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Arcade Meets LAN party
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."
I miss Tempest. This is one game that just isn't the same on a PC or console, because it had this bigass heavy flywheel controller knob and there's just no substitute. Hope they have a Tempest machine!
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California Extreme is also your chance to play this guy's rare Marble Madness II prototype, which he assembled from parts over a period of time.
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Not bad, considering I used to shovel about that much in quarters into the old games.
Come to think of it, I spend more than that now at places like Dave & Buster's but I don't notice it as much since they have the swipe cards.
This game convention is such a great idea. The kind of idea you kick yourself for not coming up with and exploiting yourself.
off topic? or a quick way to play missile comand? in real life?
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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!
Atari gave us some much of joy! Too bad it's dead now
If Atari is so dead, then who published Neverwinter Nights? At least one of the two Atari companies is alive and kicking as part of Infogrames. (The other got bought by a hard drive maker.)
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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...
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
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Damn, I had those nightmares too. That was a wicked game - not to mention the Star Trek simulator game, and Asteroids. Those vector games were awsome - and I'll bet they cost a hell of a lot to build.
Back a long time ago when we all hung at the mall and ruled the arcade everyone would have their b-day party there and the main machines would be turned to free-play.
It was awsome because we could eat and drink inside the arcade (for once, even though we hung with the workers they enforced this with a passion) and mortal kombat and street fighter after hours, for hours!
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When I was at University, the house a few of us were renting had no telephone. There was a box a hundred yards or so down the street, but this was Morecambe in north-west England, which means it was raining an awful lot of the time.
Consequently the three of us used to play tournaments of Dynablaster on the Amiga, later reborn and renamed as Bomber Man on various platforms, to decide who had to troop out, get soaked and use the phone to order pizza.
We all got very good at Bomber Man...
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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*
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.
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