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Arcade Meets LAN party

Posted by Hemos on from the best-of-the-best dept.

Rylar writes "California Extreme is holding their annual classic arcade games show at the San Jose Convention Center September 7th and 8th. With paid admission you get free play on all the Pinball machines and old school upright arcade machines like Space Invaders, Asteroids, Centipede and Frogger to name a few. This year LANtrocity has joined the mix for an "old meets new" element. LANtrocity is providing a BYOC area and several free play computers on the 7th, one admission gets you into both the old style arcade free play area and the LAN party. Challenge your friends to a Biathlon; Galaga and SoF2."

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  1. How long are the lines usually? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I am thinking about going to this event. How are the lines at it? Must you wait very long to play any old game?

  2. You could also check out... by Ieshan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    www.dreammachineonline.com

    Okay, I know it's a crappy site, but we have arcades and LANs (in the same building!) in four different cities: Portland, ME, Danvers, MA (near Boston), Burlington, VT, and Dartmouth, MA.

    Come check it out! :)

  3. Kaillera by Kris_J · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They should have MAME setup with Kaillera on the LAN if they really want to bring the old and new together. Nothing like classic Gauntlet with each player on their own PC...

  4. Re:Tempest, It will be there in Laser by rMuD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We are Setting up LaserMAME, on a 30 foot screen at CA Extreme... to save money we are using a Control panel that's already on the West Coast, I hope they have a Heavy Spinner on it... excuse the bad pic, it was taken during setup on a 40' x 60' Screen, before we tuned the projector.. at Six Flags Darien Lake, Buffalo http://download.lasers.org/tempest_masterof.jpg or Asteroids http://download.lasers.org/lasermamedusk.jpg

  5. Fun idea by Trane+Francks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What a cool idea. I'd love to have a go at Missile Command again. I can't even begin to imagine how many rolls of quarters I burned through at our local, small-town bowling alley on Friday's after school. That heavy, smooth-rolling trackball was JUST the greatest for both feel and accuracy. Playing PC ports of the game just doesn't come close to the original arcade version.

    As for modern-day games that I "miss," Descent 1 still ranks as my all-time favourite game. I used to play that for so many hours that I'd get vertigo when I went to bed. And once Kali came out and head-to-head was possible over the 'net, sleepless nights became the norm.

    Unfortunately for Descent 1, much of the joy of playing the game ended when my CH Flightstick Pro died an untimely death. The MS Sidewinder Precision 2 that replaced it just didn't offer the same feel and response.

    I've never been much of a gamer, but those two really were it for me. *sigh*

    --
    ...a FreeDOS contributor: http://www.freedos.org/
  6. You don't have to miss out on this... by Cereal+Box · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just because you don't live in CA doesn't mean that you can't make it to a show like this. Somewhere near you there's _probably_ a pinball/arcade game trade show. No, not an industry trade show, but a gathering of folks with their own machines who are looking to buy or sell. Usually some giant warehouse is rented out for this event. Free play? You bet. Every machine that's in working order will be playable for free. Hell, you might even decide you want to buy a machine, if the price is right.

    These shows are a _lot_ of fun and I highly encourage everyone who wish they could go to CA Extreme to look around and find one of these trade shows.