Retro gaming · Media & community

Clásicos Básicos

The living museum of classic gaming in Spanish

A portal built to preserve retro culture: a catalog of more than 870 classic titles from PC, Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad and NES, organized by genre and platform, alongside forums, a podcast and the CLABA TV channel. It's the gathering place for a Spanish-speaking community in love with the games and films of the 80s and 90s.

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Sector
Retro gaming
Platform
Custom WordPress
Services
Web development · Hosting
Languages
Spanish
Year
2021
Timeline
10 weeks

The client needed a digital home that could house a huge catalog of classic games and, at the same time, sustain an active community of fans without depending on third-party platforms.

We built a custom WordPress portal with a library you can browse by platform and genre, community forums, a podcast system, YouTube and Twitch integration and a donations module, all deployed on our own infrastructure.

What we built

01

A catalog of 870+ classic games sorted by platform and genre

02

Forums, podcast and the CLABA TV channel integrated into a single portal

03

Sections for classic film, tutorials and a blog, with social integration

The project in numbers

870+

classic games catalogued by platform and genre

6

spaces in one portal: catalogue, forum, podcast, TV, film and blog

99.9%

uptime on our own infrastructure

Results, not promises

A living retro community built around the content: a shelf-by-shelf catalog of games and films, an integrated podcast and its own forum (Foro CLABA) where members come back every day. The synthwave aesthetic has become its signature, and the archive keeps growing through contributions from the community itself.

5.0
Real client
“It's not just a website, it's the club we always wanted. The game shelves are amazing and the forum runs beautifully. The community feels it's theirs, and that's something you can't buy: you build it right.”
S
Sergio T.
Founder · Clásicos Básicos

What it is built with

Chosen out of need, not for hype. Built on Custom WordPress.

WordPress
PHP
MySQL
jQuery
Cloudflare

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