About
Hi, I'm Buri — the human behind RetroBase.
Game designer, lifelong retro game collector, and the person building RetroBase — for you, and with you.
The story
From a store idea to building the tools instead
I'm 35, and I studied game design around the seventh console generation. I'm a passionate retro game collector — it's the thing I come back to every single day.
A few months ago, I had an idea: open my own retro game store. But the more I mapped out everything a store actually needs to run, the clearer one thing became — running a retail store isn't my craft.
I can't run the store — but I can build the tools that help you run yours.
I wasn't ready to walk away, though. Retro games are part of my daily life. So I decided to help store owners — and the people who want to become them — with the thing I genuinely can do: build products.
That's where RetroBase comes from. Built for you, and with you.
Where it comes from
The room that started it all
When I'm not building RetroBase, I'm surrounded by the thing it's built for — CRTs, shelves of cartridges, and a Game Boy always within reach.
This is where the obsession comes from, and the empathy too: I know what it feels like to care about every cart, every box, every condition detail. That's the perspective I try to bring to the software.
What's next
RetroBase is built with founding stores
I'm shaping RetroBase around how real shops actually work — together with a small group of founding stores. If that's you, or you're on your way there, I'd genuinely love your input.
— Buri