Hotel

The CRASH Live event will cover each and every Spectrum system including the Spectrum Next family and include many other retro systems for guests to play including Sega, Nintendo and various other systems. We will also have a room full of retro arcade machines.

Tickets: 

• Standard Event Ticket - Saturday ONLY - 10am to 6pm to all the event has to offer
• VIP Ticket - Friday evening, Saturday and Saturday evening activities. Plus you will get access to the main event hall and traders from 9:30am (30 minutes earlier) and receive a VIP lanyard. VIP ticket holders will get 15% off items on the Fusion Retro Books stall. This Ticket is limited to 170 attendees. We hope to announce further benefits of being a VIP - discussions are underway.

The event comprises of three parts - Friday evening, the main Saturday event and Saturday evening activities.

Friday Evening: The plan is to have an activity in the Q/A room from 7:30pm, at the moment this is: "An evening with ...". More details to follow.

Saturday: the day time main event starts at 10am and finishes at 6.00pm. You will have access to all that the event has to offer during this time:

• Over 75+ Sinclair systems to play games on. Every Sinclair system will be represented from the ZX80 up to the the Spectrum Next and clones.
• A Fusion Zone where non-Sinclair systems will be available to play: Sega consoles, PlayStation, Saturn, N64, DOS gaming and more!
• We have a dedicated Q/A room that will hold up to 160 attendees along with the panel - a selection of talks will take place throughout Saturday. It will be here that the Friday and Saturday events will take place.
• We will have many arcade machines to play on and in addition we will have some LCD pinball machines - sponsored by Arcade Club
• There will be a fully licenced bar throughout the day, and good value food available to purchase in the Flame Grill restaurant and in-house Starbucks.

Saturday Evening: At 7pm we will be starting the evening slot in the Q/A room. We are calling these the Indie talks where you meet some Indie teams and hear their story and are able to ask them questions. These will go until 10:30pm or so.

Guests

We have some great guests lined up including :

• Graftgold (Avalon, Quazatron, Rainbow Islands, Fire and Ice and more)
  • Andrew Braybrook 
  • Steve Turner 

• Sensible Software (Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder)
  • Stoo Cambridge 

We have asked many others and are waiting for confirmation before announcing.

Tickets

Ticket sales will not be refunded or transferred from 2 weeks before the event and thereafter.

Children Under 3 are FREE - they do not need a ticket.

Tickets will also be sold on the door but will be 15% more expensive than pre-paid tickets.

Parking

Your ticket will give you a complimentary free car parking space - on a first come first served basis. 

Hotel Rooms

The hotel has 150 rooms - book now for great value rooms. Book your room HERE

Badges and Event Magazine:

For this event, everyone will get a small token magazine on entry. 

RAFFLE

The raffles at our events are extremely popular. Watch this space of announcements on the raffle prizes.

More announcements of guests and raffle items to follow, plus what to expect at the event.