PeeknPoke or Lee's PeeknPoke or even Lee's Peek "n" Poke (nice!) was created by Lee Bolton in Feb 2000. Taking its name on a slant by Dave's arcade classics (A classic classic retro site if ever there was one!) and based its ideas from said site (news about retro stuff around the net but with a UK style, something which was not present at the time)
Alarmingly and oddly (oi!) PeeknPoke took off and had many visitors over the next year which resulted in a daily update. This was in the gold era of the internet days of retro games - all the MAME roms you could eat, new emulators every day! and something to look forward too was always just around the corner. New emulators became a treat such as the massive Retrocade that could play Star Wars at full pelt - Glory days indeed. and there was always MAME.

Around 2003 something odd happened - emulator makers seem to give up the brave fight with only MAME making its head above the storm. Atari 2600 roms were all but found (many prototypes were being found it felt like daily) and there was a horrible surge of ports called plug in and play - ugh! PeeknPoke packed its case and ran up its own arse - until it was turned into some sort of internet magazine and a new release was called Issues. what?

So with a heady heart - its back - sort of like it was - but better (I Hope) Glory days are back in town.

Lee Bolton Jan 2008

Lee has written for two new Zzap!64 issues (Zzap! issue 107 and def guide for Retro gamer magazine) which is where the thumbs aloft picture is from. Also for Back in Time! live events created the trailers for the early events (one which made the coverdisk for Retro gamer)
Also he has written for Emulators unlimited, Konix, Emucamp and Gamestyle from 2000-2003. Also appeared and interviewed in the Manchester Evening News with his retro kit. His game collection appeared in the Manchester museum called "from Marbles to Mario" in 2002.

Lee's PeeknPoke is kindly hosted with Gary "Gravy" Liddon (ex-Zzap! reviewer no less)

Thanks Gary!!!!