CVG Article on Deith Leisure

[Vamino]

Those magazines you mentioned provided hours of reading and dreaming as a kid . Edge was Brilliant, I remember an issue where a vhs was included and there was a feature on the Trocadero arcade ?
All the Neo geo sales adverts with the latest releases and prices.
Happy memories!

Yeah, I think Edge was the best out of them......Although, reading Tony Takoushi at the back of C&VG was where I seen Salamander on MSX for the first time. I wonder if all his articles are in one place now?

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

80s slightly badly hand-drawn cover art of CVG was better than anything Edge did. Anybody remember the Chase HQ cover!? Looking back was probably responsible for launching my soon-to-be art career! Legendary times 😍

 

[Bods]

Those magazines you mentioned provided hours of reading and dreaming as a kid . Edge was Brilliant, I remember an issue where a vhs was included and there was a feature on the Trocadero arcade ?
All the Neo geo sales adverts with the latest releases and prices.
Happy memories!

Click Games Magazine Video
Had to find me tape as couldn't remember the name, think I rescued this from the Tip

That's another tape you could try Ian, most on YouTube are not great

 

[ExZX]

Cracking thread. Used to have one of those Big Ben machines in my local arcade. Good memories of that place all through the 70's to the 90s.

 

[Alpha1]

There's an article somewhere, I'll try and find it, from operators that cleared the place out. It was on some operator specific coinslot competitor website. Hope it's still there.

 

[Bods]

Not sure how related this article is:
http://www.coin-opcommunity.co.uk/blog/2048-colin-sells-a-locked-room/


It dates back to the time when young Colin was working for Deith Leisure in Hartlepool. They had an old warehouse which they used for storage and which was also used by the local brewery. In this warehouse was a room full of old machines and bits and pieces. It was a typical store room, dirty and a mess and Colin wasn’t keen on the idea of clearing it out.

One day, two young guys, Steve and Bob, turned up and they asked Colin about this room. They wanted to take a look and perhaps buy a few things. But Colin had a better idea. “I am not going down there and rooting around in that mess,” he said. “If you want anything in there – you can buy the room – site unseen. Once you have emptied it, you can give the room back.”

Steve and Bob paced up and down thinking about what could be behind the locked door. They begged Colin for a peek, but he wasn’t having it. They asked how much.

“Three grand,” said Colin

But Steve and Bob got him down to about £1700 and Colin gave them the key.

Apparently it took them six months to clear the room out and they did make a profit in the end. But we are sure it is the only time anyone in the industry has bought a locked room – certainly from Colin Mallery!

On the first page the link but it's dead

 

[Vamino]

Google used to be really good for caching old webpages, but now I can't even find any info on random stuff like when New Era Flasgship store closed in Bham City Center on Corporation St. Not a trace of any info and Yelp still thinks it's open! Probably by design, you will probably have to pay for full archive data in the future.

There are some pages stored on wayback machine, but that Blog post may be before the page was archived.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110312194300/http://www.coin-opcommunity.co.uk/

 

[Vamino]

Click Games Magazine Video
Had to find me tape as couldn't remember the name, think I rescued this from the Tip

That's another tape you could try Ian, most on YouTube are not great

View attachment 44480

Yeah, happy to try capturing that once I get a decent setup.
Such a shame that VCR's can't output RGB, never knew that until going down the VCR rabbithole. Seeing what quality S-Video can output is next then.....

 

[Bods]

Yeah, happy to try capturing that once I get a decent setup.
Such a shame that VCR's can't output RGB, never knew that until going down the VCR rabbithole. Seeing what quality S-Video can output is next then.....

Non of mine have S-Video but as I suspected you need S-VHS Machine
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/255181-REG/Monster_Cable_124700_Male_RCA_to_Female.html