Revival Mini Meet 7th/8th December 2013
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Went down to the event on Saturday afternoon, and it was certainly a loud and bustling meet!
Really nice to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones.
Chuckie Egg whooped my ass on Asteroids
, RGP was spotted actually playing some games and drinking beer (I should have taken photographic evidence)
, u72 who I believe doesn't own too many arcade machines
started his collection by winning the raffle and snaffling the Asteroids cabaret (bast! Well done, mate), Alpha1 was just super smashing great
- cheers, fella!
Finally got to meet (albeit too briefly) Rav and Virtvic, and had a great chat with Chappy about kids, arcade machines and the meaning of life.
^Arcade legends, all of em!
Great selection of cabs and consoles to play. I really enjoyed trying out that Vectrex multi-cart and spent a good while reliving my 'yoof' on the Atari 2600. Arcade-wise, some of the cabs were very popular, especially Super Off Road and the awesome (can't believe I'm saying this) Fix-it Felix cab. Whoever made that has done a stellar job (just needs a scanline generator).
Lovely Zac cabs!
Fuzzy Junior enjoyed the consoles and there were loads of other kids there, which was great.
Add to that some lager shandy (I was driving, OK!) and some great live (and LOUD) live music, and it was a great afternoon/night!
Well done to all involved.
Really nice to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones.
Chuckie Egg whooped my ass on Asteroids
Finally got to meet (albeit too briefly) Rav and Virtvic, and had a great chat with Chappy about kids, arcade machines and the meaning of life.
^Arcade legends, all of em!
Great selection of cabs and consoles to play. I really enjoyed trying out that Vectrex multi-cart and spent a good while reliving my 'yoof' on the Atari 2600. Arcade-wise, some of the cabs were very popular, especially Super Off Road and the awesome (can't believe I'm saying this) Fix-it Felix cab. Whoever made that has done a stellar job (just needs a scanline generator).
Lovely Zac cabs!
Fuzzy Junior enjoyed the consoles and there were loads of other kids there, which was great.
Add to that some lager shandy (I was driving, OK!) and some great live (and LOUD) live music, and it was a great afternoon/night!
Well done to all involved.
Been back about an hour I guess. As always, a great weekend and it looks like I've missed a bunch of people from here. Again, as always! Great to meet those that I did, and apologies to those I missed.
Still feeling rough as fook. So signing off for now
Still feeling rough as fook. So signing off for now
Oh, PS: Regarding the comment about the number of working machines. I'd just like to point out that after an initial hiccup, the only machine supplied by UKVAC worked flawlessly all weekend
(And considering it's a 34 year old Vector game, that's not at all bad going!!!)
(And considering it's a 34 year old Vector game, that's not at all bad going!!!)
I must also confess. Milky broke the Offroad cab
Well it needed power cycling after he touched the yellow controls! the game went a bit mental then froze. I was mid way through a game on Galaga and the fire button stopped working, I spoke to the guys in the 'staff' t-shirts and they sorted it. I think the fire button microswitch jumped out of it holder.
smarty said:I must also confess. Milky broke the Offroad cab Well it needed power cycling after he touched the yellow controls! the game went a bit mental then froze. I was mid way through a game on Galaga and the fire button stopped working, I spoke to the guys in the 'staff' t-shirts and they sorted it. I think the fire button microswitch jumped out of it holder.
I categorically deny any and all allegations. I just pressed Turbo and all hell broke loose on the name entry screen.
OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL
Will gyrate for Gyruss
virtvic said:
How about selling UKVAC T Shirts with our names on like 'soccer' players..... (stupid game)
Id buy one!!!
Good idea! I most likely walked past all of you but, I did get to meet IDCHAPPY
I was super impressed with the Crazy Kong cocktail cab...the coin reject button was hooked up to give free credits, how does one create such wizardry? I would be really interested to find out... if anyone would be kind enough to explain?
Thanks.Rawsome2013-12-09 01:36:38
I was super impressed with the Crazy Kong cocktail cab...the coin reject button was hooked up to give free credits, how does one create such wizardry? I would be really interested to find out... if anyone would be kind enough to explain?
Thanks.Rawsome2013-12-09 01:36:38
Glad you all had a good weekend. Me - I was shattered Friday / Saturday night after 2 days in Aberdeen on a training course and really did not feel up to the planes, trains and automobiles to get there.
Hopefully I will make it to the main event nexxt year.
Hopefully I will make it to the main event nexxt year.
@Iain - we were having a bit of a Starforce compo on the Saturday evening over in the corner on the Mame cocktail. Superb, superb game - however the control panel / joystick on the P2 side was a bit shagged so it was a bit of a biased affair. You were a bit worse for wear by then though so I guess you didn't spot it. I think you were busy abusing your elephant or something
@Vic, in the admin section we discussed the thought of name tags, etc. but it was dismissed. Afraid that's my fault as I hate the idea
We were going to get lanyard ID's made up for the admin team so forum members could see who we were and introduce themselves if they wanted to and I even checked with Chris to ensure it wouldn't be in conflict with the event organisers but at the end of the day time got the better of me.
I like the idea of footy type named shirts. Even though I despise the game and anything to do with it.
Actually, that was a gripe of mine I could have gone and found the Sky box and ripped the damn thing out by the end of the weekend, having been subjected to football on the big screen ALL weekend, quite loudly most of the time, and the pair of old gits in the corner who moaned if you got in the way of their viewing were frankly just plain rude (a few of the locals were - NOT anyone related to staffing i hasten to add) That would be my one and only (and it's minor) gripe of the whole weekend. A few of the locals were just plain rude and didn't get into the spirit of it at all.
@Vic, in the admin section we discussed the thought of name tags, etc. but it was dismissed. Afraid that's my fault as I hate the idea
I like the idea of footy type named shirts. Even though I despise the game and anything to do with it.
Actually, that was a gripe of mine I could have gone and found the Sky box and ripped the damn thing out by the end of the weekend, having been subjected to football on the big screen ALL weekend, quite loudly most of the time, and the pair of old gits in the corner who moaned if you got in the way of their viewing were frankly just plain rude (a few of the locals were - NOT anyone related to staffing i hasten to add) That would be my one and only (and it's minor) gripe of the whole weekend. A few of the locals were just plain rude and didn't get into the spirit of it at all.
OTTOTHEMADANDEVIL
Will gyrate for Gyruss
IndyJones said:Looked a great event, some lovely cabs on display, great pics there Otto
Cheers, an thanks again to Ravage and Alpha1 for my Ocean book! That made my day
Glad you liked the photo's