The Arcade Experience III - Cambridge - 5 Oct 2019

[smf]

While you are playing games, I’ll be dressed as a pirate marching through Eastbourne in the procession for Bonfire night.

Bad luck. Isn't that a month early for Bonfire night???

 

[bonehead]

Update.

I’m taking No Fear Pinball, Robotron and a cab very few of you will have seen unless you have attended the cambridge meet before.
A Multi System 1 cab. All the 5 games on 1 cartridge and joystick.
If you have a system 1 cab you must come along and play it. The guy who made it possible will be there. These kits will be available to buy very soon!!!!

Show your support and come along. Loads of other cabs there and consoles.
Other forum members are also bringing cabs.

 

[iamjimmi]

A great selection of cabs! Looking forward to catching up with folk and finally seeing the System 1 multi kit in action....

Might be of interest to folk - Takeman is doing a run of System 1 panels on KLOV.

 

[t-m]

Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

(well starts today for some of us

)

See you there

 

[Whymie]

I have a load of total Nintendo and super Nintendo magazines. if any wants them let me know and I'll bring them along

 

[LAZORIAN]

Not long to go now!

@Whymie, that's a good idea I am sure there will be some Ninty fanboys there

Anyone is encouraged to bring their crap (I mean valuable arcade goodies) to sell out the back of their boot like what happens at most meets (it's usually Alpha1's car boot though)

 

[Flinnster]

Lucky buggers! Have a great one folks!

 

[edget2000]

So i've got 2 boxes of Marquees and Manuals to bring down to sell, could of brought more but ran out of time.... below is a list of whats in the boxes. "EdgeT2000" will be on my T-shirt so if there is something that you want tap me on the shoulder. I'm coming down in DjRouge's Van so it will only be parked at the museum in the afternoon as we'll be getting drunk in the evening and it will be parked at the Premier Inn ...

cheers

Tony

Marquees

Plexi

Gorf,Armour Attack,Gladiator,The Combatribes,Kid niki,HardHead,Mr Do!'s castle,Star Trek,660 Mission,Ms PacMan,PacMan plus,Super Cobra,Arch Rivals,Timepilot,Zaxxon,Gemini Wing,Turbo Outrun,Atomic RoboKid,Silk Worm,SideArms,Vanguard,SF2 Champion Edition,Mat Mania, Asteroids,Track & Field,Asteroids Deluxe,Galaxian,Berzerk,Scramble

Mylar

Night Slashers,Pit Fighter,Blades of Steel,Hard Yardage,Ikari Warriors(ElectroCoin),Double Dragon(ElectroCoin),Cadash,Ultimate Mortal Kombat,V'Ball,Double Dragon,TopGun,Gals Panic,Turtles in Time,Mortal Kombat 2,SF2 Champion Edition,Exerion(ElectroCoin),Lightning Fighters,Rastan,Super High Impact,B.RapBoys!

Manuals




Atari Manuals

Xevious,Super Breakout,Gauntlet,Star Wars,Tempest,Asteroids,DigDug,Centipede,Asteroids Deluxe,Milipede

Centuri Manuals

Eagle,Phoenix,Timepilot,Pleiades,Track & Field,Vanguard,Gyruss

Midway Manuals

Space Invaders,Space Invaders Deluxe,NBA Jam,KickMan,PacMan,Ms PacMan,JR PacMan,Gorf,Galaxian,Super PacMan,Galaga,BurgerTime

Sega Manuals

Frogger,Golden Axe,turbo,Zaxxon,OutRun Upright,OutRun Standard,Outrun Deluxe,Afterburner Commander Type,MoonCresta,DepthCharge,Borderline,Altered Beast,Shinobi,,pace Firebird,Clutch Hitter

Universal Manuals

Mr.Do,Do! Run Run,Mr.Do Castle,Mr.Do Wild Ride

Nintendo Manuals

Mario Bros,Vs System,Gun Kit,Vs UniSystem,Popeye,Donkey Kong JnR,Donkey Kong

Williams Manual

Defender,StarGate,SiniStar,SmashTv,High Impact

 

[GadgetFreak]

I should be attending and bringing along my Plug & Play arcade system again like last year. I will also be bringing along one of my SLICE testers which means I should be able to demonstrate it in use on any game boards I bring along.

