AJM Photo Centre Belfast
16 February 2025
I saw this yesterday. This shop in Belfast in Northern Ireland is where I bought my first videogame - Matrix on the VIC-20 in the clamshell packaging. My dad had bought me Anirog's Star Defence before this, but Matrix was the first with my own money.
![[IMG: AJM Photo Centre]](https://gemini.nicfab.eu/lxy/external/s73.girv.in%2Fglog%2F2025%2Fimg%2F2025-02-16-ajm-photocentre-belfast-2025-03.jpg){kind=link}
![[IMG: VIC-20 Matrix]](https://gemini.nicfab.eu/lxy/external/s73.girv.in%2Fglog%2F2025%2Fimg%2F2025-02-16-ajm-photocentre-belfast-2025-04.jpg){kind=link}
You can still just about make out the AJM letters on the sign. It was a camera shop, but it had a shelf of games for various 8-bit systems of the time.
![[IMG: AJM Photo Centre in 2023]](https://gemini.nicfab.eu/lxy/external/s73.girv.in%2Fglog%2F2025%2Fimg%2F2025-02-16-ajm-photocentre-belfast-2023-02.jpg){kind=link}
![[IMG: AJM Photo Centre in 2015]](https://gemini.nicfab.eu/lxy/external/s73.girv.in%2Fglog%2F2025%2Fimg%2F2025-02-16-ajm-photocentre-belfast-2015-01a.jpg){kind=link}
It's been closed for a while...