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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. Tempest by HisMother · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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    Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
  2. Marble Madness II by xenoweeno · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. hear that? by skydude_20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    its the sound of geeks everywhere becoming aroused

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    Jesus saves souls and redeems them for valuable cash prizes
  4. what a deal! by Cade144 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Looks like tickets only cost $12.50 to $40.00
    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.

    1. Re:what a deal! by phalse+phace · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, 2-day weekend passes are $20.00 each for children under 12 or $40.00 for adults. A Saturday day pass is $12.50 for children (under 12) or $25.00 for adults. And a day pass for Sunday is $10.00 (children under 12) or $20.00 (adults).

  5. 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! :)

  6. 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...

  7. 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