I should have posted earlier as I wanted to give people a chance to check out my board list on KLOV (GadgetFreak) and vote for the ones they would like me to bring. Anyway, its not completely too late, I won't be leaving until midday, so if you have any requests please post and I'll do my best to bring it along.

 

[Retrojedi74]

Hi guys, really looking forward to coming tonight to Cambridge which is my first one. It would be nice to meet up with some other UKVAC members and put faces to names. ????

 

[cparsonsuk]

Really looking forward to this one... I'll aim to get there early afternoon and be there until we get kicked out

I'm bringing two vectrexes with the Static Binary Translations of Tempest, Space Duel, Demon, Boxing Bugs, Tailgunner that let you run the original Arcade ROMs on the Vectrex.

I can bring copies of my Vectrex games (Frontier and Big Blue) if anyone wants to buy one

 

[bountybob]

Just arrived at the museum. Heads up for anyone planning to arrive early it seems things have changed since previous years. They said the tickets don’t get us in all day, but they have let us in anyway. No cabs set up yet and the museum staff said that things won’t be set up until 5pm, at which time they’ll close and everyone has to leave and can then re-enter for the event at 7.

 

[Retrojedi74]

Hi fella, great chatting to you last night in Cambridge. I’m definitely on the hunt for a vectrex at a decent price and I really want to get into the home-brew scene. Your machines you took last night were so good to play.

 

[Whymie]

What a great night, now just to wait another year for it to come around again. Some amazing cabs there too, think I need to invest in tempest now I have the wife's approval

 

[iamjimmi]

First Cambridge Arcade Experience in the bag and hopefully not the last!

Thanks to all those that made it happen, provided cabs and served the ale.... Great to catch-up with new and old faces.

Really impressed with GadgetFreak's steroids collection - super gun on steroids, logic probe on steroids and System 1 on steroids. Aaron, please put my name down for one of each please!

Hope everyone and every cab made it home safely.... see you all again soon....

iamjimmi2019-10-06 16:01:52

 

[Nes4life]

Cabs all returned home safely. Only casualty was one of ian's laser disc games being a bit glitchy; so really a great survival rate! Even the vector cabs held up

Big thanks to everyone that came and also those that provided cabs, pins or Vectrex!
A great evening and good chatting with you all! (Can't remember actually playing a game though).

Winners of the highscore competition were Chris @CnP on Gee Bee and Dave @Daveo on Red Baron.

I've been told nearly 200 tickets were sold!Nes4life2019-10-06 17:16:32

 

[bonehead]

I second that. Had a great evening and did manage to play a few games.
Nice to catch up with old and new people and a very good selection of cabs to play.
If any of you are interested in Aaron’s tester and system 1 multi kit drop him a pm and get your name down on the list.
I’m pretty sure both items are ready for sale now and priced excellently.

Look forward to next years meet.

 

[LAZORIAN]

The highlight of the arcade year so far for me! Was great to spend a decent amount of time with you all and chinwag. Thanks to all who came, helped, and got involved, lent machines and bought tickets.

Got a decent haul of goodies from edget2000 (thanks Tony) and monitors from RetroDaveNintendo & iamjimmi - thanks very much chaps!

Hope to see more of you at the next meet. Cheers.

 

[RossRoss]

Yup, thanks to all. Great evening, shame i couldn't stay late but had quite a drive home. Some really unusual cabs there. The CoCH is a really special venue.
Nice seeing you all, maybe see you again in Leeds in 6 days time!

 

[cparsonsuk]

It was a great night, thanks to all involved in setting it up... great ticket sales.

Lovely to chat to folks old and new about arcades and Vectrex and I did manage to play quite a few games. I want the Gee Bee cocktail cab!

Some photos from the night here (too painful to upload to the forum)...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cnp/albums/72157711220457217

cNp2019-10-06 20:46:32